seanmcq

There are a few interesting choices in your comment that make it appear to be an Astroturf:

1. You state that it is "your experience" that "all" recent Netflix slowness is a result of peering contract disputes. Unless you are a network operations engineer at one of these companies how could you have this experience?

2. You link to the WSJ, which is not a credible source when discussing big media companies.

That said, you may well be a real person, in which case I would recommend changing your wording on commonly astroturfed topics.

What bay area do you live in and who is your ISP?

Ask them to write an essay.

Can we just delete this entire meme before it gets started? This is pathetic.

Edit: To clarify, I mean everything said by ESR here. Yes Turings accomplishments are great. However, it's because of those great accomplishments that what the British government did is even more atrocious. Turing made key and irreplaceable contributions to the Allied war effort, and this was repaid by bigotry.

Also, when ESR blamed turing for his castration was just... bigoted.

I can confirm that my profile was modified to hide my real email address without permission. This appears to be more than a hype piece.

Please profile tricks like this, as they may actually be significantly slower than their naive counterparts on modern hardware. The prefetcher knows what a linked list looks like, and it knows how to get it somewhere closer than main memory before the nodes are needed.

This was pretty painful to watch as a gay technologist.

Why wouldn't universities just rase rates 10% to cover their projected liability?

This would obviously only exacerbate the problem and hasten the fall, but that does appear to be how independent actors work.

This is true until you realize you'll need to support keepalive and chunked encoding to write a reasonbly good driver. Two things that often require significant effort, if not custom coding, to make work with http libraries.

How could it not be?