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Intellicode[0] is an extension that adds AI-powered IntelliSense to Visual Studio. I have used it for the last couple months and it works pretty well. [0] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/
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The paper Safe ICF in Gold[0] says that they get between 4 to 7% savings on code size. A safer version that omits functions that have their address taken was 97% as effective. The talk Diet Templates[1] has some suggestions for how to reduc
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This is a fairly common optimization that is normally performed by the linker. [0] is a blog entry that describes Microsoft’s implementation of identical function merging. [0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing&#x2
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Everyone should read Saki’s The Open Window[0]. [0] https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/saki/beasts/chapter6.html
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Jovial 73 has built in support for SoA arrays.
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Is [0] the comment you are referring to? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
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[0] is a manual for the DSP assembler. It has a few example programs. [0] https://antime.kapsi.fi/sega/files/ST-240-A-042795.pdf
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There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion. - Hal Abelson
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My employer uses Windows Enterprise and it also had Candy Crush and other crapware preinstalled. IIRC one of my coworkers wrote a script to remove the bundled applications.
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Here is why I used a header only library for my last C++ project. Earlier this year I wrote a Win32 program to solve an obscure issue for my employer. My main concern was making it possible for programmers with limited knowledge of C++ to m
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Object-Oriented Design Heuristics(slideshare.net)
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There are some exemptions for Texas property taxes if you are over 65, disabled, or a veteran. Sources: [0] [1] [2] [0] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/are-you-getting-all-... [1] https://www.star-te
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Device drivers and firmware often contain workarounds for bugs in other products. Here[0] is an example from Windows Vista. [0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060330-31/?p=...
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Aspects of Implementing CLU (1978) [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
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[0] is a reprint of Abraham Wald’s 1943 paper on this topic. I submitted it to HN awhile back but it didn’t get many votes. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140814122810/https://www.cna.o...
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Movitz[0] is a Lisp-based environment for x86 hardware. I have only cursory knowledge of Common Lisp and x86 assembly but found the code quite easy to follow. It isn’t under active development but there is nothing stopping you from dusting
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A contact forwarded my resume to an IT manager at my employer. I interviewed and was accepted for a temporary position. They hired me full time after a few years.
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The Catholic Inquisition still exists but it has been renamed to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Doctrine_...
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Wiretapping the Secret Service can be easy and fun – Bryan Seely (2015)(youtube.com)
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falkhash[0] does this. [0] https://github.com/gamozolabs/falkhash
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Your IT department may have removed Candy Crush and other bundled applications. That is what we did.
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Enterprise Windows is much the same. It comes with Candy Crush and other crapware preinstalled.
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Is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17319537 the thread you were thinking of?
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RTF/68k [0] is a extended Fortran 77 for embedded systems based on the 68k. It was used for a fair number of control systems in the 1980s and 1990s. [0] https://webhome.weizmann.ac.il/home/fhlevins/RTF/RT
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The code for this pretty print "@" was online[0] at one point but the site was never captured by archive.org. [0] https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/...
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Microsoft did snoop through the email account of a blogger who received leaked information[0]. [0] https://www.recode.net/2014/3/20/11624792/blogger-psa-dont-u...
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Xoc[0] is a newer extensible C compiler. The project ended in 2008 but the papers are worth reading. [0] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/xoc/
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He said this about Ford[0]. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2007-06-03/the-new-h...
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He also got an FBI record at the age of 11[0]. HN discussion is here[1]. [0] http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/les/crypto.htm [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14229412
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The SAIL source to Les Earnest's finger program is here[0]. [0] https://www.saildart.org/FINGER.SAI[P,SYS]

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