stefano

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A Memory Allocator (2000)(gee.cs.oswego.edu)
2 points by stefano 9y ago|0 comments
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by stefano 9y ago
By having a nest egg that can keep you and your family going for a few years.
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by stefano 9y ago
Aren't you worried about vendor lock-in?
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by stefano 9y ago
So everyone is holding and buying it, and no one is making anything useful with it. Sounds like a great allocation of capital! /s
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by stefano 9y ago
> I never signed a SLA with my power or water company. We know they try to keep the service(s) "up"... but if they can't, they can't. In Italy, these services must be provided by law. Even small mountain towns where i
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by stefano 9y ago
And yet, there are still a lot of companies using and relying on Google APIs and cloud services. I don't understand why there is still so much trust in them after they've shown multiple times they will terminate services with litt
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by stefano 9y ago
If "element" is undefined or null, the catch clause will raise an exception. In the first example, hideLoadingSpinner() will be called anyway, while in the second one it won't.
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by stefano 9y ago
What about a web server that does the build step automatically, with no configuration required? Something like webpack-dev-server, but usable both in production and development. To deploy, drop your typescript/html/css files under
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by stefano 9y ago
The build step wouldn't be too bad if it was a single command that didn't require any configuration. We're almost there already. Waste a few hours coming up with a good webpack config for your use case, and then you can mostl
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by stefano 9y ago
Isn't this what pypy does? pypy does the specialization at runtime, maybe this does it at (interpreter) compile time?
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by stefano 9y ago
In Go, if you need a container which is not a built-in map or array, you end up casting to interface{}, because that's the only reasonable thing your container can accept. This is clearly not "doing it wrong", and it's a
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by stefano 9y ago
> What kind of answer would satisfy you? In the real world, with an actual registered company/cooperative, you can call the police or sue people in court as a last resort. This is not possible in a distributed world, so a new kind o
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by stefano 9y ago
> well, the answer is simply ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ That's not a great answer to a very realistic case.
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by stefano 9y ago
Welcome to the world of blockchain startups! There is no signup nor product, but please subscribe to our newsletter and download our whitepaper! And don't forget to pay into our ICO!
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by stefano 9y ago
Sure, you can move it, but how much code will you need to rewrite? How much effort to convert the data to a new database format? And how much more development time to migrate your data without taking your service down during the migration?
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by stefano 9y ago
This is a very reasonable comment, why is it downvoted so heavily?
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by stefano 9y ago
I don't like this trend of creating new closed source database systems that only exist on a single cloud provider. Your data is your most valuable asset, and by using this you're locking it inside Google servers. If they decide fi
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by stefano 9y ago
App engine still only supports python 2.7 in the standard environment...
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by stefano 9y ago
But if China has the majority of mining power, they can start mining your fork and do as they please with it.
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by stefano 9y ago
They can still track you through your IP address, or by a combination of many browser/computer/OS properties available through JS, for example window size, browser agent, OS, fonts installed, etc. All these things don't ident
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by stefano 9y ago
Why would China need an e-currency? If you're in China you can already buy things online using the good-old yuan. What value would another currency add?
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by stefano 9y ago
Price goes down? Cheap coins! Price goes up? To the moon! A government accepts bitcoins? It's the future! A government doesn't accept bitcoins? They're scared, it means we're winning!
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by stefano 9y ago
The usefulness as a currency or as anything else is irrelevant. Getting rich is the goal. It doesn't matter that the money comes from a bigger fool, or from someone who has to buy bitcoin to pay a ransom.
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by stefano 9y ago
Do the customers have to run their own mining network to ensure the producer can't pull a 51% attack?
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by stefano 9y ago
Is that any better than a distributed/replicated traditional database?
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by stefano 10y ago
Yeah,you also need enough people willing to mine (and spend a lot of money doing so) your pork chops blockchain, otherwise anyone could come along and do a 50% attack.
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by stefano 10y ago
You can run a memory-based DBMS. That will easily eat all the RAM you can throw at it.
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by stefano 10y ago
It's the same cognitive load, really. Instead of deciding how to best propagate exceptions, you're now deciding how to best propagate the error value.
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by stefano 10y ago
Don't you need to have physical presence in the UK to open a company?
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by stefano 10y ago
Maybe that would hurt their "get started easily" proposition, which was very imporant to get them where they are now.

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