This clip from the 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures shows a simple demonstration of how two people can agree on a secret key, even though all of the...
Your next project needs a white-hat jerk.A couple of years ago, a startup called Stamped created an app and service that let you rate anything and everything. Your local doughnut shop? Rate it and tell your friends. Your favourite beach? Rate it and tell your friends. In fact, rate anything you want!
The Great Unicorn HuntWhen talking with people in the Portland, Oregon tech scene I hear the same thing all the time. “We are always looking for developers. We are hiring and can’t find anyone. If you know anyone looking….”.
A Look at MongoRepository for .NETMost of the open source projects we share with you on InfoQ increase the capabilities of another library or technology. MongoRepository is different in that it intentionally limits the capabilities of the underlying library. We’ll let Rob Janssen why it does this in his own words.
A General Guide to Testing New Software ProductsSo you’ve been asked to test that new version of your software product. Your colleagues on the development team have been working away for months and at long last the much-anticipated release has landed on your desk for testing.
How GameCube/Wii emulator Dolphin got a turbochargeSomething remarkable is happening with Dolphin. The GameCube and Wii emulator has been around for more than a decade now, which is a long time for an emulator to be in active development. It was born as a rough, limited GameCube emulator before growing into a bustling open source project in 2008.
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Heavybit Library — Amber FengHey guys. Thanks for coming. I'm Amber. I lead the project engineering team at Stripe. I've been there for around three years now and I spend a lot of my time there working on the API, building things on the API, generally trying to figure out how to scale our API.
Why is there a 64KB no-man's land near the end of the user-mode address space?We learned some time ago that there is a 64KB no-man's land near the 2GB boundary to accommodate a quirk of the Alpha AXP processor architecture. But that's not the only reason why it's there.
Why is address space allocation granularity 64K?You may have wondered why VirtualAlloc allocates memory at 64K boundaries even though page granularity is 4K. You have the Alpha AXP processor to thank for that.
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.
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