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by bboreham 7y ago
I believe this is a TCP principle not a Unix principle. Aka Postel’s law.
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by bboreham 7y ago
And refrigerators?
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by bboreham 7y ago
Surely it was an _attempt_ at all these things, it just didn’t work out. For instance, I remember controversy that new Windows APIs would only be accessible via .Net.
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by bboreham 7y ago
Interesting that the author makes no mention of CLR, Microsoft’s attempt at the same thing which has been around for 20 years.
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by bboreham 7y ago
I believe Docker stopped doing that a couple of years back. Or it sets the default on the forward chain to drop.
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by bboreham 7y ago
There’s a book: “The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines” (free to download). https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00874ED3V01Y...
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by bboreham 7y ago
Go’s built-in ‘map’ is very good. But “high performance” is not a single dimension - if you say a bit more about what you care about, maybe another choice would fit.
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by bboreham 7y ago
Containers are fantastic at isolating one software application from another. All their dependencies - runtime, library, packages - live in separate chrooted filesystems. User-to-user isolation is hard, and extremely hard if any of the users
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by bboreham 7y ago
A recreation of Colossus, the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer.
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by bboreham 7y ago
Brooks famously showed up to correct himself: the book advocates against information hiding but he later changed his mind and said encapsulation was a good thing.
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by bboreham 7y ago
> probably some other costs Lawyers.
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by bboreham 7y ago
> likely makes certain assumptions about how runc sets up containers Nope. CNI takes as parameters a “container ID” (any string) and a network namespace path. No knowledge is needed or implied about how those things fit with actual cont
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by bboreham 7y ago
> given CNI which touches some deep bits of runc's particular behaviour Could you explain? I’m a maintainer of CNI and I know almost nothing about runc, so I’m not clear where they touch. The first CNI implementation came out of rk
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by bboreham 7y ago
You may like this take (rant?) which describes further loans from US to UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/marshall_01.sht...
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by bboreham 7y ago
“The largest recipient of Marshall Plan money was the United Kingdom (receiving about 26% of the total), followed by France (18%) and West Germany (11%).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
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by bboreham 7y ago
This is a piece in Bloomberg, it’s written for people who work in the banks and money managers, so naturally they are interested it’s a slow period, jobs will be cut. There is a vast amount of technology involved, but someone sets the strat
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by bboreham 7y ago
I think you might be a bit focused on the equity market there. In fx and interest rates markets there is no “public liquidity”, everything is bilateral.
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by bboreham 7y ago
2FA will be required across the EU in September (outside of some exemptions, eg a charge under €30) https://www.barclaycard.co.uk/business/news-and-insights/wha...
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by bboreham 7y ago
It means taking a set of packets sent to one address and spreading them across multiple servers to share out the load.
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by bboreham 7y ago
Microsoft have also been researching this area for >15 years. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/eye-gaze-co...
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by bboreham 7y ago
Example: the Lempel-Ziv-Welsh algorithm, used in gif files, was patented by Unisys.
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by bboreham 7y ago
This page lists "Go™ programming language" as owned by Google: https://www.google.com/permissions/trademark/trademark-list/ (Also there is discussion of this point in comments to TFA)
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by bboreham 7y ago
I have news for you: ‘dep’ was abruptly demolished by ‘go mod’ about a year ago.
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by bboreham 7y ago
If I forked a repo it’s because I was making a PR to fix something. It says nothing about whether I’m still depending on that code.
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by bboreham 7y ago
I always want to know what the debugging experience is with any new language. Being side-effect free is cool and all but if I can’t actually figure out why it did A and not B then I’m going to get frustrated.
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by bboreham 8y ago
Parent was comparing against a tarball, not a snapshotting filesystem.
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by bboreham 8y ago
Layers?
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by bboreham 8y ago
My conclusion, from the first time I thought about it, is that they were all cheating. Engineers move job; they talk to each other. Every car company had to have people who knew the truth and, if they were being unfairly competed against, c
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by bboreham 8y ago
This is broadly how Intel memory segments were supposed to work. The 8086 did not check bounds, so nobody bothered using them, and when the 80286 came out that could check, everybody disabled that feature and used it as a faster 8086. Proba
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by bboreham 8y ago
Consider the context: parent is talking about how easy the problem is to solve in an interview. Coding interviews serve to check _how_ a candidate goes about solving a problem - if they submit without checking the solution meets the spec, o

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