Even from highly experienced technologists I often hear talk about how certain operations cause a CPU cache to "flush". This seems to be illustrating a very common fallacy about how CPU caches work, and how the cache sub-system interacts with the execution cores.
I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora.And got this. Wow. This is bold, even for Quora.
GoingNative 2012NEW! GoingNative is happening again in 2013!! Register now! GoingNative 2012 is a 48 hour, globally live-streamed technical event for those who push the boundaries of general purpose computing by exploiting the true capabilities of the underlying machine: C++ developers.
Adobe Photoshop Source CodeWhen brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.
300 million users and move to WebKitBy Bruce Lawsonbrucelawson. Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:00:00 PM On the same day as announcing that Opera has 300 million users, we're also announcing that for all new products Opera will use WebKit as its rendering engine and V8 as its JavaScript engine.
Release ParalysisI think everyone’s experienced it - that feeling you get before you make a pull request to a project, when you post a new article on your blog, when you’re about to update your app to version 1.1.
Alternatives to Entity Framework - John Burbriski & Jared BarbozaTired of using Entity Framework? Is your data access layer slow? Dread opening that EDMX file? Then this talk is for you! Together we'll explore some alternative "Micro ORM's" that bring you closer to the metal, improving performance and returning control of your data access layer to you!
SignalR: Awesome in Real-Time with ASP.NET - David FowlerForget what you know about the web because real-time is here and it's truly mind blowing. SignalR makes real-time web programming stupid easy and crazy awesome.
Return to RAD: A Reminder of What We've Lost - Frank KruegerWe've all lost our way. We were given tools and languages to build component based applications but have steered away from them. Our tools are no longer app builders, they're UI builders. Our libraries are no longer components but scriptable classes. Why did this happen? Was the goal of Rapid Applic
How can I register my context menu command for all file types *except* one, or other complex conditionals?We saw that you can register your context menu under * to make it apply to all files. But what if you want it to apply to all files except one? For example, your command might be "Convert to Widget" but you don't want it to appear for .widget files because that would be redundant.
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.