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An update for those of you that can't run my games anymore on OSX because of Catalina. I'm so sorry about this… I'll probably write a post about this, breaking it all down for you, but the situation is as follows. (from my point of view, and own experiences with Apple) [thread] pic.twitter.com/PY0y3o9gNF
August 2007 (This is a talk I gave at the last Y Combinator dinner of the summer. Usually we don't have a speaker at the last dinner; it's more of a party. But it seemed worth spoiling the atmosphere if I could save some of the startups from preventable deaths. So at the last minute I cooked up this rather grim talk…
In Masters of Doom, a book about the game development company id Software and its influence on popular culture, David Kushner reflected on the...
OR in the WHERE condition of a PostgreSQL database query is usually a cause of bad query performance. How to rewrite queries without OR.
Just A Quick Note Today on Magic Leap 2+ Month Old News Things have been very quiet lately with respect to Magic Leap. So quiet, that apparently the assignment of all of Magic Leap patents over 2 m…
Earlier this year, many people were passing around this article about "re-learning how to be yourself online". Near the end the author reaches a set of questions that are motivating him:
A function to return the number of digits in an input (natural) number provides many learning opportunities for a new programmer
During the early days of testing for the legendary SR-71 Blackbird there were some harrowing mishaps, the details of which have rarely come to light. On January 25, 1966, test pilot Bill Weaver and Lockheed flight test reconnaissance and navigation systems specialist Jim Zwayer experienced their plane vanishing around…
In my spare time I’m an emergency services volunteer, and one of the tasks our unit has is to run the radio network and keep track of what’s happening. This can be a pretty stressful job, especially when there’s lots of radio traffic, and it’s not unusual to miss words or entire transmissions. To help with a personal…
In response to the call for blogs about the vision for Rust for 2020, I’m going to write about GUI. I believe the time is right for a native GUI toolkit written in Rust, and that such a thing would fill a very important niche. There is a demand for performance (which, to me, includes startup time, RAM footprint, and…
Some may be bold leaders, but they create a dangerous corporate culture.
France’s nuclear energy spending was 60% of what Germany spent on renewables. France gets about 400 Terawatt hour per year from nuclear but Germany gets 226 Terawatt-hours each year. 45 Terawatt-hours of Germany’s renewable power comes from burning biomass which generates air pollution.
Are you trying to predict time series but don't know where to start? This blog post will provide a comparison of the most prominent techniques and show you how …
Optimizing compilers are a mainstay of modern software: allowing a programmer to write code in a language that makes sense to them, while transforming it into a form that makes sense for the underlying hardware to run efficiently. The optimizing compiler's job is to figure out what your input program does, and create…
Load Balancers plays a key role in Web Architecture. In this post we are going to develop a simple load balancer with power of Go
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Over the years I’ve found myself with a weird amount of knowledge about how types and ABIs in Rust work, and I wanted to write it all down in one place so that… it’s written down in one place. Much of this information can or should be found in the Rust Language Reference and the Rustonomicon .
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For those who don’t follow Swift’s development, ABI stability has been one of its most ambitious projects and possibly it’s defining feature, and it finally shipped in Swift 5 . The result is something I find endlessly fascinating, because I think Swift has pushed the notion of ABI stability farther than any language…
Parallel Commits are an atomic commit protocol in CockroachDB. The feature promises to halve the latency of distributed transactions by performing all consensus round trips required to commit a transaction concurrently.
What explains the popularity of terminals with 80×24 and 80×25 displays? A recent blog post " 80x25 " motivated me to investigate this. The ...
To: The Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin: Executive Director Angela Brown: VP of Events Andy Updegrove: Legal Council
