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This doesn't look very idiomatic, with assert() and __int__ etc. Please don't try to learn Go from this. Edit: to be a little more constructive, do the Go tour instead.

I wondered the same thing. Noise in the picture should also make it extremely hard to predict. For cryptographic use one would only need 256 bits of entropy to seed a CPRNG, and I …

Telegram should be considered insecure. See this post for a nice summary: http://security.stackexchange.com/a/49802

Interesting product. Have you considered writing an output plugin for Heka ( https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka ), so that people could use the parsers and client side aggreg…

"In fact, Tetlock and his team have even engineered ways to significantly improve the wisdom of the crowd" Does anyone know what these methods might be?

If I understand your question correctly, you should look into PAR2

I'm very interested in this. Can you name some of these strategies?

That is my experience as well. In my thought experiment the 'offender' would be a server instance, not a process running among other applications on a single machine. Applications …

If you hit swap, again only the offending application or instance is punished, not everyone else (for instance by pummeling a backend database server that other services are using …

I've been thinking about something similar. I don't see how timed expiration would conflict with the two most important features - the filling mechanism and the replication of hot …

Read the article for reasons for using groupcache.

That much is obvious.

If you have a bug in another application on the server running the cache that causes it to grow its memory use, your cache would suddenly disappear/underperform, and the failure co…

Values that must expire could perhaps use a truncated time value as part of the key? It's not as flexible as regular expiration, because the entries would only expire when you cros…

I want to use this, but since the keys are immutable, how can I store data like sessions which can change and would sometimes have to be invalidated from the server side (i.e. you …

He seems to suggest that pot has a calming effect vs PCP

Your personal "objective" opinion? Kinda shows your own way of thinking.

What other time source would you propose using?

Can we get a manuscript? I'm from Europe, and I find this painful to listen to.

Being Nordic, I have no idea what you are talking about.