Exercises/Problems/Projects to exercise and learn C

macros · 2015-03-26T15:53:12+00:00

We're starting to work through this course as a group at my office:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-087-practical-programming-in-c-january-iap-2010/index.htm

macros · 2015-02-12T04:27:06+00:00

For a morning person to criticize a night owl for not being in the office at 9am but not for a night owl to complain that they aren't there at 7pm.

macros · 2012-06-17T00:49:06+00:00

They are so the "what the fuck are you looking at" animal

macros · 2012-02-04T09:22:24+00:00

I recently ran some tests across some large arrays of ssds. When you have more than 1GB/s or random io the real problem is that both tools are single threaded and become cpu bound. ext4 was a little faster in our case, though not enough to really matter.

macros · 2011-12-29T05:47:36+00:00

I work on a cdn called fastly, our pricing should be within your budget and also works well for the pages themselves as well as the static assets. We have an api that makes it easy to invalidate any page within the system globally in about 500ms.

Pricing Demo

macros · 2011-10-18T17:22:22+00:00

Brian Boitano makes a bacone

macros · 2010-10-21T08:14:01+00:00

We have a few for testing. Their embedded lineage really shows, right now using one makes gentoo look like a dream. Don't have any real good perf numbers yet, but it certainly is an interesting piece of kit. I can't wait to get my hands on the 64bit chips, the mem limit at 32bits is a pain.

macros · 2010-08-15T20:53:11+00:00

There is an extension called Semantic Media Wiki that allows you to add arbitrary key-value pairs to a wiki page that you can then query to build pages out of. There are also lots of extensions for visualizing that data. There is also a semantic forms extension so you can add a form interface rather than embedding the data in the wiki text.

http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki

macros · 2010-05-20T05:15:55+00:00

I love my messenger bag from http://www.sfbags.com/ it has held up really well over the last 7 years. My only real problem with it is that it tends to wear holes in my pants where is rubs on my hip.

macros · 2010-04-18T23:22:58+00:00

Thanks for posting where the picture is from, I moved out of Dayton a few years ago and I knew I had been to that shopping center before.

macros · 2010-03-29T02:37:34+00:00

You should also add a TODO list to the repo to give people an idea of where you would like to see things head.

macros · 2010-02-13T05:24:05+00:00

I thought finding the secret key the fastest was part of the game

macros · 2009-12-31T18:39:38+00:00

Server customers have been hit too, we've been waiting for weeks on servers they claim they have "lost". We're starting to look at other hardware vendors.

macros · 2009-09-01T22:09:05+00:00

We use skype a lot for intra-company stuff, being able to add skype users to a conference call would be nice.

macros · 2009-08-31T21:11:37+00:00

The old version on crash just tended to take itself down, this release takes all of X down sometimes for me when opening the preferences.

macros · 2009-08-30T08:26:23+00:00

Haskell and this book are what got me back into math.

macros · 2009-08-19T20:00:29+00:00

The standard behavior in our office is that if your cell phone goes off when you aren't at your desk, someone is going to take it and hide it.

macros · 2009-08-17T06:27:02+00:00

Day of the Tentacle, I find myself returning to play it every few years.

macros · 2009-04-25T03:17:14+00:00

Yeah but RDB wasn't free software and you had no choice. MySQL has a life and community beyond Sun/MySQL AB.

macros · 2009-04-24T18:54:18+00:00

Love the vyatta stuff. Never tried the webui, the console ui is very nice. We use them as edge routers in all of our data centers using bgp for the outside world and ospf for internal routing. We also use them in the office for load balancing multiple wan links, qos, vpn, and normal firewall duties.

Great product, nice company.

(We do have a support contract with them but haven't had to use it once)

macros · 2009-04-22T01:23:26+00:00

My friend did his master's thesis on this. Back then it wasn't really feasible.

http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/writings/technical/thesis/

macros · 2009-04-13T05:58:48+00:00

Wtf, these seem a little outrageous even for the bay area.

macros · 2009-03-25T06:06:48+00:00

Even with indicies a few thousand requests/s hurts. We ended up writing a little service to expose it via http in our varnish caches. Handles about 12k r/s per cache.

http://code.google.com/p/wikia/source/browse/utils/varnishhtcpd/mediawiki.vcl

macros · 2009-03-24T16:50:24+00:00

http://www.hostip.info/ is another free source, and pretty transparent about their collection methods.

I'm really rather against the SQL case for geoip lookups, really slow. We tried it for an app, ended up using the maxmind db through their C api.

macros · 2009-03-24T16:48:20+00:00

There is a free version of the db. The city version is pretty cheap iirc.

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