Other than that, the most common programmer error is using uninitialized stack frame variables. Would it really be so much of a performance hit to have the compiler generate a call to zero out each new the stack frame on function entry. Perhaps with an 'I really care about performance here' option to not do it...
Any good C compiler will let you crank up the warning level enough to catch these mistakes. If not, you can use lint.
Would it really be so much of a performance hit to have the compiler generate a call to zero out each new the stack frame on function entry. Perhaps with an 'I really care about performance here' option to not do it...
For any kind of performance path, yes, zeroing out the stack frame would be costly.
...I try to find a particular person on Facebook I can never find them, so maybe it's just not popular anymore?
According to my daughter, FB is third-tier behind Instagram and Snapchat. She used to be a big FB and Twitter user, but has since deleted her Twitter account and now uses FB just for concert/musician groups.
So what if they're assholes. You just have to embrace diversity in the workplace. Look at it this way, there are doctors who are jerks. There are lots of good PhDs who are jerks. There are lots of Sys Admins who are jerks.
If I'm a manager and I have to spend time fixing communication/collaboration problems caused by the asshole, then I care because it is not only a waste of my time but also unpleasant for the people that the asshole is working with. Only the asshole seems to win, until they get fired (which I have done). Yes, you can be fired for being an asshole.
If I'm an individual contributor, I don't want to waste my time/energy working with assholes. It is counterproductive for me and the employer. If I must work with an asshole, I box them in and limit their assholery as best I can.
As long as you know how to take them and put them into roles which they are effective who cares.
As gosand said, you can't just morph the employee. I also tried that with one of my engineers, and he actually turned INTO an asshole.
If the system is always listening, it always get the beginning, so it needs that, no more.
That's the one thing I couldn't understand about their whole system. Thank you.
If you enter the premise (restaurant, bar, etc.) mid-song, then the phone won't have access to the beginning of the song.
Assuming Pixel 2 can still identify a song that it only heard from the middle, then the audio fingerprint must cover characteristics of the entire song.
Another poster mentioned how a scan of a human fingerprint stores only specific interesting datapoints. So maybe Google's audio fingerprint includes a few bytes representing average BPM, a few bytes representing vocal range, etc. I'm not a musician or an audiophile, so I don't know the interesting characteristics.
Interesting. That was one of the assertions that I made that was derided.
I agree with you that it's true. It's just not the only reason not to trust them. OTOH, if there are some that always fail into "read only" mode, they aren't as bad as I've been thinking.
SSD firmware guy, here. You guys are correct, SSDs are not for archives. Data in NAND decays after a while, and the design is to read and refresh the data while it is still recoverable through ECC or parity.
Also, please understand that no SSD can guarantee to always go into read-only mode in the event of failure. No more space to write, because the drive has had too many grown defects? Goes to read-only mode. Drive loses one NAND die more than the design can recover from, thus likely losing some/all logical-to-physical mapping tables? Brick.
The top of the line iPhone and Galaxy phones are in the $900 range while the Pixel 2 XL is rumored to be in the $800 range.
I'm not paying $800 for a phone because I'm not an idiot.
Or perhaps the features/specs of cheaper phones are good enough for you. I'm not an idiot, and am waiting to fork out for a Pixel 2. Why? Because I like the technology/benefits of the higher-end phones, but I'm tired of Samsung's crapware.
If you are satisfied with lower-tier phones, then enjoy the extra cash that stays in your pocket.
All this is to say that even as a techie who is involved in business meetings I don't see how I can hurt my company by going to a competitor. But I could see how a high level business planner may be barred by a non-compete clause.
Excellent point. I suppose the higher up the food chain you are, the more such a move could be scrutinized. But for engineers, engineering managers and engineering directors, no real issues (so long as you abide by those two guidelines I mentioned). Marketing or BizDev directors might have some issues.
Of course if you go to a competitor and then use prior company's intellectual property, prepare to be sued or jailed. Every now and then you see that happen.
The line is very simple: 1. Do not take your former employer's property with you when you leave (no files, printouts, etc.) 2. Do not share your former employer's plans, strategies or technologies with your new employer
Abide by those and, in California, your former employer can't do jack about you going to a competitor.
