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I agree with Jeroen Jacobs, there is the whole other side of hashing for speed and minimal collisions.
Commented Apr 6, 2012 on Speed Hashing at Coding Horror
Speed Hashing
Hashes are a bit like fingerprints for data. A given hash uniquely represents a file, or any arbitrary collection of data. At least in theory. This is a 128-bit MD5 hash you're looking at above, so it can represent at most 2128 unique items, or 340 trillion trillion trillion. In reality the...
Wow, I got a meeting just like that in 10 minutes. Ohhh the irony...absolutely nothing gets done in these meetings!
Commented Feb 14, 2012 on Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die at Coding Horror
Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die
How many meetings did you have today? This week? This month? Now ask yourself how many of those meetings were worthwhile, versus the work that you could have accomplished in that same time. This might lead one to wonder why we even have meetings at all. At GitHub we don't have meetings...
What about the ultimate geek transporter known as the Segway?
Commented Jun 10, 2011 on Geek Transportation Systems at Coding Horror
Geek Transportation Systems
On my first visit to the Fog Creek Software offices in 2008, I was surprised to see programmers zooming around the office on scooters. I didn't realize that scooters were something geeks would be into, but it sure looked like fun, albeit borderline dangerous fun, on the 25th floor of an office ...
I just make sure my tv has DLNA and boom...one linux server running MediaTomb + networked tv = streamed xvids!
Commented Apr 5, 2011 on Revisiting the Home Theater PC at Coding Horror
Revisiting the Home Theater PC
It's been almost three years since I built my home theater PC. I adore that little machine; it drives all of our family entertainment and serves as a general purpose home media server and streaming box. As I get older, I find that I'm no longer interested in having a home full of PCs whirring a...
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