irv

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1. 31.▲
   G4S is just the latest in a long line of outsourcing disasters(newstatesman.com)

   32 points by irv 14y ago|38 comments
2. 32.▲
   Einstein, Insanity, Nuclear Meltdowns and Tokyo Electric Power Company(japansubculture.com)

   2 points by irv 15y ago|0 comments
3. 33.▲
   by irv 16y ago

   cool. but this seems fundamentally similar to the Chan/Var style of parallelism in haskell?
4. 34.▲
   Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy(dissentmagazine.org)

   3 points by irv 16y ago|0 comments
5. 35.▲
   by irv 16y ago

   there's a (superficially) similar problem in MS SQL Server/Windows Server. You can fix that by setting "lock pages in memory"
6. 36.▲
   by irv 16y ago

   good for you, and yes i agree totally. something about making it public forces you to take a tiny step forward. my first push to github here, for the record http://github/com/irv/tarsnap-backup
7. 37.▲
   by irv 16y ago

   another vote for tarsnap - can't complain really. i knocked up a simple Haskell app to manage the process (I'm learning Haskell, so comments and suggestions welcome) if you're interested @ http://github.com/irv/tarsnap-backup
8. 38.▲
   High-Performance Dynamic Pattern Matching over Disordered Streams(research.microsoft.com)

   2 points by irv 16y ago|0 comments
9. 39.▲
   by irv 16y ago

   I can recommend the book "Moving On", which discusses a participatory economy, which was quite interesting to me personally. although it does (as you would expect) bog down with committees! By the way, the shortest and most succinct laymen'