Yes, that's true. However in my app this has never caused any problems. Apparently even if the compiler auto-vectorizes anything it does this only with scratch regs or in leaf procedures. I don't have any fp or simd code of myself.
Thanks, Gopal. I didn't do much, just maintained it on life support. Recently some good contributors arrived: Jakob and Tom. Let's hope this really revives the project.
It's a hardware interrupt from a hardware clock that is handled by the OS kernel. Regular user processes are usually totally forbidden from touching that hardware stuff.
It seems your variant does not support the common convention to use lone two dashes ('--') to separate options from non-options that for some reason start with dashes too (e.g. strangely named files).
My version supports typed values at a different level integrated with config file parsing. So the command line argument values are just strings for me.
At first I wanted to make an in-memory database. But I disliked libevent, libev and everything else I saw when I started it. Perhaps I would be more or less happy with libuv, but I was not aware of it back then. By the way redis also provides its own event handling machinery. I guess Salvatore did not like libevent too. But redis is single-threaded while my idea was to heavily rely on multi-threading and fibers (M:N threading model). Quite unexpectedly inventing a multi-threaded event handling framework with an added complexity of fibers took enormous time from me. Anyway now I have a cool framework for multi-threaded servers.
As for in-memory database functionality it only provides memcached compatible interface. As I'm done with the server framework stuff so I am going to add more features. Like persistance, basic redis protocol support, etc.
Sorry, I cannot see this as expressing any sort of disagreement. I perhaps can learn how to play piano. If we are talking about some pieces for 6 y.o. kids. Can I learn how to play any Rachmaninov prelude or concerto? No, for me personally, this is not going to happen even if I had an infinite lifetime.
A personal account of perhaps an old timer already. Entirely based on personal experience so probably less than representative.
People are either able to code or not. Teaching does not work. Those who are able to code almost entirely pick all the skills by themseves. If a 'natural born' coder gets into some formal environment, such as university or something, suсh a person in two months surpasses the level of all the peers and the direct instructor as well.
In the university I was trained for automatics. But I quickly learned that coding takes me no effort at all, as opposed to, say, understanding electronics. After reading Wirth, Kernighan & Ritchie, and Stroustrup I often found myselfs hinting students from the programming department how to perform their tasks as they were scratching their heads and I was just passing by.
This has nothing to do with inteligence. I'm perhaps not very smart. When I starred at some scheme I had no idea if this an amplifier or something else, what is the role of one resistor or another. At the same time mates from my group read it as it was written in plain English (err, in plain Russian to be precise). But the very same persons were totally unable to code. It's very strange. For me coding is trivial and takes no inteligence. This is why I do it for living. The path of the least resistance. I'm kind of puzzled why persons smarter than me cannot code.
Anyway, after reading some foundational books the only thing that helps is reading other people's good code. For me it was reading pieces of the old (around 90's) BSD and GNU code.
I never met a person I'd appreciate for directy handing me over any useful coding skill. YMMV.
> but some of these cultural factors I think were pre existing and also help facilitate the pattern..
I would agree with this. Here is a Soviet cartoon based on a Russian folk fairy tale about smart and mighty wife rescuing her husband from king's prison:
I think Russia never was a classic patriarchal society. At the family level matriarchs always played as important and prominent role as patriarchs. Yes, in the past the official power institutions were almost completely male dominated. However there were notable exceptions such as semi-mythical princess Olga, emperatresses Anna I, Elisabeth, and Catherine II. Also Peter I came to power as the result of power-struggle with regent-princess Sophia Alekseyevna. Actually when the party of Peter I won, the actual power was grabbed by his mother Natalia Naryshkina whose nickname was she-bear. Peter became the true ruler of Russia only after her death. There were other notable historic women in Russian history such as princess Sophia Palaiologina. All in all throughout Russian history there were many much-revered and/or influential women. Also some folk fairy tales feature mighty female warriors. In particular there is a story about a knight Stavr Godinovich who was arrested by the king Vladimir and was rescued by his wife Vasislisa Mikulishna by winning in several contests ranging from wrestling to chess-playing. I believe gender biases for ages were weaker in Russia than in Western Europe let alone Middle East and you name it.
The article totally misses the point. It just picks a single area and wonders why in this particular area women and men are more equal in Russia than in the West. By asking such a narrow question you will never get the right answer. The right answer is that in Russia there is more gender equality in general and therefore in every particular area too.
For instance, from a women-in-business study it follows that the proportion of female-ocuppied senior management positions in Russia is 47% while in the US it's 23% and in UK it's 19%.
"Eastern Europe continues to top the rankings (see figure 3), with Russia in the lead as the only country in which every business has a woman on its senior leadership team. In Poland, the proportion of senior roles held by women has improved by six percent to 40%. The region owes some of its strong performance to the legacy of communist principles which have placed women as equals for generations."
Of course, such a conclusion goes against the main-stream narrative of communism being all about abuse and human rights violations while the West being the undisputed champion of human rights. So the BBC article just have to provide the following paragraph:
"While Russia is doing something right, it's still not there yet in terms of gender parity."
What is this about? Nothing. Whatever the subject is BBC must retain some reservations about Russia however unsubstantiated they are.
It was not the first. It was after Allan Chumak made it to the TV. And after lots of other absurdity like teachings of Helena Roerich was thrown in to blow Soviet people's minds. Actually Kuryokhin was making fun of all of this, it's rather a parody than a genuine hoax.
I don't think many people believed it. Actually it was more of a satire than a hoax. A mockery of the BS wave that befell on gullible and unprepared audience upon Perestroika.