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Well, for one those self driving cars have a few Intel Xeons onboard. Those cars need more processing power than your phone can provide.

You might not like it, but free climbing (no scare quotes required) is a defined term. It means climbing without the aid of ropes, except for safety. (Climbing without ropes is usually called free solo.)

Aid climbing means using ropes as aid - you can pull yourself up on ropes (and associated tools).

Quibble about the details as much as you like, it is still the hardest multipitch, bigwall, free climb ever achieved.

Keep reading the thread - Ted explains that decision.

DCA (Direct Cache Access) has been around for a while - DDIO is its replacement on higher end Xeons.

For those that missed it, similar discussion on this a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7947782

Another important outcome of a successful "hello, world!" is that you find some kind of MVP - Minimal Viable Printf.

Just because it is C doesn't mean you've got a sane libc. Let alone the luxury of a debugger. Just seeing that simple string on the screen/logfile can be a blessed relief.

You should probably check again, but in any case MSVC shouldn't be compared to gcc/icc/clang - it can't even compile code written for a 14 year old language specification (C99), so no sane person should use it for C development these days.

That's ancient VxWorks (sadly still shipping in some places, however).

More recent VxWorks - i.e. anything 6.x, since 2004 - has memory protection.

Must be a different USA to this one:

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101104/NEWS/101109939/107...

"The surprising question we get is: 'How many people telecommute at Google?' ” [Google's CFO] Mr Pichette said at a talk in Sydney on Monday. "And our answer is: 'As few as possible'."

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/do-as-we-say-not-as...

On the trackpad issue, has anyone checked to see if it is the laptop battery expanding, putting pressure on the trackpad from below?

It took me a little while to track that down as the cause on one of my MacBooks.

You aren't the only person to think this:

http://airlied.livejournal.com/76383.html

"really what they've released is totally useless to anyone who uses or develops this stuff."

It might be worth pointing out that TileGX isn't ARM.

It is an interesting system though.

Not to detract from your point, which was similar to my intro to Unix, but I've always preferred 'man -k' to apropos, because it means remembering only one command plus it is slightly less typing.

Come on now - while caffeine hasn't yet shown to be an ergogenic aid to anerobic activity (unlike endurance efforts, where it is very beneficial), a single tin of Red Bull isn't going to make your heart go boom, especially if you are habituated to that amount of caffeine.

I endorse the subheading on the linked article, if not the entire thing.

"It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in." -- Lyndon B. Johnson referring to J. Edgar Hoover.

As explained on the splashscreen, they've remapped that to backslash. I suspect it'd be much more useful with a BT keyboard - lack of ctrl and tab for a start.

The font is pretty ugly too - I can't easily tell the difference between q and g.

However, it is a neat hack, if not very usable.

Missing option: continued employment.

Zynga's latest release is called Mafia Wars: Shakedown. Seems somewhat apt.

Might you not think that English is not the first language for someone who has qualifications from the Russian Academy of Sciences?

Apologies for the tangent, but I had that and needed to drop into single user mode and do a fsck to fix some errors.

GCC 4.4 isn't very recent, but it generates a popcnt with -msse4.2.

GCC 4.5, using popcnt on my Core-i7 860 takes the trivial loop mentioned using "Complement and Compare" from ~10.5s to ~7.5s

It is incredibly easy to arrive hours before you leave. Just fly East across the dateline (like Aus to North America).

And I've even lost a birthday flying back in the other direction. Great scheduling, that.

Update: http://blog.instapaper.com/post/6854208028

The general level of reader commentary on the SMH website is pretty pathetic, no matter what the subject matter is.

This isn't helped by the current trend for their articles to be link bait or scraped off a real tech source, rather than anything approximating journalism.

He shouldn't hate the JVM, he should hate his lame system. Rule #1 is "Never trust students' code".

One of the strengths of threads is that they don't have strong protection. If he wants runtime safety like that he should learn what a process is.

Freelancer? You mean the Swedish site (GetAFreelancer) that was bought by some Australians?

Sure, it has been cleaned up a bunch, but doesn't seem like a massive entrepreneurial success (other than as a vehicle for self-promotion).

Cheezburger Network acquires Charlie Stross' blog: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/04/administ...