A somewhat vague line is poaching. Many companies will ask you to sign something (usually during exit) saying that you will not use your knowledge of company employees to help a competitor identify/hire them. But recommending your buddies from your old job at your new job is common practice. Some people pretend to take the high road and will tell people that they can't tell you about a job at their new company unless you ask them, first. But it's all the same in the end -- old employer loses some people.
I can see, perhaps, if the non-compete clause was written overly broad and that they went after me because I went into a similar field. But I understand why I couldn't be directly hired to work for a competitor. (example: work for Uber and go to Lyft). But not if you go from Uber to Amazon or to Goldman Sachs.
In Silicon Valley, people jump from their company to a competitor all the time. In some industries (storage being a prime example) there are a limited number of companies, so you hop within that group. Eventually you know many of the people at all of those companies, making it even easier to switch.
Kids use phones most of the time. At home they use pads and Xbox/PS4 for games, movies and YouTube. They have MIGHT have a school ChromeBook. That is it. All of the bases are covered. The only kids in to "PCs" are the gamers moving into Steam and PC games. A stand alone PC is just not needed any longer to use the net.
I disagree. For high school and middle school, my kids need a PC at home to write essays and reports/projects. From what I've seen, kids prefer a phone and a laptop, and are much less interested in desktops or tablets.
my Samsung S5 for over a year before I realized that the drop down top bar with the wifi/location/etc buttons can actually be HELD and it'll go into a sub-menu for configuration. Whereas just pushing the button turns them on/off.
Wow, thanks for the tip! Wish I'd have known that a couple years ago.
I appreciate how many phone features are simple, but can't stand how the features are so non-obvious or otherwise poorly communicated to phone users.
If you were foolish enough to go out and buy an Android phone, you don't have a right to complain about "planned obsolescence". -- the soon-to-be-released iOS 11 goes as far as supporting the now venerable iPhone 5, effectively breathing new life (look at the release notes) into old hardware. Apple care about their customers, Samsung and other Androiders do not.
Nice try. My first-generation iPad was useless after three years, when Apple stopped offering iOS updates that supported it. Almost every app got updated and required a version of iOS that I couldn't get. Thanks, Apple.
I switched to an Android tablet, which is still viable (and supported with OS updates) after four years. The fact that the Android tablet was cheaper and had a higher resolution screen (not to mention an SD card slot) also made it an easy decision over iPad Air.
UBlock works on my Android tablet and Android phone. Does your SW work on Android? If not, then it's ridiculous for you to say your SW is superior to UBlock.
OK, but you won't like it. That will mean the software doesn't release until the lead programmer says so. No ifs ands or buts. If management presses too hard on that issue, THEY go to jail. Expect prices to get a lot higher and development time to multiply.
Sadly, we live in the opposite world. Products ship when marketing says so, or asses get beaten. Bugs? We'll get to those in the next release.
You do know that dealers don't make money on new car sales, right?
If that were true, dealers would be happy to sell you cars near/at/below invoice cost. Even if they sell you the car at invoice, the factory incentives still mean the dealer turns a profit. Nonetheless, they try to sell cars for MSRP or even with added dealer markup, because that maximizes profit.
Their business model is not quite the same as printer companies that sell printers for tiny margins and count on consumers buying high-margin ink cartridges.
All my linkedin profiles are filled up with counterfeited data, just like 99% of other user profiles.
What's the point of having a LinkedIn account (let alone multiple accounts) if you defeat the purpose of letting others find you to see if you are interested in a job?
If you network at all (which is the best way to find a job or find someone to hire), then a site like LinkedIn helps with that.
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Other than that, the most common programmer error is using uninitialized stack frame variables. Would it really be so much of a performance hit to have the compiler generate a call to zero out each new the stack frame on function entry. Perhaps with an 'I really care about performance here' option to not do it...
Any good C compiler will let you crank up the warning level enough to catch these mistakes. If not, you can use lint.
