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by zerohp 13y ago
V8 is a JIT interpreter. The performance benefit might be less than you would think.
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by zerohp 13y ago
You have a terminal case of Dunning-Kruger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by zerohp 13y ago
Aligning the decimal point can be done in a single cycle with a barrel shifter in base 2.
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by zerohp 13y ago
A similar textbook[0] is used at UIUC in the Computer Engineering curriculum. I've read both books and I think this one is better, but its not free and its priced like a textbook[1]. [0] http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/
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by zerohp 13y ago
The pressure wave would likely destroy your hearing because of the additional energy that would be required to lift a more massive object like a golf ball.
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by zerohp 13y ago
I had an old Intel G1 SSD die during a power outage that went a little too long for my cheap UPS. Of course one event in uncontrolled conditions isn't meaningful. I still bought another Intel SSD because every Intel device I've ow
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by zerohp 13y ago
I'm a non-traditional student at Illinois. My prior career was writing web apps. My main focus in the spring will be learning SystemVerilog for design/synthesis and later in the year I want to join a Computer Architecture research
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by zerohp 13y ago
I am at a highly ranked school right now and they are not covered in any CS class. Computer Engineering majors learn them in their introductory course.
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by zerohp 13y ago
In this context, Russ is referencing the plan 9 libraries and compiler that is currently part of the Go source distribution.
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by zerohp 13y ago
I don't think x86 uses JTAG.
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by zerohp 13y ago
SSMEs were commonly reused. Only 46 were built and 3 were used for each of the 135 missions. I wouldn't say that 9 missions per engine is rare.
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by zerohp 13y ago
Linus doesn't distribute kernel binaries.
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by zerohp 13y ago
I saw Elysium on Monday and this was shown before the film. That's why they are calling it a trailer.
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by zerohp 13y ago
It has been revealed today, thanks to Edward Snowden, that Google and other US tech companies received millions of dollars from the NSA for their compliance with the PRISM mass surveillance system. So just how close is Google to the US secu
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by zerohp 13y ago
Absolutely agreed. It's like the author has never seen a magazine. Flat design has been around since color print became common.
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by zerohp 13y ago
I think that the reason this new idea came from someone outside of Physics or Electrical Engineering is because its poor efficiency is obvious to people with a background in those fields. Sometimes it takes an outsider to challenge assumpti
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by zerohp 13y ago
It's global.
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by zerohp 13y ago
Search for an error message when you can't use the network. Nice.
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by zerohp 13y ago
He should have configured the DHCP server to send proxy settings to clients (option 252).
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by zerohp 13y ago
General Motors was a big user of Motorola 68k variants. Workstations and personal computers that used the 680x0 series switched to the Power series, maybe the developers just find them easier to migrate to.
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by zerohp 13y ago
Your points 2 and 3 are satisfied by using an iterator to keep track of the position.
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by zerohp 13y ago
It is now taught in Java while the data structures class (225) is C++. The Computer Engineering curriculum is going the other way and now teaches computer architecture, assembly, and C (in that order) before sending students over to the CS
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by zerohp 13y ago
Carmack didn't invent fast inverse square root.
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by zerohp 13y ago
Few personal computers had protected memory until the late 1980s. Unix didn't run on PC or Mac until protected memory hardware was available. Emulation was always popular, and it is a type of virtualization. Few people wanted to emulat
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by zerohp 13y ago
Obese humans are nothing like a cow internally. Cows going to slaughter have between 19 and 26% body fat. Obesity in humans starts around 26% for men and the people-of-walmart you're imaging are 40-50% body fat. Cows are also herbivore
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by zerohp 13y ago
It's been a while since I worked with email headers and smtp, but I don't think the Bcc header actually exists in transit. The mail user agent and/or the mail submission agent remove it. They could reconstruct this informatio
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Facebook.com broken for IPv6 users(sixxs.net)
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by zerohp 13y ago
My thought exactly. The whole thing strikes me as a case of: Have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. First with callbacks, and second with channels.
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by zerohp 13y ago
That list has nothing to do with being a full stack developer. It's a minimum set of responsibilities for a technical lead on a project.
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by zerohp 13y ago
That method is what I did until I went back to school for computer engineering. All you have to do is integer division by two and keep the remainder. You don't even need to know the powers of two. Here's an example with 137. 137 % 2 = 1

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