Overview In this post, I will talk about the importance of small optimizations that can provide a lot of performance improvements. Generally, when I think about different optimizations, I place them in a hierarchy of different levels: Architecture level optimizations. … Read more
Using less information to make better decisions. In many large-scale web services, multiple layers of stateless and stateful services are seperated by load balancers. Load balancing can be done with dedicated hardware, with dedicated software load balancers, using DNS trickery … Read more
Facets of Prolog Video: Prolog is … Prolog is a very simple language It is easy to describe Prolog syntax in sufficient detail to start working with Prolog immediately. All data are represented by Prolog terms. There is a single language … Read more
After dementia came for my father—after he could no longer read, after he had lost his table manners, after he had started to run his fingers through his hair, as though plagued by an ungraspable thought—I began to consider whether … Read more
Strategies beat stoicism People who talk about self-discipline often make it sound like a matter of clinching really hard. Or of bullying yourself through negative self-talk. But effective self-discipline is about working smarter, not just harder. We’ve known this since … Read more
25 Jun 2014 This post was inspired by the tool jrnl which has been mentioned on hacker news. An innumerable number of thoughts go through you head as you develop : The pending issue you’ll get back to later This … Read more
I’ve added Eva and Alex as approvers, and I won’t continue working on this unless they think it’s a good idea. I’ve also added a few other engineers whose opinions I respect a lot. If they don’t have time to … Read more
Nasa’s InSight lander has delivered what could be its final message from Mars, where it has been on a history-making mission to reveal the secrets of the Red Planet’s interior. In November the space agency warned the lander’s time may … Read more
In August 1999, Apple announced the first Power Mac G4:1 The Power Mac G4 is powered by the revolutionary new PowerPC G4 chip architected by Apple, Motorola and IBM, and is the first personal computer in history to deliver supercomputer-level … Read more
GitHub – gildas-lormeau/SingleFile-Lite: Feel the power of the Manifest V3. The future, right now! {{ message }} This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. You can’t … Read more