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Re:Facebook’s Cult Like Working Atmosphere on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @01:07PM (#18867043)
Article severely lacks substance.
Rocket engines aren't considered jet engines ???
Can you "optimise" for crash tests? Like, say, software is optimised against specific benchmark to give good scores.
Re:A Garbage Collector for C and C++ on Sunday July 12, 2015 @05:07AM (#9872973)
I find the methodology of the research to be solid, the collectors to be representative of the different approaches in the field and the conclusions to be consistent with the gut feeling from experience:

"With only three times as much memory, the collector runs on average 17% slower than explicit memory management. However, with only twice as much memory, garbage collection degrades performance by nearly 70%."

Re:Commit messages are not titles on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @06:34AM (#9763719)
Right. Commit messages are not titles.

Commit messages ought to consist of a title, followed by an empty line and a short(-ish) summary.

Re:Screw motivation, what you need is discipline on Saturday January 31, 2015 @07:02AM (#8976515)
Motivation is the goal. Discipline is the means.
Re:If Church Can Reinvent Itself, Why Can't Companies? on Wednesday December 25, 2013 @08:13AM (#6962936)
I'd surely prefer churches to be relevant for 30-40 years than companies for thousands. shudder
Re:Finding n-th Fibonacci number in x86 assembler on Friday December 13, 2013 @09:18AM (#6900548)
I've been waiting for this all my life!
Just create a practically invisible watermark of your photos by, for example, subtly altering only one of the RGB channels

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