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Erlang at Work - Using Erlang to write IM network gateways(erlangatwork.com)
13 points by arete 18y ago|4 comments
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by arete 18y ago
Most operating systems have some highly efficient way of handling many open network connections, for example epoll on linux, kqueue on xBSD, event ports on solaris. These are much more efficient than select() with large numbers of open sock
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Otetsudai Networks - Just In Time Work(joi.ito.com)
1 points by arete 19y ago|0 comments
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by arete 19y ago
I rank distributed version control as one of the most significant advancements in software development in the past decade. Why? 1. Ease of branching and merging. Branch as often as you want, merge as often as you want, from as many differen
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by arete 19y ago
"Nature provides clocks that are oblivious to the malicious intentions of any outside parties. In the case of a remote high-energy system such as a pulsar, this means anybody. Pulsars are many orders of magnitude more accurate than random d
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Pulsars are a secure time source(unenumerated.blogspot.com)
9 points by arete 19y ago|2 comments
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by arete 19y ago
Joe Armstrong's thesis "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors" ( http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf ) is a really excellent introduction to Erlang and the ideas behind it. I'd recommen
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by arete 19y ago
Whenever possible I use gnus, primarily for the newsgroup-thread-style UI and editing power of emacs. I also take advantage of its inherent customizability with elisp to handle my different From addresses, conditional BCC, filtering, etc.
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by arete 19y ago
I highly recommend DynDNS for DNS registration and hosting. Their amazing customer service, excellent web interface, and expertise are well worth the higher price.
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by arete 19y ago
I am =)
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by arete 19y ago
I'd recommend a distro designed for server use, like CentOS. You'll find its packages are a little out of date because they are well tested and known to be stable. The default install is hardened and security updates are prompt. Also auto
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by arete 19y ago
Actually, I've found the performance of my Xen VPS much better than a dedicated server at The Planet. Most likely that's because the dedicated server had just one IDE disk and the Xen host has a fast SCSI RAID array. Dedicated hosting get
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by arete 19y ago
I can't recommend ledger, http://newartisans.com/ledger.html highly enough. It is definitely a hacker class tool: command line based with tons of options, transactions stored in simple text files, and very flexible. That said it provide
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by arete 19y ago
I would get a Xen VPS since you get a guaranteed amount of CPU, RAM, disk, and bandwidth as well as full control of the kernel, firewall, software, etc. I've been very happy with http://serveraxis.com as well as http://unixshell.com bu
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by arete 19y ago
Try a Xen VPS, you get full control of your own OS image with no hardware to worry about. Amazon EC2 is Xen-based but you can find much better prices. I recommend serveraxis.com where you can get a VPS with 1GB of RAM and unlimited bandwi