http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/ Advogato blog for bcully en-us mod_virgule Mon, 20 May 2013 20:42:17 GMT Sat, 4 Apr 2009 02:21:06 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=43 http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=43 Looks like the spam attack on advogato is evolving. Is codemastr the first sign of the spam singularity? Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:26:29 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=42 http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=42 @<a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/Omnifarious/" >Omnifarious</a>: I completely agree about your ext4 rant! Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:56:13 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=41 http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=41 @<a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/Omnifarious/" >Omnifarious</a>: There's an interesting thread about that ocaml book on the caml mailing list <a href="http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2009/02/a9af1ae442b97b574f435b8b31683341.en.html" >here</a>, suggesting it may have been plagiarized from <a href="http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf" >this</a> excellent draft. I haven't seen the book myself though. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:50:21 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=40 http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=40 <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/davidw/" >davidw</a>: If you're put off by git, why not give mercurial a try? It's much more intuitive, especially for people familiar with subversion. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:23:52 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=39 http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=39 <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/robertc/" >robertc</a>: for persistent hashes, I have been pretty happy with qdbm. I can't say whether it fits all your requirements, but it has been faster and more stable than bdb for me. Its successor, which I haven't used, is called tokyo cabinet and there are python bindings floating around for it. It might be worth looking at if you haven't already. Tue, 13 May 2008 18:23:50 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=38 http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=38 <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/jch/" >jch</a>: In case you haven't already read them (though it seems unlikely), I believe the <a href="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/papers/seda-sosp01.pdf" >SEDA</a> and <a href="http://capriccio.cs.berkeley.edu/pubs/capriccio-sosp-2003.pdf" >Capriccio</a> papers both contain similar evaluations of web server latency, SEDA from an event-oriented perspective and Capriccio showing what can be done to improve the performance of a thread-based model. Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:56:08 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=37 http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=37 <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/rillian/" >rillian</a>: 44 nano? <i>nano?!</i> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:55:01 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=36 http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=36 <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/rufius/" >rufius</a>, as a Mercurial developer I would be interested in hearing what went wrong in your trial. Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:56:45 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=35 http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=35 ncm: I may be biased as a New Yorker and one of the more than one hundred thousand people who publically protested the war in New York City before it started, but I doubt you have any idea what "most Americans" think. Maybe you find it comforting to believe that the government wouldn't behave the way it does without the support of "most Americans"? I can see why, but it's unfortunately a bit naive. If you were American, what would you have done to prevent the invasion? Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:35:52 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=34 http://www.advogato.org/person/bcully/diary.html?start=34 ncm: are you being deliberately condescending?