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• English major new to programming. What language should I learn first? [closed]

  - by PJKaka

  After working extensively an internet startup in a marketing positions, I've decided to wade into the entrepreneurship pool with a startup of my own. The only problem: I don't have any particular technical skills to speak of. Although I can find a technical co-founder, I'd rather not be the stereotypical 'business guy' drumming his fingers on the desk and asking 'how much longer?' as my technical co-founder codes away. I would like to understand code and what's happening in the backend, even if I don't end up being anything more than a 'passable' programmer. With this in mind, which language should I try to learn first? For the record, I'm quite proficient with HTML, CSS, and a bit of JavaScript. I have some familiarity with PHP because I've toyed around with WordPress a lot, but my knowledge is limited at best. My math skills are quite strong. I took some advanced calculus courses in college since I've always enjoyed the subject. While my goals are to learn web development, I wouldn't mind learning some hardcore object oriented programming skills in C or Java as well.

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• How to optimize a box2d simulation in action game?

  - by nathan

  I'm working on an action game and i use box2d for physics. The game use a tiled map. I have different types of body: Static ones used for tiles Dynamic ones for player and enemies Actually i tested my game with ~150 bodies and i have a 60fps constantly on my computer but not on my mobile (android). The FPS drop as the number of body increase. After having profiled the android application, i saw that the World.step took around 8ms in CPU time to execute. Here are few things to note: Not all the world is visible on screen, i use a scrolling system Enemies are constantly moving toward the player so there is alaways to force applied to their body Enemies need to collide between each others Enemies collide with tiles I also now that i can active/desactive or sleep/awake bodies. Considering the fact that only a part of the enemies are possibly displayed on screen, is there any optimizations i can do to reduce the execution time of box2d simulation? I found a guy trying an optimization based on distance of enemies from the player (link). But i seems like he just desactives far bodies (in my case, i could desactive bodies that are not visible). But my enemies need to move even when they are not visible on screen, and applying forces will not workd on inactive bodies. Should i play with sleeping bodies here? Also, enemies are composed by two fixtures and are constantly colliding with each others and with tiles but i really never need to get notified about that. Is there anything i can do to optimize this kind of scenario? Finally, am i wrong to try to run simulation at 60FPS on mobile and should i try to make it run at 30FPS?

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• Need Directions to become a programmer [closed]

  - by Omin

  Before youguys go on about how there are many types of programmers, please read through the post. Long term goal: Develop my own software (company) Short term goal: Get a job that involves coding/programming Current status: Support Analyst (at a software company but does not involve any programming) with 40k salary, 3rd year computer engineering student I had everything figured out. I'm going to develop a 2D scrolling game for iphone or android, publish the app, sell a bunch, and then apply at a studios as a software developer. And then something hit me. I think I need to get a job that involes programming to learn as much as I can in the shortest time possible. So I got a phone interview at a fast growing start up software company, passed that no problem, but then had to take an online technical assessment. That failed miserably. I thought that if I could just present myself, show that I am hard working, positive attitude, eager to make self improvements, type of a guy, I could get the job. I was wrong. And now, I am lost. Im thinking of staying with my job until I find a new one as a programmer. I will be working, self studying, and trying to make this happen without finishing university. I forgot to mention that the online technical assessment was based on data structures/algorithms, OO design, runtime complexity. I was hoping that I could get some guidence. Should I be focusing on app development or study computer science fundamentals? I have a list of books I can be going through: Learning C# O'Reilly (I got interested in C# because of Unity3D and Mono), C# 5.0 in a Nutshell, Head First Design Patterns, Code Complete, Introduction to Algorithms, Programming Interviews Exposed, Cracking the Coding Interview, The Google Resume.

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• Why would he say "We don't want to support MVC3"?

  - by MadBurn

  I work in a small shop at a fairly big company doing intranet web applications. By small, I mean there is 1 other guy in my position... and he graduated with me last December. (we aren't the only IT, but the only ones in our field) We are switching out an old COBOL system and converting it's only used application suite to a Web App. My company has contracted to a Web Application firm to help with this process who has chosen ASP.NET MVC, during one of the important meetings I asked if they will be using MVC2 or MVC3. Their lead developer said: "MVC2, we don't want to support MVC3. haha" My question is, why is this? This was several months ago and I've been doing extensive and self training gearing up for the MVC switch. From everything I am understanding, MVC3 is just like MVC2 if you don't use Razor and it fixes a number of smaller bugs that MVC2 had. So in my eyes, I can't see any reason to NOT use MCV3. There has to be something I'm missing. Since I don't really have any mentors to turn to in the real world, I'm coming here. What problems are there with MVC3 that might possibly lead him to say this that I'm missing?

