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POSIX close(2) is broken
There's just one small problem: The way POSIX has defined close(2) is completely and utterly broken.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,390 posts.
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jwz: Apple recently broke Ctrl-Y
Ever since MacOS 10.0 was released, text fields have supported Emacs bindings for the single-character Control commands, showing that there were people inside Apple (and, presumably, NeXT) who were right-thinking and sensible. But some time late in the 10.6 release cycle, and continuing into 10.7.1, the binding for…
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Build Doom3 on MacOSX with XCode4
The source code of Doom3 has been released three days ago :) ! I have started to read it and I will probably write a code review if enough people are interested. According to the README.txt the source code is building well with Visual Studio 2010 but it is not building at all on Mac OS X with XCode 4.0 ( it is…
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How Spotify Works
Synthpop and sci-fi
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Software Engineer in Auckland, New Zealand.
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He Who Controls the Bootloader
The day before I submitted this column, news hit the net that the other shoe had finally dropped. After months of waiting and wondering what was to become of Be, we learned that Palm, Inc. will be purchasing Be's technology, intellectual property, and assets. While we don't yet know exactly what Palm plans to do with…
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The LMAX Architecture - 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency
LMAX is a retail financial trading system that can handle that can 6 million orders per second on a single JVM thread. The business logic runs in-memory surrounded by disruptors using event sourcing.
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Assault by GC
TL;DR; We had performance spikes, which we eased with some insane use of struct s. History For a while now, we had been seeing a probl...
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FreeBSD on EC2 status
For lists of FreeBSD AMI IDs, please consult the appropriate FreeBSD release announcement; you can also launch FreeBSD through the AWS Marketplace .
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IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior
(Screenshot by someone on Twitter two weeks ago. I can’t find the tweet now — sorry.)
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How to beat the CAP theorem
The CAP theorem states a database cannot guarantee consistency, availability, and partition-tolera...
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An lsof Primer
Key Options Getting Information About the Network User Information Commands and Processes Files and Directories Advanced lsof is the sysadmin/security über-tool
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How can C Programs be so Reliable?
C is, today, a unique programming language. Surprisingly few people can really program in C and yet many of us have quite strong opinions about it. Buffer overflows, stack smashing, integer overflows — C has many well publicised flaws, and these terms are often bandied about confidently, even by those unfamiliar with…
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Why Developers Never Use State Machines
Why developers rarely use state machines, seeing them as overkill until it's too late to switch, and what the state_machine gem did for CrowdHired.
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9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM
Solaris 5.11 (virtual: Joyent SmartMachine ) PHP 5.3.6 with PHP - FPM : 4 instances running, 10meg APC cache nginx 0.8.53 Pax 1.0 (my silly self-coded website software… and yes, oops there’s already software with that name ) 120 megs of RAM used Load tested using blitz.io : 9 million+ daily hit capability
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The most stupid C bug ever
I have been programming for a number of years already. I have seen others introduce bugs, and I have also introduced (and solved!) many bugs while coding. Off-by-one, buffer-overflow, treating pointers as pointees, different behaviors or the same function (this is specially true for cross-platform applications), race…
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Finding memory leaks
Over lunch last week Mikhail Naganov (creator of the DevTools Heap Profiler ) and I were discussing how invaluable it has been to have the ...
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Low-level x86 code compression for 64k intros
This is about the “secret ingredient” in my EXE packer kkrunchy, which was used in our (Farbrausch) 64k intros starting from “fr-030: Candytron”, and also in a lot of other …
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