Viewing profile — bio_end_io_t

For what it's worth, clicking on any of those links brings you back to the one by Gavin Haynes.

On the other side of the coin, you can have situations like in 1989 when Jethro Tull beat Metallica for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance at the Grammy's.

one screen comms, one screen work, comes in at #2

The author should've been wary of strncpy, because his solution is wrong. "If there is no null byte among the first n bytes of src, the string placed in dest will not be null-termi…

This assumes negatives are represented as two's-complement, but that's implementation-defined. Testing whether a negative number is even by ANDing it with 1 won't work in a system …

It bothers me when "goto" is assumed to be "a maligned language construct". People who think "goto" is evil should also give up the other jump statements: continue, break, and retu…

While in the hospital receiving chemotherapy. But I don't think this even comes close to beating blackberry + merry-go-round. Also, does "in a dream" count?

The "Efficiency" metric is very useful and I really like the web interface. This is a great tool!

This sounds particularly useful for customers that spin up instances constantly, because every time then spin up an instance they are paying for 8GB. They could create instances wi…

The 1/6000 figure comes from a paper "Probability of a tossed coin falling on its edge" from 1993. I looked for it in the hopes it clarified the type of coin used, but the paper, a…

What type of coin are we talking about? A coin with rounded edges won't land on its edge 1 out of 6000 tosses. A coin with a flat edge that is thicker than either of its faces (or …

http://www.fittedcloud.com/blog/ FittedCloud is a small start-up that does automatic cloud resource optimization. They post regularly and go into topics ranging from technical deta…