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by ssp 16y ago
That's also the case for sort. If you often sort huge ASCII files, doing it in LC_ALL=C is a huge win.
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by ssp 16y ago
Drepper is being more than reasonable in this bug. The strfry() function is a joke that only exists for historical reasons; it wouldn't be added today. He is 100% correct that fixing "bugs" in it is a waste of time.
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by ssp 16y ago
In newer versions of glibc, memcpy() does take advantage of SIMD instructions if they are avaialble. It works something like this: The memcpy() function is marked specially in the ELF file. On the first invocation, the dynamic linker actual
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by ssp 16y ago
users will associate that crappiness with the Android trademark That's a legitimate concern, but it could be fixed by not allowing people to use the Android trademark on hardware that Google deemed crappy.
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Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent(engr.mun.ca)
4 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
I believe this algorithm is also known as "precedence climbing", and it's the most common way to deal with operator precedence in a recursive-descent parser.
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Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier: Marketing open source projects(fossbazaar.org)
1 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
I don't get it. What does it mean that the last bit of Pi is 1 when there is no last digit?
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by ssp 16y ago
Ryanair has taken the low-price aspect to an extreme too. For the flights I care about, it's generally something like £5, but once in a while it's literally £0 plus airport fees. I have never been treated particularly badly by them. You don
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by ssp 16y ago
All true. Also, the way indexes, table of contents, bibliographies and cross references work in LaTeX are unholy, fragile hacks. Foot- and endnotes could use some TLC. And on 2011-era hardware we really should have some approximation of glo
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by ssp 16y ago
Yes, you can generate machine code yourself, but then you have to write machine code ... I'm suggesting a JIT compiler as a built-in language feature so that you could write code in a high-level language and have machine code generated that
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by ssp 16y ago
C is more a description of a Harvard machine than a von Neumann machine. In fact, a useful new language feature would be dynamic generation of machine code.
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by ssp 16y ago
They already have almost the same leverage: "Agree to our terms ... or lose your business". Competition among investors would probably prevent this from becoming a big issue.
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by ssp 16y ago
An advantage of treaps is that is that there is a natural way to add aggregates. That is, you can put data in a node that summarises the underlying tree. These are very useful in many applications and can be maintained in the same O(log n
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The Business of Webcomics - Dave Kellett Talk(youtube.com)
2 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
blitting is essentially free This is only true on discrete video cards that have local memory and lots of bandwidth. Even there, the fill rate may be big, but it is still finite. On integrated chips (~70% of the market by volume and risin
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by ssp 16y ago
What I heard is that they dropped the price of XP significantly, but not below 0. I'm having a lot of trouble believing that Microsoft would sell Windows at a loss.
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by ssp 16y ago
Joel Spolsky recently said[1] that if your whole attitude is "this thing can make me rich" as opposed to "this thing needs to exist", then maybe you don't have the passion required to run a startup. Is that something you select for (or agai
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by ssp 16y ago
Does Google take DNS prefetching into account when they measure the speed of a web site?
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by ssp 16y ago
No, you are misunderstanding. A language L is complete for a complexity class C if it is in C and all languages in C can be reduced to L . "Turing" is not a complexity class, so "Turing Complete" is nonsense. And if it did me
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by ssp 16y ago
I'm probably tilting at windmills, but it's Turing Equivalent , not Turing Complete .
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Other Ways to Slice Revenue Pies(tieguy.org)
2 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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The iPad is [priced like] a game console(semiaccurate.com)
3 points by ssp 16y ago|1 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
Banshee might want to consider getting a trademark on their name, and then only allow other people to use it if they keep the affiliate code that goes to the GNOME Foundation.
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by ssp 16y ago
Tom Forsyth on double precision: http://bit.ly/fguwaZ (bit.ly link because HN mangles the real one).
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by ssp 16y ago
It isn't obvious to me that that is enough to guarantee amortized constant time.
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Eben Moglen: Why Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More Than Ever(softwarefreedom.org)
2 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 16y ago
If you are going to say that there really are log n bits in a word, then you also need to account for the time it takes to actually do a comparison, which would be Omega(log n ) in the worst case because you can't describe n values wit
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by ssp 16y ago
Maybe Nokia is going to make ARM laptops running Windows 8. A laptop with Windows and seriously great battery life could easily be a hit, especially if they get it out before Apple makes an ARM MacBook. The existing PC manufacturers are all
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Snow dodocahedron on Porter Square(flickr.com)
6 points by ssp 16y ago|0 comments

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