| # turn until you get three hexagons changed to get here | |
| H1 = ["AC", "AB", "ACD"] | |
| # turn until you get two hexagons changed to get here | |
| H2 = ["BCF", "ACF", "BF"] | |
| # turn until you get three hexagons changed to get here | |
| H3 = ["CD", "BC", "AB", "AF", "EF", "CDE"] | |
| # this is my status, look at the hexagons to determine which ones are open | |
| status = set("ABDE") # 110110 |
| I was drawn to programming, science, technology and science fiction | |
| ever since I was a little kid. I can't say it's because I wanted to | |
| make the world a better place. Not really. I was simply drawn to it | |
| because I was drawn to it. Writing programs was fun. Figuring out how | |
| nature works was fascinating. Science fiction felt like a grand | |
| adventure. | |
| Then I started a software company and poured every ounce of energy | |
| into it. It failed. That hurt, but that part is ok. I made a lot of | |
| mistakes and learned from them. This experience made me much, much |
This is a collection of the things I believe about software development. I have worked for years building backend and data processing systems, so read the below within that context.
Agree? Disagree? Feel free to let me know at @JanStette. See also my blog at www.janvsmachine.net.
Keep it simple, stupid. You ain't gonna need it.
| Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords | |
| ActivityTweet | |
| generic_activity_highlights | |
| generic_activity_momentsbreaking | |
| RankedOrganicTweet | |
| suggest_activity | |
| suggest_activity_feed | |
| suggest_activity_highlights | |
| suggest_activity_tweet |
I've been using [Backblaze][bbz] for a while now as my online backup service. I have used a few others in the past. None were particularly satisfactory until Backblaze came along.
It was - still is - keenly priced at a flat $5 (£4) per month for unlimited backup (I've currently got just under half a terabyte backed-up). It has a fast, reliable client. The company itself is [transparent about their operations][trans] and [generous with their knowledge sharing][blog]. To me, this says they understand their customers well. I've never had reliability problems and everything about the outfit exudes a sense of simple, quick, solid quality. The service has even saved the day on a couple of occasions where I've lost files.
Safe to say, I'm a happy customer. If you're not already using Backblaze, [I highly recommend you do][recommend].
This document was originally written several years ago. At the time I was working as an execution core verification engineer at Arm. The following points are coloured heavily by working in and around the execution cores of various processors. Apply a pinch of salt; points contain varying degrees of opinion.
It is still my opinion that RISC-V could be much better designed; though I will also say that if I was building a 32 or 64-bit CPU today I'd likely implement the architecture to benefit from the existing tooling.
Mostly based upon the RISC-V ISA spec v2.0. Some updates have been made for v2.2
The RISC-V ISA has pursued minimalism to a fault. There is a large emphasis on minimizing instruction count, normalizing encoding, etc. This pursuit of minimalism has resulted in false orthogonalities (such as reusing the same instruction for branches, calls and returns) and a requirement for superfluous instructions which impacts code density both in terms of size and
| // | |
| // Author: Jonathan Blow | |
| // Version: 1 | |
| // Date: 31 August, 2018 | |
| // | |
| // This code is released under the MIT license, which you can find at | |
| // | |
| // https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT | |
| // | |
| // |
| /** | |
| 1. Install the Stylish(https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=en) extension for Chrome. | |
| 2. Open up extension options and paste the CSS mentioned below. | |
| 3. Specify the "URLs on the domain" to be `github.com`. | |
| 4. Add a title and save. | |
| */ | |
| .dashboard-sidebar { | |
| float: right; | |
| padding-right: 10px; |
