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by tjalfi 9y ago
Chandler Carruth talks about unordered_map performance[1] in his CppCon 2014 talk "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures". He endorses most of the other alternatives you mentioned. [1] https://you
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by tjalfi 9y ago
Better is really the wrong word. It's certainly cheaper to only support IE11 than IE11 and Edge. IE11 is my employer's officially supported browser. We have some dusty decks ahem legacy websites that require it. The legal indust
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by tjalfi 9y ago
Technical: Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer by Sandi Metz Fiction: Wired Love: A Rom
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An Empirical Study of Fortran Programs – Don Knuth (1971) [pdf](cs.tufts.edu)
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by tjalfi 9y ago
[0] is a presentation on SIMD targeted at game developers. It has a lot of valuable information about instruction set support and how to make effective use of vector instructions. [1] is a HN comment that summarizes the content. [0] https:
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Loop Exits and Structured Programming: Reopening the Debate (1995) [pdf](www-cs.stanford.edu)
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Bagpipe enables verification of BGP router configuration policies(konne.me)
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by tjalfi 9y ago
iostream generally has poor performance[0]. TR 18015[1] (Technical Report on C++ Performance) lists some of the implementation challenges. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4340396/does-the-c-stand... [1] h
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by tjalfi 9y ago
Fortran 2008 added a number of bit twiddling intrinsics[0]. Here are a few of the scalar intrinsics for bit counting. popcnt() - population count leadz() - leading zero trailz() - trailing zero poppar() - parity [0] ftp:/&
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by tjalfi 9y ago
Have you seen the Joel Spolsky video You Suck at Excel [0]? He demonstrates how using tables can avoid many of the common pitfalls. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
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by tjalfi 9y ago
I have never had a Facebook account. I signed up for LinkedIn 2 years ago. Goodreads is the only social network that I enjoy participating in.
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by tjalfi 9y ago
This is common for large law firms. My employer has software that enforces ethical requirements and monitors users to detect suspicious activity.
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by tjalfi 9y ago
The NYC Human Rights Commission has a list of gender identities[0]. It seems unlikely that it lists all possible identities. [0] http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/cchr/downloads/pdf/publications/G...
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by tjalfi 9y ago
I worry about earthquakes (Seattle), machine learning eliminating technical support jobs, and longer term career prospects.
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by tjalfi 9y ago
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2008.11.windowsc... gives a rationale for why Windows doesn't replace files that are in use.
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by tjalfi 9y ago
Crime and Guilt is completely unlike either of the Feynman memoirs. It is a compilation of two separate short story collections that were originally published in German. The author is a German criminal defense attorney and the stories are f
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by tjalfi 9y ago
Autobiography/Memoirs: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard Feynman Crime and Guilt: Stories - Ferdinand von Schirach Fiction: The Master and Marga
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by tjalfi 9y ago
Are you referring to Intel's Slicing by 8 algorithm[0]. [0] https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/432/446/a_systematic_a...
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Using Rules to Screen for Cooperative Types (2012) [pdf](digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl)
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by tjalfi 9y ago
Here is an example from a previous job. The location was a factory for a company you have heard of. Temporary employees were 99 and 44/100% of the workforce. One staffing agency, call it Agency A, had the main contract for the site and
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by tjalfi 9y ago
This. The video Don't Talk to the Police[0] has several concrete examples of how not taking the fifth amendment can be to your disadvantage. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
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by tjalfi 9y ago
Semantic Designs[0] is one of several companies that sells software for working with legacy codebases and programming language translation. [1] is a SO post by one of their founders that describes some of the difficulties in programming lan
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Nuclear Fallout Used to Spot Fake Art (2008)(physicsworld.com)
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The Strange History of Mad Honey (2014)(modernfarmer.com)
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by tjalfi 9y ago
It isn't easy to overturn state or federal laws but it is far from impossible. Here are a few examples. Gregory Watson got the constitution amended in 1992[0]. Reverend Warren H. Stewart got Arizona to declare Martin Luther King day a
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by tjalfi 9y ago
[0] has two old (2008) Usenet posts by an AMD CPU designer about these tradeoffs. [0] http://yarchive.net/comp/register_file_size.html
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by tjalfi 9y ago
The source to if* is at ( https://franz.com/~jkf/ifstar.txt ).
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by tjalfi 9y ago
Interesting, have you tried configuring Process Monitor to log all network traffic?
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by tjalfi 9y ago
I saw that tweet but I still doubt that any Windows 10 service would connect to analytics.google.com. It seems more likely that he has a Google application installed. Edited to reword the second sentence.
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by tjalfi 9y ago
The connections in the first screenshot[0] aren't necessarily from Microsoft. This screenshot shows a DNS lookup for google-analytics.com followed by an attempt to use Teredo. If Chrome is installed then this could be from the Google

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