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by tomerv 8y ago
> you need to find out what your manager's motivation is from keeping you from such events and based on that formulate a strategy for dealing with him/her. That's a pretty adverserial approach. Why not understand the manag
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by tomerv 8y ago
What are you talking about?
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by tomerv 8y ago
I have a similar trick. When I need to write something (code, email, etc.) that I don't know how to start, I tell myself that right now I'm only writing a draft. It might turn out to be a final revision later, but right now it&#x2
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by tomerv 8y ago
Obviously, don't donate blood if it causes you to pass out. But that's a pretty rare side effect, and mostly people can donate without any negative impact.
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Is sorted using SIMD instructions(0x80.pl)
177 points by tomerv 9y ago|67 comments
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The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake(money.cnn.com)
3 points by tomerv 9y ago|0 comments
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llvm-exegesis: Automatic Measurement Of Instruction Latency/Uops(lists.llvm.org)
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Fifty (or Sixty) Years of Processor Development for This?(eejournal.com)
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by tomerv 9y ago
Not all programming jobs are the same, and not all software companies have the same culture. There are a lot of jobs outside the startup bubble, and outside the US. Europe has a much better workplace culture in general , and there is some l
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by tomerv 9y ago
>What's the baud on opening and closing vents and reading it from space satellites? Here's an example where researchers used a scanner in an office building to exfiltrate data from the network. Malware on the network activates
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by tomerv 9y ago
There's no such thing as "actual" BTC holder. All the BTCs in the exchange are fungible. A holder of BTC doesn't know if that BTC was loaned to someone else or not. In a sense, what you suggest is exactly what the exchan
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by tomerv 9y ago
I checked now. LinkedIn: 20.36MB Facebook: 76.59MB Twitter: 25.71MB That's about 1/8th the size of those apps on iOS. Those are just the first three apps in use article, I'm sure the rest are about the same.
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by tomerv 9y ago
It sounds silly, but these things happen! Just ask anyone who has worked in a Fortune-500 company for at least a few years. Things in good condition get replaced because there's a budget for replacing them, with asking the employees ac
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by tomerv 9y ago
At least the "th" has close function in "thing" and "this". A non-native speaker wouldn't even notice the difference. But don't expect a non-native speaker to pronounce "pothole" correctly..
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by tomerv 9y ago
It sounds like you didn't read the article. At the least, your comment doesn't address the main issue presented in the article: that the Brexit vote was heavily influenced by non-UK interest groups. The article presents a pretty s
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by tomerv 9y ago
Any count based on mnemonics is off by 1 because of the CMPSD mnemonic. This mnemonic maps to both a string instruction and a SIMD (floating point) instruction. You probably want to count them separately. It's funny that this mnemonic
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White-hat worm battles black-hat worm for control of the Internet of Things(symantec.com)
3 points by tomerv 9y ago|0 comments
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Physical location of live stream found using flights patterns and astronomy(heatst.com)
200 points by tomerv 10y ago|118 comments
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Government Contractor Indicted for Stealing Classified Information(justice.gov)
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by tomerv 10y ago
> "The local variable is called krate because crate is a keyword" This is an interesting solution to a problem I often face (whenever I write a tool to in environment X to process something for environment X) . Is this a common
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by tomerv 10y ago
Here's my fix: for (i = 0; i < GRID_SIZE - 1; ++i) { // Note the "-1"... // Top Edge grid[0][i] = 0; // Bottom Edge grid[GRID_SIZE - 1][GRID_SIZE - i - 1] = 0
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by tomerv 10y ago
What's the alternative? I assume that you expect companies to promote/fire based on performance. How can you do that without a performance review process? My experience has been that the biggest factor is your direct manager. If y
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by tomerv 10y ago
There is just one encrypted copy, with one key. But that key has many copies, each encrypted with a different copy. The device takes its private key, and uses it to acquire the "master" key, which is then used to decrypt the media
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by tomerv 10y ago
The x86 version works well, but isn't 70MB too much for such an application?
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How the top 5 PC makers open your laptop to hackers(wired.com)
2 points by tomerv 10y ago|0 comments
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by tomerv 11y ago
If you find this interesting, take a look at FRACTRAN[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN
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by tomerv 11y ago
The wording in the article also makes it sound like the existence of a faster algorithm for edit distance would imply P=NP ("Most if not nearly all computer scientists believe the P equal to NP problem is false", although later a
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by tomerv 11y ago
Because it's really well-written!
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Diane Bryant Talks About ‘Swearing Like a Sailor’ and Intel’s Transformation(recode.net)
11 points by tomerv 11y ago|0 comments
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by tomerv 12y ago
I think that by "community", the author meant the subreddit community of people interested in the button. There are many people with reddit accounts that are still unaware of the button.

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