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Information is Beautiful did a visualization a couple years ago that attempted to answer this exact question. It hasn't been updated since end of 2020 but perhaps this will still b…

But unless you're already using Bazel, it's impractical to suggest "just use Bazel to distribute your builds" as doing so requires that you first migrate your build to Bazel. distc…

I found that the LPS lighting in San Jose was very close in color to yellow traffic signals, which made it sometimes confusing (and therefore more dangerous) to drive there after d…

Sorry for the belated response. Electric Make is part of CloudBees Accelerator: https://www.cloudbees.com/cloudbees-accelerator .

Electric Make has had sandboxing since 2002, no conversion from your familiar make-based builds to a new shiny build tool required, and it can make on-the-fly corrections to execut…

Correct, both the technique described in that article and the feature that eventually wound up in GNU make only disentangle output from concurrently executing build processes. With…

If you're looking to serialize parallel build logs without changing to an entirely new build tool: 1. Electric Make, a high-performance reimplementation of GNU make and ninja, has …

Nothing in the linked 14-page window replacement guide has anything at all to do with safety in general or windows falling onto people. It is entirely to do with preserving the "hi…

Unfortunately very many people casually lump a huge range of maladies under the umbrella of "RSI" and treat them as if they all have the same root cause and the same remedy. Wrist/…

That's true if you limit yourself to, say, GNU make -- but there are GNU-make-compatible alternatives like Electric Make, part of ElectricAccelerator ( http://electric-cloud.com/pr…

I think when you say "make Android builds faster", you mean "make Android application builds faster" -- as opposed to making Android operating system builds faster. Those are two v…

This is the fourth post in the series, not the start. Previous posts: http://themacro.com/articles/2016/09/introducing-ask-a-femal... http://themacro.com/articles/2016/09/ask-a-fem…

Hard links as well, which are nastier because they introduce aliases for the things you want to track.

memoize is certainly not the first use of this technique. Electric Make ( http://electric-cloud.com/products/electricaccelerator ) uses a custom filesystem to track file accesses f…

I'll take any excuse for a little code spelunking -- according to Perforce it was Scott, in October 2002.

I shouldn't be surprised that you published that before I did -- to be fair, it's quite a challenge to find _any_ topic related to make that you _haven't_ written about. :)

You can actually articulate that relationship in GNU make, as long as your outputs can be coerced into a pattern rule (like "%.c %.h: %.y"). Otherwise there's no way to do it that'…

_make_ was first released in 1977, but that was the PWB/UNIX version. The GNU variant of make didn't come along until sometime in the 1980's. It's hard to pin down the exact date o…

ElectricAccelerator is predominantly written in C/C++, with some Java for the cluster manager server component. As of the 7.1.0 release, it's about 375KLOC in C/C++ (excludes comme…

I'm the architect of ElectricAccelerator ( http://www.electric-cloud.com/products/electricaccelerator.p... ), a high-performance replacement for GNU make. I use it every day for al…

Depends on which version of "make" you're using. GNU make does not, but automatic dependency detection is just one of many enhancements in Electric Make, a drop-in replacement for …

Of course, you can both master a niche _and_ build awesome products and have a good time -- the two are not mutually exclusive as your comment implies.

The point is that your backups would be replicated to blobs on other people's hard drives, so you'd still be able to recover your data.

It's probably apocraphyl: http://www.snopes.com/weddings/newlywed/secret.asp .

Twitter's patent application was filed in 2008, so no, this is not related to the recent legislative change.