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by jodah 11y ago
It's related. Leader election generally[1] requires consensus among distributed processes, and global locks generally[1] require consensus as well. The benefit of this is that both problems can be solved on top of a common consensus im
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by jodah 11y ago
The article calls on someone(?) to Jepsen test Redlock, which is a good idea, but I think that the author(s) of such systems should release their own Jepsen test suite along with the software they're purporting to be safe (as others ha
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by jodah 11y ago
It is indeed built on Copycat. We're updating the docs right now ahead of an RC, this week or next.
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by jodah 11y ago
Like anything, it depends on what you're using it for. I wouldn't put a distributed lock into some massively high volume request path, or where absolute availability is required, but it's perfectly fine for some scenarios. As
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by jodah 11y ago
On the contrary - I'm glad to hear that he'll remain safe, hopefully, from here on out.
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by jodah 11y ago
People tend to assume that everyone else thinks like them. Because the arresting officer couldn't wouldn't build a clock for the enjoyment of learning (as opposed to some "broader purpose" like blowing up a building), th
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by jodah 11y ago
True, though stupidity is not seeing how much this is going to cost them, ultimately.
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by jodah 11y ago
Not sure why the current markup couldn't support some responsive styling.
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by jodah 11y ago
Agree that the challenge is in obtaining partnerships, but not every retailer needs full control of the shopping experience, especially on mobile. And that's the win - alleviating the need for every retailer to solve the same technical
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by jodah 11y ago
> async/await with async resource management (which C# doesn't have yet) gives it a real edge for server development An edge over what? You're still limited to a single thread via the GIL. Until that problem is solved, Pyt
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by jodah 11y ago
It's been interesting to watch similar arguments being made of Golang, over and over. From a casual user's perspective, it seems to optimize for (what is to me) the wrong thing, which is readability over maintainability. Without t
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by jodah 11y ago
> The cynic in me wonders If this were some no name scientist then you're point would be taken. But James Hansen - that's pretty authoritative. Regardless of where he publishes, people should pay attention.
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Earth’s Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning(slate.com)
6 points by jodah 11y ago|0 comments
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by jodah 11y ago
A few things: > somehow this became twisted by the furious mob There's no mob here. If anything, most people seem unfamiliar with this episode. > Legally in the US you are guaranteed three months of unpaid leave for getting sick
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by jodah 11y ago
I think he just deleted that one post. The rest were deleted by Reddit, as was the entire conversation for a while, before being restored.
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by jodah 11y ago
Not sure what the downvoting is all about - let's hope you never get cancer. The source is the employee himself who did an AMA that was partially censored by Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments&#x2F
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by jodah 11y ago
> the vitriol which I kept seeing peripherally... was absolutely appalling. I'm not a Reddit user, but the vitriol seemed pretty commensurate with what motivated it, which among other things included the despicable (and possibly ill
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by jodah 11y ago
From my reading, this wasn't about harassment. It was about missteps, many of them. Needless to say, her various apologies were not spurred by harassment.
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California Poised to Mandate Childhood Vaccinations(nytimes.com)
2 points by jodah 11y ago|0 comments
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by jodah 11y ago
I'm the opposite. The idea that Clojure is just enough Lisp - that it strips down some of the syntax a bit - is one of the benefits, IMO.
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by jodah 11y ago
> In brief, their view was that resolving this issue in the courts erodes the democratic process. Sounds like an argument against their existence. They didn't have to take up the case...
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by jodah 11y ago
After the housing bubble I kept a close eye on rent/buy metrics and spent several years renting while watching many friends crash and burn after having bought. But aside from the financial aspect, it's hard to overstate the extent
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Lost Brother in Yosemite – Dean Potter's Final Jump(nytimes.com)
1 points by jodah 11y ago|0 comments
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by jodah 11y ago
Perhaps it is questionably moral and risky, but why should it be any more so than a corporation filing for bankruptcy? The difference is that bankruptcies are, to some extent, priced into the system. If they weren't and if personal ban
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by jodah 11y ago
A lot of commenters are zero'ing in on the author's experience, and I think they're missing the broader point. It isn't about what the author should have done, it's about a system of financial aid and rising educati
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by jodah 11y ago
> There are people who are screwed by the system, and there are also people who just screw themselves. And there are people who are neither, such as myself. I don't think that the discussion about how crappy our system is and how to
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by jodah 11y ago
Problems at the high school level are, not coincidentally, linked to what we're discussing at the college level (that is, they are the result of unusual structures imposed by moneyed interests). I think the best way to prevent financia
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by jodah 11y ago
Something is wrong if we've reached a point where only the very rich (or the very poor) can go to a nice school. And something is wrong if only certain fields of education are valued enough to cover their costs. Economic theory says th
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by jodah 11y ago
It's refreshing to see the occasional reminder, such as yours, that our situation in America is unusually bad. > How is this system supposed to work well? It seems to be clearly designed to make money, not to educate people, which d
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by jodah 11y ago
> I'd say it's very clear that this is exactly one of the things the mechanism is intended for Actually, no. The fundamental requirement of the H1B program is that workers be paid the prevailing wage. The only way that's p

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