tjalfi

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1. 691.▲
   Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Speed (2010) [pdf](nber.org)

   1 points by tjalfi 10y ago|1 comments
2. 692.▲
   Tufte Story: AnswerBook (2008)(web.archive.org)

   2 points by tjalfi 10y ago|0 comments
3. 693.▲
   by tjalfi 10y ago

   I am fluent in C, C++, and C#. I am currently learning Swift for iOS development. I will study F# when I am good enough with Swift. I will probably have to learn JavaScript eventually but am holding out as long as possible. Edited for gramm
4. 694.▲
   An Efficient Representation for Sparse Sets (1993) [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

   1 points by tjalfi 10y ago|0 comments
5. 695.▲
   by tjalfi 10y ago

   My employer has an application that requires IE5 compatibility mode. We are a version behind and will be upgrading it this year. The sad thing is that the new version uses Silverlight.
6. 696.▲
   by tjalfi 10y ago

   The actual title is "A Seven-Dimensional Analysis of Hashing Methods and its Implications on Query Processing".
7. 697.▲
   A Seven Dimensional Analysis of Hashing Methods [pdf](vldb.org)

   113 points by tjalfi 10y ago|5 comments
8. 698.▲
   The Secret Cycle (2009)(newyorker.com)

   1 points by tjalfi 10y ago|0 comments
9. 699.▲
   by tjalfi 10y ago

   https://godbolt.org/g/XKAZOb fixes the bugs in the sample code in the parent post. If you compile with -O2 then iota_sum_const_alloca and iota_sum_array are both evaluated at compile time.
10. 700.▲
    by tjalfi 10y ago

    This hasn't been true for me. My top 3 posts [0, 1, 2] are all fairly trite. All three of these were rated much higher than posts with extensive citations. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538068 [1] https:&
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    by tjalfi 10y ago

    tl;dr - alloca costs, history, and why it is problematic Alloca is somewhat more expensive on x86/x64 than a single instruction. [0] shows the code generation for four functions that generate and sum an iota array. I used -O1 to make t
12. 702.▲
    by tjalfi 10y ago

    You could do this but it would be more trouble than it is worth. ASN.1 ECN can encode arbitrary protocols but the process is fairly complicated [0]. An ASN.1 compiler1 for embedded/space systems [1] mentions that there is only one im
13. 703.▲
    by tjalfi 10y ago

    You probably won't see this but here is a source. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-surveilla...
14. 704.▲
    by tjalfi 10y ago

    The USPTO has a bulk download option[0]. The datasets are available from ReedTech[1]. [0] https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/bulk-data-produ... [1] http://patents.reedtech.com/Public-PAIR.php
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    by tjalfi 10y ago

    If you have a Pluralsight subscription, try the Applying Functional Principles in C# course [0]. [0] https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/csharp-applying-...
16. 706.▲
    by tjalfi 10y ago

    Were you thinking of http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional... ?
17. 707.▲
    by tjalfi 10y ago

    Spousal rape is not a crime in India. [0] [0] http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/13/47396685...
18. 708.▲
    by tjalfi 10y ago

    The original Ethernet patent was an example of this. The license fees were low - $1000 [0] and it became a de facto standard. Token Ring was a competing network technology with considerably higher license fees [1]. Patent owners for subsequ
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    by tjalfi 10y ago

    The Parnassus Endeavour fund ( https://www.parnassus.com/parnassus-mutual-funds/endeavor/in... ) is partially based on employee satisfaction. Here is an excerpt from an interview [0] with the portfolio manager. John
20. 710.▲
    by tjalfi 10y ago

    You could do a lot worse than reading all of the references on https://danluu.com/new-cpu-features/ .
21. 711.▲
    by tjalfi 10y ago

    80% of Americans below the federal poverty line have cellphones. ( http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census... )
22. 712.▲
    FizzBuzz in Haskell by Embedding a Domain-Specific Language (2014) [pdf](themonadreader.files.wordpress.com)

    2 points by tjalfi 10y ago|0 comments
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    by tjalfi 10y ago

    TL;DR x86 is little-endian for compatibility with the Datapoint 2200. From Stan Mazor's 1995 survey article "The History of the microcomputer - Invention and Evolution" from Proceedings of the IEEE, pp. 1601-1607, Dec. 1995,
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    by tjalfi 10y ago

    TL;DR. XDR was designed in the 1980s. This is a major factor in Decisions 2 and 3. RFC1832 has a rationale for decision 2 towards the end of the document. Here is an excerpt. "(4) Why is the XDR unit four bytes wide? There i
25. 715.▲
    The Dark Side of Going Abroad: Foreign Experiences Increase Immoral Behavior [pdf](faculty.insead.edu)

    6 points by tjalfi 10y ago|3 comments
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    by tjalfi 10y ago

    I would recommend updating your .gitignore for VS2015. The .vs directory and *.VC.db should both be excluded from the repo.
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    by tjalfi 10y ago

    This reminds me of Richard Feynman's classic Cargo Cult Science speech. ( http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm )
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    by tjalfi 10y ago

    SPITBOL/370 is a SNOBOL4 implementation for IBM mainframes. The following Dr. Dobbs articles describe some of the tricks used in the code. Elegant is the wrong word but both of these techniques are clever hacks. http://www.d
29. 719.▲
    Development of a Spelling List – Doug McIlroy (1982) [pdf](cs.dartmouth.edu)

    1 points by tjalfi 10y ago|0 comments
30. 720.▲
    by tjalfi 10y ago

    http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure... is an interesting article about this topic.