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

[–]bascule[S] 19 points20 points ago

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

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored by jesusandhisbeardin Music

[–]bascule 2 points3 points ago

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

You don't have to use Bundler to create new RubyGems by postmodernin ruby

[–]bascule 3 points4 points ago

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.

Eamonn Healy talking about the telescoping nature of evolution in Waking Life by guywhodoesstuffin Transhuman

[–]bascule 0 points1 point ago

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.

Last night was the first time I saw a Tesla coil do this (wait for it...) by basculein videos

[–]bascule 0 points1 point ago

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson giving his opinion of life extension technologies by kurtgodelisdeadin Transhuman

[–]bascule 1 point2 points ago

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

What is your favorite pizza in SF and why? by vinayan3in sanfrancisco

[–]bascule 0 points1 point ago

How has nobody mentioned The Pizza Hacker

Ask Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation, Anything! [Video AMA] by puredemoin IAmA

[–]bascule 2 points3 points ago

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)

Building extractable libraries in Rails by tukerin ruby

[–]bascule 0 points1 point ago

require_relative? Why not require_dependency?

Are these bears?? by likwitsnakein WTF

Are these bears?? by likwitsnakein WTF

[–]bascule 0 points1 point ago

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

Saw this in Grand Central Station. Truly the end of an era. RIP by jackreichertin pics

[–]bascule 7 points8 points ago

Fuck that, how will Wintermute call Case?

How dangerous is 18th and Mission? by putfailforksin sanfrancisco

[–]bascule 15 points16 points ago

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.

Happy Earth Day! From Delores Park by coastsjin sanfrancisco

[–]bascule 0 points1 point ago

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

Introducing DCell: actor-based distributed objects for Ruby by basculein ruby

[–]bascule[S] 0 points1 point ago

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

Introducing DCell: actor-based distributed objects for Ruby by basculein ruby

[–]bascule[S] 0 points1 point ago

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.

Introducing DCell: actor-based distributed objects for Ruby by basculein ruby

[–]bascule[S] 2 points3 points ago

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

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