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by lukego 10y ago
> That's why you get things like schools sending children home at lunchtime or on Wednesday afternoons: the school schedules are deliberately set up to be incompatible with working hours, in order to reinforce traditional family set
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SBCL leadership change (2008)(xach.livejournal.com)
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by lukego 10y ago
Yet another encouraging note: PostgreSQL is another wildly successful project that was originally developed by some geniuses in Berkeley and then taken over by a community of mere mortals. The core developers seem to view their role as bein
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by lukego 10y ago
> turning typos into nil rather than raising an exception or having a compile time error is also annoying So true. However, you can disable this behavior and then just forget about it: http://metalua.luaforge.net/src&#x2
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Back to the Future: Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself (1997)(ftp.squeak.org)
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by lukego 10y ago
Wow! Hard to believe I had never stumbled on your blog until now. https://williamaadams.wordpress.com/category/luajit/
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by lukego 10y ago
Agreed. LuaJIT is a lovely piece of code and very rewarding to read. The situation is fantastically luxurious compared with CMCUL where the new maintainers needed to acquire a dusty old DEC Alpha to run a non-reproducible binary image with
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by lukego 10y ago
Just one (more) encouraging note: The maintenance challenge that LuaJIT faces is actually kind of trivial compared with other projects like the extremely successful evolution of Spice Lisp to CMU Common Lisp to SBCL over a period of 30 year
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by lukego 10y ago
No. He works at Google, and during 2015 he temporarily provided support to internal LuaJIT users there and made many contributions in the process, but working on LuaJIT is not his job. (The world world be a better place if it were!) Source:
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by lukego 10y ago
Here is what I mean: From the outside the message I am receiving is "hurry up and wait for a new maintainer to emerge from closed-door discussions between Mike, CloudFlare, and unspecified other parties." However, this has been th
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by lukego 10y ago
This comment does not clear up my confusion at all... :-)
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by lukego 10y ago
I am confused about why you guys haven't already hired Peter Cawley, Vyacheslav Egorov, and/or Thomas Fransham.
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by lukego 10y ago
You could consider the Bogleheads investing start-up kit: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investing_s...
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by lukego 10y ago
I wrote a clone of Erlang in Emacs Lisp back in 2002 called Distel: http://ftp.stu.edu.tw/FreeBSD/distfiles/erlang/distel-euc.pd... Amazed and impressed that clever people are using and maintaining this at h
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by lukego 11y ago
Relevant MMM post: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-need...
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by lukego 11y ago
You can buy Vanguard ETFs from Switzerland e.g. VWRL on the Euronext exchange. The UK (Ireland) based funds seem to be the appropriate choice for people in Switzerland. You do this the same way you would buy Google, Apple, Tesla, etc.
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by lukego 11y ago
I would like to see this written up as an MMM case study. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/category/case-studies/
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by lukego 11y ago
SourceForge nearly killed SLIME in the early days when they accidentally deleted our entire repository and didn't restore it. Fun times.
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by lukego 11y ago
Note to Russian HN readers: I'm giving a talk about Snabb Switch in Moscow on Tuesday afternoon at HighLoad++.
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by lukego 11y ago
Do you mean that you want to hire people as LuaJIT maintainers? That would be exciting news. If you have any details to share I would be happy to start pointing good people in your direction.
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by lukego 11y ago
Van Jacobson is the man. I was interested to read this line: > There is exactly one, contiguous, packet per 'pbuf' (none of that 'mbuf' chain stupidity) because we recently switched to the same design in Snabb Switch:
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by lukego 11y ago
Cool! I have been doing this kind of programming with dynasm [*] and finding it addictive. I wonder if assembler is going to make a come back :). https://github.com/luapower/dynasm/blob/master/dynasm.md
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by lukego 11y ago
http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads®_investing_start-u...
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by lukego 11y ago
I am warming up to netmap but I want to deploy on Linux without distributing a kernel module. Snabb Switch still uses its own built-in device drivers but if that was not an option I reckon we would be more likely to adopt netmap than DPDK b
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by lukego 11y ago
This was the first explanation of Git that made sense to me.
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by lukego 11y ago
Great question actually. That is one solution: take a 10G port into Snabb Switch, filter and sort the traffic, then feed a slice to the kernel e.g. via a tap device with multiqueue /dev/vhost-net acceleration (same interface that
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by lukego 11y ago
I reckon that networking is transitioning from being a system programming problem (interrupt - switch to kernel - grab packet - process quickly - switch back) to being a HPC problem (infinite stream of packets arriving in memory). ISPs are
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People are also spending hundreds of billions of dollars on equipment like routers ever year. These could be Linux boxes if the kernel had sensible performance. I am kind of amazed that the Linux kernel did not become the dominant data-plan
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by lukego 11y ago
Smart people are working on this: https://lwn.net/Articles/629155/ However, even after a few years now I don't think they are seeing light at the end of the tunnel.
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by lukego 11y ago
Great prespective. Thinking of the future: Recent experience suggests that we are able to do around 50-100 Mpps of traffic dispatching in Snabb Switch using one CPU core. I suspect that dedicated software traffic dispatchers will displace h

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