How to Break into a Mac

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Apache Spark with Air ontime performance data

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There is a growing interest in Apache Spark, so I wanted to play with it (especially after Alexander Rubin’s Using Apache Spark post). To start, I used the recently released Apache Spark 1.6.0 for this experiment, and I will play with “Airlines ...

Deprecation of MD5 and SHA1 -- Just in Time?

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"Your stupidity, Allen, is simply not up to par." -- Dave Mack (mack@inco. UUCP) "Yours is." -- Allen Gwinn ([email protected]), in alt.flame

Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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We are expanding the AWS footprint once again, this time with a new region in Seoul, South Korea. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Seoul) region for fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. New Region …

Non-volatile Storage: CPUs no longer more performant than I/O devices

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The January/February 2019 issue of acmqueue is out now Subscribers and ACM Professional members login here For the entire careers of most practicing computer scientists, a fundamental observation has consistently held true: CPUs are significantly more…

Using the OS X 10.10 Hypervisor Framework: A Simple DOS Emulator

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Since Version 10.10 (Yosemite), OS X contains Hypervisor.framework, which provides a thin user mode abstraction of the Intel VT features. It enables apps to use virtualization without the need of a kernel extension (KEXT) – which makes them compatible with…

Raspberry Pi Zero – Programming Over USB

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Update 19/05/2016 – The modules are now included in the most recent version of Raspbian and thanks to some digging around in kernel documentation, it is now possible to set the full thing up without a keyboard/mouse/screen! Just need a Windows/Mac/Linux…

Load Balancing and the Power of Hashing

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Here’s a bit of folklore I often hear (and retell) that’s somewhere between a joke and deep wisdom: if you’re doing a software interview that involves some algorithms problem that seems hard, your best bet is to use hash tables. As someone with a passion…

NVIDIA's Drive PX 2 is a liquid-cooled supercomputer for cars

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NVIDIA's sequel to the Drive PX in-car computer it debuted last year is a liquid-cooled beast with the power equivalent to 150 MacBook Pros. Say hello to the Drive PX 2. It sports 12 CPU cores and has 8 teraflops worth of processing power -- similar...

How to deploy your node app on Linux, 2016 edition

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The ultimate guide to deploying your node app on Linux This time we do the work for you. This is the latest version of the most popular guide to deploying node on Linux on the internet, which I've kept updated for the last 5 years with input from the…