luddy

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by luddy 2y ago
I was very fortunate to have worked on Arvind's Monsoon project as a contractor for Motorola. He was the very model of what a professor ought to be: an active and outgoing researcher, an natural educator, a good organizer, and a livel
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by luddy 8y ago
rejecting for example Confucius Institutes at universities because they are promulgating an ideology that is diametrically opposed to the foundational principles of universities in the West -- open discussion without political interference
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by luddy 8y ago
What you don't get (or try to spin away) is this: - the money that China spends at Oxford and at US universities is an attempt to spread the ideology I describe - inside China (I lived there for many years) there is ZERO ambiguity abou
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by luddy 8y ago
- block access to the (non-Chinese) internet - deny land ownership rights to everyone other than the gov't - routinely exercise this power by confiscating homes and plots of land - force the granting of CCP membership on corporate bo
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by luddy 8y ago
That was a great compiler group. I had the privilege of doing a short internship there one summer. Remember Lisp/VM? Lots of good people there. And many great stories about Fran Allen as well.
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by luddy 8y ago
>> Go has built-in mutable containers, and no const, yet they still use SSA. Right, as you say, compilers are converging on SSA, and almost all languages have mutable containers. All it means is that there's a mismatch between t
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by luddy 8y ago
Yes, mutation of containers is definitely a problem. The natural semantics in SSA is something like container' = F(container, key, value). But of course this functional semantics straightaway diverges from the physical realization we
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by luddy 8y ago
It is a money laundering case. HSBC tipped off the US gov't to a transfer that was effectively made using a false identity, to a recipient that was on a sanctions list. The US has banking laws, just like China has. If Tim Cook goes
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by luddy 8y ago
There are news reports suggesting that she was arrested for arranging bank transfers from banks in the US to Iran, using false identify for the sender of the funds. The further suggestion has been made that these transfers caused several U
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by luddy 8y ago
This is great for SaaS startups. Auto-scaling of DynamoDB never really worked as well as one would like: too fiddly and inadequately responsive.
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by luddy 8y ago
AWS Lambda@edge only supports the node.js runtime, so a comparison between workers and lambda@edge isn't so unreasonable; they have very similar execution models, I think.
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by luddy 8y ago
I'm talking about using the Lambda@edge console to push a new, numbered version of a lambda function written in node.js. I have pushed 100s of versions in this way, and I would guess that the mean time until the new version begins run
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by luddy 8y ago
The article says that pushing a new lamda@edge function takes 30 minutes. That has not been my experience. I routinely push lambda@edge versions from the AWS console and the new versions typically run within a minute or so. Have other
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by luddy 8y ago
Apple's SDK has an EULA that says it cannot be deployed on a server and made available as a service. Why can't mongo just create a license that says such a deployment requires a commercial license from them?