O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." 2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 7, 2010

A contract from 2005 between one firm and another is a binding legal document in the context of that relationship. One example is FlightCaster , which applies complex analytics on publicly available data (such as the weather, and current flight status and historical flight data) to advise whether you should switch flights or not.

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