Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

It is desirable for a program to be able to go to sleep and then wake up a little while later. The answer is hardware interrupts. The OS programs a timer chip that then triggers an interrupt that wakes up the CPU and the OS can then schedule your thread. Timer interrupts and their raison d’être. Decades of madness.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2023

Further, the toolset had been in place for 20 years resulting in high annual software maintenance and infrastructure costs. The obvious costs of tool sprawl can quickly add up, including licensing, support, maintenance, training, hardware, and often additional headcount. More tools will lead to more voices saying, “Not my problem.”

Government 167

Government Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 167

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Delayed five years. Gamepad API.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In fact, according to Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey , JavaScript and Python are now the #1 and #2 most used programming languages, respectively (excluding HTML/CSS and SQL as “programming languages”). But any time memory and application logic moves into Python land, it’s game over.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Pre-publication gates were valuable when better answers weren't available, but commentators should update their priors to account for hardware and software progress of the past 13 years. This challenging situation gave rise to app stores: OS vendors understood that fast-enough-for-games needed dangerous trade-offs.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. Also, you can choose to program post-commit actions, such as running aggregate analytical functions or updating other dependent tables. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Alex Russell

JUNE 20, 2020

Suz Hinton's talks on WebUSB show the through-line: as the web gets more capable, whole classes of software suddenly benefit from frictionless deployment, increased safety, better privacy, and more meaningful user controls. 3] Oh, and it should be imperatively programmed with Lisp-in-C's-clothing. Together, they make software better.

Hardware 55

Hardware Games Java Media 55

O'Reilly

JULY 20, 2021

You will find that the paradigms you choose for other parties won’t align with the expectations for children, and modifying your software to accommodate children is difficult or impossible. Have we not learned anything since the movie War Games ? Video games already cater to multiple people’s experiences.

Google 121

Google Games Technology Technology 121

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Hyperautomation may just be another ploy in the game of buzzword bingo, but we need to look behind the game to discover what’s important. meme originated in IT’s transformation from manual system administration to automated configuration management and software deployment. However, that skeptical conclusion is too simplistic.

Games 114

Games Healthcare Processing Retail 114

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Hardware access APIs, notably: Geolocation. This might not be objectionable in programs that also offer themselves as browsers, but the WebView IAB sleight of hand is to act as a browser when users least expect it, but never to cop to the power and privacy implications of the awesome responsibilities that real-boy browsers solemnly accept.

Google 121

Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Particular Software

MARCH 11, 2019

The point is: our businesses can adapt to out-of-order delivery of information so our software should be able to as well. Exceptions What happens when programming exceptions occur in message processing code? But maybe I get delayed in traffic or wait until the end of that Game of Thrones episode I'm watching for the tenth time.

Virtualization 69

Virtualization Scalability Servers Processing 69

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We built DynamoDB as a fully-managed service because we wanted to enable our customers, both internal and external, to focus on their application rather than being distracted by undifferentiated heavy lifting like dealing with hardware and software maintenance. The DynamoDB team is launching document model support.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145