Rich Geldreich's Blog: The Truth on OpenGL Driver Quality
richg42.blogspot.com
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Is it sad that I can identify the vendors almost thoughtlessly?
Posted on 2014-05-14T01:14:03+0000
Distributed Systems and the End of the API
This is a written (expanded) narrative of the content from a talk I first gave at PhillyETE on April 23rd, 2014. It mostly follows the flow of the presentation given then, but with a level of detai...
Computers are *fast*! - Julia Evans
So I have a computer. My computer contains hardware (like a CPU! RAM! L1/L2 caches!) But I don’t understand very well how fast that hardware is …
Hasnain says:
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
Posted on 2014-05-14T01:13:27+0000
Realistic terrain in 130 lines
Adventures in the land of JavaScript
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Playing around with javascript to produce semi realistic terrain.
Posted on 2014-05-13T16:45:09+0000
Scaling SQL with Redis - David Cramer's Blog
Scaling SQL with Redis 12 May 2014 I love Redis. It's one of those technologies that is so obvious it makes you wond...
Adsense Breakdown
Its coming up on 8 years ago in a few weeks now since I posted a cheque for 900k for 2 months of adsense revenue. I'm going to post the history of adsense from the day I added adsense to the sit...
The Day I Started Lying to Ruth
A cancer doctor on losing his wife to cancer.
Hasnain says:
"We were finally caught in cancer’s Zugzwang, the point in the game where all possible moves make you worse off. The point that the other 40,000 women each year who die from breast cancer in the United States also encounter in one way or another. I will never again be mystified, as I had been with many patients, by why someone who is at the precipice of death seeks out yet another shot at treatment, even with something harmful that has a near-zero chance of helping. “Why not?” was suddenly a winning argument."
Posted on 2014-05-07T05:39:48+0000
Google Maps On Mobile Gets Uber Integration And More | TechCrunch
Google has updated its apps for iOS and Android with a bunch of new features, including Uber integration directly in its collection of options for travel..
PyPy.js: Now faster than CPython
It has been the better part of a year since I first started hacking on PyPy.js, an experiment in bringing a fast and compliant python interpreter to the web. I've been pretty quiet during that time but have certainly been keeping busy. Some of the big changes since my previous update include:
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Yo Dawg, I heard you like JITs, so I put a JIT in your JIT so you can trace while you trace. (https://rfk.id.au/blog/entry/pypy-js-poc-jit/resources/yo-dawg-jit.png)
Posted on 2014-05-06T17:19:57+0000
How to talk to an open source software project as a large scale or otherwise interesting user
The very short version: if you contact an open source project anonymously, you may not get the best help. Feel free to also reach out privately and share that your post from gmail.com is actually (...
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"In fact, next to development resources, a great community and funding, having impressive deployments is one of the most important things for an open source project."
Posted on 2014-05-06T17:18:31+0000