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• Configuring an Engenius 3500

  - by dsiddens

  The title speaks to only half of the issue: the other half are the settings in Ubuntu and the sequences therein. The computer in this issue does receive internet with the external antenna jack at the back being fed with a simple magnetic base antenna designed for putting on the roof of an automobile. However, that signal is weak and the Engenius with an external antenna (Rootenna ~15db gain) and ehternet wire will supply a stronger, faster signal. I've set the Engenius to the desired source and entered the correct WEP password. The lights on the Engenius indicate that it's connected to the access point. At the Ubuntu side of this I've worked to no avail changing settings with "Edit Connections" to the point I'm Ask(ing)Ubuntu for help. I have and have RTFM for Engenius 3500 There is an embarrassing side note to this issue: At one time I had the Engenius working! It seems that I can't recall the settings and sequences I used way back when. And I may as well confess to not knowing the Command Line. I'm a GUI guy. Thank you for your time, Doug

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• How often do you look for code examples?

  - by Newly Insecure

  I am a comp sci student with several years of experience in C and C++, and for the last few years I've been constantly working with Java/Objective C doing app dev and now I have switched to web dev and am mainly focused on ruby on rails and I came to the realization that (as with app dev, really) I reference other code wayyyy too much. I constantly google functionality for lots of things I imagine I should be able to do from scratch and it's really cracked my confidence a bit. Basic fundamentals are not an issue, I hate to use this as an example but I can run through javabat in both java/python at a sprint - obviously not an accomplishment and but what I mean to say is I have a strong base for the fundamentals I think? I was wondering how often you guys reference other code and does it just boil down to a lack of memorization of intricate tasks on my part? I know what I need to use typically but reference syntax constantly. Would love some advice and input on this, as it has been holding me back pretty solidly in terms of looking for work in this field even though I'm finishing my degree. My main reason for asking is not really about employment, but more that I don't want to be the only guy at a hackathon not hammering out nonstop code and sitting there with 20 google/github tabs open, and I have refrained from attending any due to a slight lack of confidence... tl;dr: I google for code examples for basically ALL semi advanced/advanced functionality, how to fix this and do you do as well?

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• What are most demanded web-development languages today for startups?

  - by Liston Catch

  What technologies are in demand nowaydas for web-development for web-startups? For frontend its all clear: HTML5, JS, AJAX, JQuery. But what about backend? What languages (and frameworks) should I consider using? I am not asking "which language is best", I just need a list of modern languages and frameworks (and not Pascal, Delphi or Basic) which are demanded and well-payed. UPD: I totally decline the "it's all about logic, not about language. language is just a tool" concept. While THEORETICALLY it's true, in reality the time you need to study required frameworks is counted by months, so language DOES matter indeed. That's why I made this topic UPD 2: Mason Wheeler, so you seriously advice me to go for Delphi? You think its DEMANDED nowadays? Or you just tell me an exception which only confirms the rule? It's like "one guy won 100,000,000$ in lottery. Just for you to know that lottery is not a bad way to earn money."

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• Will we be penalized for having multiple external links to the same site?

  - by merk

  There seem to be conflicting answers on this question. The most relevant ones seem to be at least a year or two old, so I thought it would be worth re-asking this question. My gut says it's ok, because there are plenty of sites out there that do this already. Every major retailer site usually has links to the manufacturer of whatever item they are selling. go to www.newegg.com and they have hundreds of links to the same site since they sell multiple items from the same brand. Our site allows people to list a specific genre of items for sale (not porn - i'm just keeping it generic since I'm not trying to advertise) and on each item listing page, we have a link back to their website if they want. Our SEO guy is saying this is really bad and google is going to treat us as a link farm. My gut says when we have to start limiting user useful features to our site to boost our ranking, then something is wrong. Or start jumping through hoops by trying to hide text using javascript etc Some clients are only selling 1 to a handful of items, while a couple of our bigger clients have hundreds of items listed so will have hundreds of pages that link back to their site. I should also mention, there will be a handful of pages with the bigger clients where it may appear they have duplicate pages, because they will be selling 2 or 3 of the same item, and the only difference in the content of the page might just be a stock #. The majority of the pages though will have unique content. So - will we be penalized in some way for having anywhere from a handful to a few hundred pages that all point to the same link? If we are penalized, what's the suggested way to handle this? We still want to give users the option to go to the clients site, and we would still like to give a link back to the clients site to help their own SE rankings.

