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Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf](lamport.azurewebsites.net)
9 points by btrask 10y ago|1 comments
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Thinking for Programmers, by Leslie Lamport [video](youtube.com)
13 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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by btrask 10y ago
This issue is discussed here, with what I think is a workable solution: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-subresource-integrity/issue...
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The struggle with Rust(ayende.com)
3 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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DRAM latency then and now(gist.github.com)
2 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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Works like the train toilet(everything2.com)
2 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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Things you probably didn’t know about Google BigQuery(medium.com)
1 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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Immunity-aware programming(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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The Ancient Sendmail Capabilities Issue(sites.google.com)
2 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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Versioning in the libvirt library(berrange.com)
2 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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by btrask 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that's why they wanted him stranded there. Letting himself get associated with Russia is one of his few mistakes, although he didn't have many options.
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China brain(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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by btrask 10y ago
> Four-way lights suck and if the cars can talk to each other and are fully autonomous why can’t we get rid of lights. This may sound very chaotic at first but hey, aren’t internet packets moving the same way? "Sorry, your car has b
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Cypherpunk Desert Bus: My Role in the 2016 Zcash Trusted Setup Ceremony(petertodd.org)
2 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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by btrask 10y ago
And if the customers are imposing these ridiculous demands, then they should have some experience servicing vehicles.
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by btrask 10y ago
Rust tightly couples performance and safety. Sandboxing separates out performance and safety, so you can take your pick of languages for performance, and your pick of sandboxes for safety, without conflict.
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by btrask 10y ago
These abstractions are building on top of sand.
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by btrask 10y ago
Turning it around: if the bill changed nothing, why did it need to be repealed?
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by btrask 10y ago
If you look at long-running, successful projects, they don't do this. One example is the original V8 dev team that went off to create Dart (AIUI). Nobody followed them and V8 got replacement developers. (But perhaps that was a particul
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by btrask 10y ago
No, independently these moves are inconsequential. But the trajectory is clear, and reason to worry.
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by btrask 10y ago
Great, we needed something to counter the domestic propaganda that was legalized in 2013: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130715/11210223804/anti-... Oh, it's about foreign propaganda? Never mind...
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by btrask 10y ago
I suspect this article made a lot of people feel stupid, or in other words, it taught us something. Sometimes the ego gets out of check. I think the article is well-presented and educational.
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by btrask 10y ago
I just created a submission for libco, which I think is the best (fastest and most portable) library for coroutines in C. It's great, I wish it got more love. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13199581
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Fast coroutines in C from BSNES(byuu.org)
26 points by btrask 10y ago|2 comments
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by btrask 10y ago
I wrote such a library in C[1] and in practice it's been no problem. Most libraries that do IO provide hooks (for example I made SQLite fully async[2], with no changes to their code). For cases where that isn't possible (or desira
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by btrask 10y ago
Regardless of how valid or important the criticisms you list are (and there are already several replies tearing them apart point-by-point), I want to say I really appreciate hearing about potential pitfalls in new (and yes, hyped) technol
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by btrask 10y ago
I came up with a voting strategy that I call single issue tactical voting. The idea is that you pick what you think is the single most underrated issue, and announce you will either vote for your major candidate, or third party, depending o
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The Challenge of Computer Mathematics [pdf](cs.ru.nl)
7 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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Nicola's Decentralized Research reading list(github.com)
15 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments
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List of longest prison sentences(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by btrask 10y ago|0 comments

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