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“Does a bee ever wonder if a flower gets hurt by it's sting?”
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“Assembly programmers are the only programmers who can truly claim to be the masters, and that's a truth worth meditating on.”
― Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with DOS and Linux
― Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with DOS and Linux
“Sometimes the only scientific answer we can give is “We don’t know.”
― Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
― Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
“There are other reasons we use math in physics. Besides keeping us honest, math is also the most economical and unambiguous terminology that we know of. Language is malleable; it depends on context and interpretation. But math doesn’t care about culture or history. If a thousand people read a book, they read a thousand different books. But if a thousand people read an equation, they read the same equation.”
― Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
― Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
“iterative and concurrent. An iterative server iterates through the following steps: I1. Wait for a client request to arrive. I2. Process the client request. I3. Send the response back to the client that sent the request. I4. Go back to step I1. The problem with an iterative server occurs when step I2 takes a long time. During this time no other clients are serviced. A concurrent server, on the other hand, performs the following steps: C1. Wait for a client request to arrive. C2. Start a new server instance to handle this client’s request. This may involve creating a new process, task, or thread, depending on what the underlying operating system supports. This new server handles one client’s entire request. When the requested task”
― TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols
― TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols
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