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• Old Fglrx Driver - AMD Radeon HD 3200 - ubuntu won't start

  - by Yohannes

  I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit for about 2 weeks now and I installed the latest Fglrx driver (Graphics Card- AMD HD 3200, PC- Acer Aspire 5336, 4GB RAM, 500GB Harddrive). The problem is that sometimes video's lag and play out of sync sometimes the windows take long to show up after I've clicked them etc. After looking around I found a video on Youtube by Ubuntu help guy and in the video he recommended using an older driver if you have an older graphics card, his was about 4 years old (same as mine) and he used the 11.10 catalyst driver so I decided to try it. I removed the previous installation of the driver and then installed the 11.10 driver. However, when I restarted it instead of going to the GUI it goes to a terminal like window and asks for my login. Now its pretty clear I need to remove the old driver and go back to using the latest one. The only problem is I'm not sure where I saved the latest driver and in order to connect to the Internet I need to change /etc/resolv.conf (I use a static IP). So what should I do? Also anyone from personal experience, what propitiatory driver works best with my graphics card? As in the version. Thanks

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• 16-bit PNGs in Slick2D

  - by Neglected

  I'm working on a project and I'm using some 3rd party sprites just to get it off the ground; recently I've come into a hitch. Slick2D doesn't seem to want to load my images. That is, it will warn me that images are the wrong bit-depth. All the images are in 16-bit PNG form (PNG is required for transparency). Is there any way I can disable the warning (being the bad guy programmer (the console print for each individual load REALLY SLOWS DOWN the image)) or is there another solution? I was thinking about converting all images (using imagemagick) to .gif (with an alpha channel). Would there be any loss in quality between formats? EDIT: I tried using imagemagick but some of the sprites use pure black so I can't do that without wrecking the image. EDIT2: using "identify" on any of the images show them as being 8-bit.. but Slick2D won't load them. What the hell? D: EDIT3: Issue solved (ish). If you are googling this then just disable the java png loader from slick by sticking this somewhere in your code (like the main method): System.setProperty("org.newdawn.slick.pngloader", "false");

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• Can you use programming for a greater good? [closed]

  - by jdoig

  What are the paths one could take to use their programming skills to benefit mankind (good causes, scientific or medical advancement, etc)? Problem: I dropped out of school, learnt programming, on my own, from text books and the internet. I have 7+ years of commercial experience from web applications to big data to mobile apps. But all I seem to do is make rich people richer with the vain hope that one day I'll be the guy with the good idea using other people to make myself richer. I googled for simular posts on the subject and saw a lot of people saying... "Just do your 9-5 job and donate a lot to charity"... I'm sorry to sound selfish but thats not what makes me tick; I need to be invested in and excited about the project at hand; it's not only got to be for a greater good but it's got to kick arse and feel good doing it too... Does that kind of job exist? Does it involve programming? What other skills do I need? (Apologies if this question is too 'fluffy' or 'wishy-washy', but if it is a pointer to where else I could ask it would be appreciated)

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• How could there still not be a mysqldb module for Python 3? [closed]

  - by itsadok

  This SO question is now more than two years old. MySQL is an incredibly popular database engine, Python is an incredibly popular programming language, and Python 3 has been officially released two years ago, and was available even before that. What's more, the whole mysqldb module is just a layer translating Python's db-api to MySQL's API. It's not that big of a library. I must be missing something here. How come almost* nobody in the entire open source community has spent the (I'm guessing) two weeks it takes to port this lib? Is Python 3 that unpopular? Is the combination of python and mysql not as common as I assume? Or maybe it's just a lot harder to port mysqldb than I assume? Anyone know the inside story on this? * Now I see that this guy has done it, which takes some of the wind out of my question, but it still seems to little and too late to make sense. EDIT: OK, I'm aware that the stock answers for these kind of questions cover this one as well. Patches welcome, scratch your itch, we don't work for you and we don't have the time, etc. I actually took a shot at porting this about a year ago, but it was my first time doing anything with Python C extensions, and I failed. My point in writing this was not a plea for somebody to write it, but genuine curiosity: it seems that some much more complicated libraries have been ported to python 3 already, and in the poll for which libraries should be ported, mysqldb is not even nominated! That suggests that maybe (2) is the right answer. UPDATE: I found that there are several new libraries that provide mysql support under Python 3, I just wasn't googling hard enough. That explains everything.

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• Work @ Java shop. Tasked to redo intranet. I only know PHP - CTO says use that; Ops Says no - we have JSP, use that - Thoughts?

  - by Mackysback

  So I work as a project manager and was given the opportunity to redo the intranet and Internet site... I'd love to , great addition to my resume. However.... I am not familiar with java nor JSP... I am fairly proficient with PHP and MySQL ... Also my intention was to use a CMS that I have experience with, wordpress, drupal or joomla... The site would be very simple so I was thinking wordpress would be fine for this. I told management that I would need it to run on PHP and they gave me their blessing... Now the disconnect bw it and management ... I spoke with ops and they told me that we have java and JSP for that purpose although the IT guy did say "oh but I do know that php and mysql are gaining popularity" That said ... I do not understand much as far as systems architecture... We do self host and run websphere with IIS and jboss with tomcat. Any advice or suggestions? Thanks ! Is my request that unfeasible?

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• What is the/Is there a right way to tell management that our code sucks?