Would it really be so much of a performance hit to have the compiler generate a call to zero out each new the stack frame on function entry. Perhaps with an 'I really care about performance here' option to not do it...
For any kind of performance path, yes, zeroing out the stack frame would be costly.
...I try to find a particular person on Facebook I can never find them, so maybe it's just not popular anymore?
According to my daughter, FB is third-tier behind Instagram and Snapchat. She used to be a big FB and Twitter user, but has since deleted her Twitter account and now uses FB just for concert/musician groups.
So what if they're assholes. You just have to embrace diversity in the workplace. Look at it this way, there are doctors who are jerks. There are lots of good PhDs who are jerks. There are lots of Sys Admins who are jerks.
If I'm a manager and I have to spend time fixing communication/collaboration problems caused by the asshole, then I care because it is not only a waste of my time but also unpleasant for the people that the asshole is working with. Only the asshole seems to win, until they get fired (which I have done). Yes, you can be fired for being an asshole.
If I'm an individual contributor, I don't want to waste my time/energy working with assholes. It is counterproductive for me and the employer. If I must work with an asshole, I box them in and limit their assholery as best I can.
As long as you know how to take them and put them into roles which they are effective who cares.
As gosand said, you can't just morph the employee. I also tried that with one of my engineers, and he actually turned INTO an asshole.
Very well said, sir. Especially those last two sentences.
I've had the same experience and generally dreaded having to do the reviews for my middle-ground engineers.
That's the one thing I couldn't understand about their whole system. Thank you.
If you enter the premise (restaurant, bar, etc.) mid-song, then the phone won't have access to the beginning of the song.
Assuming Pixel 2 can still identify a song that it only heard from the middle, then the audio fingerprint must cover characteristics of the entire song.
Another poster mentioned how a scan of a human fingerprint stores only specific interesting datapoints. So maybe Google's audio fingerprint includes a few bytes representing average BPM, a few bytes representing vocal range, etc. I'm not a musician or an audiophile, so I don't know the interesting characteristics.
Interesting. That was one of the assertions that I made that was derided.
I agree with you that it's true. It's just not the only reason not to trust them. OTOH, if there are some that always fail into "read only" mode, they aren't as bad as I've been thinking.
SSD firmware guy, here. You guys are correct, SSDs are not for archives. Data in NAND decays after a while, and the design is to read and refresh the data while it is still recoverable through ECC or parity.
Also, please understand that no SSD can guarantee to always go into read-only mode in the event of failure. No more space to write, because the drive has had too many grown defects? Goes to read-only mode. Drive loses one NAND die more than the design can recover from, thus likely losing some/all logical-to-physical mapping tables? Brick.
Please back up your SSDs.
Interesting. I'll look into the Oppo phone. Thanks for the tip!
Oppo, as in the high-end CD/DVD player guys?
Battery life on my Xiaomi with a 4400mAH battery and MediaTek CPU was over 12 hours. The iPhone doesn't get anywhere close to that.
iPhone 6 battery is 1810mAH.
iPhone 6S battery is 2915mAH.
With your phone's giant-ass battery, I would certainly hope it can outlast an iPhone.
The top of the line iPhone and Galaxy phones are in the $900 range while the Pixel 2 XL is rumored to be in the $800 range.
I'm not paying $800 for a phone because I'm not an idiot.
Or perhaps the features/specs of cheaper phones are good enough for you. I'm not an idiot, and am waiting to fork out for a Pixel 2. Why? Because I like the technology/benefits of the higher-end phones, but I'm tired of Samsung's crapware.
If you are satisfied with lower-tier phones, then enjoy the extra cash that stays in your pocket.
All this is to say that even as a techie who is involved in business meetings I don't see how I can hurt my company by going to a competitor. But I could see how a high level business planner may be barred by a non-compete clause.
Excellent point. I suppose the higher up the food chain you are, the more such a move could be scrutinized.
But for engineers, engineering managers and engineering directors, no real issues (so long as you abide by those two guidelines I mentioned). Marketing or BizDev directors might have some issues.
Of course if you go to a competitor and then use prior company's intellectual property, prepare to be sued or jailed. Every now and then you see that happen.
