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by stelfer 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the Guardtime product is a Merkle tree of timestamps. I'm also pretty sure whatever protocol they use to maintain it would _not_ be immediately recognized as a "blockchain" protocol. Of course the prot
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by stelfer 10y ago
Haven't read it carefully, so I might have missed the reference, but Barbara Liskov has described a very similar optimization for Viewstamped Replication[1] [1] http://www.pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-to-bft.pdf
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by stelfer 10y ago
The paper itself is a mess. It's very interesting but they aren't doing themselves any favors. They need to clean up the presentation and get rid of the distracting phrases like "fail epically".
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by stelfer 10y ago
Hope this means we get to see Voyage of the Mimi again.
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by stelfer 10y ago
It's times like this that I'm reminded that the world really needs more physicists.
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by stelfer 10y ago
Since everyone is getting called out on nits today, I'm going to point out that he calls "Combinatorial Problems and Exercises" a paper, which means that he's (a) not into combinatorics, because it's an important _b
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by stelfer 11y ago
Yep if you aren't looking at eBPF now you probably aren't doing it right. And BTW thanks for that Brendan.
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by stelfer 12y ago
One of my favorite tools! I've implemented many (too many) protocols with HSMs. I've also implemented lots with traditional FSMs. I've met people like me who have done both. Most would choose HSMs for most applications. If yo
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by stelfer 12y ago
"Latency Lags Bandwidth", Patterson 2004 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1022596
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by stelfer 16y ago
Article has it exactly backwards. "In January, Netflix responded by hiring its first Washington lobbyist..." Oh my. Vaya con dios Lone Ranger.
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by stelfer 16y ago
Emacs mode in Eclipse? It has almost all of the navigation keystrokes. As far as emacs not being everywhere, I recently just learned about mg on openbsd. If I had just rtfm I would have found it years ago.
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by stelfer 16y ago
Man I am tired of hearing what Zawinski thought about C++ fifteen freaking years ago. If you're good at C++, use it. If not, don't. If you want to get good at it, practice. How is that different from any language?
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by stelfer 16y ago
At home, in a distinct office, with a nice automatic espresso machine upstairs, so it's kind of like being in a coffee shop, only much cheaper and less distracting.
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by stelfer 16y ago
We just got a new block out of ARIN. The first thing we got in response to our net-isp was this: "Your template indicates a projected need for additional IPv4 addresses in 12 months. The IANA IPv4 free pool is projected to be depleted some
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by stelfer 16y ago
Well luckily that's not even a remote possibility even in an alternate universe. They should stick to stuff they understand.
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by stelfer 16y ago
I read Gallmeister's POSIX.4 with great zeal.
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by stelfer 16y ago
I doubt you have spent time teaching undergraduate physics. Your assertion that the male students might have dropped out because of the "frou-frou" exercise is easily construed as chauvinistic. Unless you are a female student in physical sc
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by stelfer 16y ago
Pretty much everyone who I looked up to who was an X and said: "You should be an X".
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by stelfer 16y ago
I was sort of interested, but... Of the many activities in life for which prior experience are essential for success: buying assets out of bankruptcy; re-tasking a communications satellite... So, I perused the bios, and I'm just really not
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by stelfer 16y ago
No doubt the future is streaming. But it won't be from Netflix for at least three reasons. They have very little to zero leverage for content deals. They've already chased the market to the bottom on pricing. But most of all, they're just a
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by stelfer 16y ago
I've learned over the years that if I come up with something useful as I try to fall asleep, instead of hopping out of bed, I just consciously save it for the morning. It's like waking up with a gift. And often the brain has done some usefu
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by stelfer 16y ago
killer app != favorite app. And Android doesn't need a killer app at this point.
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by stelfer 16y ago
Play may be Scala killer app IMO
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by stelfer 16y ago
In general I don't like this approach to learning. I feel like it's counter to the rule that you shouldn't reward kids for things they should be expected to do. That being said, he says clearly that this is about learning math facts. The ar
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by stelfer 16y ago
Here's mine: http://gist.github.com/618459 I didn't see the point in doing this in anything but C. I tried it without cheating, and to make it as interesting to myself as possible. Also did it after a week of writing briefs, so that was a