Japanese addresses are also unusual in that they generally don't involve streets (or street numbering) at all but are instead based around city districts and blocks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_addressing_system

Korean addresses are similar, but they're slowly transitioning to an American-style addressing system that uses street numbers and street names.

I guess the district-based addressing system made a lot of sense back when people just built houses in random locations around the town center.

I (and it seems a lot of others) will be sad to see reader go.

I presume this death announcement doesn't meet the criteria for a HN black banner though.

If you look more closely, you will also see that his memcopy dereferences a void * (and performs some pointer arithmetic as well). Apologies for my inner pedant getting the better of me.

Michael Arrington's response: http://uncrunched.com/2012/02/13/we-are-better-than-this/

MG's here: http://parislemon.com/post/17587323277/bat-shit-crazy

The Extreme Tech guys do actually credit and link to the GOTW article in the caption of the first graphic. So they got that right.

The graphic itself grates on me. Firstly, it is wildly out of date for a current article (no data for 2010 onwards and the last data point on perf/clock series being from ~2007). Secondly, using ILP as a measure of perf/clock seems quite off (the latency of various instructions do change quite a bit between generations)