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

Adrian Cockcroft

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. 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.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? And today, we still have type in a digital context, but it travels through cables, wirelessly on smartphones, and in virtual reality glasses in 3D. Jump to table of contents ?.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ Latch enforcement ​​ changes the ​​ virtual ​​ memory protection ​​ ( VirtualProtect ) ​​ as the ​​ database ​​ pages are transitioned between the clean and dirty states.

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