  - by Azkar

  Our code is bad. It might not have always been considered bad, but it is bad and is only going downhill. I started fresh out of college less than a year ago, and many of the things in our code puzzle me beyond belief. At first I figured that as the new guy I should keep my mouth shut until I learned a little more about our code base, but I've seen plenty to know that it's bad. Some of the highlights: We still use frames (try getting something out of a querystring, almost impossible) VBScript Source Safe We 'use' .NET - by that I mean we have .net wrappers that call COM DLLs making it almost impossible to debug easily Everything is basically one giant function Code is not maintainable. Each page has multiple files that are created every time a new page is made. The main page basically does Response.Write() a bunch of times to render the HTML (runat="server"? no way). After that there can be a lot of logic on the client side (VBScript), and finally the page submits to itself (often time storing many things in hidden fields) where it then posts to a processing page which can do things such as save the data to the database. The specifications we get are laughable. Often times they call for things like "auto-populate field X with either field Y or field Z" with no indication of when to choose field Y or field Z. I'm sure some of this is a result of not being employed at a software company, but I feel as if people writing software should at least care about the quality of their code. I can't even imagine that if I were to bring something up that anything would be done soon, as there is a large deadline looming, but we are continuing to write bad code and use bad practices. What can I do? How do I even bring these issues up? 75% of my team agree with me and have brought up these issues in the past, yet nothing gets changed.

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• Bikeshedding: Placeholders in strings

  - by dotancohen

  I find that I sometimes use placeholders in strings, like this: $ cat example-apache <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName ##DOMAIN_NAME## ServerAlias www.##DOMAIN_NAME## DocumentRoot /var/www/##DOMAIN_NAME##/public_html </VirtualHost> Now I am sure that it is a minor issue if the placeholder is ##DOMAIN_NAME##, !!DOMAIN_NAME!!, {{DOMAIN_NAME}}, or some other variant. However, I now need to standardize with other developers on a project, and we all have a vested interest in having our own placeholder format made standard in the organization. Are there any good reasons for choosing any of these, or others? I am trying to quantify these considerations: Aesthetics and usability. For example, __dict__ may be hard to read as we don't know how many underscores are in there. Compatibility. Will some language try to do something funny with {} syntax in a string (such as PHP does with "Welcome to {$siteName} today!")? Actually, I know that PHP and Python won't, but others? Will a C++ preprocessor choke on ## format? If I need to store the value in some SQL engine, will it not consider something a comment? Any other pitfalls to be wary of? Maintainability. Will the new guy mistake ##SOME_PLACEHOLDER## as a language construct? The unknown. Surely the wise folk here will think of other aspects of this decision that I have not thought of. I might be bikeshedding this, but if there are real issues that might be lurking then I would certainly like to know about them before mandating that our developers adhere to a potentially-problematic convention.

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• Placeholders in strings

  - by dotancohen

  I find that I sometimes use placeholders in strings, like this: $ cat example-apache <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName ##DOMAIN_NAME## ServerAlias www.##DOMAIN_NAME## DocumentRoot /var/www/##DOMAIN_NAME##/public_html </VirtualHost> Now I am sure that it is a minor issue if the placeholder is ##DOMAIN_NAME##, !!DOMAIN_NAME!!, {{DOMAIN_NAME}}, or some other variant. However, I now need to standardize with other developers on a project, and we all have a vested interest in having our own placeholder format made standard in the organization. Are there any good reasons for choosing any of these, or others? I am trying to quantify these considerations: Aesthetics and usability. For example, __dict__ may be hard to read as we don't know how many underscores are in there. Compatibility. Will some language try to do something funny with {} syntax in a string (such as PHP does with "Welcome to {$siteName} today!")? Actually, I know that PHP and Python won't, but others? Will a C++ preprocessor choke on ## format? If I need to store the value in some SQL engine, will it not consider something a comment? Any other pitfalls to be wary of? Maintainability. Will the new guy mistake ##SOME_PLACEHOLDER## as a language construct? The unknown. Surely the wise folk here will think of other aspects of this decision that I have not thought of. I might be bikeshedding this, but if there are real issues that might be lurking then I would certainly like to know about them before mandating that our developers adhere to a potentially-problematic convention.

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• How to dual boot Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows XP sp3 on Dell Dimension 8250 desktop using 2 hard drives

  - by user106055

  I'd like instructions to dual boot Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows XP (sp3) on my desktop Dell Dimension 8250 (this is old and has 1.5 GB RAM which is maximum). I will be using 2 hard drives. Windows XP is already on a 120 GB drive and and Ubuntu 12.10 will go on a separate 80 GB hard drive. Both drives are IDE using a 80 conductor cable where the 40 pin blue connector connects to the motherboard. The middle connector is gray and is "normally" used for slave (device 1) and the black connector at the very end of the cable is meant for the master drive (device 0) or a single drive if only one is used. First, I do not wish the XP drive to have its boot modified by Ubuntu in any way. It should remain untouched...virgin. Let me know where the XP drive and the Ubuntu drive should be connected based upon the cable I've mentioned above, as well as jumper settings for both during the whole process. I'm just guessing, but should I remove the XP drive and put the empty Ubuntu drive in its place and install Ubuntu? By the way, I already have made the DVD ISO disk. For your information, the BIOS for this machine is version A03. When I tap F12 to get to the boot menu, I have the following choices: Normal (this will take me to a black screen with white type giving me the choice to boot to XP or to my external USB backup recovery drive) Diskette Drive Hard-Disk Drive c: IDE CD-ROM Drive (Note that if the CD Drive is empty, it will then go to the DVD drive) System Setup IDE Drive Diagnostics Boot to Utility Partition (This is Dell's various testing utilities) Thank you in advance for your help. Guy

