Bear in mind that the comparison here is against ProRes 4:4:4, which encodes I-frames only. This is basicaclly just compressed whole-frame snapshots--like a slide-show of JPEGs--with no exploitation of…
Isn't the very first example in that article flawed? void decrement_reference_counter(rc_base* obj) { if (0 == atomic_decrement(obj->rc)) delete obj; } This is classic test-then-act, isn't it? What happens if…
To a certain extent, he did. From the article: "Two-thirds of his total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans…
Absolutely. Explosions in the Sky and Monkey3 are favourites of mine for coding. It's also easier to deal with lyrics in foreign languages, simply because my mind can't latch on to what's being said: Sigur Ros (an…
The team responsible for the JIT in Self went on to develop HotSpot (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot#History). Probably just to prove the point, someone wrote a Smalltalk implementation in Self which…
Titles can be important for dealing with clients. Many organisations won't even give you time on the phone unless they see that you're a 'Managing Director' or 'VP of Sales'. If you impress your client with your…
Strangely, the investment bank I used to work at relied heavily on Perl, without most people even realising it. A huge volume of live rates information formed the basis for a large number of Seriously Enterprise…
Agreed. The system I worked on had scheduled releases every two weeks, with a smattering of emergency releases in between. In some cases, simply being able to reliably price a given trade put you ahead of the…
+1 Scotland (Glasgow area)
Bear in mind that the comparison here is against ProRes 4:4:4, which encodes I-frames only. This is basicaclly just compressed whole-frame snapshots--like a slide-show of JPEGs--with no exploitation of…
Isn't the very first example in that article flawed? void decrement_reference_counter(rc_base* obj) { if (0 == atomic_decrement(obj->rc)) delete obj; } This is classic test-then-act, isn't it? What happens if…
To a certain extent, he did. From the article: "Two-thirds of his total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans…
Absolutely. Explosions in the Sky and Monkey3 are favourites of mine for coding. It's also easier to deal with lyrics in foreign languages, simply because my mind can't latch on to what's being said: Sigur Ros (an…
The team responsible for the JIT in Self went on to develop HotSpot (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot#History). Probably just to prove the point, someone wrote a Smalltalk implementation in Self which…
Titles can be important for dealing with clients. Many organisations won't even give you time on the phone unless they see that you're a 'Managing Director' or 'VP of Sales'. If you impress your client with your…
Strangely, the investment bank I used to work at relied heavily on Perl, without most people even realising it. A huge volume of live rates information formed the basis for a large number of Seriously Enterprise…
Agreed. The system I worked on had scheduled releases every two weeks, with a smattering of emergency releases in between. In some cases, simply being able to reliably price a given trade put you ahead of the…
+1 Scotland (Glasgow area)