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by bboreham 12y ago
Just to correct your last point, UK 30-year gilts are currently trading around 2.6% yield, so perpetual bonds should pay at least that. And indeed, according to this page, they pay around 3.7%. They don't seeem to trade very often. h
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by bboreham 12y ago
"up to".
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by bboreham 12y ago
What's the performance like? That was always the downside of Clearccase - all the indirecting slugged the machine.
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by bboreham 12y ago
IBM's announcement: https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/2014/12/04/ibm-containers-...
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IBM strikes Docker deal and rolls out its own Containers beta(zdnet.com)
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by bboreham 12y ago
LXD is another competitor to Docker, as I understand it, so it will participate in the fight, for sure.
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by bboreham 12y ago
Another interesting case: suppose you have a contiguous array of objects that are 48 bytes big, and your cache line is 64 bytes. Then every second object will straddle two cache lines. For random access to any one such object, padding them
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by bboreham 12y ago
Cache misses are independent of language; however C++ gives you a lot of control over where items are placed in memory. To create a cache miss in one processor all you need to force the processor to look at M different memory addresses that
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by bboreham 12y ago
The "Abridged Q Language Manual" gives a flavour http://www.kx.com/q/d/q.htm Even the URL is terse. The attitude is "this is so obvious, I don't know why I'm even telling you". And if
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by bboreham 12y ago
Very much this. It's a bad idea to measure UDP reliability on a quiet day and then make decisions based on those results. On a different day, everything will be happening at once - everyone trying to message their Mom, everyone trying
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by bboreham 12y ago
Rudder has a central configuration (via etcd); Weave communicates network changes across all nodes by itself - as long as each new node knows how to contact at least one other node, it will learn of all other nodes and connect to as many as
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by bboreham 12y ago
Ok, thanks. Maybe list some of those on your web page or GitHub readme?
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by bboreham 12y ago
It looks like Kitematic uses VirtualBox, a VM. Aside from the GUI, how does it differ from Boot2Docker, which is what the Docker web site tells you to use on a Mac?