Would you trust a central DNS registry if it was run by the Electronic Frontier Foundation?

bascule · 2 days

Namecoin seems cool... but still obscure and its robustness is yet to be put to the test

jesusandhisbeard · 3 days

Here's a totally vacuous comment just saying how much I totally fucking love this song

postmodern · 3 days

This is a terribly written article. Why build one project up just by tearing another down?

There are many tools for managing gem boilerplate, but gem boilerplate is also simple enough to write it by hand.

In the past I've used hoe and jewler. I switched away from them and like bundle gem specifically because it generates minimalistic gem boilerplate.

guywhodoesstuff · 4 days

I loved this, although I think it's a bit odd he came up with his own terminology and never managed to make a connection with the existing transhumanist community or nomenclature.

bascule · 4 days

The fluorescent bulb and plasma "fire"? Although clearly you aren't the only one who didn't find that entertaining

kurtgodelisdead · 7 days

NdgT, for the first time EVAR, I AM DISAPPOINT. Y U NO awesome like you normally are? :(

Being on the precipice of eternity doesn't devalue today! Carpe diem and all that, but don't discount motherfucking ETERNITY

vinayan3 · 9 days

How has nobody mentioned The Pizza Hacker

puredemo · 9 days

Supplement the following: Vitamin D (or eat more natural vitamin D sources such as catfish and salmon), fiber (if you're not getting enough in your diet), probiotics, CoQ-10 (prevents your mitochondria from generating free radicals), other antioxidants (coffee and tea work great)

bascule · 11 days

Yes! lol

denniedarko · 18 days

Here's some more outdoor bookshelves in the same town, except outside a fucking castle

tuker · 21 days

require_relative? Why not require_dependency?

wheredallthesyrupgo · 22 days

why the lucky stiff?

Herr_Doctor · 23 days

Perhaps this will clear everything up for you

likwitsnake · 25 days

Of course they're anteaters

likwitsnake · 25 days

Gonna take your word for it. Clearly you know what you're talking about.

jackreichert · 25 days

Fuck that, how will Wintermute call Case?

jmnugent · 25 days

Denver has a pretty awesome hackerspace

putfailforks · 26 days

Yeah, I live right next to here and take the 16th Street Mission BART fairly regularly. 1 block away is 16th and Valencia, the hellmouth of hipsterdom. From there you're a mere block from Four Barrel Coffee, the Roxie, and no less than 10 vintage clothing stores.

Sure, there's lots of scary looking people chilling around the BART station, but that's... every BART station.

The Mission is a chunky stew of gentrification, and yes, people get murdered, but that's gang violence among hispanics. You're not seeing hipsters getting gunned down.

coastsj · 1 month

Dolores Park has a SLIDE? WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?

bascule · 1 month

There's not a specific technical reason. Nobody has requested it yet.

bascule · 1 month

Steve Jobs at least thought it would work well for multi-tier web applications ;)

I do as well, and I think it's great for SOA in general. One of the main other areas of interest that has attracted a lot of people to it is the configuration management space (e.g. Chef, Puppet). DCell lets you have an agent running on each machine that can do your bidding.

bascule · 1 month

Asynchronous methods are "fire and forget", a single message the entire way which makes them suitable for message patterns where you don't care about a response or the idea of a response is completely irrelevant, like broadcast or pub/sub.

Futures involve some housekeeping data as far as where the response should be delivered to when it's complete, and a way to synchronize access to and blocking for the response. If Celluloid just used a future by default for everything, all this housekeeping data would need to be set up, a response message sent (potentially through a distributed system), only to throw that all away.

Pure asynchronous messaging is a far more efficient pattern when you don't care about the response.

You might look at the diagrams on this blog post:

http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2011/09/object-oriented-concurrency-deep-dive.html

Specifically async messages:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HZgGoMjHIBQ/TnA35xlLVXI/AAAAAAAAAXg/BDWQMRs25_Q/s640/CelluloidAsyncCalls.png

vs futures:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--rIWaNPd9po/ToLBIzyVdPI/AAAAAAAAAXs/R-11UPQZqvY/s640/CelluloidFutures.png

bascule

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