theyoungestgun

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by theyoungestgun 10y ago
This is mentioned in her bio at the end, but worth noting here, I think: Barbara runs a coursera course on learning how to learn ( https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn ). It is interesting in that I find
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by theyoungestgun 10y ago
Psst . . . verilog (not saying the same for systemVerilog) isn't doing its job ;)
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by theyoungestgun 10y ago
Many FPGAs these days have flash memories that are good for ~10K writes.
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by theyoungestgun 10y ago
Famous example with Porsche: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/business/worldbusiness/30i...
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by theyoungestgun 11y ago
This is a list of startups. Orbitz is far from a startup.
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by theyoungestgun 11y ago
I like these "You CAN do X with Y!" types of posts - especially when it's not the same drum being banged over and over. I think there's a really big part of this case study that isn't mentioned (perhaps because ther
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by theyoungestgun 11y ago
See-also: trickle down economics.
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by theyoungestgun 11y ago
"When I don't have to" If I'm not going to depend on the IDE to tell me what a deduced variable type is, you can bet your ass I'm going to want to depend on it for autocompleting some of the insanely long type names
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by theyoungestgun 11y ago
I do not consider the API of a reasonably complex construct "obvious". That is often where IDEs shine for me - in java or any other language that can gather that info for me. It's scenarios where I don't have to go to
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by theyoungestgun 11y ago
He acknowledges its real power when talking about templates. That's what this feature is about: make template metaprogramming accessible, and the regular developers of the world will be more inclined to make use of the features.
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by theyoungestgun 11y ago
Agreed - but this is why modern features should be paired with modern tools. A simple hover-over or click through in an IDE to show what the function signature looks like is pretty basic these days. Autocomplete on what that auto variable
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by theyoungestgun 11y ago
The Aussie dollar is pretty weak right now. That translates to $1640 USD.
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by theyoungestgun 11y ago
Then penalize the OS scheduler by removing your spinning CPU from its available resources ;)
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by theyoungestgun 12y ago
Cpp and c also call things volatile for entirely different reasons than Java. These are two distinct ecosystems. They use the same terminology with different meaning. That perhaps is confusing, but definitely doesn't make one or the ot
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by theyoungestgun 12y ago
Assuming you mean friend in the standard cpp way, that's not exactly correct. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/495021/why-can-templates-...
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by theyoungestgun 12y ago
I was asked a variant of this sorting question (with the same expected answer) a while back. I think it's utter horseshit, just on principle that in 99% of cases the interviewer will be pissed at the answer "call the standard lib
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by theyoungestgun 12y ago
Are there any options besides JNA and multi-process shared memory (java to native through message passing of some sort)?
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by theyoungestgun 12y ago
What do you mean that 'microsecond as barely acceptable'? That was too long for what? I'm skeptical that there are really that many players out there who are in a position where a single microsecond would really make a diffe
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by theyoungestgun 12y ago
These switches aren't really a secret. And the crazy expensive switch is guaranteed to be the cheap part. Now add the all the ip required to make that fpga smart enough to place orders, and you're talking huge bills in dev hours
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by theyoungestgun 12y ago
Better yet - avoid the kernel altogether! Onload + Solarflare is a wonderful thing.