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90,242karma·8,022submissions·April 29, 2008
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http://web.archive.org/web/20101213212354/http://blog.ksplic... this is the last snap-shot (i think) from internet-archive of the above set of pages. not sure how large the delta is. but anyways.…
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i am sure folks here have already looked at this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc (RSA Animate - Drive), but doesn't hurt to spread the word again. maybe marginally related to the arti…
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honest question: is "sparks" not good enough ? or am i missing something fundamental ?
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> Are the concepts described in the article the same as Erlang/OTP, or is there more to it? seems to be identical to what already exists in Erlang. it is pretty easy, imho, to have an appropriatel…
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reading the title i thought this has to do with RFC-4039 a.k.a rapid-commit-option for DHCP, which basically allows clients to acquire configuration parameters in 2-message exchanges rather than the…
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Another thing that I have found useful, is to play with the same toy programs in different languages. For example once I am a bit familiar with basic constructs of the language I try out a simple newt…
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>> There are no property taxes in most of China, so people with money park it in real estate.
>Exactly the case in India. Most people there park money in real estate. not true. there most …
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nir-shavit's book "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming" is also very very good (imho).
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couple of questions for folks who might have some experience with this (1) with such a huge number of cores, does it have a cache-cohorent architecture ? iirc, first version didn't. (2) does it have a…
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imho, please do have a look at "expert c programming" it is quite nice. the conversational style of the book makes it very enjoyable to read.
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this is very nice , although seems to be overlapping with couple of independent offerings. to me, for example, sparks == instapaper, instant-upload == path/color etc.
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the area of each cell typically increases when you move out to sparsely populated areas with vast expanses of land. thereby, minimizing number of handovers (cell-to-cell) that might be happening.
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another point to mention here is that you can always partition the keys (as the author points out). however, imho, author errs w.r.t simplicity of usage in java vs in erlang. once things are wrapped u…
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seems like physical version of delicious to me :)
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i think this is all based on the VL2 paper, described here: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/05/VL2AScalableAndF... and the paper available here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo…