Markets, discrimination, and “lowering the bar”
Public discussions of discrimination in tech often result in someone claiming that discrimination is impossible because of market forces. Here’s a quote from Marc Andreessen that...
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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...
Read moreOne 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...
Read moreSpeeding 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...
Read moreHow 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...
Read moreLiterature 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...
Read moreCLWB 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...
Read moreCaches: 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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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,...
Read moreAssembly v. intrinsics
Every once in a while, I hear how intrinsics have improved enough that it’s safe to use them for high performance code. That would be nice....
Read moreGoogle wage fixing, 11-CV-02509-LHK, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY APPROVAL OF SETTLEMENTS WITH ADOBE, APPLE, GOOGLE, AND INTEL
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION IN RE: HIGH-TECH EMPLOYEE ANTITRUST LITIGATION THIS DOCUMENT RELATES TO: ALL ACTIONS Case No.: 11-CV-02509-LHK...
Read moreVerilog Won & VHDL Lost? — You Be The Judge!
This is an archived USENET post from John Cooley on a competitive comparison between VHDL and Verilog that was done in 1997. I knew I hit...
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