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Tcmalloc's Temeraire: A Hugepage-Aware Allocator(paulcavallaro.com)
1 points by ptc 1y ago|0 comments
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by ptc 4y ago
Yes! Thank you very kindly sir!
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Ask HN: Does Anyone Remember This Hacker Short Story?
2 points by ptc 4y ago|2 comments
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A Long Walk in a Fading Corner of Japan(nytimes.com)
3 points by ptc 4y ago|0 comments
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by ptc 5y ago
The answer is you build a team that builds tools to make optimization easier for everyone in the engineering organization. One individual team can't optimize every application, but if you make it easy for every engineering team to prof
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Understanding Systems: Facebook's Tectonic Filesystem(paulcavallaro.com)
1 points by ptc 5y ago|0 comments
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Fanouts and Percentiles: Visualizing Latency in Distributed Systems(paulcavallaro.com)
31 points by ptc 6y ago|1 comments
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Common Systems Programming Optimizations and Tricks(paulcavallaro.com)
9 points by ptc 7y ago|1 comments
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by ptc 7y ago
How long you wait for an H1B is dependent on the country you are from because of USCIS imposed per year limits per country. See: https://www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/country-limit
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by ptc 8y ago
This Mill guy is the gift that keeps on giving. With any luck he’ll still be around to explain how the soon-to-be-released Mill 1.0 cpu would have avoided the year 2038 problem.
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A Practical Multi-Word Compare-And-Swap(paulcavallaro.com)
1 points by ptc 8y ago|0 comments
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by ptc 9y ago
I believe something similar (maybe exactly that) was suggested later on in the thread.
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by ptc 9y ago
From the article: > (Disclosure: I used to work at Goldman designing derivatives, not apps. Also I have a Marcus savings account.)
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X86-TSO: A Programmer’s Model for x86(paulcavallaro.com)
2 points by ptc 9y ago|0 comments
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by ptc 9y ago
Yeah VSS can be quite misleading, =p
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by ptc 9y ago
Can you actually spend Bitcoin in physical stores outside of the Bay Area? Bitcoin just seems like an investment vehicle/security rather than a currency. How many people actually use Bitcoin for buying toilet paper?
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My Ml Path(moderndescartes.com)
1 points by ptc 9y ago|0 comments
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Optimizing Function Placement with Call-Chain Clustering (2017)(paulcavallaro.com)
2 points by ptc 9y ago|0 comments
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The Bw-Tree: A B-tree for New Hardware Platforms (2013)(paulcavallaro.com)
2 points by ptc 9y ago|0 comments
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by ptc 10y ago
But it isn't progressive, right? An individual in CA who makes 50k gets less in Federal funding to projects that would benefit them, than if that same individual moved to another state, and made the exact same amount. Not saying I agre
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by ptc 10y ago
Oh boy, I really want to hear how you think the "Free Market" solves this problem. Remember kids: If it's broken, apply Free Market liberally to the affected areas.
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Hashed and Hierarchical Timing Wheels(paulcavallaro.com)
2 points by ptc 10y ago|0 comments
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by ptc 10y ago
Only on fucking Hacker News. Jesus Fucking Christ. My family failed me, that is why I am not Steve Jobs.
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by ptc 10y ago
@falcolas -- I think you mean machine code not bytecode. And w.r.t. Mercurial afaik the project's hot paths are all written in Cython extensions, and there's ongoing work to improve the Python part by working with the PyPy folks.
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by ptc 11y ago
There's no solid evidence that increasing the minimum wage will create fewer jobs. From Paul Krugman's review of Robert Reich's new book > Other evidence points indirectly to a strong role of market power. At this point, f
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by ptc 11y ago
Definitely a cultural thing, definitely not perverse incentives at all. See: http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2013/07/culturalism-gladwell-...
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by ptc 12y ago
Thanks for the links, I'll have to take a look at that gdb/OCaml debugging video. Might as well dive into the OCaml internals a bit too. I just really wish OCaml would move to a fully threaded execution model instead of forcing ev
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by ptc 12y ago
> - the memory representation of values is uniform and native code debugging with gdb/lldb works great, thanks to the DWARF symbols emitted. Besides being able to get a simple backtrace, I've always had nothing but headaches tr
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by ptc 13y ago
I'll just leave this here: http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
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by ptc 13y ago
OCaml is much more forgiving in letting you "cheat" and also being strictly evaluated makes OCaml easier to reason about performance for programmers used to strictly evaluated languages.

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