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by gluczywo 11y ago
> "Libmill is intended for writing single-threaded applications." You can do concurrency on a single thread. This is the message I find it hard to get across when explaining CSP concurrency libraries. Some people argue about us
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by gluczywo 11y ago
"There's a good an bad side to modules: Good: Provides a unit of compilation, a unit of code distribution. unit of code replacement" I think that Joe ignores the major rationale for modularization. Modules provide the way t
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by gluczywo 11y ago
What I meant is not incompatibility of basic types across languages but the tendency to create named classes where they are not needed. For example the OOP tells us to create UserList.java instead of using List<User> because it allows
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by gluczywo 11y ago
The prerequisite for such a way of programming is to use plain universal interchangeable data structures. It does not seem possible in mainstream languages where the OOP dogma tells you to obfuscate your sets, lists and maps and turn them i
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by gluczywo 11y ago
I didn't believe I'd see the day when a larger Tcl project reaches HN front page. This looks really exciting and ambitious. John Ousterhout mentioned in one of the interviews that he regrets he didn't manage to produce the
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by gluczywo 12y ago
So we should have had this discussion in 2006... I'm wondering if this is a failure of journalism or a failure of democracy.
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by gluczywo 12y ago
I think that the idea of software bugs (vulnerabilities) as a product is a scary concept and a bad precedent for overall security That was my first impression as well however, after giving it some thought I wish there are more vulnerabili
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Measuring IPv6 Adoption [pdf](icir.org)
7 points by gluczywo 12y ago|0 comments
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by gluczywo 12y ago
Separating the library does not remove dependency because library version change affects both primary components so the change requires coordination. This is really fundamental in large systems and I was hit by it many times. Copy & pas
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by gluczywo 12y ago
On the other hand I learned not to be too dogmatic about DRY because it becomes costly especially in distributed systems where additional dependencies introduced for reusability sake complicate build process and deployment. Sometimes it&#x2
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by gluczywo 12y ago
This is excellent idea. While I try to avoid unnecessary abstractions (yes, I'm looking at you docker), having a consistent cross-platform and familiar API for OS instrumentation seems like a big boon. At low complexity cost there is a
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by gluczywo 12y ago
It's good to see the concept was named. Having a name for idea empowers. While the hypothetical defense (in the privacy protection context, not DRM) to close the Analog Hole would be to train human brain to make it consume encrypted st
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by gluczywo 12y ago
"the fundamental reality of encryption (...) is that the person who is using encryption (...) cannot read it either unless the key is put in some point. (...) Even when your phone is encrypted locally, when you are looking at the secre
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by gluczywo 12y ago
Developed this "Remote firewall as a web service. REST API for iptables" https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rfw but later changed the concept to pull the firewall rules instead of pushing them. Still some TODOs i
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by gluczywo 12y ago
Nobody has pointed it out so far. Since it is an attack on IP routing, it could be prevented by using SSL for the Stratum protocol used by mining pools.
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by gluczywo 12y ago
You can use a car packed with explosives triggered by mobile phone to target someone you don't like. It's much easier and more reliable than the short-distance drone. Should we ban cars and mobile phones?
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by gluczywo 12y ago
The ugly "includes hack" seems ridiculous today, but in the 90's such techniques were the only way to compile large C/C++ systems in a reasonable time. Messing with includes and reducing file dependencies while less imp
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Kim Dotcom launches political party(coindesk.com)
1 points by gluczywo 13y ago|0 comments
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by gluczywo 13y ago
>Insert cryptocurrency endorsement here Not likely to happen soon: "The system is not sustainable but it may take decades until it collapses. Having multi billion budget credit card companies can shape legislation to stifle innovati
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by gluczywo 13y ago
who wants to spend a year, say, writing a book when someone decides they can just go ahead and copy it The best books I've read were written by people who weren't financially motivated. Is it just me?
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by gluczywo 13y ago
Agree. I wouldn't treat it as a rule. Normally it's the right thing to start with solving user problem, but I see many successful businesses built on trying to find application to the "new cool stuff". Github is one more example of the comp
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by gluczywo 14y ago
You may want to look at Ricardo's comparative advantage concept in economics to answer this question.
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by gluczywo 14y ago
"In a deflationary economy, holding cash (unproductive) enriches you off the back of the productive economy" It's a common misunderstanding. People confuse money with wealth. Holding cash does not enrich anyone. Money is useless if you c
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by gluczywo 14y ago
Any facts to support these claims? As a counterargument: Deflation can solve number of problems like eliminate the debt spiral, restrain evergrowing unproductive governments, restore the right to have savings for people and protect their fu
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by gluczywo 14y ago
People say that the smart 8th grader used social engineering, but who knows, maybe it was an example of hard core information engineering. He might thought: "The white pages book is only one representation of the algorithm, this informatio
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by gluczywo 14y ago
Positive correlation between GDP and wealth exists but it's hard to find causality. GDP is a misleading terms in economics. Two major components that Gross Domestic Product measures are private consumption and government spending - things b
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by gluczywo 14y ago
It's a good point. Coupons were a pegged currency (with fixed exchange rate to commodity or to other currency). The same wrong assumption that made Bretton Woods failed.
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by gluczywo 14y ago
Note the contradiction: It was diagnosed that the recession of recent years was caused by uncontrolled lending which was possible thanks to issuing money by central banks and keeping low interest rates in this way. At the same time bitcoin
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by gluczywo 14y ago
I wouldn't call it a side-effect but rather history recurrence. When fiat money became popular in 19th century almost each country started to issue its own currency. Issuing money gives real power. While the analogy is not complete because