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rentzsch.com
Personal blog · rentzsch.com/notesprogrammingcareer
rentzsch.com is a personal blog at rentzsch.com about programming and career. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Wolf Rentzsch's blog for low-level Mac and systems programming. Commenters cite mach_override, a paper on straightening up and flying right, and a UTF-8 counting article.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Wolf's awesome. Have his blog in my RSS feed and he always delivers quality info: http://rentzsch.com/ I have a love/hate relationship with Flash. On one end, it's awesome for audio & video and on the other hand, it has such a shitty implementation on a Mac. It takes 40% of CPU just to decode a video stream which installed video clients can do in less than 10%. (Incidentally, ever since Adobe purchased Macromedia, q…
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on “WebKit plug-in to prevent automatic loading of Adobe Flash content”Submitted Programmers Don't Like to Code as a story · 141 points
HN discussionSee also: http://rentzsch.com/mach_override It used to be used quite comprehensively to add non-Apple-sanctioned functionality to Mac OS X. Hopefully it isn't used much these days.
Comment linking /mach_override
on “Rewrite your Ruby VM at runtime to hot patch useful features”Submitted Programmers Don't Like to Code: Followup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI thought the title meant it was using Altivec or SSE, but it's merely operating on a chunk of 4 bytes at a time dealing with misaligned data up front. Still a good article, despite my initial disappointment. A similar article which originally taught me these tenants is: http://rentzsch.com/papers/straightenUpAndFlyRight
Comment linking /papers/straightenUpAndFlyRight
on “Using vectorization to speed up UTF-8 character counting”Submitted C4[2] Conference speakers announced as a story · 1 points
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