seefriek

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by seefriek 13y ago
Assuming you can read. And can read the language it's written in. Neither of those is a given.
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by seefriek 13y ago
I didn't. Somewhere along the line, however, she became that person.
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by seefriek 13y ago
Doom multiplayer networking ran over IPX, not TCP/IP, and used a multicast to find other clients. So...trick question: none?
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by seefriek 13y ago
For what task? There are things I use Python for; others I use C. That said...I'd never use PHP for anything I had a say in.
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by seefriek 13y ago
Not at all. My first wife not only didn't know what I really did for a living ("Oh...he does something in IT..."), she didn't give two shits as long as the money kept coming. And if signing a piece of paper and not ask
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by seefriek 13y ago
See: Strontium-90
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by seefriek 13y ago
You're actually right...IA-64 was suppose to be the 64-bit Intel instruction set, right up until AMD dropped the AMD64 bomb and the market went "backward compatible...got to get me some of that" and Intel went scrambling for
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by seefriek 13y ago
As someone who flew every week for about 20 years, the idea of not traveling with a bag to be gone for a week or needing to change flights periodically is pretty strange.
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by seefriek 13y ago
Wirth likes to design computer architectures to go with the languages he creates (he's got a EE undergrad). He did (at least) p-Machine & p-Code (Pascal virtual machine), Lilith (2901-based bit-slice graphical workstation implemen
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by seefriek 13y ago
Err...IA-64 is the Itanium instruction set. You mean EM64T, no?
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by seefriek 13y ago
XFS is better than ext4 when: 1) You need huge filesystems (like 100TB+). 2) You need huge numbers of files per directory (in particular, XFS is much faster at creating the files). 3) You have a workload heavily skewed toward streaming data
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by seefriek 13y ago
My Intro to Operating Systems class was in Modula-2 circa 1988. I really liked it. I was lucky enough to subsequently spend quality time with Modula-2 on the 8051 and Modula-3 on Ultrix (which was a really nice evolution of the language).
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by seefriek 13y ago
I deployed Fireeye over a year ago, and can confirm it's very good a spotting malware that most AV vendors don't. I can't, however, confirm it doesn't have back doors so that three-letter agencies can't tell it not