velco | 7 years ago | on: Facebook’s Cult Like Working Atmosphere
Article severely lacks substance.
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velco | 7 years ago | on: The biggest jet engines ever seen are set to roar on Boeing’s 777X
Rocket engines aren't considered jet engines ???
velco | 7 years ago | on: Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any car tested by NHTS
Can you "optimise" for crash tests? Like, say, software is optimised against specific benchmark to give good scores.
velco | 10 years ago
I find the methodology of the research to be solid, the collectors to be representative of the different approaches in the field and the conclusions to be consistent with the gut feeling from experience:
"With only three times as much memory, the collector runs on average 17% slower than explicit memory management. However, with only twice as much memory, garbage collection degrades performance by nearly 70%."
velco | 10 years ago
velco | 10 years ago | on: Commit messages are not titles
Right. Commit messages are not titles.
Commit messages ought to consist of a title, followed by an empty line and a short(-ish) summary.
velco | 11 years ago | on: Screw motivation, what you need is discipline
Motivation is the goal. Discipline is the means.
velco | 12 years ago | on: If Church Can Reinvent Itself, Why Can't Companies?
I'd surely prefer churches to be relevant for 30-40 years than companies for thousands. shudder
velco | 12 years ago | on: Finding n-th Fibonacci number in x86 assembler
I've been waiting for this all my life!
velco | 12 years ago | on: Google Shopping: Upload Your Content Without Watermarks or Be Banned
Just create a practically invisible watermark of your photos by, for example, subtly altering only one of the RGB channels
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