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by rumcajz 12y ago
Parsers are generally easy, I was thimking more about implementation stuff like: How can we pipe input from one protocol to another protocol on top of it? How to poll on a user-space protocol? How to integrate it with foreign event loops? I
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by rumcajz 12y ago
This article raises many relevant points. But the real issue behind all of that is that we lack means to easily implement protocol stacks. Implementing a new protocol (especially in the user space) is a task that can easily eat months or ye
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by rumcajz 12y ago
Thanks for the link! I'll check it.
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by rumcajz 12y ago
I wrote a little preprocessor that translates slightly augmented version of C (with Golang-like "go" and "select" commands) into the kind of code described in the article. http://millc.org
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by rumcajz 12y ago
> Do people use modern languages, libraries, and techniques to build a small piece of software that does one thing well? This is the Unix philosophy, but when I try to think of examples, not much comes to mind. Exaclty! Why? Is it hubris
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by rumcajz 12y ago
Interesting. Are these people so confident that they are willing to risk they lives searching for mines or did they somehow done it from a safe distance?
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by rumcajz 12y ago
> Adolescents, as a demographic, have always been known to be raging pits of hormones with mood swings and strong passions. The adolescents in middle ages were treated as adults and they have behaved so. There was also no equivalent to m
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by rumcajz 12y ago
Umberto Eco would enjoy this. Fiction becoming reality is his favourite topic.
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by rumcajz 12y ago
Capital tax is what Piketty proposes and what Gates argues with.
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by rumcajz 12y ago
In what way would consumption tax address capital accumulation? Also, using 1910-1940 period as an example to show that Piketty is wrong doesn't make much sense given that Piketty's data show that inequality have actually lowered
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by rumcajz 12y ago
Yes. That's how it goes in enterprise sales.
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by rumcajz 12y ago
I've used to play without parent supervision in front of out block of flats since I was 2 years old. AFAICT it was not unusual back then (Eastern Europe, cca 1975).
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by rumcajz 12y ago
IIRC they were not considered to be the pinnacle of good style, but they were much more acceptable than they are today. Interesting fact: In early 60s there was a serious discussion about whether stack frames (called activation records back
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by rumcajz 12y ago
The claim made is that "gaming doesn't work on users". The claim breaks down when selling to the enterprise.
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by rumcajz 12y ago
The article assumes that "best practice" in 80s was the same as it is today. It was not. Best practice evolves.
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Putin considers plan to unplug Russia from the Internet 'in an emergency'(theguardian.com)
3 points by rumcajz 12y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 12y ago
Just move to open source. There you are judged by your peers rather than by numerical results.
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by rumcajz 12y ago
Others have elaborated on historical reasons that made Java popular with the enterprise and correctly noted that the size of the existing codebase and amount of trained developers alone gives Java enough momentum to perpetuate long into the
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Are you a programmer-mathematician or a programmer-handyman?(250bpm.com)
2 points by rumcajz 12y ago|1 comments
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by rumcajz 12y ago
Isn't it a way to prevent eBay's competition to show ads on 'eBay' keyword?
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by rumcajz 12y ago
#4 is not completely true, as the "standard" ifdefs are defined by the compiler, not the platform. Thus, they may differ when building on Windows using MSVC and building on Windows usign MinGW.
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Unit Test Fetish(250bpm.com)
3 points by rumcajz 12y ago|1 comments
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by rumcajz 12y ago
What's the point on focusing on children with high test scores? If that's what makes genius, the geniuses could -- and should -- be replaced by computers. What makes a real genius is absolute honesty, willingness to re-evaluate th
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by rumcajz 12y ago
How is what you said related to the article?
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by rumcajz 12y ago
One difference that was not mentioned is how much of your time is spent in office politics. For early-stage startups it's close to zero. In corporations you spend most of your time doing politics and dealing with consequences thereof,
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by rumcajz 12y ago
One analogy to consider is that peoples with argiculture had much worse living standard than hunters-gatherers. Yet, given that they were tied to a patch of ground, they've drove the hunters-gatherers out of their traditional hunting-g
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by rumcajz 12y ago
I have been thinking about fully anonymous currencies in the past, which, not a big surprise, lead me to NIZK proofs. I was stopped there by the lack of resources on the topic. Your simple explanation (the link above) was really helpful. Th
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by rumcajz 12y ago
One thing not to forget is that if you unleash refactoring on a grand scale you'll end up with second version syndrome. Thus, management has a problem. To allow refactoring, they need to believe there's a technical person in charg
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by rumcajz 12y ago
The article fails to mention that while separation of a blockchain from the currency is technically possible, in reality a blockchain without associated currency won't work as nobody's going to spend their CPU time maintaining it
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by rumcajz 12y ago
Fully agree. Lot of pogrammers misunderstands signed types which results in different bugs when combining signed with unsigned. More importantly though, not having unsigned types, as in Java, means that we have to use 16-bit int to store a

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