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How is Tribes networking derivative of Quake, other than using UDP?

gaffer's other articles are not expletive laden, but when you've been writing on a topic for so long and people are _still_ spreading lies and nonsense about it, even _after_ readi…

The SHA-3 backlash was because they cut second preimage resistance in half, and because the only reason for the change was due to Keccak performing very poorly in software.

The study becomes a bit meaningless when you read: "It is an interesting observation that despite the existence of hash table implementations in both the Java and the C++ class lib…

How can they possibly prove it's you? This sounds pretty bogus

It wasn't supposed to measure anything, it was supposed to impress you with how awesome Arc is.

To be fair, he doesn't seem to understand if/how _anything_ he wrote applies to the GIL.

First, the msdn/sun articles explicitly make his point: "For example, consider the following (naïve) matrix multiplication routine" "This is a very simple example and, if you reall…

Did you actually compare an intrinsic version to whatever solution you wound up with and find it was too slow? I would much rather deal with intrinsics and take a minor performance…

The fascination kind of dies reading http://www.gutshot.com/bforum/showthread.php?t=33980 and seeing the massive amounts of money these guys are tossing around with abandon. When y…

He called scams bad (a very controversial stance!), let some scumbags brag about how they got rich off scams (I'm sure they all gave the money back), and has run off some 15 posts …