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Why Teaching Equality Hurts Men « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
Don’t let the title put you off. This isn’t what you think.
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We Who Value Simplicity Have Built Incomprehensible Machines
The 8086 "AAA" instruction seemed like a good idea at the time. In the 1970s there was still a case to be made for operating on binary-coded decimal values, with two digits per byte. What's the advantage of BCD? Large values can be easily displayed without multi-byte division or multiplication. "ASCII Adjust After Addition," or AAA, was committed to the x86 hardware and 30+ years later it's still there, emulated in microcode, in every i7 processor.
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JPMorgan’s soap opera makes clear that Wall Street is detached from reality - The Washington Post
Jamie Dimon was right about one thing: The embarrassing $3-billion-and-counting trading loss at JPMorgan Chase has played right into the hands of pundits who think Wall Street needs to be put on a shorter leash.
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Developers Need to Index | SQL Performance Explained
SQL Performance problems are as old as SQL itself. Some might even say that SQL is inherently slow. Although it might have been true in the early days of SQL, it is definitely not true anymore. Nevertheless SQL performance problems are everywhere, everyday. How does this happen?
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