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• Matching users based on a series of questions

  - by SeanWM

  I'm trying to figure out a way to match users based on specific personality traits. Each trait will have its own category. I figure in my user table I'll add a column for each category: id name cat1 cat2 cat3 1 Sean ? ? ? 2 Other ? ? ? Let's say I ask each user 3 questions in each category. For each question, you can answer one of the following: No, Maybe, Yes How would I calculate one number based off the answers in those 3 questions that would hold a value I can compare other users to? I was thinking having some sort of weight. Like: No -> 0 Maybe -> 1 Yes -> 2 Then doing some sort of meaningful calculation. I want to end up with something like this so I can query the users and find who matches close: id name cat1 cat2 cat3 1 Sean 4 5 1 2 Other 1 2 5 In the situation above, the users don't really match. I'd want to match with someone with a +1 or -1 of my score in each category. I'm not a math guy so I'm just looking for some ideas to get me started.

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• What's the best way to handle numerous recurring log entries in game loop?

  - by Kaa

  I have a custom logging system, use of which is scattered all over the engine and game. The system is linked to a "LogStore" that has an std::vector<string> logs[NUM_LOG_TYPES] - each vector corresponds with it's log type (info, error, debug, etc.). There's one extra std::vector that has "coordinates" to all log entries in the order they were received. Now, all the logging output is also displayed inside my development console in the game. The game console is handled by HTML-type GUI and therefore requires a new <p> element being added for each log output. My problem is that the log entries that are generated in the main loop each frame freeze the engine, because they continue to add elements to the in-game console, and if the console or guy generates a warning - that creates an infinite logging loop. I want to solve it by handling the recurring log entries in an elegant way that lets you know that something is critically wrong, but won't freeze the engine - like displaying the count of errors in the last 60 frames instead of displaying errors themselves. But how do you guys handle this? Does anyone know any nifty tricks to do this? I understand the question may sound vague, but if someone came across this type of issue I'm sure they would know exactly what's happening. Example problematic log entries: OpenGL warnings (I actually do check for errors every frame in many places) Really any prints anywhere in the main loop (may be debugging, may be warnings)

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• Game Development

  - by Sundareswaran Senthilvel

  I'm planning to write a game from scratch (a BIG Game, for commercial purpose). I'm aware that there are certain compute libraries like OpenCL, AMD APP SDK, C++ AMP as well as DirectCompute - both from MS (NOT interested in CUDA) are available in the market. I'm planning to write the game from the scratch, which includes the following engines... 1.Physics Engine 2.AI Engine 3.Main Game Engine (... and if anything is missed). I'm aware that, there are some free physics engine libraries in the market. Not sure about free AI engine libraries. I'm bit confused in choosing between the OpenCL, AMD APP SDK, and C++ AMP libraries (as already mentioned i'm NOT interested in CUDA). I want my game to be published in Windows/Android/Mac OSX. It means it should be a cross-platform game. I will be having "one source code" that i'll compile for various platforms like Windows/Android/Mac OSX, and any others if i missed. Note: Since I'm NOT a Java guy, kindly do NOT suggest me the Java Language. For Graphics language should i use OpenGL or DirectX 11? I have heard that OpenGL runs on a single core, and not sure of DirectX 11. Between OpenGL and DirectX which one should i follow? or else, are there any other graphics language that i need to start with? I want to make use of the parallelism in GPU as well as CPU.

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• Problem with understanding how to start

  - by Coolface

  Okay, this might be a little off-topic but i try anyway. Sorry to bother. So i'm working as sysadmin for at least 5 years now and i quite enjoy IT field in general. Somehow i was never interested in programming much but always want to learn something at least easy and for personal usage. As sysadmin i need scripting skills so learn shell scripting without much problems, i also try to learn pascal, delphi, basic over time and must recent was python. Well, my problem is when i try to learn programming i just can't apply what i learn from the books to the real word. What i mean is i understand there are data structures, algorithms, variables, lib's, if-then logic, etc. but i just can't understand how to apply this things when i want to do real things. Like i want to get a something simple as parse web page, i draw a quick algorithm like get a web page, find a word on it and write a to file, on the paper everything look simple but when i get to the coding i just stuck pretty much from the start. I try read code of the real programs that just totally confusing especially big parts with many classes so i'm just quickly lost a trail what this code do. I think i just lack some fundamentals to see a big picture but don't really know what this might be? Or maybe i just don't have a passion to programming at all... My best bet was a shell scripting so i have really no problems to write complex scripts but this just not enough. Recently i was read around 5 or 6 python books because everyone say it's so easy even kid can code something but still no much luck, python is good and easy but i can't make something harder then a prodecurial style code like in bash for easy things but when i want harder things i'm still stuck. In college i was also not a math and tech guy and like to study non-tech stuff mostly like economy, psychology maybe that my problem? Anyway any advice would be greatly appriciated.

