It meant event-poll and also was edge-triggered.
Markets
Our choices are all chaos – either chaos harnessed by a transparent, self-correcting social process, or chaos hidden and denied and eating at the roots of our software.
Foolery
The more you have CPUs the higher you scale, to the point that software execution should complete before you start writing that software (assuming you have around -1024 CPUs).
(lkml)
pid 1
Nice to see systemd finally integrating Firefox
Plasma 5
KDE started using the word “convergence” way back when Canonical was still running user tests to determine the optimal shade of brown for GNOME 2 menus.
ken
Seibel: I know Google has a policy where every new employee has to get checked out on languages before they’re allowed to check code in. Which means you had to get checked out on C.
Thompson: Yeah, I haven’t been.
Seibel: You haven’t been! You’re not allowed to check in code?
Thompson: I’m not allowed to check in code, no… I just haven’t done it. I’ve so far found no need to.
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