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Apologies ! And thank you. I submitted it again since I cannot edit the title - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30049441

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.

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.

Although still in use, it has already been deprecated.

This is what is being used now: https://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cling.

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.

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

The discussion between Andrei Alexandrescu (Facebook) and Ian Lance Taylor (Google) is highly intellectual, especially the part about how each language addresses concurrency.

EDIT: Removed dot at the end of the URL

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.

No. You need to own a Kindle whose serial no. is used by Calibre to convert to any other format.

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....

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.

It wasn't like this but I would say my start was quite similar. I had just heard/read people being so productive with Vim and I always wanted to start but never could take the jump.

One time I had to do a college project in a language I had not used before, JESS (JRE cousin of CLIPS). Though its similar to Scheme in which I had coded a few years before, it has a few of its own syntactic idioms. I planned to do the project in VIM. As there was no baggage of using JESS with any IDE before, there was no such thing as a hindrance or inhibition which I used to have while trying to using VIM for coding C/C++, etc.

Within the next 2-3 weeks I learned the basics and a few intermediate use-cases of VIM (refactoring using registers, etc...). After finishing the project, I shifted to code in C/C++ using VIM has my primary editor and have never looked back since. I basically piggybacked my experience with VIM in JESS and the it took less than a day to translate all that and use it with C/C++ code :)

With regards to ViEMU, my use case is to open the same file in both VIM and Visual Studio quite sometimes as they both can detect changes made to the file outside of the editor. So far its worked without any issues :)

The submitted link goes to "index0.html". The link "http://dlang.org/index.html still works.

Wow !! As a movie buff myself I think I'll be vising you site almost everyday now. This is what I used to do before:

  - Go to www.imdb.com
  - Click on 'See more movie showtimes' at the right.
  - On the next page, click on the 'Favorites' tab to choose a theater.
  - Go to maps.google.com and plan the route to the theater.

This is definitely going to save me at least a few hours every week while I check which movie is playing at what location.

And its got TRAILERS too !!! I'm addicted !!

Notepad++ is one of the fastest and the best editors out there.

Products like these show that over a given period of time, people being to notice the subtle differences between the speed of simple things, like the time taken for the context menu to appear, or the drop-down for word completion to appear. This is primarily why my use of IDEs has decreased over time. It just takes a little too long for doing stuff in them, and hinders your natural flow.

By the way, their word completion (Settings -> Preferences -> Backup/Auto-completion -> Word Completion) is simply their killer feature and has spoiled me for any other editors.

You can edit your post and make it recursive by adding the current link, so that the next time this story is re-posted, yours is the only post to be copied. Here is the link to this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3691113

http://www.sendgrid.com/ which provides email services to a lot of clients perhaps uses this by default. I don't think people in this business look at it as an attack. Websites use various techniques to track people's activities, and this is just another one of them.

I don't think he can be blamed too much though. As per the bug filed here - https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5228, the bug was being closed by others after being given a cursory look, and was being reopened again for consideration. Maybe a little immature, but there was a mild provocation.

I would like to know something here. Since there is only 1 stack for a pThread and the stack state is swapped on a context switch for a co-routine within a pThread, wouldn't this be quite expensive if there are a lot of variables on stack for that co-routine? Or is the swapping being carried out in a different manner, eg. caching, pre-allocated stacks, etc..

Good compilation. You have captured almost every scenario I used to go through a while back !!

Can you also reveal the details of the hosting you are using? Hacker News generates a lot of traffic and your site looks quite responsive !!!

This has to be the best line - It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.

1023 = 2^10 - 1. It would have taken all the 10 fingers.

Your example doesn't compare to Vic's post in the same way you intend to. Vic clearly states that

  But in the end, when I think about leadership, passion and attention to detail, I think back to the call I received from Steve Jobs on a Sunday morning in January.

Steve is not Vic's boss but only that Vic had regular dealings with Steve. In this case too its clearly reflects in the post that Steve is not bossing Vic to do a job himself. He is assigning someone from his team to fix the issue who has to work with Vic.

Its something like a Painter who has build up a reputation over the years through his paintings because of which people view him with a very high regard.

I have a cousin who I view in a very high regard when it comes to photography. I listen to him when he says something about photography and sometimes it takes me a few months to apply some of his imparted knowledge which he said casually as one-liners. It wasn't always like that. He built up that reputation through his work over the years.

If I ever get a call from my cousin about a photo I took and he suggests something about it, I'll be all ears and would be eager to include his suggestion the next time I try taking a similar photo.

Well if you use a ton of tabs in Chrome, you can try Vertical Tabs. You would have to add the following to your Chrome shortcut:

   -enable-apps -enable-vertical-tabs

Open Chrome, Right Click on a Tab and check on Use Side Tabs.

It eats up a little of your screen real estate but I guess that should be okay as you have a 27" iMac. And you will be able to see the names of every tabs then !!!

Well, the author intends to give us advice on the the general purpose CS stuff which all the CS students should have a practical knowledge in.

I think its taken for granted that while graduating, we would be doing the more demanding things such as: -designing our own programming language. -developing a minimal OS dedicated for some specific task. -develop an new alogorithm or drastically improve upon an existing one. -etc...

While doing the things mentioned in the author's list, you may surely implement a few of the crypting concepts which you have learned during your graduation. No one is stopping you to do that.

I couldn't help but observe that these lists, read independently, would apply to any aspect of life and not only to Programming. Sure we need to replace the technical jargon with their generic counterparts.