Performance Enhancers
The process of using memory addresses which are located directly next to each other in logical memory rather than random memory to improve memory throughput, which is why vector are vastly superior to linked list.
What is principle of locality / cache locality?
This San Francisco-based firm receiving over $120 million in startup venture capital couldn't make the squeeze when its users discovered that its juice packets could be squeezed just as easily by hand.
What is Juicero?
A visual artifact when the present rate of the renderer does not match the refresh rate of the display, and is typically found by people who are allergic to V-sync.
What is screen tearing?
Once used to fill many ancient family photo albums, there are now efforts to recreate the formula for this well known instant developing flim.
What is Polaroid?
This language is well known for it's required use of significant whitespace and is personally one of my least favorite languages
What is Python?
While this program is known for its car inspired name sounds like it would put a stop to things, its commonly used for benchmarking video encoding.
What is Handbreak?
This company was initially touted as a breakthrough technology company, with claims of having devised blood tests that required only very small amounts blood until it was found out the claims couldn't hold water.
What is Theranos?
DAILY DOUBLE BUFFERED
Cyan
Although it lost the videotape format wars this tape format wins the honor of being a major plot device in the episode of Cowboy Bebop "Speak Like A Child".
What is Betamax?
This language has accidentally won several Esoteric Language competitions only to be discovered that it was not a custom purposefully built bad language but was in fact production code from a mainstream language.
What is Javascript?
This instruction set was the first widely deployed desktop SIMD solution which was developed by Intel for the x86 architecture in 1996. Sadly Intel was short on names that week so its was given a meaningless acronym.
What is MMX?
This company turned out to be full of hot air with its dream of bringing high speed internet to everyone in the world via a large number of balloons floating at the edge of space came crashing down.
What is Loon?
A visual effect where color fringes are added around objects to emulate the fact that different wave lengths of light focus at different points. It is used in modern games to bring in artsy flair by emulating poor photography.
What is chromatic aberration?
This was the first commercial optical disc storage medium that is still commonly found in libraries where librarians swear to this day that it is a superior format despite its huge impractical size.
LaserDisc
This langauge was invented in the early 2000s when its inventor Anders Hejlsberg looked at Java and remarked "Yeah something like that, but better."
What is C#?
A common power-saving technique defines common logic and proves that the best way to save energy is to run as fast and hot as you can so you can get more shut eye.
Race-to-sleep, Race-to-dark, Race-to-idle
While the service raised $1.75 billion from investors and was hailed as the "next TV" the service ended up lasting shorter than some shows when it closed in December 2020 shortly after lunching in April 2020.
What is Quibi?
No you aren't seeing double! This rendering technic used in VR is just a fancier version of magic eye books and strange kid toys.
What is stereoscopic rendering?
Even though its Tom and Jerry coprocessors only executed 32-bit instructions this console claimed to be the worlds first "64-bit console" because you could get away with marketing anything during the 90s.
What is the Atari Jaguar?
This programing language not only produces valid programs but also valid cooking recipes and is famous for it's intro program "Hello World Souffle"
What is Chef?
A strange optimization technique that revolves around the idea of "hey I already did that calculation before" and was solely created to be the bane of programming interviewees.
What is dynamic programming?
Despite grabbing $930M in funding during its 17-year lifespan, this company failed to hold on to significant market share for its line of headsets, fitness trackers, and wireless speakers as its founders fell asleep at the wheel.
What was Jawbone?
This continuous-time Gaussian process used commonly for creating procedural smoke effects has recently taken over as a method for creating infinitely detailed terrain in place of Perlin noise despite the fact that its faster, produces better results, and is 20 years older.
What is Fractal Brownian Motion?
While my father in-law swears it never works, this consumer optical format that was invented before I was born was built to be so robust and easy to use it still sees common use for audio in modern computers and game consoles.
What is S/PDIF?
In this language 93% of paint splatters were found to be valid programs when run though optical character recognition (OCR), proving that programming is indeed an art in at least this language.
What is Perl?