void_star

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Google Acquires Diane Greene's Startup Bebop(googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
5 points by void_star 11y ago|1 comments
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by void_star 12y ago
This is really cool. Does anyone have pointers to relevant papers that inspired/influenced their type system?
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by void_star 12y ago
Except no mention of vector clocks, so it's unclear how one would detect or repair a conflict. Maybe that is an implementation detail that is intended to be ironed out later...
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by void_star 12y ago
It's a little unfortunate that consistency is only mentioned as a footnote. If this is being used internally at Netflix, how are they dealing with consistency issues in the face of failed or conflicting writes?
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by void_star 12y ago
I'm reminded of a blogpost from 2012: http://medriscoll.com/post/9117396231/the-guild-of-silicon-v...
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by void_star 15y ago
This should be titled "how I learned to stop worrying about memory fragmentation and love jemalloc." On a slightly more serious note, jemalloc is a pretty incredible piece of systems software. If you're experiencing issues with memory fragm
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Ask HN: Screencast software for demos?
7 points by void_star 17y ago|10 comments
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by void_star 19y ago
This might be slightly off topic but for harder to find parts you should check out Weird Stuff Warehouse in Sunnyvale (it's close to Yahoo). The people are pretty friendly and it's generally just a fun place to go poke around.
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by void_star 19y ago
You might want to look into secure indices. It's still very new but seems to solve your problem.
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by void_star 19y ago
How is this a startup? Auto-complete is NOT hard: it's a trie.