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• Secondment promotion promises

  - by user75460

  I'm a Java developer at a large FTSE 30 company. My line manager approached me and asked if I'd like to be the teams lead developer. I was keen to accept. Initially he said I'd be acting-up for 3 months, then changed his tune and said I would be doing a 6 month secondment. During this time, he has got himself promoted and I have a new line manager. I have been very successful during this secondment and reviews have been overwhelmingly positive: both from my former line manager and current line manager. However, six months on, no lead role has been created in the organization and a new director has re-organised the structure of the team: two senior roles (senior Android and senior iOS) are going to be created. I feel a bit put-out that my secondment has amounted to nothing. I could have just done nothing and then applied for the senior role 6 months later (which I feel aren't as marketable as Lead developer). During my secondment I have basically become TA, senior developer, line manager and general go-to guy for all things (across Android and iOS). What do you think I should do, and has my company abused it's position? I feel they have offered a secondment to a role that they never really planned to create. During this time I have received no financial benefit for doing a more senior role.

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• Java single Array best choice for accessing pixels for manipulation?

  - by Petrol

  I am just watching this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwUnMy_pR6A and the guy (who seems to be pretty competent) is using a single array to store and access the pixels of his to-be-rendered image. I was wondering if this really is the best way to do this. The alternative of Multi-Array does have one pointer more, but Arrays do have an O(1) for accessing each index and calculating the index in a single array seems to take one addition and one multiplication operation per pixel. And if Multi-Arrays really are bad, can't you use something with Hashing to avoid those addition and multiplication operations? EDIT: here is his code... public class Screen { private int width, height; public int[] pixels; public Screen(int width, int height) { this.width = width; this.height = height; // creating array the size of one index/int for every pixel // single array has better performance than multi-array pixels = new int[width * height]; } public void render() { for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) { for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) { pixels[x + y * width] = 0xff00ff; } } } }

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• Can an Employer turn you down if you have said the fact about current work culture being bad [closed]

  - by MansonRix

  I had recently an interview where I scored good in 1st two round of technical interview . Then in the 3rd round was the managerial round where the guy started about my experience and whether I have vaptured any requirement and handled and trained any teams. This went pretty well for around 50 mins . Then there was the awkward question , Interviewer: why amI looking for a change? Me: coz I want to explore my carrier options? Interviewer: But your current company is big enough and you can explore options over there? (This was supposedly the trap) Me: Apart from that I am missing the flexibilty of working with Us and Europe based company as my current company is not that flexible. Interviewer: What exactly you don't find flexible. Me: The login time . Even if you get late by 1sec you might have to explin. Though this is not a big problem , still I will prefer flexibilty as we are working really hard. Interviewer: Allright ( Then couple of more questions) , Hope to C U Ya , that's pretty much it . Now I called up HR and they say , they are yet to get the feedback from Interviewer. Did I screw it? I mean does some one really have to pretend always by saying positive things about company and manager though not saying negative things?

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• Where is all the memory being consumed?

