socmag

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by socmag 9y ago
I'm very familiar with the literature since I'm a distributed database developer. If you investigate high frequency trading you will understand that the quantum phenomena that I'm talking about is not just me high on mushroom
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by socmag 9y ago
No I disagree since you left out atomicity from your argument. WalMart cannot commit if someone else committed previously, they have to try again. Atomicity is precisely what it is. There is no fuzziness there, you either do it or you don&#
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by socmag 9y ago
Hey guys, I'm a fellow developer of distributed systems here. First of all I think what you are doing is great. My question is what's the point of clocks at all? The current time is a very subjective matter and I'm sure you k
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by socmag 9y ago
Instead of just downvoting, how about refuting my claim? I'm seriously curious what is the disagreement. These guys already established atomic clocks are unnecessary. Very interested in which use cases require them.
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by socmag 9y ago
Clocks are meaningless under load. The higher frequency the transactions the more you get into quantum physics. In reality, nobody cares if T-Mobile debited your account 0.01ms before WalMart. [edit] what is important is isolation and consi
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by socmag 9y ago
I worked in risk management in the mid 90's with Bond to Swap hedging. You have it right.
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by socmag 9y ago
I really don't want to get into it, but it involved a beautiful Russian agent driving a BMW X5, baking implements and cup cakes. That's how it started. Not the first time I've been approached by the Russians and to be clear I
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by socmag 9y ago
Well that's how I run my life and I know a lot of other people do that as well. We used to talk about having "Fuck You" money back in the day. What was the amount of cash required to get off the system. Turns out it isn'
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by socmag 9y ago
Right, eat chocolates until you are sick. I don't think Marx anticipated just how many chocolates Eight Billion people were capable of eating.
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by socmag 9y ago
Yes this. Captitalism as it stands is totally unsustainable. Communism too but that was not Marx's idea that his critique should lead to what it became. Some form of socialism is important. It should be drummed in to people that societ
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by socmag 9y ago
The downvotes on this really make me chuckle. I guess there are people out there who really believe the individualism in Atlas Shrugged is a model for society? My interpretation is that's darkly satirical humor. Okay Ayn was a genius,
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by socmag 9y ago
Genius of the Modern World: Marx I think it's an Open University production by the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gpdbx
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by socmag 9y ago
Hmmm, well as I see it, Marx, like many luminary geniuses forgot about one thing. Human Nature. The ideas in and of themselves were profound but the prescription was unfortunately childishly naive. That given sufficient resources and everyo
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by socmag 9y ago
You rock! Absolutely, you need Atlas Shrugged on the bookshelf to understand the mess we find ourselves in. The most amazing thing is the hypnotic scam that has been pulled, on us that makes us believe this is all our "lot in life&quot
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by socmag 9y ago
Wow cool top comment! Which reminds me, I just watched an excellent documentary on Karl Marx which was very timely. It's largely forgotten what he was really about I think. Really hit home that his concept of the "Surplus Value&qu
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by socmag 9y ago
Right, NLP as a "Science" is kind of crackpot, but there are some things in the texts that are truisms and worthy of note just because they are laid out concisely. It can be very dangerous and malicious to use that basic knowledge
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by socmag 9y ago
Yup totally agreed. Knowledge of NLP helps. Not practicing it consciously but understanding the theory behind it. Is important to make a connection and pay attention to others. Too many people make it a one way conversation and walk away wo
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by socmag 9y ago
IMHO, you aren't going to get any respect from HN mods for being "correct". Group-Think is what runs things around here not fairness.
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by socmag 9y ago
It's nice to see you've reached out to Alex publicly. Any time someone or an organization brings in someone else's code and makes use of it, no matter what the license we really need to recognize that, it's just the mora
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by socmag 9y ago
Thank you for the clarity. I actually knew what you meant and probably the other person did as well. It did come off a bit harsh, that was my only point and I don't think think it was offensive but it seemed like it was conflating two
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by socmag 9y ago
I'm not offended, I'm stating a fact that we were talking about what makes a genius and you decided to make it about rape and there was an implicit derision aimed at the person you replied to in addition. I'm here discussing.
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by socmag 9y ago
That's not actually what you said. What you said is it is about time we moved on from C and suggested Rust. That seems like your own subjective opinion. Which is fine of course, each to their own. Personally I will continue to use what
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by socmag 9y ago
I don't downvote, even if I could. However, this comment is exceptionally rude, disrespectful and out of place here on HN. [EDIT] Specifically I don't appreciate the way you changed the narrative.
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by socmag 9y ago
Is that something you are just musing out loud, or are you proselytizing? If it is the former free to use whatever language you choose. If it is the latter, can you please keep your opinion as just that. I believe we are all adults here and
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by socmag 9y ago
No, those would require domain specific knowledge. But at least inside the Linux kernel everyone is talking the equivalent of English. Understanding English does not imply you will be able to jump into any random scientific paper with 45 ye
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by socmag 9y ago
File under: "When I poke myself in the eye, it hurts." I don't think in 40 years of programming in C and C++ I have ever seen an example of someone doing something with sizeof() quite that weird, and I've seen plenty of
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by socmag 9y ago
I'm not the person who was asking, but thanks for the insightful comments. Makes sense. Wouldn't a reversible computer that executes need to take up an exponentially large amount of physical space as it executes? That might work f
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by socmag 9y ago
When you say pointers, do you actually mean pointers? I've implemented something like you describe before in a game engine for a managed language. Instead of using pointers though I used integers throughout. The actual state was mainta
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by socmag 9y ago
I adore VS Code and everyone on the team that is cranking it out has my deepest respect. It really is a phenomenal piece of work and is just getting better and better. Looking forward to see how it performs with Chakra Core as the script en
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by socmag 9y ago
The downvote button should be banished is my only constructive criticism. As far as the rest, I'm largely right there with you. I also use what you call the "second conscious voice" as well, and agree it's extremely hel

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