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by filam 8y ago
That post by Rob Pike is arguing that you should not need to check the endianness of your system when swapping. Not that you should never byte swap. Systems and protocols have different endianness, which needs to be handled by programs wher
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by filam 8y ago
I have to admit I stopped reading after the combined section on byte swapping and casting external data to a internal structure. Perhaps the author of the code should have used ntohs() instead of be16toh(), but the effect is the same? There
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by filam 8y ago
You need to also compare the cost and power consumption of the chips. I also imagine the use of high-level synthesis impacted performance.
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by filam 8y ago
I used Zulip while at Akamai. At the time, Zulip was a Boston-based start-up and I believe some engineers at Akamai had a connection to engineers at Zulip. It wasn't used throughout the whole company, but it did have a significant user
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by filam 13y ago
I didn't realize until far too recently that Python includes a built-in web server: 1. git clone https://github.com/cheeaun/life.git 2. cd life 3. python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 4. http://localhost:800
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by filam 13y ago
Insurance does not eliminate risk from the market.
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Google Suffering Login Issues Across the Board(berryreview.com)
4 points by filam 13y ago|2 comments
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by filam 13y ago
I only mention it because I learned the difference yesterday, but that is a bar graph, not a histogram.
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by filam 15y ago
Just because a system gives you the freedom to customize your environment, it doesn't mean you required to "retool [it] to no end." I have used a simple Arch Linux installation for years and it has never interrupted my work flow.