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by pwaring 10y ago
Depends how long it takes to write a book - I could create one today but not finish writing it for 12 months.
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Creating a book on Leanpub now costs $99(leanpub.com)
7 points by pwaring 10y ago|3 comments
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by pwaring 10y ago
Specifically about British computing is Electronic Dreams (Tom Lean) (disclosure: I went to university with the author). The Cogwheel Brain: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer (Doron Swade) is also an interesting read
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by pwaring 10y ago
The -S flag also works in clang, although the output may differ. For example, last time I checked a comparison check of i < 10 in a for loop would become: cmpl $9, -4(%rbp) jle .L3 under GCC ('if i <= 9, loop') a
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by pwaring 10y ago
When I worked at a university, we had several pieces of legacy 32-bit software, mostly written in C, which were essential to some courses. It became more and more difficult to run them as Linux distributions stopped shipping 32-bit librarie
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by pwaring 10y ago
I'm not aware of a good free introduction to ARM assembly, but you could check out the reading lists from these courses: http://studentnet.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ugt/COMP15111/syllabus... http://stude
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by pwaring 10y ago
The three applications I use every single day without fail are an editor, an email client and a web browser (I'm a developer/sysadmin). If you provide one of those, I'm going to see your brand all the time, even if I'm n
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by pwaring 10y ago
I don't think this is the same thing. If you want to hire the vast majority of people, it may well be easier to acquire the company. What happens if the other company is much bigger than you though? Stripe would never be able to buy Go
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by pwaring 10y ago
I wonder how much litigation risk is involved with this. If you poach one key employee, the original company is likely to be a bit grumpy but probably won't do anything. If you poach an entire team, litigation may be worthwhile - espec
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by pwaring 10y ago
I'm a freelance consultant, and I charge for my time rather than per-project (except for very small well-defined projects), so I end up doing planning and execution for some clients. If someone is paying me by the hour/day, I&#x27
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by pwaring 11y ago
The advantage of -v is that you can see what is being extracted as it happens. This is useful if you have a tarball with thousands of small files, as otherwise it's hard to tell whether tar has got stuck or there are just a lot of file
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by pwaring 11y ago
I've read the manual and I'm currently reviewing the book - the book is a lot more in-depth than the user manual and starts further in (chapter 1 drops you right in with environment variables, there's no introduction to make,
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by pwaring 11y ago
What does Hurd do to solve that problem? It has the same licence as Linux, so Microsoft could release 'Microsoft Hurd' in the same way.
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by pwaring 11y ago
The need for the GNU project and philosophy is still great, I'm not sure there's a need for the Hurd though. We already have a popular, well-supported (by companies and individuals) kernel which is available under the GPL (and ano
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by pwaring 11y ago
They are completely different use cases though, so it shouldn't be too surprising that the results are different. Gmail: Lots of small requests which each last a short time. Netflix: Small number of large requests with connections that
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by pwaring 12y ago
They're used heavily in Linux device drivers, amongst other things - here's just one example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/video/...
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by pwaring 12y ago
There's a newer edition available which has been published recently: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033677.do
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by pwaring 12y ago
I listen to: bsdtalk: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.co.uk/ FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly Tech Weekly: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/series/techweekly Linux
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by pwaring 12y ago
There's 21st Century C from O'Reilly: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do It has mixed reviews - my impression from reading it was that if you agree with the author's choice of tools, it&#x2
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by pwaring 12y ago
Not necessarily. Generally, firms become insolvent if they can't meet their liabilities as they fall due (things get a bit more complicated for regulated firms such as insurers, which also have to worry about solvency ratios). If a f
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by pwaring 13y ago
"Subversion uses copy-on-write when creating a branch, so it is not expensive" Agreed - it's a constant-time operation according to the documentation, and took about 5 seconds for me to branch a copy of thousands of small fil
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by pwaring 14y ago
I've done it, though not to such a big extent. I work four days a week instead of five, due to a combination of less technical work available and wanting to explore other opportunities. Having a day off mid-week is also incredibly useful if
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by pwaring 14y ago
Isn't Bovet & Cesati a bit out of date now? I used to have a copy, but it was published in 2005, which means it was probably written in 2004. Also, it's not kernel-specific, but this book covers a lot of system programming concepts (exp
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by pwaring 14y ago
Not just science, it would be good to see open-access across all fields.
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by pwaring 14y ago
TM still doesn't mean anything in a legal sense - if you're relying on the common law protection then it doesn't matter if you put the two letters next to your logo/brand. Putting TM on doesn't mean you have any protection, and leaving it o
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by pwaring 14y ago
It suggests that the company has some rights to the brand and might act as a deterrent to others using the brand without permission (especially as most people probably don't understand the difference between registered and unregistered mark
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by pwaring 14y ago
TM doesn't mean anything - a trademark is either registered (and therefore enforceable) or it isn't. You can slap it on pretty much anything you want, it doesn't mean that whatever it is attached to will become a registered trademark, or ev
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by pwaring 14y ago
Or you can use this library: http://www.openwall.com/phpass/ It does all the work for you, and will even fall back to other algorithms if you don't have bcrypt available.
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by pwaring 14y ago
The problem with shorting is that you can make the right call broadly, but time it wrong. I think AAPL is overvalued, but I don't know when (or even if) the market will come to the same conclusion. It costs money to keep short positions ope
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by pwaring 14y ago
No it wouldn't. 2011 profit/net income figures (from the 10-K filings) are: Apple - $26bn Microsoft - $23bn Google - $9.7bn So Apple edged past Microsoft in 2011. It is still some way from overtaking all of the companies combined.

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