aviatorspoon

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   by aviatorspoon 5y ago

   Nice article. Tricky bug. Good diagnosis. I enjoy diagnosing concurrency issues and thinking about what principles I could use to avoid similar issues in future. Two principles that are relevant to this example are: 1. Reduce the number of
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   by aviatorspoon 5y ago

   > Lisp guys have nothing to sell you but probably the software they create. And if they have a powerful tool, they are not that interested on you knowing their secret. This level of claim is indistinguishable from fiction.
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   by aviatorspoon 5y ago

   > "... by individuals and small communities" almost invariably means "by experienced developers who want a playground." I acknowledge this. > "Why should an ordinary user care about this?" isn't aske
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   by aviatorspoon 5y ago

   > Although I like the spirit of this idea, I don't know that I could trust it in practice as it will be companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft that own the actual hardware. This is the point that the author makes in the second
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   by aviatorspoon 5y ago

   Great article. I see this trend too: the systems powering the modern world are increasingly featureful, complicated, centralised into a few hands, and this will likely continue. I'm a keen developer and user in this world, and recogniz