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From the original interview: "The only advantage you had over a newcomer was that you were prepared to read the manual." So true still today. I am always astonished by how much tim…

Variants of large scale Passive Radar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_radar was supposed to beat first generation stealth. I suppose it's a closely guarded secret if it still …

They optimize away unnecessary monitoring inside the traces once the types have been propagated there. So only slow path code does the monitoring. All the active traces should get …

But they've been increasing tuition like crazy too right? ~4-6% every 3 years according to http://oir.yale.edu/node/108/attachment Apparently that gets spent on all kinds of things…

Yes I noticed that too and immediately started to godel: "how many of the wrongnesses the author believes are wrong are really right ..."

Less jobs for lawyers generally seems like a good thing to me. Like investment banks lawyers do not create much (any?) value. That's a good sign for society. There may be some hope…

Really good point. That always annoys me with most formulas. I have to dig back several paragraphs (with no scope/indexing tool) to figure out what the individual variables mean. A…

Asperger is now autism. Let me guess: Treating autism pays more?

Don't use a off the shelf database. They are overkill for this. This only needs a very single table key->value store where every transaction is only a single access. I would just m…

Don't do your own locking. Let the caller pass in state. Push locking to the caller. Don't have your own global state that would need hidden locks, but instead let the caller handl…

You may not realize it, but that's a quite damning statement on the CUDA compiler.

True for the html layout, but not the content (the projects/code). For a code site layout in the end is very secondary. Besides github is doing its best to compete on the "largest …

Not sure about sourceforge. It lost its lustre to github, but there are still a lot of good project there. freshmeat/freecode is really great. Lots of great software there (I liked…

Did you actually read the article? It quoted studies that contradicted exactly what you said. Most studied people stopped using it at some point.

Dvorak doesn't support the Alt- trick?

Universities are still extremely expensive, just with the people (grad students and post docs) who do most of the actual science getting very little of the money. It's just extreme…

Reminds me of that old quote "social media had popularized non-fact based reality" Macro is a mac developer, his friends are mac developers and he somehow determines Microsoft deve…

Nothing new. As usual the faithful are the suckers.

It has some nice features: parallel iteration and lazy iteration (return an iterator that is only evaluated when the values are needed)

AV Rule 25 (MISRA Rule 127) The time handling functions of library shall not be used. Yes everyone reinventing their own broken flat tire date routines is the way go. If they used …

Oh the irony. Something called "Accelerate" that makes programs run slower (and also harder to debug) Maybe they should have called it "snake oil" instead.

Are you serious? I would never give some random supplier unlimited access to my server and internal network. Such a requirement is an absolute show-stopper.

I considered splunk at some point until I read the EULA review of theirs at http://blog.hacker.dk/ " Upon at least ten (10) days prior written notice, Splunk may audit your use” ….…