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This kinda reminds me of the opening scenes of Silicon Valley. Just imagine someone getting up on stage and yelling enthusiastically, "Simpler, faster, and bet
by kethinov 12y ago
This kinda reminds me of the opening scenes of Silicon Valley.
Just imagine someone getting up on stage and yelling enthusiastically, "Simpler, faster, and better relaxed concurrent priority queues!" To a round of muted applause.
I'm sure this submission has tons of technical merit and all that. But without context, that scene from Silicon Valley is all I can really think of. :)
- moab 12y agoThe context is the paper. Please try not to read a title and post an inane response.
- kethinov 12y agoContext should be established by headlines on news sites like Hackers News. I know we're a technical audience, but I'd be willing to wager more than half of this site's audience has no clue what that title is talking about. Prefixing it with something like "A faster algorithm for [purpose]" is helpful. Otherwise it can just sound like technobabble. I don't think it's inane to point out that jargon sounds jargony to those not in the know.
- vegedor 12y agoProbably, the whole paper is written in that terse tone. If the title doesn't appeal to the reader, reading on wouldn't make sense anyway. I.e., I can tell from the title that I'd be better of returning to the other book on data structures. I'll download it for later(tm).
- nardi 12y agoPriority queues are an incredibly important concurrency primitive. This is very important work. If you weren't expecting to find detailed technical articles, you might be on the wrong website.