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| 4201. | Stop A/B Testing and Make Out like a Bandit (untyped.com) | |
| 131 points | 2011 | author noelwelsh showed up | their comment | thread
“We have a beta implementation of the idea available. Drop me a line (noel at untyped dot com) if you're interested in trying it out.” | ||
| 4202. | How Balanced Does Database Migrations With Zero Downtime (blog.balancedpayments.com) | |
| 131 points | 2013 | author msherry showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there. I'm the author of this post. If I'm reading this correctly, your suggestion would alter a single table online, and at the end, I would end up with a table with…” | ||
| 4203. | Princess Pricklepants, Startup Founder Extraordinaire (princesspricklepants.com) | |
| 131 points | 2015 | author nemo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I assumed this would fizzle into doom. Happy to see the strange gaze of the Internet pass briefly over my odd little blog. If you have any hedgehog-related questions,…” | ||
| 4204. | Google Sprints Ahead in AI Building Blocks, Leaving Rivals Wary (bloomberg.com) | |
| 131 points | 2016 | author mappingbabeljc showed up | their comment | thread
“We also looked at data on things like number of forks and contributors on GitHub as well as massive rise in questions on StackOverflow (thanks to Delip Rao's great post…” | ||
| 4205. | JRE 8 needs more codecache than before (engineering.indeedblog.com) | |
| 131 points | 2016 | author billsmithaustin showed up | their comment | thread
“We know 128MB codecache was not enough and 256MB was sufficient. I think we could have gotten by with less, e.g. 200MB, but we stopped experimenting once we found a…” | ||
| 4206. | Building a Bank with Go [video] (infoq.com) | |
| 131 points | 2017 | author mattheath showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 4207. | IPv4 route lookup on Linux (vincent.bernat.im) | |
| 131 points | 2017 | author vbernat showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I am also using Firefox (on Linux) and the image is displayed fine. I don't know exactly what you mean by jumbled, but I don't hard-code fonts in the SVG: it uses the…” | ||
| 4208. | Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong (2010) (journal.dedasys.com) | |
| 131 points | 2017 | author davidw showed up | their comment | thread
“I think it's still pretty valid and encourage people to think about some of the lessons rather than just like or dislike of Tcl.” | ||
| 4209. | More State Machine Love: From Reflection to Statecharts (raganwald.com) | |
| 131 points | 2018 | author braythwayt showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Conditional transitions, before- and after- actions, state entry conditions/validations, ... There are all sorts of places to go that have been proven fertile for…” | ||
| 4210. | The Prolog Story (2010) (kylecordes.com) | |
| 131 points | 2018 | author kylecordes showed up | their comment | thread
“The implementation I used was SWI-Prolog. I had tinkered with a couple of others prior to that in school (sorry, I don't remember more details), but this was free/open,…” | ||
| 4211. | Fuzzing Like It’s 1989 (blog.trailofbits.com) | |
| 131 points | 2018 | author tyoma showed up | their comment | thread
“The predictions and insights from the two papers were fascinating to read with 30 years of hindsight. I also ran the random input generating “fuzz” tool against…” | ||
| 4212. | Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard (pydist.com) | |
| 131 points | 2019 | author alexbecker showed up | their comment | thread
“happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 4213. | How Does a C Debugger Work? (2014) (blog.0x972.info) | |
| 131 points | 2020 | author wazari972 showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I will rewrite this sentence, "invalid instruction" is too limited. It should be something like "an instruction that traps, and which isn't already used for another…” | ||
| 4214. | The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft (righto.com) | |
| 131 points | 2022 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“I encourage you to try out the interactive page that shows how the ranging system worked:” | ||
| 4215. | Professional Programming: The First 10 Years (thorstenball.com) | |
| 131 points | 2022 | author misternugget showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to add that I don’t think all forms of snark, sarcasm, and cynicism are bad. Or even negativity! But what I learned the hard way is that there’s a time and a…” | ||
