There’s been a lot of debate lately about how Twitter is closing down access to the network by outside services, and the impact that has on the broader ecosystem — something former CEO Evan Williams talked about with me on Twitter yesterday — but there hasn’t been much written about how tha
Sorting - We're Doing It WrongA couple of weeks ago it seemed my daily business became sorting DOMElements. This quickly became boring enough to be investigated more thoroughly. So this post sums up everything you should know about sorting DOMElements in Javascript (… using jQuery, of course). I usually write about Array.
by davor babicVisual Programming and Why It Sucks Sep 9th, 2012 A favourite subject for Ph.D. dissertations in software engineering is graphical, or visual programming. […] Nothing even convincing, much less exciting, has yet emerged from such efforts. I am persuaded that nothing will. tl;dr: It gets messy.
O/R modelling interlude: PostgreSQL vs MySQLEvery time we see people look at PostgreSQL and MySQL on the internet it falls into a flame war fast.
A trip down the (split) rabbitholeGo uses split stacks (also called segmented stacks in the literature) in order to allow thousands of stacks in the space that would normally be taken by hundreds of C-style contiguous stacks. There’s a discussion of how to add split stacks to GCC here.
Why Node.JS is absolutely terribleA customer came to the Windows team with a question, the sort of question which on its face seems somewhat strange, which is itself a sign that the question is merely the tip of a much more dangerous iceberg.
www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt============================ LINUX KERNEL MEMORY BARRIERS ============================ By: David Howells Paul E. McKenney Contents: (*) Abstract memory access model. - Device operations. - Guarantees. (*) What are memory barriers? - Varieties of memory barrier.
Vector Display IntroductionVector displays are now mostly historical oddities — old arcade games like Asteroids or Tempest, or ancient FAA radar displays — which gives them a certain charm. Unlike modern raster displays, the electron beam in the CRT is not swept left to right and top to bottom for each row in the image.
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.