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by iambvk 12y ago
Here is my understanding. Please correct me if I am wrong. LATENCY multi-paxos and raft are equal. It takes 4 hops for a consensus. fast-paxos gives two-hop consensus when there is no race, which is the optimal. generalized-paxos gives two-
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by iambvk 12y ago
distributed -> database
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by iambvk 13y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience. I went through the callback-hell problem myself and came to the conclusion that swapcontext is the only way to go. I am starting to begin a large personal project that will be entirely based on swapcontex
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by iambvk 13y ago
IANAL, you can start a startup on H1B if you can prove that you are not sponsoring yourself. The way few people I know did is, by having a board of directors with the power to fire you (maybe through majority vote). You need to list a memb
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by iambvk 13y ago
You are assuming deposits and loans both are done in terms of bitcoins. In theory, we can design a banking system that accepts deposits in bitcoins and gives out loans in the fiat currency.
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by iambvk 13y ago
Didn't see your comment til now. So, here is the difference I see: Full-blown coroutines give us a way to write fully asynchronous code without using callbacks. For example, I could define ASYNC macro as follows: #define ASYNC(blocki
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by iambvk 13y ago
Also, it is more powerful. You can return/resume from arbitrary function depths.
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by iambvk 13y ago
Glad you mentioned this; to me, this is a very important requirement. I don't see lot of people understand the difference between YIELD and full-blown coroutines. IMO YEILD is not very useful; it doesn't compose well with non-yiel
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by iambvk 13y ago
I agree! I found no libraries that give std::bind functionality in C and GCC extensions also doesn't offer any solutions.
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by iambvk 14y ago
I bind C-z as the escape character (in screen). It seems to serve me well :)
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by iambvk 14y ago
Author mentions that her action was probably an over-reaction -- which is where I stopped reading the article.
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by iambvk 14y ago
I find autotools thousand times easier than CMake. Autotools just work. I can always ask it to get the hell out of my way! Doing complex dependencies in CMake is a pain where as with Autmake, I can just go back to Make in the same file.
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by iambvk 14y ago
I still think there is one middle man that is very tough to get rid of: banks or payment gateways, like visa. They still are getting their cut! If bitcoin is going to change that, it is also going to create opportunity!
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by iambvk 14y ago
+1 for Ubuntu Mono. IMO it looks better than Inconsolata.
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by iambvk 14y ago
I think this is the first time Apple posted a non QuickTime video on their site. As a Linux user, it felt different :)
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by iambvk 14y ago
I used to use Inconsolata ever since I came to know about it. But, after the monospaced variant of Ubuntu font is released, I switched away from Inconsolata. It is a great font, but Ubuntu Mono is better looking for my taste.
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by iambvk 14y ago
Linux kernel has lists, etc. that can be used as generic data structures. IMO they are good enough for most purposes.
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by iambvk 14y ago
> What I would like to see is a (convincing) list of why use C++ (in new projects) at all. C is my obvious choice, but... When it comes to deciding between C and C++, C++ beats C in one aspect: templates. For example, quick sort in C++
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by iambvk 15y ago
Yes, I think reddit is not as bad as many think. Given the huge size of reddit community, I guess, reddit has managed to retain a high quality humor and knowledge (eg: r/askscience). Their fu is one of the best source of innovative comics
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by iambvk 16y ago
I too don't have a facebook account and the worst issue with Facebook connect is, its login box steals keyboard focus and completely annoys my browsing experience. I hope he releases this as Firefox extension too.
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by iambvk 16y ago
i am an indian, and i agree completely.
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by iambvk 16y ago
I wonder how much did google give away till now...
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by iambvk 16y ago
Are you suggesting packaging in debian or fedora has some issues? Can you elaborate in one or two lines? Thanks.
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by iambvk 16y ago
to get = symbol, which stands for equality (among people, religion,etc)
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by iambvk 16y ago
Lets hope Apple will step-in and to stand by his civil liberties. I heard they took some moves for the same for Chinese workers :P
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by iambvk 16y ago
It would be very nice, if it can be centered vertically too!
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by iambvk 16y ago
I did not see anywhere that it was stolen , any pointers?
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by iambvk 16y ago
What does DA stand for? Please explain where spirit and ethics that are broken in your opinion. AFAIK, Gizmodo's business is that: gather sources, inform interested people what it can. If we forget letter of law, this is how i see it: (1)
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by iambvk 16y ago
Ethics matter, i agree. Rule of law matters? I am really not sure, it needs to be considered case by case: Things change over time, new laws come in that make old things illegal. Do i have to accept them blindly or not is a personal dec
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by iambvk 16y ago
Considering the fact that, a guy did suicide recently for the nature of Apple's secrecy, i think publishing his name is actually a better step by Gizmodo. We really don't know what would have Apple security team done to this guy if this iss

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