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by pmjordan 14y ago
I've worked with far more excellent people who don't blog than with those who do. In many cases, confidentiality agreements prevent the really cool stuff those people work on from seeing the light of day (except of course nestled deeply wit
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The Portland Group's (PGI) main business seems to be HPC compilers. CodePlay make compilers for game developers. There are companies that have made a business out of selling fully-integrated build & debug toolchains for embedded devices
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why is the return on capital, versus say the return on labor, so high? Because labour, by and large, isn't particularly mobile, whereas capital is highly mobile, despite governments' best efforts. It's simply cheaper to enforce labour tax
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Xtend - Modernized Java(eclipse.org)
3 points by pmjordan 14y ago|0 comments
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I'm guessing you missed the MySQL security vulnerability the other week? That was caused precisely by the lack of a proper boolean in older versions of C and an innocuous-looking workaround.
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by pmjordan 14y ago
I assume you're aware that "managing director" is technically a member of the board of directors of the company (a director ) who also manages the day-to-day operations of the company, unlike non-managing directors (e.g. investors).
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CEO sounds more impressive. In fairness, there will usually be one founder who is the de facto leader. Democracy, although fair, is inefficient. So I guess "CEO" is shorthand for "the founder who is in charge".
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I know that feeling of the problems seeming impossibly hard all too well - it was the same at the Physics Olympiad, which was pushed pretty hard by one of the physics teachers at my high school (in Austria), who also happened to be one of t
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by pmjordan 14y ago
C's type system is a minefield. (and by extension, C++'s and Objective-C's) I've been bitten so many times by implicit signed/unsigned conversions and int-promotion that I'm now practically paranoid about the whole thing. Chars are promoted
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by pmjordan 14y ago
I could imagine a DSP architecture that doesn't intrinsically support indirect jumps. (especially as DSPs frequently use the Harvard memory model) That would make implementing function pointers tricky. I'd probably work around this by makin
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Oracle can't copyright parts of Java - court ruling(reuters.com)
60 points by pmjordan 14y ago|9 comments
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I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here. I completely fail see the logic behind 40-hour days making it hard to be a team player. I have to say most of the time as a programmer I'm staring at a screen on my own, even when I
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by pmjordan 14y ago
In addition to weak keys, I would not be surprised if most of the time they actually just steal the keys off the subject's system (and install keyloggers for catching the passphrase). The "Bundestrojaner" (federal trojan) has been widely re
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by pmjordan 14y ago
Most of my FB friends seem to use the mobile app mainly for uploading photos, if my feed is to be believed. From that POV the Instagram acquisition makes sense. How they're going to make money from it I'm not sure, but location-based ads an
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by pmjordan 14y ago
The German stat is probably due to being mentioned on Heise, which is pretty much the go-to site for tech news in German: http://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/meldung/Reduzierte-Programme-i...
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by pmjordan 14y ago
Would it really help if someone paid $Nbn for the Java label for some snapshot of Harmony or whatever? Open source software (which is open in spirit, not just by name) is always a moving target. As soon as you fork it, it's no longer covere
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by pmjordan 14y ago
Indeed, go is a keyword in the language, for launching said "goroutines".
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It says they use UTF-16 (just like Windows, Java and .NET), which represents code points outside the basic multilingual plane using a pair of 16-bit values and is thus capable of encoding the whole range of code points. The blog post author
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by pmjordan 14y ago
In fairness, x86-64 Linux has supported running 32-bit x86 processes from the start (likewise for PPC and PPC64). It just so happens that the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit CPU modes is quite significant on x86. So this new ABI for us
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by pmjordan 14y ago
My understanding is that the X32 ABI exists only in x86-64 kernels, and requires relevant X32 userspace libraries. Basically you can choose if you want your program to have only 4 GB address space and thus only consume 4 bytes of memory per
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by pmjordan 14y ago
What about hardware registers such as the layout for memory-mapped I/O? You know, "write value X to byte offset Y to switch the device into state Z." If that's copyrightable, the Linux kernel is basically one big copyright violation, becaus
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by pmjordan 14y ago
Wow, that is indeed classic Apple. Does the firmware update really fix it, though? My father-in-law has had all sorts of trouble with standby and his 2011 Mac Mini + Thunderbolt Display. Supposedly "fixed" by various firmware updates, but n
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Because humans are much worse at estimating the relative size of angles than of lengths. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Use.2C_effectiveness_... Of course, the very worst are 3D pie charts, as the angles are distorted.
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by pmjordan 14y ago
iCloud has developer APIs - all your code just happens to run on the OS X and iOS clients (which are distributed via the App Store, which sits in the cloud).
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I don't know about "disasters". For better or worse, lots of software ships with severe bugs that are evidently rare enough never to be fixed but do happen. For example, every few months, OSX kernel panics on my MacBook Air, with no obvious
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Shark attacks - A magnetic solution?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by pmjordan 14y ago|0 comments
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I'm guessing they're not counting 3D chips without hardware transform & lighting support (where the 1999 GeForce 256 was the first) as "GPUs". Also, 3Dfx got taken over by nVidia soon after, so I guess it's not completely wrong. Also...
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by pmjordan 14y ago
I guess the problem is it's a shared medium. In many European countries, LTE (4G) rollout has been used as an excuse to halt investment in the DSL connectivity of rural areas. The results thus far have been disappointing, with LTE cells alr
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Modern OpenGL(github.prideout.net)
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by pmjordan 14y ago
Those are some pretty high goal posts. That would mean a quota of 10-15 per year. Aside from the celebrities-du-jour who of course never seem to have trouble getting them.

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