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Always the best example for missing punctuation!

Embarassingly for me, while the book advertises that it contains '2 genuine dates', 1066 is the only one I can remember.

because of OS-level overcommit, which is nearly always a good thing

It doesn't matter about the language you are writing in, because your OS can tell you that the allocation succeeded, but when you come to use it, only then do you find out that the memory isn't there.

The whole point of the interview process is to assess not just the applicant's past achievements, but what they might be able to achieve if they got their place at the uni. Part of that is looking at the applicant's background, and knowing that even if they aren't currently at some elite high-fee school, they might still have the ability and capability to do well.

I am all in favor of this style of selection. The dark old days of "this kid's dad went to our college, we should do them a favour and let them in" are long gone, thankfully.

Can you point to any kind of evidence that Oxbridge are dumbing down their teaching, or lowering their standards of teaching? I doubt it.

Full disclosure: cambridge alumni, from a state school!

Does that mean it excludes most of the results from "Floor to ceiling libraries without a ladder"?

You know, if I'm buying a house, I think I can supply my own ladder separately...

Less pedantically, what I'm trying to say is: are you really sure these are the kinds of searches that home buyers are really looking for? "Home in london, under £1m, with big beautiful windows" - I suspect that most London buyers are going to care an awful lot about where in London the house is, a city-wide search isn't going to be useful to most. Maybe your functionality (as presented) won't inspire actual buyers.

Speaking of which, that might be a way to improve it - combine with location & mapping data to figure out nearby transport, services, schools, etc...

It's a good article though, the explanation of how multiplies work is nicely written.

ADD r0, r15, #200

LDR r1, [r15, #-100]

etc

The only downside was that it exposed internal details of the pipelining IIRC. In the ARM2, a read of the PC would give the current instruction's location + 8, rather than its actual location, because by the time the instruction 'took place' the PC had moved on. So if/when you change the pipelining for future processors, you either make older code break, or have to special case the current behaviour of returning +8.

Anyway, I don't like their reaction. What they mean is 'this decision makes writing an emulator more tricky' but the author decides that this makes the chip designers stupid. If the author's reaction to problems is 'the chip designers were stupid and wrong, I'll write a blog post insulting them' then the problem is with the author.

Whatever the language, at some point in performance tweaking you will end up having to look at the assembly produced by your compiler, and discovering all kinds of surprises.

In particular, I'd challenge you to find one large program that handles OOM situations 100% correctly, especially since most code runs atop an OS configured to over-allocate memory. But even if it wasn't, I doubt there's any sizeable codebase that handles every memory allocation failure correctly and gracefully.

Of course YOU can, it's open source, feel free to hack away at it.

In the example request, the server still has to do all of the work generating the page, in order to calculate the ETag and then determine whether or not the page has changed. In most situations, it's simpler to have timestamps to compare against, because that gives the server a faster way to spot unmodified data.

e.g. you get a HTTP request for some data that you know is sourced from a particular file, or a DB table. If the client sends a If-Modified-Since (or whatever the header name is), you have a good chance to be able to check the modified time of the data source before doing any complicated data processing, and are able to send back a not modified response sooner.

I mean, maybe it is true that gcc is bad, maybe it isn't, but complaining that a function takes 27 bytes and it could have been written in 25 is missing the point entirely when you are asking for speed. Does it run fast or not?

FWIW, I like the concept in the book 'I Am Legend' where the vampires are repelled by religious symbols that are meaningful to them, rather than any religion in particular.

This is a clever move from the racetracks: they can sell this data, there are customers for it, and it saves them from fruitlessly trying to stop the drones.

However, the data is expensive, and if you are buying it then you are going to be competing against the other buyers of it, who will be trying to place the same bets as you, so the edge isn't going to be too great. Kind of like HFT, where everyone races to keep up with the technology spending of their competitors.