The line is very simple:
1. Do not take your former employer's property with you when you leave (no files, printouts, etc.)
2. Do not share your former employer's plans, strategies or technologies with your new employer
Abide by those and, in California, your former employer can't do jack about you going to a competitor.
A somewhat vague line is poaching. Many companies will ask you to sign something (usually during exit) saying that you will not use your knowledge of company employees to help a competitor identify/hire them. But recommending your buddies from your old job at your new job is common practice. Some people pretend to take the high road and will tell people that they can't tell you about a job at their new company unless you ask them, first. But it's all the same in the end -- old employer loses some people.
I can see, perhaps, if the non-compete clause was written overly broad and that they went after me because I went into a similar field. But I understand why I couldn't be directly hired to work for a competitor. (example: work for Uber and go to Lyft). But not if you go from Uber to Amazon or to Goldman Sachs.
In Silicon Valley, people jump from their company to a competitor all the time. In some industries (storage being a prime example) there are a limited number of companies, so you hop within that group. Eventually you know many of the people at all of those companies, making it even easier to switch.
Kids use phones most of the time. At home they use pads and Xbox/PS4 for games, movies and YouTube. They have MIGHT have a school ChromeBook. That is it. All of the bases are covered. The only kids in to "PCs" are the gamers moving into Steam and PC games. A stand alone PC is just not needed any longer to use the net.
I disagree. For high school and middle school, my kids need a PC at home to write essays and reports/projects. From what I've seen, kids prefer a phone and a laptop, and are much less interested in desktops or tablets.
my Samsung S5 for over a year before I realized that the drop down top bar with the wifi/location/etc buttons can actually be HELD and it'll go into a sub-menu for configuration. Whereas just pushing the button turns them on/off.
Wow, thanks for the tip! Wish I'd have known that a couple years ago.
I appreciate how many phone features are simple, but can't stand how the features are so non-obvious or otherwise poorly communicated to phone users.
Because you said so? Asshat.
If you were foolish enough to go out and buy an Android phone, you don't have a right to complain about "planned obsolescence". -- the soon-to-be-released iOS 11 goes as far as supporting the now venerable iPhone 5, effectively breathing new life (look at the release notes) into old hardware. Apple care about their customers, Samsung and other Androiders do not.
Nice try. My first-generation iPad was useless after three years, when Apple stopped offering iOS updates that supported it. Almost every app got updated and required a version of iOS that I couldn't get. Thanks, Apple.
I switched to an Android tablet, which is still viable (and supported with OS updates) after four years. The fact that the Android tablet was cheaper and had a higher resolution screen (not to mention an SD card slot) also made it an easy decision over iPad Air.
Well said!
Noise canceling headphones, with or without music, and the neighborhood chatter fades into the background.
Add music and you are in your own world.
UBlock works on my Android tablet and Android phone. Does your SW work on Android? If not, then it's ridiculous for you to say your SW is superior to UBlock.
I came here to see the asshat trolls in action. Thank you for not disappointing me.
OK, but you won't like it. That will mean the software doesn't release until the lead programmer says so. No ifs ands or buts. If management presses too hard on that issue, THEY go to jail. Expect prices to get a lot higher and development time to multiply.
Sadly, we live in the opposite world. Products ship when marketing says so, or asses get beaten. Bugs? We'll get to those in the next release.
You do know that dealers don't make money on new car sales, right?
If that were true, dealers would be happy to sell you cars near/at/below invoice cost. Even if they sell you the car at invoice, the factory incentives still mean the dealer turns a profit. Nonetheless, they try to sell cars for MSRP or even with added dealer markup, because that maximizes profit.
Their business model is not quite the same as printer companies that sell printers for tiny margins and count on consumers buying high-margin ink cartridges.
All my linkedin profiles are filled up with counterfeited data, just like 99% of other user profiles.
What's the point of having a LinkedIn account (let alone multiple accounts) if you defeat the purpose of letting others find you to see if you are interested in a job?
If you network at all (which is the best way to find a job or find someone to hire), then a site like LinkedIn helps with that.
Well said.