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CSS box-shadow Can Slow Down Scrolling
Working on one of the Chromebooks Google lets you borrow on Virgin America flights, I noticed scrolling down the page on my airbnb.com dashboard was much slower than on my normal laptop. I chalked it up to weak Chromebook hardware, but other sites were scrolling just fine. box-shadow had caused slow scrolling on our search results page before, so I did some investigation.I used Chrome's Timeline tab to see the duration of paint events on the page. Before each test I forced a garbage collection a...
CSS,box-shadow,performance,Timeline,Chromebook 2011-11-13 08:13:48
Will China surpass United States on innovation?
I had some discussions on whether China would surpass United States on innovation with some entrepreneurs during last weekend's APEC. The conclusion is United Stats has advantages on innovation today, but in the future, China's innovation will be more widespread and successful. For the next 10 years, what advantages do United States and China have? Actually United States has obvious advantages, especially on innovation structure and innovation culture. Technology -- It's undoubted that Unit...
Innovation,China,United States 2013-07-15 04:40:12
Is Scala Only for Computer Scientists?
I have experience struggling through these kinds of things andI know enough about the subject that I can understand why they did it that way. But my concern is that this should be an example that a beginner could understand, and they can't. There's too much depth exposed. Here's the example, which is written as a script: import scala.io.Source._ case class Registrant(line: String) { val data = line.split(",") val first = data(0) val last = data(1) val email = data(2) val payment = da...
Scala,Application field,Computer science 2012-02-17 07:46:40
Python Patterns - An Optimization Anecdote
The other day, a friend asked me a seemingly simple question: what's the best way to convert a list of integers into a string, presuming that the integers are ASCII values. For instance, the list [97, 98, 99] should be converted to the string 'abc'. Let's assume we want to write a function to do this. The first version I came up with was totally straightforward: def f1(list): string = "" for item in list: string = string + chr(item) return string ...
Python,Optimization,Anecdote,Loopup,ASCII 2011-12-18 10:52:49
A couple of tips for beginning programmers
Whether it is football, quantum physics, a new foreign language or programming, the beginnings are problematic. What is more, no amount of advice can teach you as much as your own experience. Nevertheless, the following tips will help you avoid some mistakes, save your time and develop good programmer habits from the very beginning.Practise logical thinkingAlthough some may laugh at the stereotype of a programmer being a Maths genius, there is no use denying that learning Maths and Logics prepar...
Programming,Tips,Beginner 2014-06-17 07:47:31
What’s the waiter doing with the computer screen?
When Richard Gatarski and a few friends wanted to dine in the Swedish city of Norrköping a few weeks ago, they booked a table at a downtown Italian restaurant that seemed nice. When they arrived, they were greeted by the headwaiter, who asked if they had a reservation. Richard confirmed, and the headwaiter looked at his computer screen. â€Gatarski? Hm, let’s see .. yes, there’s your reservation. Welcome!†The headwaiter then picked up what Richard first thought m...
Waiter,Computer screen,Touch 2012-03-12 11:07:01
The business of software
Inspired by a talk I gave yesterday at the BOS conference. This is long, feel free to skip!My first real job was leading a team that created five massive computer games for the Commodore 64. The games were so big they needed four floppy disks each, and the project was so complex (and the hardware systems so sketchy) that on more than one occasion, smoke started coming out of the drives.Success was a product that didn't crash, start a fire or lead to a nervous breakdown.Writing software...
Software,Design,Business,Software design 2011-10-29 07:22:09
Top 5 Reasons Not to Use Hadoop for Analytics
As a former diehard fan of Hadoop, I LOVED the fact that you can work on up to Petabytes of data. I loved the ability to scale to thousands of nodes to process a large computation job. I loved the ability to store and load data in a very flexible format. In many ways, I loved Hadoop, until I tried to deploy it for analytics. That’s when I became disillusioned with Hadoop (it just "ain't all that"). At Quantivo, we’ve explored many ways to deploy H...
Cloud computing,Hadoop,Analytics 2012-04-17 13:43:26
golangci-lint to enable comment check for exported functions
golangci-lint is a command line tool which aggregates a list of different go linters to check whether the source code is in correct condition from different aspects. It is built to run during the CI pipeline so that there is no obvious coding issues before compiling and building the program. It is easy to run it with just below command $ golangci-lint run -v INFO [config_reader] Config search paths: [./ /Users /] INFO [config_reader] Used config file .golangci.yml INFO [lintersdb] Active 10 li...
EXPORTED COMMENT,GOLINT,REVIVE,GOLANGCI-LINT,GOLANG 2022-04-15 20:21:34
The several flavors of random in Java
Random number generation is one of most basic features in any programming language. The basic utilization is always the same: generate a random number between 0 and 1. With such a simple resource at hand we sometimes overlook some interesting features. What do we learn from the books? The most obvious and maybe intuitive way to generate random numbers in Java is simply calling: java.lang.Math.random() Random generation is in the Math utility class with abs, pow, floor...
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