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That post by Rob Pike is arguing that you should not need to check the endianness of your system when swapping. Not that you should never byte swap. Systems and protocols have diff…

I have to admit I stopped reading after the combined section on byte swapping and casting external data to a internal structure. Perhaps the author of the code should have used nto…

You need to also compare the cost and power consumption of the chips. I also imagine the use of high-level synthesis impacted performance.

I used Zulip while at Akamai. At the time, Zulip was a Boston-based start-up and I believe some engineers at Akamai had a connection to engineers at Zulip. It wasn't used throughou…

I didn't realize until far too recently that Python includes a built-in web server: 1. git clone https://github.com/cheeaun/life.git 2. cd life 3. python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 4…

Insurance does not eliminate risk from the market.

I only mention it because I learned the difference yesterday, but that is a bar graph, not a histogram.

Just because a system gives you the freedom to customize your environment, it doesn't mean you required to "retool [it] to no end." I have used a simple Arch Linux installation for…