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by strlen 13y ago
> Google have many [...] buildable and deployable things, which have very different release schedules. Facebook don’t as they substantially have the PHP web-app, and apps for iOS and Android in different repos. At least when I was there,
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by strlen 13y ago
> Clusters of stateless web servers + single master. This is definitely a common setup, but you need very little if any distributed systems research to implement it. First, define "stateless"? I would not characterized such a s
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by strlen 13y ago
> It goes even beyond that. A lot of other very important, fundamental topics belong under the umbrella of distributed systems, starting with routing. The Internet is, after all, a giant distributed routing system. Yes! DNS is also fasci
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by strlen 13y ago
Couple of suggestions: 1) I'd avoid mentioning CAP and FLP impossibility result much further in, this is like starting a discussion of mathematical logic or Computer Science with Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. I'd definitely
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by strlen 13y ago
That's why I'm a capitalist: if an American computer firm told their best employees "we're scraping this project you love and are building IBM 360 clone", the employees have had the option of going elsewhere. Indeed
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by strlen 13y ago
Thanks for sharing this! Very interesting.
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by strlen 13y ago
Reminds me somewhat of the Minsk- series of indigeneously developed Soviet mainframes -- stack architecture, RISC-like ISA, far ahead of its time. Due to pressure from the higher ups -- or as my parents bluntly put it, "комуняки"
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by strlen 13y ago
Yep, it's a personal decision to make. It would be simple for me to get a non-resident CCW permit in number of shall-issue states I visit, but I've chosen not to. That's, however, my choice based on my own circumstances. I do
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by strlen 13y ago
> If you want to carry a gun with you, I support your right to do so. But it's the objectively wrong play. Have you lived in SoMa or Oakland?
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by strlen 13y ago
Some of Google's internal architecture is inspired by plan9, e.g., gfs. Plan9 also included a language called Aleph which has today evolved into golang. Union mounts have been particularly interesting: something plan9 implemented, but
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by strlen 13y ago
What I find rather annoying is that manufacturers/marketers rarely state whether or not an SSD has a supercapacitor or not. Here have been my finding: - OCZ Vertex 4 SSD does (but this is not advertised) - OCZ Vertex 3 does not, Vertex
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by strlen 13y ago
That one is very obviously and patently flawed: me to raise my arm in the air right now does not decrease your freedom. The only it could have been true about particular kind of freedom is if the assumptions the parent poster were true.
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by strlen 13y ago
> The real problem is: This additional freedom you can buy with money means less freedom for somebody else. There are three wrong assumptions here: 1) that wealth is zero-sum 2) that wealth is the only possible way to obtain freedom 3) t
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by strlen 13y ago
No idea, actually. I am guessing Singaporean? It's possible to have a non-citizen US passport, though. I'd also imagine SG passport is still quite great for travel in East Asia, SE-Asia, and Oceania.
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by strlen 13y ago
> Also our food is better Good comment overall, but this bit doesn't strike me as quite true. It may be that certain cuisines (Polish, Italian, American, and several others) are better in Chicago, but in United States I've yet
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by strlen 13y ago
As someone from former USSR, here's my take: the reason Khodorkovsky went to jail is because he violated the law of thieves, he stood up to Putin's bullying. If there was an across-the-board principled anti-corruption effort it wo
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by strlen 13y ago
Well, you're implying that I think selfishness is purely negative. I don't: I'm selfish in many other ways; pure selflessness can be just as bad (as you've very well described -- parents snubbing children because of a di
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by strlen 13y ago
1) I don't think they live "cocooned". I've lived in South Bay myself for 18 years and honestly haven't seen this. Quite frankly your statement struck me as odd (I earlier wrote racist, but on a second read, I don&#
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by strlen 13y ago
Sivers also did surrender his US citizenship: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/04/30/2012-102...
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by strlen 13y ago
> As for military conscription, that only applies to citizens, so if your children take US citizenship instead of Singaporean citizenship (US practices Jus Sanguinis, so I think this is possible), they wouldn't have to worry about m
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by strlen 13y ago
Majority of what I said is opinion and prefaced as such, other than fairly true bits about Singapore's communitarian culture (true) and tax rates (true). Otherwise, very little is normative and instructive (telling someone that this wh
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by strlen 13y ago
I always felt that Singapore just doesn't seem like the right place for someone like Derek Sivers. It's a beautiful and wonderfully located place, but the stated or unstated reasons many US expats give for moving there are narrowl
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by strlen 13y ago
Quick things 1) I expected that thread to look like a Cultural Revolution struggle session". Thankfully it wasn't. 2) As I am sure many others have already said it, durability has very little to do with CAP. CAP is about the A and
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by strlen 13y ago
I/O is I/O: the big differences are lack of certain APIs (which could make it poorly suited to some -- but not majority -- of I/O intensive use cases; needing -- afaik this isn't resolved with NIO.2 -- needing to use nat
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by strlen 13y ago
Large employers (or any other corporations) don't see labour costs as an end in it of itself, but merely means to an end: the ends being (whether in the long term or in the short term) making money. They could pursue the ultimate &quot
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by strlen 13y ago
You're missing the point: in many cases, choice of C is not ideological but practical. I love Modula-3 and OCaml (and ML's incorporation of Modula's module system in general); yet I'm using C++ for the project I am worki
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by strlen 13y ago
It's not about performance (nothing memcache does or more precisely -- given all new features I am likely unaware about -- when it was first rewritten in C is particularly CPU intensive), it's about memory management and efficien
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by strlen 13y ago
Keep in mind the date it was written -- this was before SSDs and in the days of tiny heaps. Any improvement upon seek times of what were then commodity disks (SCSI/SAS being insanely expensive and out of bradfitz' reach, afaik)
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by strlen 13y ago
I've lived in a totalitarian state too. In a totalitarian state (or even many authoritarian states) you can't speak out against even mundane policies without very real danger of arrest and imprisonment. I remember my dad always cl
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by strlen 13y ago
It is very much related: closed source software isn't audited in the open. Core principle of building secure software is one must assume that their adversary has the source code and is actively building newer and newer attacks based on

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