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by stmw 9y ago
Great catch!
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by stmw 9y ago
"The source for GCC is a fair bit less accessible than that of LLVM,... " - understatement of the weekend!
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by stmw 9y ago
Does on touchscreens help with driving more engagement metrics and/or advertising screen time?
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Microsoft history in photos(businessinsider.com)
2 points by stmw 9y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 9y ago
I'm glad it's not just me.
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by stmw 9y ago
are you seriously comparing inefficient python code to humans?
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by stmw 9y ago
Having written Python -> C bindings before, I am quite aware of how this works... It still has considerable overheads.
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by stmw 9y ago
This is very cool, I hadn't heard of it!
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by stmw 9y ago
It is funny to see this comment get "-4" already... What's so offensive? After all, Facebook has rocksdb in C++, percona in java, and a PHP->C++ compiler, so they clearly have both the belief and the skill in moving away f
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by stmw 9y ago
This is great! I do wish this were written in something other than Python. What is the carbon footprint of all this computer vision, compute-intensive code still being run billions of times a day in Python? Someone should calculate...
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MIT prof: neutron star mergers, not supernovas, make gold and platinum(physicstoday.scitation.org)
2 points by stmw 9y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 9y ago
So Rust has a lot of that, both in turning off some checks and in ability to write whole blocks of unsafe code.
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by stmw 9y ago
Indeed, I used the term "ergonomics" specifically as such an allusion. But I am not sure I read the article as claiming that such efforts are "dishonest", I instead see it as a reference to some other languages and runt
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by stmw 9y ago
Good article, although there are also some unforced errors of what Rust community calls "ergonomics" - many of which have been addressed, and hopefully many others will be soon - that make things more difficult to learn than the a
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by stmw 9y ago
As all problems, these bugs are avoidable, but having a high speed language that helps you avoid them seems like a good thing. Having had to fix this kind of stuff before, it sure felt like a "big deal" at the time. :-)
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by stmw 9y ago
I think there is a deeper truth here - understanding of what the hardware is doing has always been essential for writing correct, secure, performant programs - and it is the (IMHO, mistaken) ideology that this is not the case that took the
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by stmw 9y ago
"Earl was such a corporate spendthrift, that it was rumored that he would walk up to engineers bench testing their circuits. After a little discussion regarding the circuit and its various components, Earl would question the engineers
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Saga of “Madman” Earl Muntz and cheap tube televisions(planetanalog.com)
1 points by stmw 9y ago|1 comments
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by stmw 9y ago
"Cloud computing — outsourcing computational tasks over the Internet — could give home-computer users unprecedented processing power and let small companies launch sophisticated Web services without building massive server farms. But i
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Protecting data in the cloud (2013)(news.mit.edu)
14 points by stmw 9y ago|1 comments
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by stmw 9y ago
It's neat some folks are still interested in JVM implementations from scratch, and I'm sure the author had fun / learned a lot in the process. I doubt it's meant to be practical (? is it?), and I personally wouldn't
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by stmw 9y ago
Commure, Inc. | San Francisco, CA | Multiple positions | Fulltime | ONSITE We are a stealth startup working to fix the software doctors use. If you have seen what physicians have to put up with, it's a bad version of the 90s, and makes
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by stmw 9y ago
This is really excellent, thanks for sharing. So much remains hidden in today's x86 systems.
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by stmw 9y ago
This is very cool! There should be an SRE version: "the mx4-large instance is filling memory at 5 megabytes-per-gallon, when will Datadog retrigger PagerDuty?"
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Starfish making comeback after syndrome killed millions(phys.org)
1 points by stmw 9y ago|0 comments
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by stmw 9y ago
7.6% is huge,indeed.
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by stmw 9y ago
Ah, I see. I guess it all depends on the meaning of "use",
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by stmw 9y ago
Me?
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by stmw 9y ago
As a hiring manager, that's just not a useful "initial screening test" for me.
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by stmw 9y ago
Haven't yet, happy with Abine Blur, but the more the merrier...

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