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Can anyone explain what the value-add of this product is? If it's increasing memory sizes, we already have virtual memory. If it's about increasing IO speeds to NVM, we already hav…

Before Yahoo! went public David Filo contacted Larry Wall and gave him the option to buy a good portion of pre-IPO stock at a low price. The reason? Yahoo! could not have existed w…

lucifer, scary

Yeah, like I said, I think you're living in a bubble and/or this is confirmation bias. I grew up in the 00s and, from my perspective, I see Monty Python as belonging to my grandpar…

Yeah but even then, you have The Three Stooges, The Marx Brothers, and Charlie Chaplin. All 30s-era comedy groups similar in notoriety to Monty Python.

I think you're in a bubble. Lots of people have interest in the 30s given it was the golden age of Hollywood: Gone with the Wind references have entered the cultural lexicon, so ha…

tragically named. given the reference to ascii, looks like u.s. cii.

for the curious: (1 - reduce(operator.mul, map(lambda a: (8 ** 8.0 - a) / 8 ** 8, range(12000)))) * 100.0

Linus is just being Linus. He's brusque, non-chalant. He's inflammatory to get people to listen. His thesis here is that bad DBus performance isn't due to context-switching overhea…

Thanks for calling my ideas idiotic. It probably seems that way because you're missing the subtext of this advice. At worst HR/Legal will recommend that you get fired, at best you …

Okay it seems like you want to keep this job so that's step one. The goal here is to keep the job. Now just arrange the chess pieces to accomplish your goal. Here are two things I …

Seems like there is still a significant amount of initial latency by waiting for the first-byte of the HTML before making the subsequent requests for the dependent resources. To ac…

I feel like I learned something about the problem. I was expecting to also learn about the solution but instead got hit with sales pitch at the end there. How does Superpowered get…