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Ask HN: Measurements of Code Quality?Hi HN community! A friend of mine recently inherited a large Javascript codebase that’s not in great shape. We were brainstorming ways to measure “progress” towards cleaning it up ...bing.com
block storageStoring data in fixed chunks called "blocks," each with a unique address. A file or object can be made up of many blocks that can be stored across multiple storage drives. Block st...online.wsj.com
Upstart trading platform pitching itself as an antidote to predatory HFTWASHINGTON—Some big Wall Street firms are throwing their weight behind an upstart trading platform pitching itself as an antidote to a mounting problem in the stock market: predato...news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc?In a similar vein to http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html, I'm curious to hear the people's choice for memory pool/slab allocators. My question is a three-parter:1) ...