tjalfi

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   by tjalfi 6y ago

   You can change your organization or change your organization . The latter is often easier.
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   by tjalfi 6y ago

   My employer is like this - I'm the second newest person on my team and I've been here for 9 years. It's a great place to work and quite difficult to be hired here.
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   by tjalfi 6y ago

   The early (earliest?) NeXT APIs start with NX. macOS doesn't have support for any of these. I found this out when I tried porting Tim Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb to macOS as a weekend hack.
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   by tjalfi 6y ago

   YMMV, but most of our in-house applications use a few of the Aspose .NET libraries. Many of them are written to interact with our billing and document management systems (primitive VCS). I have written a few applications and most of them wo
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   by tjalfi 6y ago

   It's a lot easier to demonstrate the business necessity of a whiteboard test than IQ tests. Administering an IQ test would be legally risky and could have a disparate impact on protected classes. Griggs v. Duke Power Co.[0] is the Supr
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   Putting your app on a diet (2018)(youtube.com)

   1 points by tjalfi 6y ago|0 comments
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   by tjalfi 6y ago

   The TCP checksum catches some issues but it won't detect everything. Other newer algorithms like CRC32C[0] are much more effective at detecting corrupt data. The following is an excerpt from Performance of Checksums and CRCs over Real
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   by tjalfi 6y ago

   Diversity requirements are a common practice for large law firms. Many Amlaw 500 firms have agreed to the Mansfield rule[0]. > Now in its third iteration, the Mansfield Rule Certification measures whether law firms have affirmatively con
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   A Compendium of SIMD Boolean Array Algorithms in APL (2016) [video](youtube.com)

   31 points by tjalfi 6y ago|2 comments
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    Everyone should read Saki's The Open Window[0]. [0] http://englischlehrer.de/texts/openwindow.php
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    (submitter) If you're curious what they look like, [0] has a bunch of old hosts files. [0] https://github.com/ttkzw/hosts.txt
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    Every company files for hardware patents; you want to have a portfolio that can be used for reciprocal license agreements.
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    Unified memory is quite a bit older than that; the SGI O2[0] had it in 1996. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    Here [0] is a post that discusses some of the reasons why Silicon Valley became a high tech hub. [0] https://yarchive.net/comp/startups.html
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    Development of the Domain Name System (1988) [pdf](cseweb.ucsd.edu)

    51 points by tjalfi 6y ago|10 comments
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    Beating Up on Qsort (2019)(travisdowns.github.io)

    4 points by tjalfi 6y ago|0 comments
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    They might be referring to the ARM FJCVTZS instruction[0]. It speeds up converting JavaScript doubles to 32-bit integers. [1] is the Webkit commit that added support for FJCVTZS, it was between a 0.5 to 2% speedup - that's a big win fo
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    When Seekdir() Won't Seek to the Right Position (2008)(msys.ch)

    2 points by tjalfi 6y ago|0 comments
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    AMD GPUs use a non-zero NULL pointer[0]. [0] https://reviews.llvm.org/D26196
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    Why TCP Timers Don’t Work Well (1986) [pdf](comet.lehman.cuny.edu)

    41 points by tjalfi 6y ago|13 comments
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    Rlogin(1): the untold story (1998) [pdf](web.archive.org)

    1 points by tjalfi 6y ago|0 comments
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    Why Software Jewels Are Rare (1996) [pdf](cse.msu.edu)

    3 points by tjalfi 6y ago|0 comments
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    Have you owned any Allied-Telesyn equipment? We had some of their switches at a previous job; resetting the admin password required placing a phone call to Romania.
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    Specifications for the Interconnection of a Host and an IMP (1976) [pdf](walden-family.com)

    19 points by tjalfi 6y ago|1 comments
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    You can also blame the Supreme Court. The following is an excerpt from [0]. Around the same time, the Court ruled, in O’Connor v. Donaldson, that a Florida man named Kenneth Donaldson had been kept against his will in a state psychiatric ho
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    The Origin of the VM/370 Time-Sharing System (1981) [pdf](lass.cs.umass.edu)

    47 points by tjalfi 6y ago|13 comments
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    > Don't get me wrong - this isn't some "back on the old times stuff was better" - but i really feel this path in computing should have been pursued more. Itanium had security segments; they are probably described in t
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    This paper is also available as a PDF[0]. [0] http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/taste.pdf
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    Segmented Addressing Solves the Virtual Cache Synonym Problem (1997) [pdf](user.eng.umd.edu)

    32 points by tjalfi 6y ago|10 comments
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    by tjalfi 6y ago

    WordPerfect still has some users. Last year we recruited an attorney from a firm that still uses WordPerfect for all their documents.