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World’s youngest C++ programmer?

Sutter's Mill

I’m seeing many younger programmers picking up C++. The average age at C++ events over the past year has been declining rapidly as the audience sizes grow with more and younger people in addition to the C++ veterans. This kid seems pretty exceptional. Welcome, Wasik! How young were you when you wrote your first program?

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. He had it up and running on Wednesday. that a lot of people used. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

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What I Read in 2011

Tim Kadlec

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. ” and “The Death and Life of the Great American School System” are at the top for non-fiction (excluding the web-related ones). Hardboiled Web Design by Andy Clarke. Linchpin by Seth Godin. Pull by David Siegel. The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch.

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

In the rest of this blog, we will a) touch on the complexity of Netflix cloud landscape, b) discuss lineage design goals, ingestion architecture and the corresponding data model, c) share the challenges we faced and the learnings we picked up along the way, and d) close it out with “what’s next” on this journey. come join us.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Recall the basic equation for enterprise profit: where Q is quantity sold, P is price, V denotes variable costs, and C denotes fixed costs. Heckerman, and C. DG12] How Companies Learn Your Secrets, C. Kleinberg, C. MA08] Introduction to Information Retrieval, C. Rodriguez, C. Konstan, and John Riedl, 2001.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

Hit Ctrl-C to end. ^C C operation = 'read' usecs : count distribution 0 -> 1 : 0 | | 2 -> 3 : 0 | | 4 -> 7 : 4479 | *| 8 -> 15 : 1028 | | 16 -> 31 : 14 | | 32 -> 63 : 1 | | [.]. When I first joined Sun in 2001, it was believed that Sun was too big to fail, as well. Tracing ZFS operation latency.

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Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

There is broad buy-in across the company, including from the C-Suite, that, whenever possible, results from A/B tests or other causal inference approaches are near-requirements for decision making. our first investments in tooling to support A/B tests came way back in 2001. Early experimentation tooling at Netflix, from 2001.

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