mcartyem

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by mcartyem 13y ago
I can see how closures would take some work. Thanks. There's evidence garbage collection was not the desired solution but a plan B. McCarthy writes the reason reference counting was not implemented was a hardware limitation [1]: "Since ther
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by mcartyem 13y ago
(thank you for the willingness to write such a detailed response) There exists a point on the memory management continuum where management starts being more automatic (gc) than manual (malloc/free). I would like to understand the forces sur
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Formal theory of creativity(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mcartyem 13y ago|0 comments
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by mcartyem 13y ago
There have been a lot of posts related to garbage collection lately but none of them touched upon what I see as a crucial issue: why is garbage collection needed to begin with? Could you do without it? What is the key point that made it nec
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Ask HN: NoSQL or flat files?
8 points by mcartyem 13y ago|6 comments
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by mcartyem 13y ago
What about it is a nightmare? Isn't storing, tracking, and managing billions of entries done directly in a database anyway?
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by mcartyem 13y ago
This might be a silly thing to ask, but why don't they save their data in flat files on a shared filesystem? They wouldn't need Memcached, since the OS caches files anyway; replication with rsync becomes easy; they don't need transactions a
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by mcartyem 13y ago
This is great research, thank you.
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by mcartyem 13y ago
The word innovator might be ill-suited to support the argument that mastery generally takes time. For example physicists and mathematicians do their best work in their early twenties. Arguably they get worse with age.
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by mcartyem 13y ago
Many jobs are crappy because companies want guarantees. They would rather have peace of mind that things are moving at a known rate compared to any risk of uncertainty. The jobs are not necessarily crappy because companies are interested in
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by mcartyem 13y ago
Perhaps unbeknownst to you, you suggested that languages can be ranked, and that one of them stands out on top as best. You are almost right. There is one language that is the best, though it's so young it doesn't stand out yet. This might
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by mcartyem 13y ago
How about: what's the most important thing people refuse to accept?
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by mcartyem 13y ago
Mine is compilers. Which is another way of saying: automating; reducing the work I have to do manually.
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by mcartyem 13y ago
I have a question about it: can anyone tell how it deals with redundancy? It seems to be distributed. If you are running Plan 9 on 3 machines, and one goes down, what happens to the rest of the system. Does it become unavailable?
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs(en.wikipedia.org)
13 points by mcartyem 13y ago|8 comments
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64 Rasberry Pis turned into a supercomputer(hackaday.com)
1 points by mcartyem 13y ago|1 comments
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by mcartyem 13y ago
An important variable not considered by this solution is who the author of a comment is.
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by mcartyem 13y ago
Catering to people with special needs like the deaf & blind has to be one of the most untapped opportunities for a startup. The angle in is to build something the blind can use that frees them from the difficulty of browsing company web
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by mcartyem 14y ago
10% of the $34.6 billions Russians have parked in Cyprus is a lot of money. http://www.businessinsider.com/cyprus-bailout-russian-angle-... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-21/russia-cyprus-money...
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by mcartyem 14y ago
On free time, it may be that the body assimilates what was learned during practicing. One accomplished musician believes: "Relaxation is necessary tension. Tension is unnecessary tension." http://www.dgmlive.com/aphorisms.html
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by mcartyem 14y ago
Can you say in one sentence what it is that you built that doesn't already exist, and why it is important?
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by mcartyem 14y ago
One challenge is to load balance programs that are not written in MPI, but instead written in your favorite language. i.e. to load balance a web app. RAMCloud is a way to bring back Moore's law at this time: https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/w
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RAMCloud Project(ramcloud.stanford.edu)
3 points by mcartyem 14y ago|0 comments
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by mcartyem 14y ago
Yes!
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Amoeba (operating system)(en.wikipedia.org)
37 points by mcartyem 14y ago|19 comments
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Continuations were originally ignored(cs.au.dk)
1 points by mcartyem 14y ago|1 comments
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An operating system is a special case of a programming language(losak.sourceforge.net)
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by mcartyem 14y ago
Inevitably, any build system becomes part of the software. With make this means you are now using a far more inferior language to build software.
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by mcartyem 14y ago
Start working on a project, and when you have a problem, only then go look for a solution.
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by mcartyem 14y ago
What the author does is something people used to do in the past. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/24/sleep-tw...

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