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All Not so Profound Truths about Programming, page 8:

Deterministic Components for Distributed Systems

posted August 22, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Then you can recover from any single server failure in a perfectly transparent manner”
Another Quote:	“after the program fails in production, we can get the input log and run it in the comfort of a developer’s machine, under a debugger, as many times as we want, and get exactly the same variables at exactly the same points as happened in production”
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posted August 16, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“If you’re using double buffering AND perform buffer swap in sync with the V-Sync signal, your monitor will show your game just as a movie projector with shutter would show a cartoon in the cinema”
Another Quote:	“I’ve seen a pretty minimal 2D engine written from scratch at a cost of 4-6 person-weeks”
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posted August 8, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“when trying to scale vector image to VERY small pixel sizes – you might get problems”
Another Quote:	“Internally, JPEG uses a close cousin of a Fourier Transform, which works over 8×8 pixel blocks.”
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posted July 18, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“as much as iOS is a device identification nightmare, Android is a device identification paradise.”
Another Quote:	“Everybody makes occasional mistakes, cheaters/abusers included.”
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posted July 11, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“NEVER EVER use IPv4 for long-term bans”
Another Quote:	“If using MAC addresses to identify devices, you SHOULD gather stats on repeating MAC addresses within your DB”
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posted June 21, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“even if your RNG is statistically perfect, people will still complain 🙁 “
Another Quote:	“On modern x86 CPUs, single core can generate 150M+ random bytes/second this way (and this is a Damn Lot).”
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posted June 13, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“full queues SHOULD NOT happen during normal operation”
Another Quote:	“With queues-implemented-over-mutexes like the ones we’ve written above, the most annoying thing performance-wise is that there is a chance that the OS’s scheduler can force the preemptive context switch right when the thread-being-preempted-is-owning-our-mutex.”
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