  - by Mark L

  Hello, I have a Dell R300 Ubuntu 9.10 box with 4GB of memory. All I'm running on there is haproxy, nagios and postfix yet there is ~2.7GB of memory being consumed. I've run ps and I can't get the sums to add up. Could anyone shed any light on where all the memory is being used? Cheers, Mark $ sudo free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3957 2746 1211 0 169 2320 -/+ buffers/cache: 256 3701 Swap: 6212 0 6212 Sorry for pasting all of ps' output but I'm keen to get to the bottom of this. $ sudo ps aux [sudo] password for mark: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 19320 1656 ? Ss May20 0:05 /sbin/init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kthreadd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [migration/0] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:16 [ksoftirqd/0] root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [watchdog/0] root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:03 [migration/1] root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 3:10 [ksoftirqd/1] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [watchdog/1] root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [migration/2] root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:19 [ksoftirqd/2] root 11 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [watchdog/2] root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:01 [migration/3] root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:41 [ksoftirqd/3] root 14 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [watchdog/3] root 15 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:03 [events/0] root 16 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:10 [events/1] root 17 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:08 [events/2] root 18 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:08 [events/3] root 19 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [cpuset] root 20 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [khelper] root 21 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [netns] root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [async/mgr] root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kintegrityd/0] root 24 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kintegrityd/1] root 25 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kintegrityd/2] root 26 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kintegrityd/3] root 27 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kblockd/0] root 28 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:01 [kblockd/1] root 29 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:04 [kblockd/2] root 30 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:02 [kblockd/3] root 31 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kacpid] root 32 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kacpi_notify] root 33 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kacpi_hotplug] root 34 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [ata/0] root 35 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [ata/1] root 36 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [ata/2] root 37 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [ata/3] root 38 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [ata_aux] root 39 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [ksuspend_usbd] root 40 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [khubd] root 41 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kseriod] root 42 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kmmcd] root 43 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [bluetooth] root 44 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S May20 0:00 [khungtaskd] root 45 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S May20 0:00 [pdflush] root 46 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S May20 0:09 [pdflush] root 47 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kswapd0] root 48 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [aio/0] root 49 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [aio/1] root 50 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [aio/2] root 51 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [aio/3] root 52 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [ecryptfs-kthrea] root 53 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [crypto/0] root 54 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [crypto/1] root 55 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [crypto/2] root 56 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [crypto/3] root 70 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [scsi_eh_0] root 71 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [scsi_eh_1] root 74 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [scsi_eh_2] root 75 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [scsi_eh_3] root 82 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kstriped] root 83 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kmpathd/0] root 84 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kmpathd/1] root 85 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kmpathd/2] root 86 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kmpathd/3] root 87 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kmpath_handlerd] root 88 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [ksnapd] root 89 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kondemand/0] root 90 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kondemand/1] root 91 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kondemand/2] root 92 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kondemand/3] root 93 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kconservative/0] root 94 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kconservative/1] root 95 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kconservative/2] root 96 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kconservative/3] root 97 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [krfcommd] root 315 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:09 [mpt_poll_0] root 317 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [mpt/0] root 547 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [scsi_eh_4] root 587 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:11 [kjournald2] root 636 0.0 0.0 12748 860 ? S May20 0:00 upstart-udev-bridge --daemon root 657 0.0 0.0 17064 924 ? S<s May20 0:00 udevd --daemon root 666 0.0 0.0 8192 612 ? Ss May20 0:00 dd bs=1 if=/proc/kmsg of=/var/run/rsyslog/kmsg root 774 0.0 0.0 17060 888 ? S< May20 0:00 udevd --daemon root 775 0.0 0.0 17060 888 ? S< May20 0:00 udevd --daemon syslog 825 0.0 0.0 191696 1988 ? Sl May20 0:31 rsyslogd -c4 root 839 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [edac-poller] root 870 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< May20 0:00 [kpsmoused] root 1006 0.0 0.0 5988 604 tty4 Ss+ May20 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty4 root 1008 0.0 0.0 5988 604 tty5 Ss+ May20 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty5 root 1015 0.0 0.0 5988 604 tty2 Ss+ May20 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty2 root 1016 0.0 0.0 5988 608 tty3 Ss+ May20 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty3 root 1018 0.0 0.0 5988 604 tty6 Ss+ May20 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty6 daemon 1025 0.0 0.0 16512 472 ? Ss May20 0:00 atd root 1026 0.0 0.0 18708 1000 ? Ss May20 0:03 cron root 1052 0.0 0.0 49072 1252 ? Ss May20 0:25 /usr/sbin/sshd root 1084 0.0 0.0 5988 604 tty1 Ss+ May20 0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1 root 6320 0.0 0.0 19440 956 ? Ss May21 0:00 /usr/sbin/xinetd -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid -stayalive -inetd_compat -inetd_ipv6 nagios 8197 0.0 0.0 27452 1696 ? SNs May21 2:57 /usr/sbin/nagios3 -d /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg root 10882 0.1 0.0 70280 3104 ? Ss 10:30 0:00 sshd: mark [priv] mark 10934 0.0 0.0 70432 1776 ? S 10:30 0:00 sshd: mark@pts/0 mark 10935 1.4 0.1 21572 4336 pts/0 Ss 10:30 0:00 -bash root 10953 1.0 0.0 15164 1136 pts/0 R+ 10:30 0:00 ps aux haproxy 12738 0.0 0.0 17208 992 ? Ss Jun08 0:49 /usr/sbin/haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg