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georgeaf99

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About georgeaf99

New: I make tools, build mesh networks, and work on decentralized software

Old: Contributor to planktos.xyz and Computer Science student at UT Austin.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #17193559

    Simon Peter, at UT Austin, has been working on a file system that works better for systems with NVM. It looks like existing file systems (e.g. EXT4) are going to suck in this new p…

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    Comment #13858545

    Hey all, I'm one of the creators of this project. I would love to get some feedback or answer any questions y'all might have!

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    Comment #13776797

    Hey y'all, I recently started working on a CI/CD product at an organization where the number of deployments per month is in the same ballpark as Netflix. In my experience, adopting…

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    Comment #13669969

    A friend who works at the Dallas Animal Shelter (a non-profit) asked me to help automate their process of generating reports from data gathered via Google Forms, which they were do…

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    Comment #13494730

    The concept of immutable assets and links is at the core of IPFS, a distributed alternative to HTTP. Since Firefox inplements the concept of immutable assets now, it would be total…

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    Comment #13463629

    LinkedIn has a similar open source project that is much more mature. It builds on Gradle features to manage complex dependencies and build Python artifacts. If you include this Lin…

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    Comment #12506348

    You are correct that creating a program that verifies any other program is mathematically impossible. However, given some critical assumptions regarding the scope of the problem, w…

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    Comment #11474710

    The paperback version is also available on Amazon for $26 (it is currently out of stock though). http://www.amazon.com/dp/149192912X/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_awdm_Tsad...

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    Comment #11188731

    I'm not sure that this experiment is all that useful in determining the practicality of using Raft instead of Paxos. Anybody implementing one of these algorithms is going to be spe…

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    Comment #11077024

    This is a really important point that a lot of people seem to have missed. A common assumption that stems from monotonously increasing clocks is that: all computers can guarantee t…

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    Comment #10794185

    I will preface this by saying my understanding of particle physics is very basic... Yes, that is correct. The Higgs particle is also extremely unstable and decays into two photons …

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    Comment #10794184

    I will preface this by saying my understanding of particle physics is very basic... Yes, that is correct. The Higgs particle is also extremely unstable and decays into two photons …

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    Comment #10794183

    I will preface this by saying my understanding of particle physics is very basic... Yes, that is correct. The Higgs particle is also extremely unstable and decays into two photons …