Paul Thurrott (Slashdot): “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’ […]

Brent Simmons: We’re dropping the Slack group as the NetNewsWire forum and switching to Discourse — here’s the new forum. Slack’s been pretty great for us, but it does have some limitations: conversations are automatically deleted and they’re not findable on the web in the first place. It’s a shame that the Slack archives were […]

Michael Kennedy (via Hacker News): For example, how fast or slow is it to add an item to a list in Python? What about opening a file? Is that less than a millisecond? Is there something that makes that slower than you might have guessed? If you have a performance sensitive algorithm, which data structure […]

Jonas Bonér (based on work by Peter Norvig and Jeff Dean from 2012): L1 cache reference 0.5 ns Branch mispredict 5 ns L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us Send […]

Ryan Jones: Can anyone explain why there’s no “Clear Documents & Data” button? Reinstalling the app just to clear it is dumb. I can see why Apple doesn’t want to make it easier for users to accidentally delete data that they meant to keep. But I would like to at least see a standard system […]