vvnraman
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Comment · 4 years ago
Apologies ! And thank you. I submitted it again since I cannot edit the title - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30049441
Comment · 4 years ago
Damn it ! My `v` key has a travel and things are being pasted twice !
Fixed here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30049441 since I cannot edit the link.
Comment · 11 years ago
Excellent library and writeup !!
This is very similar to HPX, the general purpose C++ runtime system for parallel and distributed applications by the Stellar Group - https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx.
I recently saw the excellent video presentation by Hartmut Kaiser on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyztU__yys and a lot of concepts in folly futures are quite similar. However the most striking thing in HPX was that all the building blocks are serializable, and the presenter mentioned that it is so because you could serialize and move a thread to a different machine and run it there.
Comment · 11 years ago
Although still in use, it has already been deprecated.
This is what is being used now: https://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling.
Comment · 11 years ago
At the risk of being reprimanded by the man himself, here is the tweet storm in text:
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583696870704152576 1/I follow Bitcoin like some people follow Nascar crashes. Some quick thoughts in tweetstorm format:
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583697092306014208 2/ It is an open secret in the Bitcoin community that merchants who adopt it see virtually no meaningful transaction volume.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583697371378257920 3/ Western Union spends roughly 1/2 of revenue on local offices by both ends of the transactions. Bitcoin remittances don't solve this.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583697585719746560 4/ Bitcoin presently costs on the order of $6.5k per megabyte of data added to the block chain.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583697812438691841 5/ The entire market cap of Bitcoin as of 4/1/2015 is a fee paid to someone for work already done between 2009 and 4/1/2015.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583698553614143488 6/ Most advantages of Bitcoin which matter are captured by, and improved upon by, a LAMP app which simply holds account balances.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583699554563784704 7/ Bitcoin's Internet cheering squad is a spontaneously organized boiler room. This is Bitcoin's #1 engineering and marketing achievement.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583699782624911361 8/ The cheering squad improves upon techniques used to make Ross Perot and Rand Paul seem like serious contenders for the US presidency.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583700634764910592 9/ Bitcoin is not a protocol in any meaningful sense of word. It is a single C++ codebase that you have to be bug-for-bug compatible with.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583701008754147329 10/ Bitcoin's disaster recovery plan is a) get a cabal of people together in IRC, b) shut down the entire payment network, c) sort things.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583701441866371073 11/ No, seriously, the decentralized nobody-needs-to-trust-anybody payments network was shut down by an IRC channel's consensus for 8 hrs.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583702513469104128 12/ Time between Bitcoin blocks is not guaranteed (follows a Poisson distribution). Sometimes all pending transactions just stop for a while
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583702865098604544 13/ The media following Bitcoin, both enthusiast press and tech rags, are so incompetent at their jobs that it beggars belief.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583703396231716864 14/ One example of many: a single phone call or letter in Japanese would have sufficed to verify that Mt. Gox was insolvent in summer 2013.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583706966553276417 15/ A good portion of geek enthusiasm for Bitcoins comes from the fact that it is programmable money. But: Money is also programmable money.
https://twitter.com/patio11/status/583707625210060800 16/ This concludes my mini-rant on Bitcoin. I have a longer, more technical rant but will do it some other time.
It would have been good to put a disclaimer in there that the rant applies only to the currency aspect of Bitcoin, and not the Bitcoin Protocol.
Comment · 13 years ago
For an excellent discussion between the philosophies that went into the design of D and how they compare to Go, visit
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/8k59RgkeJ6s
EDIT: Removed dot at the end of the URL
Comment · 14 years ago
This really removes any hurdle I might have of inspecting the assembly code due to sheer laziness of opening up my Visual Studio and start debugging. Awesome work. If you add some type of interactivity to the generated assembly, it can be made more visual.
Comment · 14 years ago
No. You need to own a Kindle whose serial no. is used by Calibre to convert to any other format.
Comment · 14 years ago
Actually you can use it in IE right now using Chrome Frame. Read this for more detailed info - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/discuss-webrtc/tKoh1wr....
Comment · 14 years ago
It appears that Apple has been deciding to partner Amazon in order best Google's Play strategy. I say this as Amazon Prime Videos is now available to be consumed on iPad officially. Also both these developments have taken place after Google launched the Nexus 7. Maybe the talks have been going on for a long time, but I would say this definitely pushed them into making a decision.