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by wscott 10y ago
This is where I have to point out that this would have been unlikely to happen with BitKeeper. :) BitKeeper doesn't provide a 'pull --rebase' and instead puts this in separate commands 'bk pull; bk collapse -e@; bk citoo
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by wscott 10y ago
No, Intel CPUs are optimized to simulate CPUs Some stories from back around 2000 when designing CPUs at Intel. Some people did bemoan the fact the few software actually needed the performance in the processors we were building. One of the
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by wscott 10y ago
Note you can click on many of the words and cycle over alternatives.
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by wscott 10y ago
It is nicely done and unlike what3words.com (which is very similar) this version isn't commercial. The icon acting as a visual hash is a nice touch.
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by wscott 10y ago
Very interesting post. Note that the New Rustacean podcast did an interview with the author of this post, Raph Levien. That was very interesting and he did touch on this program. http://www.newrustacean.com/show_notes/i
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by wscott 10y ago
I mainly posted this to get the reaction of people here who have used more accepted alternatives.
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Infinit.sh: The missing piece in containers: storage(blog.infinit.sh)
2 points by wscott 10y ago|1 comments
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by wscott 10y ago
I will follow your rabbit trail. I got the same message here with Chrome on the desktop without any ad blocking extensions installed. However, I was able to close that popup and keep going. Odd
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by wscott 10y ago
A little disappointing the resolution we get to see is missing a lot of detail. But pretty cool to see all the notes they scribbled on the walls.
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3d Browser for Apollo 11 Command Module(3d.si.edu)
2 points by wscott 10y ago|1 comments
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by wscott 10y ago
That was a really confusing website to me. Lots of pictures and none that really explained what it did. The main important piece is the video in the middle, but that don't look like a video unless you pass your mouse over it. And with
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BitKeeper 7.3 released(users.bitkeeper.org)
7 points by wscott 10y ago|0 comments
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by wscott 10y ago
Yup, we spend a bunch of time trying different options. But they never gave Andy the uop he really wanted which would zero the next cache line. Normally when you start writing to memory the machine will populate the cache line to be written
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by wscott 10y ago
I don't see how you can write an article on x86 memcpy without having benchmarks for 'rep movs' as a baseline. That is the old x86 assembly instruction that does the entire copy in one instruction. With modern processors, tha
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by wscott 10y ago
The website says "efficient" all over the place, but did anyone see where they quantified that? It doesn't look like it would be efficient at a car-sized scale. But even a comparison to typical lawnmower-sized engines would b
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by wscott 10y ago
They are debugging it right now. The ultimate bug bounty program.
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by wscott 10y ago
Cool. BitKeeper internal diff, used for recording history and displaying changes has done this since 2001. https://gist.github.com/wscott/c403526ca19a210c13ad649136c15... http://bkbits.net/u/bk&#x
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by wscott 10y ago
BitKeeper uses signals to implement a paging data structure from a compressed backing store. I allocate the memory for my data structure that is backed by a file on the disk and then use mprotect() to mark that memory as read-only. Later w
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by wscott 10y ago
Of course, they should get 10% each. Don't be a greedy bastard.
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by wscott 10y ago
True, but this would be a very different feel that the one being proposed. This system would be public assistance and so only poor people would get it. So it would come with the usual stigma. When EVERYONE gets the same check then everyone
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by wscott 10y ago
In 1990, during a summer internship at GE, I wrote a program that scheduled electric motor production at like 7 factories around the country. You would download the next weeks worth of orders from their timeshare system, which seemed ancie
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How has BitKeeper changed since it was used for the Linux kernel(users.bitkeeper.org)
3 points by wscott 10y ago|0 comments
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by wscott 10y ago
If they are interested we would be happy to help them tune performance.
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by wscott 10y ago
BTW, sorry to say we don't have a RHEL 3 release for you but in the 'complete list' are you can find stuff for RHEL 4. ;-) Really they are Debian 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 but they match up with Redhat pretty well.
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by wscott 10y ago
We found that by maintaining a build cluster with many old releases we tend to keep compatibility issues out of the code. Also, FreeBSD is very good about backwards compatibility so current releases will run these binaries just fine. Howeve
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by wscott 10y ago
Yes, files are tracked as first class objects as they are renamed.
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Show HN: BitKeeper – Enterprise-ready version control, now open-source(bitkeeper.org)
384 points by wscott 10y ago|306 comments
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by wscott 10y ago
For other people reading here: It is built on Tcl and released under Tcl's license. BSDish.
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by wscott 10y ago
How about something like photos.google.com? They have infinite(well, all history) scroll, but it is done perfectly. The scrollbar size doesn't change and you are given enough feedback to scroll directly to the part you want. Similar is
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by wscott 11y ago
Yes yes, everyone one is saying "of course" these are string compares! What a nub mistake. But is it? It is a very easy mistake to make, you pick 'sort' and the resulting code does what you expect. As long as all the ti

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