Here’s a question: in the time it takes you to read this sentence, has your OS been running? Or was it only your browser? Or were they perhaps both idle, just waiting for you to do something already? These questions are simple but they cut through the essence of how software works.
What Does an Idle CPU Do?In the last post I said the fundamental axiom of OS behavior is that at any given time, exactly one and only one task is active on a CPU. But if there’s absolutely nothing to do, then what?
Computer with human-like learning will program itselfThe Neural Turing Machine will combine the best of number-crunching with the human-like adaptability of neural networks – so it can invent its own programs YOUR smartphone is amazing, but ask it to do something it doesn't have an app for and it just sits there.
BREAKING: NoSQL just “huge text file and grep”, study findsBREAKING NEWS: a study by the institute for distributed investigation of technologies (IDIOT) has found that all NoSQL technologies are essentially just a massive text file combined with the UNIX tool ‘grep’ NoSQL has risen in popularity in recent years as a hipster alternative to relational da
Introducing osqueryMaintaining real-time insight into the current state of your infrastructure is important. At Facebook, we've been working on a framework called osquery which attempts to approach the concept of low-level operating system monitoring a little differently.
osqueryWhat is osquery? With osquery, you can use SQL to query low-level operating system information. Under the hood, instead of querying static tables, these queries dynamically execute high-performance native code. The results of the SQL query are transparently returned to you quickly and easily.
Have the Angular Team lost their marbles?I’ve posted before that I’m not a big fan of frameworks like Angular.
Components Programming – Components ProgrammingAs you may have noticed, Components Programming is the name of this blog. And perhaps you’re wondering, what Components Programming means?
GOTO statement considered awesome - Carl Mäsak (?masak?)As I surveyed my requirements, I realized that what I most wanted was for a subroutine to be able to pause in the middle and resume sometime later -- maybe even after a reboot of the whole program. Was that so much to ask?The answer to this question took me on a strange journey via coroutines, CPS t
The eatabit.com blogWe have been running eatabit.com here in Charleston, SC for about a year now. Over that time, our cellular printing api has printed over 9300 food orders for our client restaurants, stadiums and golf courses.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.