dmunoz
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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
I only looked very briefly, but yes in this case 5.1 driver hasn't made any changes other than the version. But doing a quick vimdiff with a few of the other drivers show that the files have seen some substantial changes over time, and in some cases the small differences between two versions of a driver are to work around bugs, whether new or newly identified.
Comment · 10 years ago
> It is very cool to see that the class is being taught by a group of juniors/seniors
I'm not sure how common such courses are, but where I went they were called "Student Directed Seminars" and allowed for some interesting courses that normally wouldn't get offered.
Comment · 10 years ago
> I learned two things that weren't widely reported at the time.
For what it's worth, the Anandtech review [0] mentioned your first issue in their review back in October. Anandtech has missed things in the past, but I trust them a lot to find and point out possible issues with hardware.
[0] Linking to the last page 'Final Words' section as it is mentioned up front and centre there. A lot of times, I'll read or skim the first page, and jump directly to the final page conclusion for hardware I just want a quick overview of - http://www.anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-revie...
Comment · 10 years ago
I recently stepped into a role with a devops component, and one of my first surprises was just how slow status.aws.amazon.com was to update about ongoing issues. I had to scramble to find twitter and external forums confirmation for the client.
Comment · 10 years ago
They use the Lucas–Lehmer primality test [0], along with trial factoring candidate numbers up to a given bit depth to sift out some composites from the prime candidates quicker than a full LL test.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas%E2%80%93Lehmer_primality...
Comment · 11 years ago
Thanks for pointing out the list and detailed views. I missed that when looking this morning as was bummed because I can't stand the unaligned-boxes-of-different-heights view that so many websites go for these days. Maybe I'm just not used to it because I recoil from it every time, but it messes up my read-from-left-to-right nature.
That said, two annoyances I just noticed with the list view (braindump style):
There is no header. I have no idea what the columns are. I can only guess, and that is useless for e.g. the rightmost column here [0]. Mental thoughts as I view it: It's just an icon? It's not clickable and doesn't appear to show anything useful. The speakers change to blue when I have my mouse over them. What does this mean? It's still not clickable... what is it doing?
Another problem related to not having a header: when I sort by e.g. views, the views are not actually shown. Maybe I wanted to see that information as well as having the rows sorted by the column.
Oh wait, I just noticed that there is a header there... but it's not clear it's for the columns of the table underneath it. They're not aligned... and it still doesn't explain what that column of icons is. But now I see that the number of views is shown as the leftmost column. I guessed that it was some sort of filesize initially (1.6B, 377.7M, etc.).
One last thing, I wish clicking the column in the header would toggle ascending/descending sorting like almost every other table I've interacted with. It's not clear at first that I need to go all the way over to the left to toggle that behaviour.
Comment · 11 years ago
I see why you might link to the page you did since it has some additional information, and even provides a link to the more recent edition, but be aware that this is an old version of PLAI that has been updated as recently as 2012 [0].
Furthermore, the cs173 class at Brown now uses a different book, Programming and Programming Languages [1], that was updated as recently as 2014. It's very much in the same spirit, but uses Pyret instead of plai-typed.
Another thing to note is that cs173 had a MOOC-like online offering in 2012, and the videos are still available [2].
[0] http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/
Comment · 11 years ago
What was copied? I flipped through my copy of Expert C Programming and didn't see either of the diagrams.
If instead by "straight from" you mean "similar to", well, there is only a handful of ways to explain this material so of course they are going to be similar.
Please don't throw around accusations of copying lightly. I would like to see more material like this shared, not less.
Comment · 11 years ago
I much prefer to have the option exposed in the UI, but you can do this with any HTML5 video element by setting the video element's playbackRate. Often, it's as easy as 'document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.5'. I have a bookmarklet that does exactly this, so I love to see HTML5 video being the default more and more.
Comment · 11 years ago
Here is the slide from the Verge livecast [0]. It's followed with this quotation
"Once a device is upgraded to Windows 10, we'll be keeping it current for the supported lifetime for the device."
I'm not sure what they mean by "lifetime for the device", but I think it means you have a year to decide to upgrade to Windows 8, and then it'll be supported for as long as your device is working.
[0] http://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/191...
Comment · 11 years ago
Good job. I see you went a few steps further than the Writing Web Applications with Go tutorial [0]. Definitely a good way to learn. I like your idea of showing the git history including diffs.
For anyone who might be interested in Go and is wondering how this is done, read the tutorial I mentioned. Go has solid documentation alongside a handful of tutorial style article that are worth reading.
Comment · 12 years ago
Nicely done. I've seen a couple of these sites, but I quite like the output of yours.
Is there any logic as to what order the questions and replies are displayed on the page? It doesn't seem to be either of reddit's 'top' or 'best' sorting. Perhaps whatever order they landed in within the JSON?
Comment · 12 years ago
Removing his lectures seems a bit extreme. It's their content, though. They do only mention "MIT OpenCourseWare and online MITx courses" though, so hopefully the lectures will stay up on YouTube. They really are excellent lectures.
That said, I've watched a good portion of Ramamurti Shankar's lectures from Open Yale courses [0]. They're pretty good, but perhaps not broken down as logically as the three courses of Lewin's.
There is also some really good lectures from Leonard Susskind's The Theoretical Minimum [1]. However, these are perhaps a step beyond the normal undergraduate lecture series.
Comment · 12 years ago
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Check out Pat Shaughnessy's Ruby Under a Microscope [0].
It gives a nice overview of the internals of MRI. It doesn't cover a who lot of the C code, but references plenty of it and where it can be found in the source code of MRI. Grab the book, the source for MRI, and do some digging.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Under-Microscope-Illustrated-Int...