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by jdcarter 10y ago
That was my first thought, too. I installed and ran both against a tar'd set of PDF files totaling 435MB in size. My timings: lzfse 45 MB/s encode, 229 MB/s decode, 1.12 comp ratio zstd 181 MB/s encode, 713 M
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by jdcarter 10y ago
wrk is capable of generating a lot more load than other tools I've tested (e.g. ApacheBench). If your web server can handle a ton of requests/sec, wrk is the only thing I've found which can push your server hard. Highly recom
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I'm sorry, at the moment I don't have teaching materials in any presentable form. I tried Arduino-based projects, making parts of a 2D game in Swift+SpriteKit, fooling with Minecraft redstone, and worked through Google's bloc
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I'll second the recommendation on "Mindstorms." The book is visionary and just as relevant today as when he wrote it. I teach programming and electronics to kids (just an hour a week) and my teaching is heavily influenced by
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by jdcarter 10y ago
With third-party code, I'd say a true "senior engineer" has been burned enough to understand that third-party code is no different than any other code--it can have bugs, security flaws, and other risks. Third-party code gains
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Well it's really a balance. Looking at the CPU, these days the x86 instruction set is a total illusion--the CPU decodes those instructions so a totally different underlying architecture can take action on them. The block diagram for a
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I believe joonhocho was speaking more about youth unemployment than overall unemployment. From the same web site, that rate appears to bounce around in the double digits: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/south-korea/yout
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by jdcarter 10y ago
ars posted this link as a comment in a separate thread, and given how often I see the "five monkeys and a banana" story tossed around, I thought this deserved more attention.
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That “Five Monkeys Experiment” Never Happened(throwcase.com)
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Precisely: language/library/framework decisions affect the whole team. If you choose something weird, you'll quickly be cursed under your teammate's breaths--if not get screamed at to your face--because eventually they&#
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by jdcarter 10y ago
> "However, if you are going to make a lot of state changes, having them all happen inline does have advantages; you should be made constantly aware of the full horror of what you are doing." Nicely put. :) Thanks for the link.
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Thank you! I read the whole article but couldn't find the "here's where to buy it" link. (Maybe I just missed it.) I have no need for a d120 but I have the WANT for one. EDIT: check out other DiceLabs creations, crazy st
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I left the valley in 1991, right before the "web 1.0" bubble burst. I moved to Boulder, Colorado. It's wonderful here. There's tech companies--including an active startup scene--but people are far more balanced, even the
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by jdcarter 10y ago
I have to agree that there are a lot of bad programming jobs out there, but there are some really good ones, too--many times in places that aren't obvious. I'm speaking only from my own experience here, but I'm currently work
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Unfortunately IV purchased all the patents of a company I used to work for, General Magic, after it died. Several of us wanted to open-source Magic's source code, but we'd potentially face prosecution from IV if we did. So much co
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Handy link for those who haven't seen it: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by jdcarter 10y ago
Wow, that's crazy, a laser/computer combo mounted on fence posts, which is able to determine the type and gender of insect, and only shoot the right kind of disease-carrying mosquitos. "the Photonic Fence can kill up to 50 to
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by jdcarter 11y ago
Yes, thank you. When you use generics for a sortable collection class, that makes sense--it's a perfectly reasonable application of the technology. Problem is that "clever" programmers go hog-wild with generics and create API
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I've had a very similar experience from about 3 years of writing Go. The lack of generics hardly affected me. When it did, it was dead simple to write the type-specific code and move on. I've been working on a Java project recentl
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I would argue that this box is probably targeted at cloud providers. The Nvidia GRID boards are similar--they're not for consumers, but for GPU/Gaming-as-a-service providers.
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I want to make a correction about the patent bit. Maciej says: > And they assert the right to patent any clever ideas I have while doing that free work for them, even though I hate software patents: The relevant bit of the IFTTT TOS: &gt
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by jdcarter 11y ago
In other words, they're not using "Linux" at all. It's an Ubuntu userland on top of the Windows kernel, similar to how Nexenta was an Ubuntu userland on top of the OpenSolaris kernel.
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I had a friend that was a system administrator. One of his favorite "puzzle questions" was: what just happened when you see this line in your terminal? .o: file not found (This was back when most people wrote C, compiled
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I'm not the one you're asking, but I'll give you my experience. I haven't had any problem with my parrot on my shoulder; she snuggles up against the back of my neck and is pretty content there. One big warning about shou
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I'm mostly able to work from home, so I have a medium-size cage in the room where I work. I attach a cardboard box inside her cage and she burrows into it. She'll destroy a small-ish (say 4x6x12") box in a day. Then, upstairs
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by jdcarter 11y ago
Growing up in Davis, CA, there were Magpies that would grab walnuts, drop them in the street, and wait for a car to pass and crush the nut's shell. When the coast was clear, the Magpie would fly over and grab the freshly-cracked nut.
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by jdcarter 11y ago
Came here to say much the same. I've had a Meyer's Parrot for 14 years--she was a 2 year-old rescue when I got her--and it's nearly impossible to keep a parrot entertained and socialized. These animals really need to be in th
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I can confirm this. I worked with Andy at General Magic, and I later worked at Danger, Inc. (but after Andy had left). Andy was building robots the entire time. The early Danger office had several robots that Andy had built for fun.
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by jdcarter 11y ago
I've owned the print version of this book for many years; it's like the GoF book for embedded systems. Solid material presented very well. Kudos to the authors for releasing the PDFs!
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by jdcarter 11y ago
But is it really so unreasonable to have a conversation where you listen to and consider the other person's point of view? We're never perfectly impartial, of course, but I'm talking about a reasonable effort to have a two-wa

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