MrZipf

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by MrZipf 7y ago
JSC is barely ever mentioned in the v8 team. They gave up wanting to be benchmark kings in the interest of having decent performance in Android markets (low-end and high). Comments around cheating are likely aimed at OEMS who ship Chrome de
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by MrZipf 7y ago
This was stupid comment, long day. Totally looking at this the wrong way.
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by MrZipf 7y ago
How does the hardware visible context get suitably updated if the confidential data in the other SIP isn't touched by execution (speculative or otherwise)? Doesn't something need to be pulling that state into the visible context?
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by MrZipf 7y ago
In Singularity, the system gets to decide what happens at SIP boundaries (and the kernel ABI boundary). HIP is the full address space change, but any mitigation steps can be introduced in the IPC hand-off between SIPs (or at the kernel ABI)
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by MrZipf 7y ago
Mark Aiken wrote a paper on Singularity with and and without Memory Protection: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/deconst... By design, Singularity didn't support dynamic code loading
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by MrZipf 8y ago
Preliminary VarHandle support in Android start in P. The API is hidden, but it had to start ahead of the Java 9 libraries because it's a lot of work. All code needs to be capable of being interpreted as that's the fallback when co
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by MrZipf 8y ago
Hey Joe, can't you just stop nagging users to use your browser and stop overriding the users choice of browser? No need to repackage anything, just move on.
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by MrZipf 8y ago
Completely agree. My home network is built with Mikrotik kit which is priced where it's affordable to have spares. I have yet to encounter a failure, but could drop in a new router in a couple of minutes with the saved configs. I have
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by MrZipf 9y ago
36000 lines of handwritten assembler in v8? Not since the transition to ignition and turbofan... $ git clone https://github.com/v8/v8.git $ cd v8 $ find . -name '*.S' There's still some macro assembler i
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by MrZipf 9y ago
I love what DeepMind is doing, but find their publication choices bizarre. Sure Nature has the occasional ML / NN paper, but it's not a top journal for AI / ML / CS and it makes getting hold of papers awkward and it does
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by MrZipf 9y ago
Microsoft does not preinstall third party bloatware, that's OEMs running on thin margins. There have been Microsoft efforts to share with OEMs the effect of bloatware on boot times and incentivizing boot time reduction.
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by MrZipf 9y ago
It doesn't take 10 minutes for a LaTeX or Word user to get frustrated with docs. What doesn't it do: 1. user defined style definitions 2. citations / bibliography 3. anchoring There are plugins that can help, but at least whe
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by MrZipf 9y ago
Why is this HN material? It's a Slack customer advisory.
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by MrZipf 9y ago
The Linux Subsystem for Windows isn't a great example. Folks in MSR Cambridge had Linux running on Windows circa Y2K. The Linux Subsystem today comes from a second effort using Drawbridge.
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by MrZipf 9y ago
Mikrotik wAP ac [1] positioned in center of home with a Mikrotik Hex POE [2] as the main router and DHCP server. There is TP-Link HomePlug [3,4] between router and WiFi base station. The wAP ac has a stronger and more reliable signal than a
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by MrZipf 9y ago
That is the nature of the beast except for retropiling. Method handles may be a hard set of features to implement on that path.
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by MrZipf 9y ago
Coming in O by the looks of it: https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/dalvik-byteco...
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by MrZipf 9y ago
Clickbait. No story until unveiling event.
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by MrZipf 9y ago
Thanks for sharing. The documentation is well done, looking forward to checking out the code.
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by MrZipf 10y ago
Are you sure no one else was involved in starting LLVM? PhD supervisor, fellow students, etc. Just saying...
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by MrZipf 10y ago
Well, this is cool. Kudos to the folks that made this happen. It was always a tragedy that the Windows Shell team insisted on creating their own "Shortcut" mechanism and not shaping the existing FS team symlinks to give a unified
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by MrZipf 10y ago
NT coding style and some similarities with naming. Very clean looking in what I've seen so far. Nice work guys.
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by MrZipf 10y ago
Could be that the recruiter left. My perception is that recruiters have greater churn in bi companies.
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by MrZipf 10y ago
Windows also has the cool and little known CommonLogFileSystem if you need logging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Log_File_System https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/d
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by MrZipf 10y ago
Kudos to FB. It's a hard problem as you scale. I have a few friends who suggest the article matches their experiences there. Being a 40-something engineer, you hear the same things over and again. I used to work at MSFT and my first ma
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by MrZipf 11y ago
I had the feeling several times at MSFT that sometimes projects go all the way to completion for the sanity of the team. Kin looks like an example of this. The Kin team were mostly from the SideKick acquisition and they worked really hard o
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by MrZipf 12y ago
AFAIK, VS uses the same implementation of the MSBuild engine but has some sleazy (buggy) performance optimizations. Add the property DISABLEFASTUPTODATECHECK=1 to get the same behavior. We found this allowed us to eliminate differences we s
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by MrZipf 12y ago
That's good news. I left MSFT last year and know some of the internal build toolsets have their own similar solution, but it's not integrated with Visual Studio.
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by MrZipf 12y ago
IIRC MSBuild was the brain child of Alex Kipman, father of Kinect and HoloLens. As legend tells it he lashed up a demo version over a weekend and pitched it successfully in the corridor shortly thereafter. The rest is history. MSBuild is es
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by MrZipf 12y ago
The open-sourcing is a sign that MSFT is in a tricky spot (BYOD, mobile, tablet, games) and desperately needs to improve relations with the outside world. Expect we'll also see MSFT using more open source in products to compete effecti

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