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by hawflakes 5y ago
The word "heaty" is used for "hot" foods. There's a concept in traditional Chinese medicine for categorizing foods as hot or cold. Not temperature but having to do with inflammation. Suffice it to say it seems to be
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by hawflakes 5y ago
Yes, and Chiang's son was eventually a "guest" of the USSR in the Urals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Ching-kuo#Moscow
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by hawflakes 6y ago
Reminds me a bit of http://zhongwen.com which also enables radical search/learning http://zhongwen.com/bushou.htm
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by hawflakes 6y ago
Pardon me for asking, but isn’t the name of the technique a sort of pun? 皮肤 means “skin” in Chinese and romanized as “pifu”
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by hawflakes 6y ago
Don't remember verifying with people I used to know that worked at Transmeta, but I recall they originally were going to for performance but then Intel decided to up their game. That's when they decided to push the power angle. Ca
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by hawflakes 7y ago
Was at 23andME when he was there, too. We (engineering) had no idea who he was initially but I did notice his license plate "NO MODES." Only after we looked him up and found that he had invented copy-paste did we realize he was a
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by hawflakes 8y ago
Intel initially didn't plan on having fast IA-32 performance. The IA-32 part of the chip was called the "IVE" which was short for the "Intel Value Engine." The thought was that it was enough for the chip to boot in
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by hawflakes 8y ago
They thought that they couldn't compete in the future because they didn't have the fabs to do it. They thought that by throwing in with Intel they could make headway into the high end server space. Additionally, everyone was using
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by hawflakes 8y ago
Itanium was created precisely because HP thought it couldn't keep PA-RISC competitive. So they threw in with Intel to create the next great server architecture. As an aside, Merced too forever for Intel to tape out. Part of the agreeme
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by hawflakes 8y ago
"Qiantu (the name is Chinese for Dragonfly)" Small nit. "Qiantu" is not Chinese for "dragonfly." "Qiantu" (前途) means "future outlook", "prospects", or "journey." For the
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by hawflakes 8y ago
A bit more info on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian_Tulou One thing the author didn't mention is that these are particular to the Hakka of that region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by hawflakes 8y ago
I was referencing the politics between the two companies at the time they were fighting Alibaba/Taobao/Alipay. I have some firsthand experience on the eBay/PayPal side of things.
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by hawflakes 8y ago
I worked at PayPal on the China team. There were a lot of internal politics at the time and I know people on both sides of that internal fight. Needless to say, it was a battle that eBayPal wasn't going to win. From slow servers hosted
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by hawflakes 8y ago
I wonder if this gets into all the internal politics on the eBay-PayPal side of things...
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by hawflakes 8y ago
HP saw that they couldn't compete with PA against Power, MIPS, Sparc, and Alpha. So they threw in with Intel to develop Itanium in order to be competitive. Intel saw the lucrative server market. Too bad Intel took too long to ship Merc
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by hawflakes 9y ago
As I recall, the same professor also taught a compiler class using COOL back in 1995-96 at Cal. I sat in on a session because a friend was taking it at the time.
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by hawflakes 9y ago
Obj-C got _Nonnull and _Nullable type annotations as hints to the compiler. Presumably those checks could get compiled in as well? https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=25
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by hawflakes 9y ago
The sandbox was a big hack. I worked there internally and it was a pain even inside. Maybe it's a bit different now, but I haven't looked back. :-D
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by hawflakes 10y ago
In this case parent is referring to the phoneme [shā] which map to the characters 殺，沙，and 鯊. (using traditional) and mean "kill", "sand", and "shark" respectively. Note that the last one, 鯊 is composed of two c
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by hawflakes 10y ago
It's not true that only Taiwanese uses it. It means "mutual" or "each other" and is used quite a bit. 互相 mutual 互聯網 internet
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by hawflakes 13y ago
Come to think of it, both projects look to be inspired by Bug Labs' modules. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_Labs
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by hawflakes 13y ago
I think they use the same term in Chinese. It's "过劳死" which in pinyin is "guo4lao2si3" (over work death)
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by hawflakes 13y ago
Interestingly, I was in Taipei a few weeks ago and I noticed there was a marked decrease in computers for sale. After chatting with a guy that grew up there, he said that when he was in school everyone was into EE and hardware. Now the tabl
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by hawflakes 15y ago
Debian... 哈哈哈!
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by hawflakes 15y ago
I hate to say it, but is this the only lasting contribution IA64 will have on the computing industry? (I did work on IA64 system software pre-silicon once upon a time)
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by hawflakes 16y ago
I've tried certain phrases in Chinese and I'm not sure if it's my accent or what but it can't seem to recognize the word "河蟹" (river crab). Incidentally, it's also Chinese Internet slang for harmonizing/censorship. http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by hawflakes 16y ago
Zhuge is indeed a weird Chinese surname. So he'd have two surnames? At the same time Zhuge Liang was a great military strategist, which I'm sure you'd make clear to him.
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by hawflakes 16y ago
Even the intro clearly shows it going much farther inland than the coast where Shanghai is located.
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by hawflakes 16y ago
I enjoyed Muchnick as well, That said, even good Computer Architecture books cover a quite a bit about the basic optimizations of a modern compiler. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition by Hennessy and Patterson. the
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by hawflakes 16y ago
Or elementary school turtle programmers. Anyone else that relates to that reference is also officially old.

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