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Blowing up the Atomic Barrier: Atomics in C and C++ [video](air.mozilla.org)
1 points by t1m 12y ago|0 comments
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by t1m 12y ago
One of the decedents was Xerox LOOPS, which was an Interlisp OO extension and ran on their Alto and Star systems (IIRC). I had the opportunity to play around on one of these and hacked some LOOPS code back in the day. LOOPS itself had a v
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by t1m 12y ago
I had access to either an Alto or a Dorado during my co-op terms at Environment Canada (the weather service) back in the late 80s. I had a keen interest in OO at the time, but I can't remember this machine having a Smalltalk. Wheneve
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CommonLoops: Merging Lisp and Object-Oriented Programming (1988) [pdf](www2.parc.com)
18 points by t1m 12y ago|2 comments
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Oral History of Adele Goldberg (2010) [pdf](archive.computerhistory.org)
21 points by t1m 12y ago|0 comments
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Firefox OS Shows Continued Global Growth(blog.mozilla.org)
165 points by t1m 12y ago|120 comments
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by t1m 12y ago
It is true that Canada is not the same country as the USA. If you do business in any country that has brick and mortar plus employees, you will need to register with the government in that country. The US has exactly the same law.
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by t1m 12y ago
The post mentions Tango, which has a novel consistency algorithm, but doesn't mention how BookKeeper differs from Kafka (also an Apache project). Can anyone comment on the difference?
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by t1m 12y ago
I would say that doing the other guy's benchmark is the most objective thing you can do. You should take it one step further and include other competitive products. In this case, it's pretty easy to beat the crap out of Oracle
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by t1m 12y ago
Then again, MemSQL didn't design the benchmark. They beat Oracle at their own benchmark on massively cheaper nodes.
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by t1m 12y ago
I think you are missing the point. They chose to deploy on AWS because the 'modestly priced' instances they are talking about are gigantically less powerful than Oracle's 'appliances'. The article is about software
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by t1m 12y ago
The article is about well off seniors in Canada. I wonder if the situation is much different in the US. The health care system is certainly different. One gets the impression the system in the US preys on seniors as employer benefits evap
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Russia and Canada troll each other on Twitter(cbc.ca)
2 points by t1m 12y ago|1 comments
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by t1m 12y ago
Apparently, in Swedish, the name 'My' would be pronounced like the English word 'me'.
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A Call for Trust, Transparency and User Control in Advertising(blog.mozilla.org)
3 points by t1m 12y ago|0 comments
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by t1m 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293748 I am neither a jerk nor an American nor incorrect.
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by t1m 12y ago
I don't dislike the word "orientated" (it is a real word), nor would I discourage it's use on either side of whatever pond. It's simply not correct to use it in the particular and very specific "object orie
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by t1m 12y ago
Smalltalk is a small, uniform object orientated language,... "orientated"?? I hate to be a stickler, but you cannot say "object orientated" any more that you can say "the object was instantiatated", or "
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Kludge(en.m.wikipedia.org)
1 points by t1m 12y ago|0 comments
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Coders at Work Interview: Peter Deutsch(ivory.idyll.org)
2 points by t1m 12y ago|0 comments
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Doc Searls Chats with Mozilla(air.mozilla.org)
2 points by t1m 12y ago|0 comments
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LevelDB vs. RocksDB vs. LMDB for In Memory Datasets(symas.com)
3 points by t1m 12y ago|0 comments
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by t1m 12y ago
I would be interested in seeing your benchmarks. The author of LMDB doesn't really make bold claims, he actually just included LMDB (and the venerable Berkeley DB) in LevelDB's published benchmarks. The benchmarks were develope
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by t1m 12y ago
IIRC, current x86-64 chips are limited to 48bits virtual address to simplify the address translation logic (cheaper to manufacture). This makes sense for the current generation of storage sub-systems, though it would be misleading to say us
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by t1m 12y ago
Is it just me or is using 'cloud' in their product names just shark jumping. Seriously.
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by t1m 12y ago
It would be more great if they open sourced it.
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by t1m 12y ago
I found the SSD discussion very useful. Bottom line is that deleting (or rewriting) data causes unpredictable and degraged write performance due to "write amplification". Sticking to appends-only writes keeps things fast. I cert
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Www.suck.com (1995)(suck.com)
2 points by t1m 12y ago|0 comments
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by t1m 12y ago
I recently went through the instant interview/rejection process at an up-and-comming SV start-up, and can relate to the OP's confusion. I am also in my 40s and at first wondered how the obviously flawed process could produce reas
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by t1m 12y ago
Git is pretty good at handling large files right now. We use git to push configuration data to (near) real-time systems that keep this data in local memory mapped key-value stores. It's essentially a fully replicated, eventually consi

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