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by marklacey 7y ago
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by marklacey 7y ago
It probably depends on your circle of friends and acquaintances but for at least a decade in text messages and social networks I have seen people use airport designations in place of the city they represent. For example, “Spending next week
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by marklacey 7y ago
I think what people usually mean in these situations is that you’re forced to think about the error. Programs in C (and many other languages) have the problem that you can ignore errors accidentally. Exceptions “solve” this by forcing some
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by marklacey 7y ago
I wouldn’t consider this a leaky abstraction. Floating point numbers are explicitly not trying to be an abstraction for real numbers, but rather an approximation for them that is good enough for most purposes (if you’re careful in how you u
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by marklacey 7y ago
And then what do you do when you upgrade compilers and the build starts failing? This isn’t a hypothetical, it happens in real life. Your only option at that point is roll back compilers and hope someone cares about the regression enough to
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by marklacey 7y ago
I only barely skimmed the post and the follow-on posts so this is less about that and more about autovectorizers. Autovectorization is the wrong approach for data-parallelization. You don’t want to rely on a brittle unpredictable code trans
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by marklacey 7y ago
Glad to see Fran Allen on the list. I remember reading (in the early 90's) several papers authored or co-authored by "F.E. Allen" and having no clue "F.E." was a woman until a few years later. I was in a compiler wo
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by marklacey 7y ago
It was first released in VC++ in 2002. I don’t recall if HP actually shipped it, but I know they had a tech report or research paper around 1994 that did LTO. I have a vague recollection that DEC may have shipped it in the 90s as well.
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by marklacey 7y ago
> The Financial Clearance system combines medical records along with the financial records Experian already has on you to calculate the score. How is this not a complete violation of HIPAA? Are they working around it by having very gener
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by marklacey 7y ago
Long ago I spent a week at a compiler workshop (on what was then the relatively new SSA form) and one of the other attendees worked on the occam compiler. He told me about the language over dinner and it seemed really interesting but I thin
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by marklacey 7y ago
Avoid toxic people and drama. There are people who want to focus on everything wrong around them, and tend to amplify it and create drama. If you find yourself around people like this try to create some distance or cut them out of the pictu
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by marklacey 7y ago
To take this a step further, you really want to find great managers and avoid average ones. Managers who take the time to get to know you, know what motivates you, run teams that are collaborative, shield you from nonsense but provide visib