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Yeah, check out the audiobook, it is great and was worth the wait. I have the physical book but it has so many pages and is so heavy that it is hard to hold and read, especially ly…

I had the same thought and am wondering about the economic reality of doing this. Does anyone have an idea of the cost increase for using ECC RAM in a mobile device for instance? A…

This. I've been trying to put together a small home lab xeon e3 system that can theoretically support nvme+gpu+infiniband. It's tough. Typically you get something like 3 full lengt…

Reverse engineering efforts have only stalled for ARM SoCs using PowerVR GPUs from Imagination Technologies. However for Qualcomm Adreno and Vivante GPUs, the freedreno and etnaviv…

I find that the only reasonable complaint that can be made about Lua is the from-1 indexing. Like: "I found this really awesome language and it's ONLY wart is that it doesn't index…

I would not be surprised if designing a GPU requires more lawyers than engineers. I also cannot conceive of many industries where the barriers to entry are higher.

It isn't linked to in the article, but if you're interested in this please do check out luvit by tim caswell ( https://luvit.io/ ). It's a very impressive system. At a very high le…

Thank You. Paul Graham says: 'Louis Brandeis said "We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." That sounds plausible. …

How can you make the claim "It doesn't work". By what metrics? Both Linus and Bill Gates were extremely successful. Are you claiming they could be more successful with a softer sty…

You're right. The biggest news for operating systems is the fact that the hardware virtualization features on modern processors allow breaking free from the old model. A modern int…

economic incentives typically lead firms to look for new sources of revenue. they hope to achieve this extra revenue with minimal cost, ideally by not creating new products or deve…

Everything works but the webcam. Unfortunately I had to do some unsavory things like disabling NCQ and write barriers to prevent errors and extreme slowness with disk operations. T…

Small correction: There is a pure Go implementation of nanomsg ( https://github.com/gdamore/mangos ).

I donated too. If you're sitting on the side lines: remember that that the Software Freedom Conservancy is a non-profit while VMware is multi-billion dollar corporate entity with v…

opposing barrels fired simultaneously might work, though it would be a bit wasteful.

The biggest part of the problem is that companies (and founders) are forbidden from speaking up after licensing deals are made. Perhaps you could post anonymously, but you'd still …

I can't tell if this is an apology or a non-apology. It seems to have elements of both. Clearly the moral of the story is: "Don't claim that X sucks unless you are are damn sure". …

this is actually very exciting. I decided to explore the site a little and found this quote: "most ambitious storage project undertaken since ZFS" ( http://www.acunu.com/2011/03/wh…

within N years you'll be able to pick an android phone out of the trash. I suspect N < 5. That makes projects like this really awesome.

My opinion is that many people hate autotools because they don't understand them. It was designed to handle just about any crazy build scenario you can throw at it -- of course it …

via the google: http://useconomy.about.com/od/fiscalpolicy/p/Mandatory.htm "These programs include Food Stamps, Unemployment Compensation, Child Nutrition and Tax Credits, Suppleme…

I just saw the link posted by joezydeco (above). It has good links to information on this particular avenue of optimization, particularly: http://elinux.org/Suspend_To_Disk_For_ARM…