Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. It is desirable for a program to be able to go to sleep and then wake up a little while later. Decades of madness.

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

” Quality assurance (QA) is defined as: “A program for the systematic monitoring and evaluation of the various aspects of a project, service, or facility to ensure that standards of quality are being met.” — “ Quality assurance ,” Merriam-Webster. It looked realistic in 2004 but the rule was already irrelevant by 2005.

Automotive 140

Automotive Website Social Media Design 140

Brendan Gregg

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Syscall count by program bpftrace -e 'tracepoint:raw_syscalls:sys_enter { @[comm] = count(); }'. bcc is powerful but laborious to program. Internally, bpftrace uses a lex/yacc parser to convert programs to AST, then llvm IR actions, then BPF. in 2004, so I have to think back to that time to understand it.

C++ 105

C++ Virtualization Programming Latency 105

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here. Drupal is not just a CMS.

Ecommerce 140

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. But the gain in efficiency would be relatively small. Automating this process is simple.

Games 118

Games Healthcare Processing Systems 118

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Customer retention programs can require the identification of customers who are likely to stop the relationship with a retailer but can change their minds under the influence of incentives. This metric reveals customers with high revenue potential, hence it can be used in loyalty programs and usage expansion campaigns.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Testsigma

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Selenium was first conceptualized in 2004 at ThoughtWorks for website automation and has come a long way from it’s first Web Driver version to becoming a W3C standard protocol. Selenium works with certain programming languages. These automated testing tools do not demand scripting/programming skills.

Testing 42

Testing Testing Tools Website Programming 42