rchiang

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by rchiang 8mo ago
I'd make the argument that TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1 covers the details of TCP/IP in a very "packet and fields" oriented way. Volume 2 goes into a lot of the "data structures and implementation" way. Tha
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by rchiang 8mo ago
I agree that five books won't ever cover every discipline withing Computer Science. Just providing an introductory book, a university-level textbook, and an expert/graduate-level reference for each discipline turns into a long lis
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by rchiang 9mo ago
There's almost too much volume these days. There's dedicated websites/apps/podcasts for Apple, Android, PC gaming, Xbox gaming, PS4 gaming, Switch gaming, etc. Product Hunt was a hot thing for a while and is still runnin
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by rchiang 11mo ago
Henessey and Patterson "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" has 6 published editions (1990, 1996?, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2019) with the 7th due November 2025. Each edition would have a varying set of CPUs as examples for e
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by rchiang 1y ago
TSMC's estimated costs in 2020, were $12 billion for their first fab. In 2025, their updated estimates were $65 billion for the first three fabs and $165 billion for when they get to six such facilities. So, $8.9B is a lot of money, bu
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by rchiang 2y ago
Adding on some of the "Oral History" series from the Computer History Museum (videos don't seem to be on YouTube): - CJ Date: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10265816... - Don Ch
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by rchiang 3y ago
I feel like this comment needs some extra emphasis, especially when it comes to third-party drivers, perhaps even more than application software.
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by rchiang 3y ago
The Windows 9x series (and earlier) were tightly coupled with x86 (and DOS). The Windows NT family of operating systems has always had the "Hardware Abstraction Layer" (aka HAL) which helped with porting the operating system to ot
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by rchiang 3y ago
Well, two engineers and one mathematician IIRC. I don't expect any single article to cover all the details of a company that just passed it's 30th year. And even then, they're missing bits of lore, like the CEO playing ping p
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by rchiang 3y ago
Even prior to those guys, Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain have the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work. Kilby received the same in 2000 (Noyce passed away in 1990).
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by rchiang 3y ago
Nice post there. There's definitely a lot of 20/20 hindsight that people apply to PARC's history with respect to computing. It's clear that just the investments that Xerox did have would have been huge had they just held
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by rchiang 3y ago
I think it's important to note that much (all?) of PARCs research has been oriented around the "office of the future". In the broadest sense of that vision, they had a huge hand in originating a lot of computing technologies.
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by rchiang 3y ago
This article gives a bit of context about Siri's history with SRI International: https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-president-of-sri-ventures-on-bri...
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by rchiang 3y ago
It's a fine distinction that maybe computer historians know best. Doug Engelbart's "Mother of All Demos" showed off the first computer mouse. The computer mouse that shipped with the Xerox Star is credited as being the &
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by rchiang 3y ago
Xerox went through the process of making PARC a wholly-owned subsidiary in 2002 (which is around the time the parc.com domain was created to replace the parc.xerox.com subdomain). This was presumably as part of trying to sell of PARC, in pa
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by rchiang 3y ago
The Morningstar article had a few more details that I couldn't find anywhere else: "As part of the donation, Xerox will enter into a preferred research agreement, called the Technology Exploration and Innovation Program, in which
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by rchiang 3y ago
To be fair, Apple released their iPhone after building iPods for 6 years. So, it's not like they had zero experience with handheld devices at the time. Also, while Apple did create their first chip (at least of their current families)
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by rchiang 4y ago
Which they got through their acquisition of Gaikai (considered a competitor of OnLive).
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by rchiang 4y ago
Yes. That was one of the ways to plug it in to sync. I had one for a while and carried it around in my wallet.
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by rchiang 4y ago
According to ASML, they have 4700 suppliers ( https://www.asml.com/en/company/sustainability/responsible-s... ). How many of those are essential to the development of EUV equipment and would be affected by this
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by rchiang 4y ago
GAAFET is the next step after FinFET to allow such small transistors to be feasible.
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by rchiang 4y ago
Not earlier than this, but Marc Brown's ACM Distinguished Dissertation from 1987 on Algorithm Animation: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/algorithm-animation I know I saw a video from around that time, but I couldn&
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by rchiang 4y ago
Maybe some other numbers are more relevant? This blog post from April 2022 mentions 1000+ services: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/continuous-delivery-at-airbnb-6ac042bc7876 And this video from May 2017 men
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by rchiang 4y ago
To be fair, Nvidia hired a lot of people who at some point worked at SGI and 3dfx, so there was already a lot of HPC/server/supercomputing talent working there. There are articles (e.g. https://www.extremetech.com/
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by rchiang 4y ago
Google makes $5.5 billion of profit per month. I think they can afford to pay some of their higher performers more.
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by rchiang 5y ago
This presentation from 2019 gives an idea about some of the GC avg/max runtimes using the NameNode: https://www.slideshare.net/xkrogen/hadoop-meetup-jan-2019-dy...
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by rchiang 5y ago
Long answer incoming: I've always maintained that you really learn how to write code for a particular problem when you've done it three times. The first is usually to get working code, the second is to redesign it to improve some