Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014) • Hacker News Board

Re: Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

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Post by pmontra » Mon, May 16, 2016, 12:51 PM UTC

wheaties wrote: post #4

rmccue wrote: post #3

Off-topic, but take a look at the source on the site: all absolutely-positioned divs. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8895662

This site worked great on my android phone. Much better than most responsive sites I've visited. Add to that it loaded quickly. I'd say it's a good design.

There are overlaps between paragraphs due to Opera's autoreflow after pinch to zoom.

Re: Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

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Post by csours » Mon, May 16, 2016, 12:54 PM UTC

So is this badness from over-engineering, or from complexity due to other parts of the API?

Re: Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

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Post by to3m » Mon, May 16, 2016, 12:58 PM UTC

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146124

Re: Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

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Post by ibiza » Mon, May 16, 2016, 1:10 PM UTC

Somewhat related, Jeff & Casey take down another MS API: How to draw a rectangle with Direct2D.

http://braid-game.com/news/2009/01/the-jeff-and-casey-show-o...

Re: Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

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Post by ArkyBeagle » Mon, May 16, 2016, 1:21 PM UTC

adwhit wrote: post #5

Another oldie-but-a-baddie: http://www.thejaywalker.net/2010/12/system-v-semaphores-how-...

Oh, they're not that bad. It uses the ioctl() metaphor. I'm surprised somebody who's read ALP doesn't see that.

Re: Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

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Post by wtbob » Mon, May 16, 2016, 1:26 PM UTC

Well, I don't know about the API, but that's certainly the worst blog software ever made, requiring me to enable JavaScript and execute code in order to read some simple HTML and CSS. Why‽

Re: Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

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Post by hghdfgv » Mon, May 16, 2016, 1:38 PM UTC

grx wrote: post #8

js;dr

Never heard of this before. I like it.

Re: Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

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Post by aforty » Mon, May 16, 2016, 1:54 PM UTC

wtbob wrote: post #16

Well, I don't know about the API, but that's certainly the worst blog software ever made, requiring me to enable JavaScript and execute code in order to read some simple HTML and CSS. Why‽

Reading his site on an iPhone is nearly impossible.

Re: Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

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Post by lmm » Mon, May 16, 2016, 2:06 PM UTC

ArkyBeagle wrote: post #15

adwhit wrote: post #5

Another oldie-but-a-baddie: http://www.thejaywalker.net/2010/12/system-v-semaphores-how-...

Oh, they're not that bad. It uses the ioctl() metaphor. I'm surprised somebody who's read ALP doesn't see that.

ioctl() isn't a metaphor, it's a sin-bin for things that don't fit in the file metaphor.

Re: Context switch logging with the Windows Event Tracing API (2014)

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Post by bjacobel » Mon, May 16, 2016, 2:13 PM UTC

wtbob wrote: post #16

Well, I don't know about the API, but that's certainly the worst blog software ever made, requiring me to enable JavaScript and execute code in order to read some simple HTML and CSS. Why‽

Perhaps consider that coming on here and being condescending about the impact your own browsing habits have on the web experience of your (very small, but very vocal) JavaScript-disabling demographic makes the rest of us web developers really not very interested in building sites that meet your demands.

I agree that the site shouldn't need JavaScript to function, but I don't think comments like these help the goal of helping the content creators achieve progressive enhancement.