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Greedy Register Allocation in LLVM 3.0
LLVM has two new register allocators: Basic and Greedy. When LLVM 3.0 is released, the default optimizing register allocator will no longer be linear scan, but the new greedy register allocator.
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SSH Tricks
Sorry for the lame title. I was thinking the other day, about how awesome SSH is, and how it’s probably one of the most crucial pieces of technology that I use every single day. Here’s a list of 10 things that I think are particularly awesome and perhaps a bit off the beaten path. Update: (2011-09-19) There are some…
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Latitude doesn’t exactly mean what I thought
There are two kinds of latitude: geocentric and astronomical. On a perfect sphere, they're the same, but on an oblate spheroid like Earth they're different.
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Look out for No. 1
In the late 1990s, eurozone wannabes squeezed and stretched to meet the criteria for accession, including low inflation and government deficits, and moderate levels of debt. The criteria were somew…
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The Document Which Was Formerly Called The MIT Guide to Lockpicking
Which is too bad in a way. I thought it was a cool piece of urban folklore no matter where it came from, and it contributed to giving college students everywhere a reputation for healthy rebeliousness.
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ORM is an anti-pattern
ORM looks great early in a project but breaks down as complexity grows, forcing you to learn SQL anyway. Relations aren't objects. Either use NoSQL for object-like data or write a model layer with real SQL. ORM's abstraction is leaky, its efficiency poor, and the alternatives are better.
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Humble pie.
Thank you to everyone who has been supportive of me with this blog since I started it last year. Many of you have voiced your appreciation for posts that you’ve found helpful. It’s been a really fun experience and a nice way to pay it forward as so many people have mentored me on my own path. The fact that…
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Should you launch at a conference?
Should you launch at Launch? (Or TechCrunch Disrupt? Or Demo? They’re all pretty similar). This year I launched two major new products at conferences: Careers 2.0 and Trello, and both times, i…
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Iran blocks Tor; Tor releases same-day fix
The short version: Tor relays and bridges should upgrade to Tor 0.2.2.33 or Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha so...
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Getting Started on the Google+ API
The Google+ project brings the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software . The Google+ platform brings that nuance and richness t...
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Facebook and Heroku
We're delighted to announce that Facebook and Heroku have teamed up to bring you the fastest and easiest way to get your own Facebook app up and running in
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WinRT demystified
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