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by salem 15y ago
And how was performances in the good old PPC days?
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by salem 15y ago
Macs as the preferred dev machine has been the trend at my last four workplaces, including two startups, one 'tween', and one corporate.
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by salem 15y ago
I'm looking forward to using this. I hope it exposes a certain insurance companies practice of underinsuring people to make it appear they are cheaper and get the sale. Save 15 minutes to get less insurance than you need, for more than it w
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by salem 15y ago
Python decorators are extremely useful, especially for neatly adding caching. Style aside, it's extremely cool to be able to add LRU caching, or memcached for a function with one line of code.
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by salem 15y ago
My former college switched many years ago to teaching low level concepts on the PLEB, a ARM/Linux computer developed in-house. I would argue they were 10 years ahead of the game, with that platform now being widely commercially deployed. In
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by salem 15y ago
That chip would likely still be an ARM+GPU architecture, and would still be without a floating point unit (except CUDA/OpenCL code). So code could still run like a dog and burn precious battery power even faster.
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by salem 15y ago
I graduated 10 years ago, in Computer Engineering, and much of this low level stuff was covered in core classes, such as Microprocessors & Interfacing, Operating Systems, and Computer Architecture. If one only wanted to study "higher le
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by salem 15y ago
Agreed. Also, mobile devices tend to suck at floating point (no floating point unit in ARM cpus), and IOS will kill your app if it is memory hog.
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by salem 15y ago
I was the last class in my CS/CompEng college to go through the program learning C as a core language for teaching. I had to tutor operating systems to classes a year after me that had learn mostly java. There was a definite loss of underst
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by salem 15y ago
If they have properly notified customers and offered an opt-out, they might try to argue that they have single party consent, and so it is legal.
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by salem 15y ago
One cool feature of the juniper junos CLI is that all the CLI commands have an option for XML output, making parsing of the CLI output in scripts a little more sane.
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by salem 15y ago
In my experience, most employers don't know about it, and startups are not much different in this case. Once you explain that it is similar to the TN visa for hiring Canadians, most people are fairly relaxed about it. I'm an Australian on m