mav3rick

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by mav3rick 8y ago
Who are you to judge how someone monetizes a thing. It's a free resource, feel free to not do it if you don't agree with their policy.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
Not op but not only would it rob me of knowledge if I finished a course by looking at others' solutions but it also feels "dirty" to do it that way.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
If a free-class asks you not to do something, it's etiquette 101 to follow that.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
And that is fair. But the parent comment insinuated that anyone asking for money is doing something wrong or is inferior to "someone who truly loves technology". It's a highly personal decision with no right or wrong IMO.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
Thank you. That's partly the point I was trying to make.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
What's compensation driven thinking ? There's a difference between only caring about money vs asking for what you deem fair. Startups always abuse the naivete of new grads and low ball them by saying they are working for a grander
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by mav3rick 8y ago
That is not true. No matter the shit Google gets on HN it's a tremendous place to learn and grow. All the large scale systems you see now were first invented at Google and now are replicated at Facebook etc.. The code reviews alone wil
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by mav3rick 8y ago
"Think of this: no teaching university in the US is a top-tier research university." Stanford, Carnegie Mellion, Harvard, MIT, Caltech are all "teaching universities". Most professors do research along side their teachin
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by mav3rick 8y ago
Except you criticize the article for doing the same.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
You just made a claim too without any results let alone sources for those results.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
Many private companies sponsor research and conferences. They'd be happy to pay and universities can self organize to do blind reviews.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
Other distros may have this differently and return NULL. It's not portable and also just bad to not check for it.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
When you fork, your forked process get a copy of the parent's page table i.e. at this point it points to the same physical page for xyz address as the parent. There can be a metadata bit in the final PTE that says this page is COW (Cop
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by mav3rick 8y ago
Still that's bad design on the clients' part. E.g. - Just because malloc "never" fails doesn't mean it can't fail :) so better error check for it.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
Naive question, isn't it better for a technical person to lead a dev team ?
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by mav3rick 8y ago
Real time systems can have different scheduling metric based on utilization and/or deadlines.
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by mav3rick 8y ago
"user space" programs regularly transition to "kernel space" via syscalls. That's how they access resources and "get things done".