Leslie Lamport is hilarious (and also a genius). If you're ever bored and want to try to decipher how to implement PAXOS based on a prose description of Greek s

Leslie Lamport is hilarious (and also a genius). If you're ever bored and want to try to decipher how to implement PAXOS based on a prose description of Greek society, check his original PAXOS paper, "The Part-Time Parliament": http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#lamport-paxos http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#l...