root 23953 0.0 0.0 37012 2192 ? Ss Jun04 0:03 /usr/lib/postfix/master postfix 23955 0.0 0.0 39232 2356 ? S Jun04 0:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u postfix 32603 0.0 0.0 39072 2132 ? S 09:05 0:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u -c Here's meminfo: $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 4052852 kB MemFree: 1240488 kB Buffers: 173172 kB Cached: 2376420 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 1479288 kB Inactive: 1081876 kB Active(anon): 11792 kB Inactive(anon): 0 kB Active(file): 1467496 kB Inactive(file): 1081876 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 6361700 kB SwapFree: 6361700 kB Dirty: 44 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 11568 kB Mapped: 5844 kB Slab: 155032 kB SReclaimable: 145804 kB SUnreclaim: 9228 kB PageTables: 1592 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 8388124 kB Committed_AS: 51732 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 282604 kB VmallocChunk: 34359453499 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB DirectMap4k: 6784 kB DirectMap2M: 4182016 kB Here's slabinfo: $ cat /proc/slabinfo slabinfo - version: 2.1 # name <active_objs> <num_objs> <objsize> <objperslab> <pagesperslab> : tunables <limit> <batchcount> <sharedfactor> : slabdata <active_slabs> <num_slabs> <sharedavail> ip6_dst_cache 50 50 320 25 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 2 2 0 UDPLITEv6 0 0 960 17 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 UDPv6 68 68 960 17 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 tw_sock_TCPv6 0 0 320 25 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 TCPv6 72 72 1792 18 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 dm_raid1_read_record 0 0 1064 30 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 kcopyd_job 0 0 368 22 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 dm_uevent 0 0 2608 12 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 dm_rq_target_io 0 0 376 21 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 uhci_urb_priv 0 0 56 73 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 cfq_queue 0 0 168 24 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 mqueue_inode_cache 18 18 896 18 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1 1 0 fuse_request 0 0 632 25 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 fuse_inode 0 0 768 21 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 ecryptfs_inode_cache 0 0 1024 16 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 hugetlbfs_inode_cache 26 26 608 26 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1 1 0 journal_handle 680 680 24 170 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 journal_head 144 144 112 36 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 revoke_table 256 256 16 256 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1 1 0 revoke_record 512 512 32 128 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 ext4_inode_cache 53306 53424 888 18 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 2968 2968 0 ext4_free_block_extents 292 292 56 73 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 ext4_alloc_context 112 112 144 28 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 ext4_prealloc_space 156 156 104 39 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 ext4_system_zone 0 0 40 102 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 ext2_inode_cache 0 0 776 21 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 ext3_inode_cache 0 0 784 20 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 ext3_xattr 0 0 88 46 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 dquot 0 0 256 16 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 shmem_inode_cache 606 620 800 20 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 31 31 0 pid_namespace 0 0 2112 15 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 UDP-Lite 0 0 832 19 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 RAW 183 210 768 21 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 10 10 0 UDP 76 76 832 19 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 tw_sock_TCP 80 80 256 16 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 5 5 0 TCP 81 114 1664 19 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 6 6 0 blkdev_integrity 144 144 112 36 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 blkdev_queue 64 64 2024 16 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 blkdev_requests 120 120 336 24 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 5 5 0 fsnotify_event 156 156 104 39 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 bip-256 7 7 4224 7 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1 1 0 bip-128 0 0 2176 15 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 bip-64 0 0 1152 28 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 bip-16 84 84 384 21 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 sock_inode_cache 224 276 704 23 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 12 12 0 file_lock_cache 88 88 184 22 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 net_namespace 0 0 1920 17 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0 Acpi-ParseExt 640 672 72 56 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 12 12 0 taskstats 48 48 328 24 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 2 2 0 proc_inode_cache 1613 1750 640 25 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 70 70 0 sigqueue 100 100 160 25 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 radix_tree_node 22443 22475 560 29 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 775 775 0 bdev_cache 72 72 896 18 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 4 4 0 sysfs_dir_cache 9866 9894 80 51 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 194 194 0 inode_cache 2268 2268 592 27 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 84 84 0 dentry 285907 286062 192 21 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 13622 13622 0 buffer_head 256447 257472 112 36 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 7152 7152 0 vm_area_struct 1469 1541 176 23 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 67 67 0 mm_struct 82 95 832 19 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 5 5 0 files_cache 104 161 704 23 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 7 7 0 signal_cache 163 187 960 17 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 11 11 0 sighand_cache 145 165 2112 15 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 11 11 0 task_xstate 118 140 576 28 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 5 5 0 task_struct 128 165 5808 5 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 33 33 0 anon_vma 731 896 32 128 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 7 7 0 shared_policy_node 85 85 48 85 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1 1 0 numa_policy 170 170 24 170 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 1 1 0 idr_layer_cache 240 240 544 30 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 8 8 0 kmalloc-8192 27 32 8192 4 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 8 8 0 kmalloc-4096 291 344 4096 8 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 43 43 0 kmalloc-2048 225 240 2048 16 8 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 15 15 0 kmalloc-1024 366 432 1024 16 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 27 27 0 kmalloc-512 536 544 512 16 2 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 34 34 0 kmalloc-256 406 528 256 16 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 33 33 0 kmalloc-128 503 576 128 32 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 18 18 0 kmalloc-64 3467 3712 64 64 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 58 58 0 kmalloc-32 1520 1920 32 128 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 15 15 0 kmalloc-16 3547 3840 16 256 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 15 15 0 kmalloc-8 4607 4608 8 512 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 9 9 0 kmalloc-192 4620 5313 192 21 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 253 253 0 kmalloc-96 1780 1848 96 42 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 44 44 0 kmem_cache_node 0 0 64 64 1 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 0 0 0

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