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This is kind of the point of Google's Go language (and many languages before it...). Most things are asynchronous calls hidden behind synchronous ones. Get the advantages of async with the development…

beautiful quote(s): - So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it. - Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. …

i spent 4 years, and it isn't realistic at all...

i think it would be supercool if the history function actually stored only the different commands that are being executed, rather than a timestamped version of the command...

getting to the heart of the linux kernel "development process" to be more precise...

One way to market this thing, for commercial planes, might be to tout the sheer impossibility of hijack...

i always liked gnus usage of scoring individual news articles by either subject/author etc etc. having that would be really nice. just allow folks to score whatever/whoever they feel like, rather than…

obligatory "Software Transactional Memory: Why Is It Only a Research Toy?" link: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1454466 .

or theory of patches...?

would you mind sharing your blog address ? i tried looking for it in your profile, but couldn't really find any pointers to it. thanks !

this kind of reminds me of the quote in "balls of fury" movie "game not in paddle...game in you..."

isn't that exactly what zfs supports ?

so you know what (who ?) "paul" is : pointer-to-a-unsigned-long. sorry, couldn't resist

paper presented by Younès Hafri and Chabane Djeraba in the web-archiving workshop. seems pretty neat...

everything looks better on a log-scale

here are the pdf slides discussing the project. Pretty cool!

there is video/screencast (referenced from the article) available here: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Historical-Debug... . on another note, it might be possible to have something like …

one thing that i am kind of curious about is: why not use event-based (epoll/select/poll) libraries (libev, libevent etc) and create a message passing model on top of those ? the message passing could…

oh dear ! sorry for resubmitting it...i am (still) under the impression that submitting old stories would automagically send me back to the orginial submission.