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Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
I was talking to a former student when he brought up an article written by a well-seasoned programmer regretting his choice of career. This fellow had rejec...
Inside Pascal: NVIDIA’s Newest Computing Platform
Today at the 2016 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the new NVIDIA Tesla P100, the most advanced accelerator ever built. Based on the new NVIDIA Pascal GP10…
inessential: Performance These Days
Mike Ash reports that objc_msgSend takes 2.6 nanoseconds on his Mac and 2.7 nanoseconds on his iPhone. This shouldn’t come as much surprise — we’ve known since Mike’s first report in 2007 that objc_msgSend is fast. (Though this function isn’t the only measure of Objective-C’s speed relative to other…
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Posted on 2016-04-22T05:24:18+0000
Virtual Weapons Are Turning Teen Gamers Into Serious Gamblers
The boom in pro video gaming is fueled by $2.3 billion in online bets
Hasnain says:
"It’s not surprising that skins gambling has avoided legal scrutiny. Obscured by several layers of abstraction, the wagering is tucked away in a subculture that most mainstream legal authorities don’t know exists. Gaming lawyers say Valve could be legally vulnerable; on the other hand, this is a rapidly changing area of the law with little established precedent."
Posted on 2016-04-22T05:16:01+0000
I am Alex St. John’s Daughter, and He is Wrong About Women in Tech
My name is Amilia St. John and I am the daughter of Alex St. John. Yes, that one. For those not following the horrific t…
Hasnain says:
This is an amazing rebuttal.
I'm not sure if people saw the original material the guy wrote. I saw his recruiting deck,laughed as I thought it was satire, and was horrified when I learnt it was his true opinions. And coming from the guy who wrote DirectX.
Posted on 2016-04-22T04:05:56+0000
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3 Teen Sisters Crush Coding Records, Stereotypes
Elene first lit up the path toward coding for her sisters Mari and Ani. We learn how the sisters have achieved so much at such a young age.
Hasnain says:
"There were more too. I’ve won 2 bronze medals at IOI, 1 bronze at CEOI, 2 silvers at IZhO. Mari, Ani and I competed in HackerRank Women’s Cup as a team last year, and we ranked third place! Some companies that sponsored the event even sent us a letter after the contest, but I had to tell them that we’re too young right now to work for them."
Really inspiring.
Posted on 2016-04-21T05:55:43+0000
Mad scientist shrinks Arduino to size of an AA battery
The hardware tinkerers and prototype mavens out there will invariably have stumbled across the Arduino platform. Completely open source and always pushing the..
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Posted on 2016-04-21T05:47:44+0000
It’s Time to Wipe Mosquitoes Off the Face of the Earth
“The level of alarm is extremely high,” said the head of the World Health Organization on Thursday, describing the spread of Zika virus around the worl ...