mfukar

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   by mfukar 10y ago

   LCTHW is for absolute beginners. It lacks accuracy necessary for people writing C. It's good as an introduction, perhaps to capture interest, but no more than that.
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   by mfukar 10y ago

   Think of it from the perspective of types: int *p; /* What is the type of p? Pointer to int */ int a = *p; /* What is the type of *p? int */
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   Unums 2.0 – An interview with John L. Gustafson(ubiquity.acm.org)

   3 points by mfukar 10y ago|0 comments
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   by mfukar 10y ago

   It seems kind of weird to me that you agree than a common currency without a political union is doomed, then go on to support a political schism.
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   by mfukar 10y ago

   Pretty sure I would rank immunodeficiencies [1] as a menace, but I'm not a doctor of any kind.. [1] http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/306444.php
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   by mfukar 10y ago

   Yes, easily more than €5k/year for a 120m2 house. (not me actually, my parents, but I doubt they lie to me about how much they spend) Like others have already mentioned in other threads, land & property valuations are defined by th
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   by mfukar 10y ago

   No, you just pretended that the state property tax is very close to 0%, without mentioning WHAT is taxed at "very little" 0%.
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   by mfukar 10y ago

   > Courts have regularly blocked reform attempts. That is quite simply a lie. Recent GR governments have not pushed for pension or social security reform, only cuts in spending, all of which the Parliament approved and set into effect _im
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   by mfukar 10y ago

   Contrary to what most people would have you believe, the EU has asked Greece to bring its economy in line with certain KPIs. The Greek governments have decided the best way to do that is tax the populace. The results are well understood.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    > But the current Greek government don't want cushy EU jobs, they want to save the population. Well, they saved me by forcing me out of the country, so +1 there.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    Then explain fragmentation in memory managers.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    It is indeed. Cool applications too. I remember at least GUN - a graph db engine - uses them to great effect, and its author hangs out here, iirc.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    I have - I'm actually working with it on a multi-version IPC provider (totally unrelated to bus1 & friends). Is it relevant here? I know they're the latest and greatest, but they're not without problems either.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    > What makes you think we are not? History. The direction past RedHat-led projects have taken. > What use case would you like to be taken into account in bus1 that is not? This is no time for me to make any suggestions. ;-) In the fut
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    I could. I would rather put it in an email or PR. I'll try to put it together as soon as I have some time.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    I foresee a problem where people confuse the wording of "total order on all messages" in the wiki to mean there is a "global total order" - in other words, that bus1 solves distributed systems and we can all go home - an
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    I've read both, thanks. I clearly remember the fact the total ordering is "somewhat arbitrary" in Lamport's own words, which is what I pointed out here [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12803907 ], to
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    Sorry, I took 'integrated' to mean something other than merged. No, kdbus was never part of the kernel repo.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    With their "synchronize-local-clocks" approach, it doesn't. They are using Lamport's algorithm to synchronize the clocks. However, Lamport's approach creates a _partial_ ordering, and to make that a _total_ ordering
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    > ioctl can be guaranteed by the kernel to be atomic. If a driver grabs a spinlock during the ioctl processing then the driver will enter atomic context and will remain in atomic context until it releases the spinlock. That's a red
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    Most recently, kdbus. It wasn't even ABI-compatible.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    If only Red Hat actually tried to accommodate others' use cases, Linux systems would be so much better.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    Go vent someplace else.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    Alright, yes, they share a property and the syntax. I forgot we were in a programming courthouse. In the real world, treating their semantics the same misleads newbies, and leads to bugs.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    subscripts are just adding to pointers, and since addition is commutative, then so is the subscript operator. Only pointer arithmetic has nothing to do with integer arithmetic, a fact which has bitten countless people in the ass o
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    Are you constructing the descriptions by scraping something else? They really need a lot of work.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    The bug lifetime analysis shows two things: 1. No matter how many eyeballs you put on a bug, it does not become more shallow 2. Each bug lives on average for 5 years This makes it probable that whomever puts enough resources on researching
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    I'm sorry - no text on Hacker News will convince me the person typing it is an expert in anything. Especially when they present inaccuracies and opinions as facts.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    I think you should both stop here.
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    by mfukar 10y ago

    I doubt time has ever been a plentiful resource for humans.