Apple rerouting employee shuttles after highway attacks shatter windows on buses during commutes
In the past week, five Apple commuter shuttles carrying employees to and from the company's Cupertino offices have been attacked, several sources tell us...
Making WebAssembly even faster: Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
People call WebAssembly a game changer because it makes it possible to run code on the web faster. Some speedups are already present, and some are yet to come. With ...
Hasnain says:
I love these blog posts because they're always so well written and accessible.
And a 10-15x speedup is no laughing matter.
Posted on 2018-01-18T00:46:26+0000
Okay, Google: why does Chromecast clobber WiFi connections?
Router vendors sling firnware to protect users from packet floods
Hasnain says:
Has anyone else run into this issue?
I guess this explains why my wifi would always get slow/useless every evening for months. I thought it was a load issue, but it might simply have been the fact that I got home at that time...
Posted on 2018-01-17T20:01:33+0000
Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans
Last week, we shared our 2018 roadmap preview and today, we’re excited to announce the first of many new updates for developers: new Droplet plans. We know that price-to-performance is an important consideration when choosing where to host your application, whether it be a small side project or a
Hasnain says:
Yay, now I can save the few hours I was planning on spending this weekend to save memory
Posted on 2018-01-16T23:18:24+0000
Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not
The revolution will be ushered in by young guys who are also cryptocurrency millionaires. Oh wait, they may be broke already.
Sting to star in American folklore game Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Gordon Matthew Thomas Summer, better known by buzzy stage name Sting, will headline as a voice actor in upcoming and very enticing new game Where the Water…
Hasnain says:
I've already been so excited to play this game since my friend Laura has been working on the writing (and she's great) - this is only increasing the hype
Posted on 2018-01-10T18:42:01+0000
The day I accidentally killed a little boy
Maryann Gray was a 22-year-old graduate when a tragic accident on an everyday car journey changed her life forever.
Classic Tools Retrospective: Tim Sweeney on the first version of the Unreal Editor
Tim Sweeney talks to David Lightbown about UnrealEd, one of the most popular level editors in the games industry, which was used to build levels for Unreal, Deus Ex, Gears of War, BioShock, Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, and Mass Effect, and many, many more.
Hasnain says:
This was a great read on gaming, and the importance of building software tooling.
"Look at all these internal engines... for example, Frostbite has more advanced rendering features than we have and they're producing prettier pixels than we are in a lot of cases, but Unreal developers can produce content much more productively, maybe 30 to 50 percent more productively, which means that a team half the size can produce a game that's just as good. They can iterate on it more, and polish it more than they could with these less polished toolsets. So, everybody should really make a conscientious decision to either fully invest in producing awesome tools for internal use, or not."
Posted on 2018-01-10T08:59:46+0000
Get ready for a lot more housing near the Expo Line and other California transit stations if new legislation passes
A new bill from state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) would dramatically increase housing density near transit stops across California.
Hasnain says:
"Subject to some limitations, the measure would eliminate restrictions on the number of houses allowed to be built within a half-mile of train, light-rail, major bus routes and other transit stations, and block cities from imposing parking requirements. Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), the bill’s author, said the state needs the housing to address affordability problems, maximize recent multi-billion-dollar transit investments and help the state meet its climate change goals."
woot!
Posted on 2018-01-05T00:09:42+0000
[PATCH] D41723: Introduce the "retpoline" x86 mitigation technique for variant #2 of the speculative execution vulnerabilities disclosed today, specifically identified by CVE-2017-5715, "Branch Target Injection", and is one of the two halves to...
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Hasnain says:
Compiler fixes for the recent CPU bug. Even more of a performance hit..
"When using these patches on statically linked applications, especially
C++ applications, you should expect to see a much more dramatic
performance hit. For microbenchmarks that are switch, indirect-, or
virtual-call heavy we have seen overheads ranging from 10% to 50%."