Today my colleague almost lost everything that he did over four days of work. Because of an incorrect git command, he dropped the changes he'd saved on stash. After this sad episode, we looked for a way to try to recover his work… and we did it!First a warning: When you are implementing a big feature, split it in small pieces ... Read More »
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Retesting AMD Ryzen Threadripper’s game mode
In this mini-test, we compared AMD’s Game Mode as originally envisioned by AMD. Game Mode sits as an extra option in the AMD Ryzen Master software, compared to Creator Mode which is enabled by default. Game Mode does two things: firstly, it adjusts the memory configuration. Rather than seeing the DRAM as one uniform block of memory with an â??averageâ?? ... Read More »
iOS 11 has a ‘cop button’ to temporarily disable Touch ID
Apple is adding an easy way to quickly disable Touch ID in iOS 11. A new setting, designed to automate emergency services calls, lets iPhone users tap the power button quickly five times to call 911. This doesn’t automatically dial the emergency services by default, but it brings up the option to and also temporarily disables Touch ID until you ... Read More »
For Fun and Profit: A New Book on the History of Linux and Open Source
Twenty-six years ago this month, a geeky student in Finland released the Linux kernel to the world. Today, hundreds of millions of people are using Linux. Why? That’s a question I try to answer in my new book For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution. Read More »
The future of Python: Concurrency devoured, Node.js next on menu
Programming language keeps getting fatter amid awkward version 3 splitAnalysis The PyBay 2017 conference, held in San Francisco over the weekend, began with a keynote about concurrency.… Read More »