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Comment · 6 years ago
Transaction rollback is probably what he meant. If that is a familiar topic to you the relation to undo should make sense and his point should be clear. If that doesn't make sense, look up ACID, Transactions, and Migrations in the context of a database.
Comment · 6 years ago
There is a form of them which is invariant. You just have to write them correctly. Mathematics isn't as amazing as it sounds, there is a some ambiguity in how symbols are defined. Is your gradient with respect to rectilinear coordinates, or more general? Etc.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's a Friday, quality tends to degrade during the weekend. Usually professionals reading the site tend to view and comment more during the work week while things are compiling/deploying. The weekend tends to be more hobbyist/lonely people like me.
Comment · 6 years ago
The phrase occured only in the title and article and not in the comment they were responding too. It is possible they did not fully read the article(Most skim or read the title or title and abstract). In which case your response wasn't super helpful.
Comment · 6 years ago
Not that I have studied this particular behavior, but evolutionary type theories like this one, tend to be found wanting after later research. For a more common example, look at the paleo diet. At a glance, the theory seems a bit bonkers if you consider natural feelings around kissing you may have had around puberty. I would imagine there might be a better explanation than some nuturing/feeding urge.

Edit: Not to be that dude, but for the downvote, explaining better how/why this feeding explanation makes sense would be nice. I thought my comment advanced the conversation somewhat.

Comment · 6 years ago
The down votes were because you clearly didn't understand what preemption(or that this is really about it being a realtime flag) is or add much to the conversation(mentioning anything at all that might add something, like even a bad question, "I heard people using raspberry pis for embedded, would this help?"). The downvotes on the other guy are because asking for feedback on downvotes is discouraged.

To contribute, the PREEMPT_RT has been around as a set of patches(if not this specific one, then at least some version of making linux a realtime os.). If you need to know that something will run within a specified amount of time realtime matters.

EDIT: Don't use this and think it will help performance, generally it kills throughput.

Comment · 6 years ago
Passing a "hardcore" coding test is something you can train for, and tends to not correlate well with actual software architecting and optimization knowledge.
Comment · 6 years ago
I had the opposite experience when I met Jan Hesthaven at a GR conference. Turns out it is a German man's name and not a woman, which I found out after professing how much I love the hard 'J' versions book on spectral methods for time dependent problems.
Comment · 6 years ago
Ah, I was hoping for some kind of thing about concurrency or reference sharing. Like look out for dangling pointers or something. My brother if you want to learn how a computer works try writing a multithreaded C++ program, the compiler will not help you much if at all. And you will make mistakes. Everyone does, even google as a whole.
Comment · 6 years ago
So the dichotomy between the advertising and the actual actions is what caused you to boycott in this particular year? Whereas before you didn't care?
Comment · 6 years ago
It is interesting that the idea of an archive only came about after they realized what was lost.
Comment · 6 years ago
So adding that is hard. I mentioned that a bit by alluding to TAILS, storage on USB is interesting since most users just yank it at some point. FSCK and making sure writes complete in nontrivial. Feature detection on boot is interesting as well. Those two points are not things you regularly want. I would prefer my modules compiled into the kernel in Linux terminology.
Comment · 6 years ago
The article is mostly from the prospective of a B-school grad seeing SaaS's and the particular one was based on property managers which is more concrete as a topic. I didn't get much transfer of the experience to software SaaS's.
Comment · 6 years ago
I don't know about 99%, honestly a lot of this is them working around the tooling in VS.
Comment · 6 years ago
> Rust ... how computers actually work under the hood.

A curious C++17 programmer, how does Rust teach you much about "how computers work under the hood?" I thought Rust wrapped most of the ugly bits in 'unsafe' and tried to keep programmers from them?

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