TF-IDF linux commits
I was curious what different people worked on in Linux, so I tried grabbing data from the current git repository to see if I could pull...
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One week of bugs
If I had to guess, I’d say I probably work around hundreds of bugs in an average week, and thousands in a bad week. It’s not...
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Speeding up this site by 50x
I’ve seen all these studies that show how a 100ms improvement in page load time has a significant effect on page views, conversion rate, etc., but...
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How often is the build broken?
I’ve noticed that builds are broken and tests fail a lot more often on open source projects than on “work” projects. I wasn’t sure how much...
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Literature review on the benefits of static types
There are some pretty strong statements about types floating around out there. The claims range from the oft-repeated phrase that when you get the types to...
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CLWB and PCOMMIT
The latest version of the Intel manual has a couple of new instructions for non-volatile storage, like SSDs. What’s that about? Before we look at the...
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Testing v. informal reasoning
This is an off-the-cuff comment for Hacker School’s Paper of the Week Read Along series for Out of the Tar Pit. I find the idea itself,...
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Caches: LRU v. random
Once upon a time, my computer architecture professor mentioned that using a random eviction policy for caches really isn’t so bad. That random eviction isn’t bad...
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