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"Products formerly Blizzard Creek"

WTF does that even mean?

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2024 revenue figures were $1.669 billion for Cloudflare, and $3.99 billion for Akamai, per Wikipedia.

So they'd have had to extract this feature from a vendor where the relationship is already breaking down, or ditch it all and start from scratch with a new vendor, or inhouse code.

There's also the columns he wrote for Dr Dobbs' Journal during development. They're like an expanded, illustrated version of GPBB chapter's first half. https://www.bluesnews.com/abrash/contents.shtml

This was commonly cited in forum debates about whether Java and C# could come close to the performance of compiled languages. ("JITs and GCs are fast enough, and runtime stats mean they can even be faster!" was a common refrain, but not actually as true in 1999 as it is in 2025)

I definitely feel the RSU grantors are the customer here, not recipients like you or I.

When profiling, it can often be useful to compare profiles of "working well" versus "not working well". So you could record a 10 second timeline when things are going smoothly, then a 5 second timeline when perf is bad - things that jump out on the second timeline are worth looking at.

Under the previous ownership, the gap between Evernote's valuation (ie what investors had put in) and revenue (what investors would getting back) was so great that just surviving wasn't a strategy; the business could only value the existing userbase and product as a starting point for building a much larger userbase. That's a path to enshittification.

Windows stuck as the id tooling platform. I'm guessing by the time OS X was relevant, id Software had grown and all the tooling that would've benefited from Interface Builder was maintained by different folks. And Carmack was focused on getting the most out of various graphics cards, where Win32 drivers were both the cutting edge and what consumers had.

The US casts 10 times as many votes - so it seems reasonable for the US to hire 10 times as many poll workers? Hand-counting is O(n) i.e. constant per-capita, and it scales horizontally.

Local and state ballots in the US can feature tens of elected positions and propositions, I could imagine hand-counting them to be quite expensive.

The GC calls out to sync.Pool's cleanup.

"In the virtual network computing (VNC) system, server machines supply not only applications and data but also an entire desktop environment that can be accessed from any Internet-connected machine using a simple software NC." -- https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg/attarchive/pub/docs/at... (1998)

You're meant to go through ntdll.dll, but even that interface is documented as private/unstable.

In your shoes I'd be seeking an accountants' advice re: (1) do you already owe tax on these shares for tax year 2024? (2) if you don't take receipt of the shares for some process reason, might you still owe taxes on them?

Sorry you're going through this, I hope it's worth it in the end.

There are a couple of different risks here. One is that you pre-pay the company for more than the FMV ends up being; it sucks, especially with interest rates being as high as they are, but you'll get the money back with your tax return filed next year.

A different risk is that the price is spiked high at the moment the FMV is determined, and then falls before you're able to sell the stock. This would leave you with a short-term capital loss which you'd only be able to claim back at $3,000/year - https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc409#:~:text=If%20your%20capi... - unless you have other short term capital gains in the same year to offset it against.

Has the stock been volatile since the IPO? How does the daily trading volume compare to the number of shares that will exit lockup on 3/15? If I were in your shoes that would inform my evaluation of the risk.

I'm not an accountant, you shouldn't rely on this post, and I don't know if/how you might get screwed on the other points.

The "massive 3D printer" was liquidated from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Motors - "was an American manufacturing company focused on low-volume production of open-source vehicles and other products using multiple microfactories."

If an investor accepted the premise of the companies, these don't sound like outrageous assets to own.

We'd get emails about people seeing 577 calories on the Palm Pilot and 578 calories on the desktop. "None of the numbers are that accurate anyway!" was a sensible answer but not very brand aligned.

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On manipulating the backlight to display a dark scene more power-efficiently: my TV that does this, if there's a small region of constant color (e.g. a TV station's logo) its brightness wavers noticeably as the rest of the scene changes.