| 4216. | Emacs and Eev, Or: How to Automate Almost Everything (angg.twu.net) | |
| 131 points | 2022 | author edrx showed up | their comment | thread
“Please don't try to read the "article", it is VERY obsolete! The standard (meta-)starting point is this URL:” | ||
| 4217. | Cpm65: CP/M for the 6502 (github.com) | |
| 131 points | 2022 | author david-given showed up | their comment | thread
“Responding to a few random things posted here: - yes, that 8080 emulator ought to work fine. Not sure what the performance would be like but it's certainly worth a try.…” | ||
| 4218. | The State of AWS Security (datadoghq.com) | |
| 131 points | 2022 | author christophetd showed up | their comment (+3 more) | thread
“Hello! One of the authors here. We did release some (hopefully) actionable guidance alongside the study[1]. Trusted Advisor is a fair point, but note that most of its…” | ||
| 4219. | Python Has Too Many Package Managers (dublog.net) | |
| 131 points | 2024 | author LarsDu88 showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“wait, what? I believe pip (or at least older versions of pip) makes it possible to have cycles. Are you analyzing dep graphs made with older versions of pip?” | ||
| 4220. | Inside an IBM/Motorola mainframe controller chip from 1981 (righto.com) | |
| 131 points | 2024 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here if anyone has questions...” | ||
| 4221. | Where does the name "algebraic data type" come from? (blog.poisson.chat) | |
| 131 points | 2024 | author syrak showed up | their comment | thread
“It's funny you mention this. I was (am still) writing a post about it, and I went on a rant that while it's a (fun!) way to do "algebra with types", it's not actually…” | ||
| 4222. | Security Is a Useless Controls Problem (securityis.substack.com) | |
| 131 points | 2024 | author too_pricey showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm excited to see this get attention here. I'll be responding to folks' comments where I feel like I have something to add, but please let me know if you have any…” | ||
| 4223. | Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers (kumo.ai) | |
| 131 points | 2025 | author rusty1s showed up | their comment | thread
“That’s not quite the point of our work. The model isn’t about using Transformers for time series per se. Rather, the focus is on how to enrich forecasting models by…” | ||
| 4224. | Reasons robotics is hard (secondthoughts.ai) | |
| 131 points | 2026 | author snewman showed up | their comment | thread
“My thinking here is that Waymo has logged hundreds of millions of miles at this point (and even more in sim), and there are a lot of nines in their safety record. So…” | ||
| 4225. | Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction (righto.com) | |
| 131 points | 2026 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“Author here for your 8087 questions...” | ||
| 4226. | Experience porting 4k lines of C code to go (blog.kowalczyk.info) | |
| 130 points | 2011 | author kkowalczyk showed up | their comment | thread
“That's not an easy question to answer. If you were to do a faithful port i.e. using using the same techniques as C/Go code, it would be very close. upskirt uses a…” | ||
| 4227. | Protecting a Laptop from Simple and Sophisticated Attacks (grepular.com) | |
| 130 points | 2012 | author mike-cardwell showed up | their comment | thread
“The laptop in question is a Thinkpad. The good thing about Thinkpads is they all look the same, and they don't look valuable. Well, not like a Macbook or a Sony Vaio. I…” | ||
| 4228. | How Erlang does scheduling (jlouisramblings.blogspot.dk) | |
| 130 points | 2013 | author jlouis showed up | their comment | thread
“Haskell and Go just take a different approach. For some problems that approach is way better, so it is not a question of what the best way to do this is. In fact, the…” | ||
| 4229. | Why is there only one Elon Musk? (blog.paintbottle.com) | |
| 130 points | 2013 | author jnp showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“In it, I clearly outline that the topic of discussion is -- specifically -- childlike wonder and what happens when it mixes with wealth. Not "that every wealthy person…” | ||
| 4230. | Schema for Clojure(Script) Data Shape Declaration and Validation (blog.getprismatic.com) | |
| 130 points | 2013 | author aria showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or comments.” | ||
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