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901.
by leif 17y ago
(this means click the floppy disk)
902.
by leif 17y ago
you register when you're ready to save your résumé
903.
by leif 17y ago
ass-kickingly delicious way to go fellas we should celebrate over beers when you're done dealing with all the traffic
904.
by leif 17y ago
Five years ago. Incidentally, almost exactly five years before "Ask HN random crap" started getting old.
905.
by leif 17y ago
Everyone's going to say "test driven development" or "think before you write" but honestly, the only thing that has ever truly worked for me is pair coding. Just have a buddy sit over your shoulder and watch you work. It's a bit like the i
906.
by leif 17y ago
spiral bound blank pages, preferably on the heavier side of medium weight
907.
by leif 17y ago
Strange. My feelings about Demitri Martin are similar.
908.
by leif 17y ago
oh thank god please please PLEASE kill blackboard
909.
by leif 17y ago
Django if I use a framework, but usually straight python or perl CGI. I'm assuming you meant "webapps".
910.
by leif 17y ago
1. Candide 2. The last few chapters of GEB 3. Regardless of whether you're a programmer, anything by Carl Sagan. The Demon-Haunted World and Dragons of Eden are my favorites.
911.
by leif 17y ago
Haha Paul was disconnected from Jessica for a bit. A few more clicks and they were back together. Awww.
912.
by leif 17y ago
Some papers from a security class at my school, varying levels of difficulty, but they all start from pretty low assumed knowledge if you're careful: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rob/teaching/cse509-sp09/beyondsma... http://www.cs.sunysb.ed
913.
by leif 17y ago
I got a high y value close to the y axis.
914.
by leif 17y ago
The current issue is that we allocate and free small structures very, very rapidly. They have very short lifespan, and there are never (in the average case) more than a few around at any one time. After profiling, we saw lots of time spen
915.
by leif 17y ago
I think the regular (gnu, at least) malloc uses bucketed linked lists.
916.
Ask HN: What is your favorite hand-rolled malloc?
39 points by leif 17y ago|19 comments
917.
by leif 17y ago
No new release or CFP. Why is this here again?
918.
by leif 17y ago
Congratulations guys, nice work!
919.
by leif 17y ago
What ever happened to linear increase and exponential backoff?
920.
by leif 17y ago
Michael Bender (one of our professors) is a co-founder of Tokutek, and several SBU grad students work there. They are doing some _really_ cool stuff!
921.
by leif 17y ago
neaterrific
922.
by leif 17y ago
To your points: - Nothing much I can say about stability and security, but then again, we're not saying it's stable and secure yet. Besides, people trust Oracle without seeing their sources, don't they? - If our startup folds, I doubt we'l
923.
by leif 17y ago
For the moment, we cannot endorse using RethinkDB in a production environment, and even then, this license is meant to be free for non-commercial. Once we get to that point, we'll be re-visiting the license anyway, before we start licensin
924.
by leif 17y ago
Interesting. We'll have to take a look at that. Thanks!
925.
by leif 17y ago
Very much not new. Nobody's done it for MySQL yet to my knowledge though, and I don't think many have looked at the implications of log-structured storage on SSDs. That kind of storage is notoriously difficult to do cleanly on a rotationa
926.
by leif 17y ago
yep, that's me. hi!
927.
by leif 17y ago
Thanks; we're doing GC over the next few days (starting...now actually).
928.
by leif 17y ago
We'll have more performance numbers up soon; for the past few weeks we've been working on features to get wordpress working, but we'll be profiling and tuning, and we'll get you and everyone else your graphs in good time. Hope you enjoy the
929.
by leif 17y ago
For the moment, we allow one writer at a time, but unbounded (I think) readers. The only locks taken are for arithmetic operations; no locks are held while performing I/O or even memcpy(2). You can read more about that bit in the paper ab
930.
by leif 17y ago
vaksel: who are you? you stole our thunder :( actually :)

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