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by frognibble 16y ago
Here's the discussion on the original Rumpetroll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1741260
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Go implementation of Rumpetroll server (github.com)
2 points by frognibble 16y ago|1 comments
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by frognibble 16y ago
The server is running on EC2. As far as I can tell, EC2 does not have a virtual console interface or any other way to rescue a server that blocks all network connections with a firewall.
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by frognibble 16y ago
There's something to be said for relatively simple tool like make. It can be a lot easier to understand what's going on with Make because it eliminates the layers of stuff between the build script and the actual commands that are run. That
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by frognibble 16y ago
I recommend the book "Parasite Rex" by Carl Zimmer for those who are fascinated by this sort of thing. The book discusses several interesting and creepy parasites.
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by frognibble 16y ago
I heard that acquisitions often involve a merger with a shell company because of a tax or liability advantage. I searched for info on this, but couldn't find anything. Can somebody please comment on how this works?
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How to work with imperfections in RSS 2.0(scripting.com)
1 points by frognibble 16y ago|0 comments
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by frognibble 16y ago
What part of lzw's logic is twisted?
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by frognibble 16y ago
It is not obvious that the bulk of the resources come from the idled workers. Resources are needed to pay the workers. Resources are needed to buy the steel, concreate and other materials used in the projects.
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by frognibble 16y ago
It is also an error to assume that disallowing GET for updates adds any security. I recommend reading about cross site request forgery. CSRF is the type of attack used on Twitter today.
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by frognibble 16y ago
Seriously. Search the web for documents on "cross site request forgery". Most of the documents discuss the POST issue. Some documents don't mention GET because GET should not be used when the request has side effects.
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by frognibble 16y ago
The resources used in the stimulus come from someplace in the economy. The resources do not magically appear out of thin air when the Fed buys government debt.
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by frognibble 16y ago
No, it's not entirely the fault of GET. The browser does not prevent script from triggering POSTs to third party sites.
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by frognibble 16y ago
It might be that there is a simple and straightforward model, but there are incentives for politicians, academics and other actors in the system to reject this model. For example, politicians will prefer models that defer pain to the future
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by frognibble 16y ago
Your analysis of the situation is incomplete because it does not consider the source of the resources used in the government stimulus. The resources need to come from someplace in economy. For the stimulus to be a net positive, the governme
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by frognibble 16y ago
The Krugman detractors seem to be of the opinion that Krugman is clueless, not that he advocated a recession or cheered on the disaster. In this article, Krugman says that consumers need to spend more and that a housing bubble is one way to
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by frognibble 16y ago
"To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that, as Paul McCulley of Pimco put it, Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to re
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by frognibble 16y ago
I'd want to know where the company is located before applying, but I cannot find any mention of the location the website. Perhaps that's a test and I failed.
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by frognibble 16y ago
The Tornado philosophy is to use blocking for fast operations and async for the occasional long operation. Tornado applications compensate for blocking by running several instances of the application. Twisted is theoretically better than To
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by frognibble 16y ago
Tornado solves the problem of building web frontends, particularly those with comet features. This problem is not specific to FriendFeed. A number of other services use Tornado including Brizzly, Quora and Hipmunk. Twisted has support for
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What is the reason Lisp code is not written with closing parens on new lines?(groups.google.com)
24 points by frognibble 16y ago|13 comments
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by frognibble 16y ago
Facebook stood their ground for a few changes that users didn't like. For example, users hated the newsfeed when it was introduced. The newsfeed is now one of the most important features on Facebook. The only big feature that I can think o
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by frognibble 16y ago
I am a 50-something engineer who recently worked at a well known startup. I am planning a new startup now. I reviewed my contemporary connections on LinkedIn to see how many I'd consider for my startup. I did not find many. Many of my conte
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by frognibble 16y ago
I immediately thought "no hire" after reading the author's comment about Javascript and C. The rest of the paragraph strengthened my opinion. Age is not the issue here.
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by frognibble 16y ago
There are many fundamental errors about Go in the article: the := operator distinguishes declare and assign from pure assignment, not assignment from equality as the author states. Pointers in Go do not make the language unsafe. Pointers i
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by frognibble 16y ago
The RIAA's goal is to scare people away from sharing. The goal is not to make money from lawsuits.
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by frognibble 16y ago
It's interesting to compare this example with the somewhat similar example written with node.js: http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/experimenting-with-node-js/
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by frognibble 16y ago
The reasons for not using exceptions are covered here: http://golang.org/doc/go_lang_faq.html#exceptions
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by frognibble 16y ago
At most, you need to track a couple of booleans per socket, one for read and one for write. Depending on what you are doing, you might not even need to track these booleans. For example, on the read side you can ignore read events when you
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by frognibble 16y ago
The blog post does not say if the epoll code uses level triggering or edge triggering. It would be interesting to see the results for both modes. The smaller number of system calls required for edge triggering might make a difference in per

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