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Always to be kept in mind, especially for former firmware developers who might need to write code that runs on a PC. I had to cooperate with a very good firmware developer who wrote the worst possible code because he needed to optimize manually since the C compiler for its controller was pretty barebone.
Still there are things that can be done to simplify arithmetic in order to enable better optimizations or to cut the time of execution - I was able to bring a function from 40ms to 12 just by rearranging arithmetics and cycles. Cosnidering that the function may need to be called 40 times/second the time of execution is paramount (for completeness: using inlined SIMD I was able to cut it further to 4.5 ms).
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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As space travel technology has advanced, so too has the technology that allows astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) to communicate with the rest of us here on Earth. Finally, we will be able to share our cat videos with Europa
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Thomas S Ross filed a patent for an “electronic reading device” (ERD), a rectangular, hand-held gadget with a screen, in 1992. He only just noticed?
I think I might have some old Asimov novels with smartphone-like things on the cover, maybe they should sue too?
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One more proof how idiotic the patent system is...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Not really, he never actually got as far as a patent, having abandoned it before getting that far.
His chances are of success here are somewhere between Bob Hope and No Hope.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Google's intriguing and ambitious Project Tango is gaining ground, as a new partnership with Qualcomm aims to deliver more optimized, Tango-ready Snapdragon chips.
Google and Qualcomm...doing the tango.
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The need for speed is driving businesses into a digital revolution, with agile as the engine. As expectations for quality user experiences rise higher than ever before (be it with context-aware mobile apps, or websites with no room for performance mishaps), organizations are being forced to rethink the way their entire businesses operate.
“The digital revolution is driving the demand for quality software at speed,” said Thomas Hooker, vice president and strategic market expert for CollabNet. “Software development and delivery is vital for all companies to deliver products and services. The methodologies and tools that help expedite the development and delivery of quality software at speed are more important than ever.” A di-agile-tal transformation
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Whether you're using Gmail and YouTube online, Google keyboard on your Android smartphone, Chrome across platforms, or whatever, being a Google user means handing over an awful lot of personal information. My, but I watch a lot of videos
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Can we trust the people who design, operate, and maintain access to these systems? Do we need formal regulation in the software industry? I've known a few that should be
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They are already certified, otherwise why they called software engineers...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I've wondered that for 20 years. Can I sue them for stealing my wonderment?
The only problem here is, can we trust the people who would regulate software development?
I think not.
Marc
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See also Uncle Bob, numerous entries on blog, including: Clean Coder Blog[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Much of the product line from security firm Symantec contains a raft of vulnerabilities that expose millions of consumers, small businesses, and large organizations to self-replicating attacks that take complete control of their computers, a researcher warned Tuesday. You had one job...
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I don't know why I'm not surprised...
Last Symantec product I had to use and maintain was Backup & Recovery, the one with which you had to install a whole Altiris suite just to deploy the product. Experience was awful, backup were failing more often than succeeding, and it took several weeks to get a support "engineer" who did not know how to solve the problem anyway... We almost lost our client and had to provide another backup solution gracefully.
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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I've had good experiences with Norton Enterprise Anti-Visus, but really, really bad experiences with the End-Point/Altiris crap.
(At one point, I wrote a program that ran after each build to clean up the mess that Altiris left behind. The IT department at the company was very good, except for this one thing and even me sending them debug traces showing exactly what was going on didn't persuade them to get rid of Altiris.)
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Message Closed
modified 29-Jun-16 14:11pm.
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Oh, I would've expected Rick Astley.
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Windows 10 stings.
(my bad...)
You always obtain more by being rather polite and armed than polite only.
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How is this news? Surely this would be better in the Lounge.
This space for rent
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Private eyes
They're watching you
They see your every move
Private eyes
They're watching you
Private eyes
They're watching you watching
You watching you watching you Hall&Oates, Private Eyes
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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One of my children has had Windows 10 installed on their laptop without my knowledge.
Since then - network traffic has gone off the charts.
Considering the hours I have spent mitigating this Windows 10 fiasco, and the hours I will now have to spend making sure other machines on the home network are not compromised by this OS, what are the legal ramifications of this considering a child cannot be bound to any EULA or legal encumbrances?
Livid is an understatement.
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On my wifes machine, I found OneDrive syncing up a folder she didn't setup but just also happen to contain an Outlook PST. Any change to the PST and the sync of the entire file starts over, to the tune of 487GBs(!)in a week.
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A worthy project would be to spoof Windows 10 itself when it tries to connect out to all those mysterious IPs.
NOOPs byte level patching (in memory) also comes to mind.
Time to pull out Softice again...
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Well MS has more lawyers than you could ever afford, so going legal probably isn't a worthy idea.
I just went through this last week.[^] Win 10 suddenly installed itself.
AFTER it was finished installed me it asked me to accept the EULA, and when I declined it rolled me back.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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