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  1. programming nim: fun; debugging nim? on New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 1

    I found programming in nim fun; when I looked into runtime debugging nim, I wasn't very convinced I could actually use it for anything anytime soon.

  2. That the book is a satire. In fact, I don't think anyone who has read it thinks it is (though it doesn't take itself very seriously). The movie takes potshots at facism and war propaganda, yes.

  3. Re:Awesome satire. on Will The New 'Starship Troopers' Reboot Stay Faithful To The Book? (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Deeply unsure about that. I enjoyed that take, however.

  4. Re:Every One on Should All Research Papers Be Free? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    gross

  5. Re:Armchair cognitive scientist on Alva Noe: Don't Worry About the Singularity, We Can't Even Copy an Amoeba · · Score: 1

    underrated, thanks

  6. Re:Fully loaded 2U POWER8 for $2,000 USD, yes or n on Slashdot Talks WIth IBM Power Systems GM Doug Balog (Video) · · Score: 1

    Link?

  7. Official ARM Link on ARM Launches Juno Reference Platform For 64-bit Android Developers · · Score: 1

    http://arm.com/products/tools/development-boards/versatile-express/index.php

  8. Re: Congressional fix? on How the FCC Plans To Save the Internet By Destroying It · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  9. Re:Visual Studio 365 Azure Edition on Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service? · · Score: 1

    You rule.

  10. Re:NFS on MTCP: was :API support on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    Thanks, Christoph.

    I think I was mis-reading, section 5.3 is discussing performance with short-lived connections, such as happens with HTTP .9 or 1.0. The question I would ask next is, how does MPTCP perform when HTTP 1.1 or similar channel multiplexing is used?

    Matt

  11. Re:NFS on MTCP: was :API support on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    Hi,

    Speed-reading the paper, there appears to be some implicit ammunition for the SCTP approach (if it worked!), at least for applications like HTTP, NFS, etc, which are characterized by multiplexing of large and small messages on the stream. I conclude this from section 5.3, which I think states MPTCP over 2 links was slower than ordinary TCP over one link, when message size was 30K.

    (Apologies if I'm misreading.)

    Thanks,

    Matt

  12. Re:what's happening with SCTP? on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 0

    Byte stream semantics aren't sufficient, no. I need to multiplex messages. (More downthread.)

    Thanks for your insights.

  13. NFS on MTCP: was :API support on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    NFS on multipath is my interest, too.

    In NFS (v4) on TCP, the endpoints frame messages on the bytestream, independently in each direction. As FireFury03 states above, we're basically (potentially large) packet based. We'd like help from new transports in framing those messages optimally, avoiding head-of-line blocking for entire messages.

    In addition to solving HOL, it's been proposed that we could design message framing on SCTP so as to deliver messages and data chunks on different streams, and get some advantages of NFS on RDMA.

    I think it's the same story with a lot of protocols, including HTTP. In fact, like most web servers, the ONC RPC stack I work on is in user space, so I have a/the more complex version of these problems.

    So do MTCP developers see solutions for any of these problems on the horizon?

  14. what's happening with SCTP? on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Doesn't SCTP provide for these scenarios (and many more)?

  15. Re:"stealing ideas" : Re:Everyone loves a winner. on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    Sorry.

    Your claim that Obama a) stole and b) took credit for (inventing) the Heritage foundation proposals. He a) didn't, they are proposals b) never falsely claimed credit for inventing them.

    What he -did- do, is take a position you apparently do not like. Well, I would prefer single payer too, but I think it's just a fact that Obama never promised to implement single payer--that was widely debated in the campaign cycle. Don't like the policy? Fine. Don't claim betrayal on this one.

  16. "stealing ideas" : Re:Everyone loves a winner. on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    "Stealing" ideas? Anybody who bothered to pay attention knew exactly where the ideas behind "obamacare" came from, and that they had been implemented in Mass.

    I think -you- need to get a grip, and a clue.

    I think among other things Obama proposed this set of reforms because he actually sought compromise with serious Republicans on free-market heath care reform. But there are no serious Republicans, as your post proves. If any of you had any balls at all, or gave a damn about the issues at stake, you would have -claimed- credit for obamacare, and passed it by approbation. Instead, I bet you now say it's flat unconstitutional. What a crock.

  17. Re:OpenAFS+Samba on Ask Slashdot: Best *nix Distro For a Dynamic File Server? · · Score: 1

    OpenAFS is not dead. IIRC, any Samba AFS integration probably is. This doesn't sound like a job for AFS, however.

  18. Re:moorcock on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    Fair assessment. Moorcock and Farmer uniquely understood early pulp science fiction and made amazing contributions in their own right.

  19. Re:More of a Fantasy Writer... on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 2

    Thanks for this. Vance is among the writers in -any- genre whose work I value most after 30-odd years of reading. I periodically return to the Demon Princes and the Cadwall novels. I cannot recommend his work highly enough.

  20. Re:Well done Rackspace on OpenStack Spun Out From Rackspace Control · · Score: 1

    Strongly agree. This should be a big help.

  21. Secure BGP on Chinese DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders · · Score: 1

    I know of folks working currently on secure BGP. I would imagine that's part of the solution.

  22. Re:Good Article on Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month · · Score: 1

    Sadly, yes, there is every reason to expect it.

  23. lurkers and outside contributors on Open Community vs. Open Code · · Score: 1

    That's wisely put.

    As I look at the landscape, I'm actually inclined to think that opensolaris is usefully distinct enough from *BSDs, with interesting and rich tools and infrastructure to attract developers from (esp.) the *BSD kernel development communities, if it becomes clear that a clearer cut opportunity to do this exists.

    Also, it looks to me as if the internal Solaris devs actually liked having an open process, and valued being open source, and that while a lot of the reasons for keeping the development and design communication internal were competitive, they were also just intended to avoid taxing the productivity of a very productive team. I'm surprised Sun's solaris devs wouldn't have tried to make more (perhaps piecewise) efforts to engage external developers in areas where those interests wouldn't conflict, and, perhaps they still might.

  24. caiman: was:Oracle might have already lost on Explaining Oracle's Sun Takeover — "For the Hardware" · · Score: 1

    Project caiman the installer? I don't follow.

  25. hs computing saved me for mathematics on Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, Deerfield High School (which also served Highland Park, among other places) made computing available in a form that encouraged creativity--one of the best things about it was the lack of any relation to classroom activity.