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by jallmann 12y ago
Really depends on how carriers choose to meter usage -- without knowing anything else about VoLTE, my guess is that voice data won't count against your cap, similar to how data from $CableCo_Video_Streaming_Service doesn't count a
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I didn't realize Tim Wu had gotten into politics. This makes me very happy. Tim Wu wrote the The Master Switch [1], which explains how US media/telecom wound up the way it is today -- how the dominant players came about in vario
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Erlang on the JVM as anything more than a toy is fundamentally misunderstanding Erlang -- which basically reinforces the article's central thesis. The article mentions the need for lightweight concurrency support to be baked into the p
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Irrelevant speculation. Moreover, there is anti-trust protection.
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And? Any service is susceptible to being gamed/abused. As developers we should understand this intuitively. Lyft is clearly working on technical ways to mitigate this if they don't want Uber hailing their drivers. As to the ethica
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by jallmann 12y ago
The indignation over this makes no sense. Sure it's aggressive, but Uber has to be in order to maintain their market position and keep growing. As developers, we get recruited all the time, even while employed. The horror! This is a g
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by jallmann 12y ago
Yes, there is FFI code to expose Cocoa components via OCaml. Support is nowhere near complete for the entire iOS API, and it isn't factored into a reusable library, but it seems most sample apps have a nice wrapper allowing you to spec
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by jallmann 12y ago
There are a number of sample/demo apps here that can be used as a starting point: http://psellos.com/ocaml/ Each app has instructions on how to build from source, etc.
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by jallmann 12y ago
Would be interested in hearing more about your project. Couldn't find any contact info for you, my email is in my profile. I do a lot of streaming work, and enjoy talking shop.
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by jallmann 12y ago
#5 of Build Tools and Runtime would cover that (encapsulating all global state into a runtime context). The ongoing multicore work at OCamlPro is taking this approach [1]. Erlang-style actors or lightweight processes would be my dream multi
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by jallmann 12y ago
Nice article, I never considered the duality of product and sum types before. The importance of effective ADT usage is generally under-emphasized when discussing the benefits of statically typed FP languages* like OCaml and Haskell — even t
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by jallmann 12y ago
> I'm actually meeting our editor (Andy Oram) in a couple of weeks at OSCON to discuss just this. Great to hear that! > What aspects of the module system would you like to see more of? The book is actually comprehensive in this r
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by jallmann 12y ago
Real World OCaml is indeed awesome -- while it is free, if you do find yourself making good use of it, please also at least buy an ebook version. Totally worth its bytes in gold. (No affiliation, just an OCaml dilettante who's benefitt
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> Supreme Court rulings are, of course, quite long Interestingly, judges such as Richard Posner think recent opinions are too long. http://www.law360.com/articles/455840/posner-says-justices-s... (Ignore the li
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by jallmann 12y ago
What's also interesting is running FreeSWITCH on a RPi. Last time I tried to compile FS on a i686/512MB host [1], GCC OOM'd during linking. And I can't imagine cross-compiling, mostly because I just spent a day fighting
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by jallmann 12y ago
That slide was just noting factors that Daala would have to beware or overcome to succeed. While those certainly apply to VP8/VP9, Theora had many of the same problems. VP8 was always on tenuous ground both politically and technologica
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by jallmann 12y ago
This whole thread is talking past each other. Servers absolutely can have sequential dependencies, especially if there is a shared resource (eg, databases, IO, etc). If your application can make full use of all your cores without any inter-
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by jallmann 12y ago
> If you have 48 runnable threads from 48 different tasks running on your machine, you'll get pretty much linear performance increases Only if the tasks are trivially parallelizable. Any sequential dependencies among those tasks li
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by jallmann 12y ago
What an extremely well thought-out piece. There is a certain bias towards MQTT’s suitability for building Azure-scale services (the article says as much), but I just wanted comment on a few general points. > you cannot return connack (wh
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by jallmann 12y ago
For more Sun stories, the "Life in the Boys' Dorm" blog series is a great read. Here's the first post -- there doesn't seem to be a single page aggregating them all: http://consultingadultblog.blogspot.c
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Reading that was rather vindicating. The same concern is raised by phk in his B-heap essay [1], where he criticizes Knuth for the exact same reason -- that algorithm analysis has become disconnected from the characteristics of the underlyin
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Verizon's Voice-over-LTE will include video calling(gigaom.com)
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None of these advantages are limited to phone numbers, and apply to nearly any other addressing scheme. Carriers use VoIP systems internally to carry calls, with VoIP URIs mapped onto E.164 numbers via ENUM. Nowadays, the consumer use of ph
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by jallmann 12y ago
It's a good idea to be comfortable compiling/packaging your infra from source (including interpreters, libraries, etc), if only for the ability to quickly apply and deploy emergency patches. To demonstrate the importance of that c
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What would be a good data representation at that scale? Is a typed/schema-driven approach preferable? For ingesting such massive amounts of data, it seems a sensible serialization would have minimal divergence between the wire and memo
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Hopefully there's also a good way to track backend errors, because I'm getting this: Error establishing a database connection
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It sounds the real problem is there might be a lack of production caliber load balancers for $MQ, rather than HTTP possessing any intrinsic advantage. How is load balancing anything but an implementation detail, since one can usually be w
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by jallmann 13y ago
I might be reading this incorrectly, but it looks like the Dorian Nakamoto key was created in 2008? Can that be forged? http://sks.pkqs.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&fingerprint=on&sear...
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by jallmann 13y ago
I'm not so sure ML/DL can effectively calculate the contours of an image. ML's strength is in regression and classification (eg, differentiating between handbags and shoulder bags), but there are more appropriate tools for im
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by jallmann 13y ago
Sounds like a saliency detection algorithm would be appropriate as a pre-processing step prior to edge detection or thresholding. The choice of algorithm may depend on the image characteristics; eg, [1] utilizes a global center-surround, wo

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