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This is actually quite fascinating (and part of my upcoming book...) Despite the obvious high/low-level language differentials, people have been managing multi-million-line C code-…

Oh it absolutely is, and I'm on your side. My point though, is that it's always a "secondary" or "tertiary" business concern... a point emboldened by the number and frequency of da…

Probably because very little innovation happens to any long-standing protocol until it becomes a primary business concern. Almost every business relies on OpenSSL or some equivalen…

I do think there's some value to pointing out the irony though; two men from two cultures that couldn't be more distinct, with titles that could be synonyms, using what is essentia…

You seem extremely knowledgeable about high-performance servers! Your example is fantastic -- I realize it's written in C, but perhaps you could explain how in the context of a too…

Can you tell me where I may find more info on KDB or how this may compare to more traditional serving options for static resources, HLLs or anything that might fit well in a large …

Hah, the way you phrase that makes me wonder what you found. Right now really just web apps. Content sites are doable, and I know people running networks, but it's not possible to …

Not exactly, I think it was a poor choice of words as I was referring to my build/deployment tooling. If I have an idea (e.g. a "ES2015 to ECMA6" converter), I'd look for a library…

I have two books in my queue actually, and this is one of them. There are parts of my content-property model I'm not ready to share, but most of it has been structured into a cohes…

Well, "startup" is a poor choice of words, but he actually has a half-decent idea. As someone who owns dozens of little "tool" sites (think less/scss converters, meme generators, J…

It's really interesting to see services like this emerge. In my opinion, the merchant processing/gateway revolution happened when providers (Stripe, Braintree, et al) started provi…

You may have misunderstood me there. Yes, Islam is a particularly violent religion -- if you have read the Koran, many of its concepts seem very incompatible with the idea of a fre…

It does if you play devil's advocate and follow the chain of reasoning. If god is great and non-believers are bad and "god" says it's righteous and just to punish the non-believers…

As someone who develops high-performance systems and is continually learning, I think this is a fantastic idea! Honestly, something that seems desperately needed as that knowledge …

Because it has never been a question of who is deserving of what... The poor have no leverage, and realistically, no one is going to give that to them. We're not talking about an i…

I was actually planning on testing a 33% deployment this evening, I guess what I'm really wondering is that because this is a low-level networking adjustment that modifies locking …

Can anyone comment on whether it would be a good or bad idea to try to implement this in production ASAP? I'm a bit far removed from the Linux kernel to be comfortable auditing tha…

It's because there's at least one person on-board the company who understands the technical underpinnings, and has incentives that (usually) align with shareholders -- versus consu…

I'm not sure I see that as a fatal flaw... ultimately, the user is sitting in front of a digital box that can guide and prompt them in all the same ways a researcher can--the only …

I'm afraid you're misinformed, but for socially-conscious individuals (ie, they don't support a scorched-earth, ends-justify-the-means policy to get that $250,000* from your nephew…

This. Everyone should take note of the proper way to fight encroaching copyright law: If you are a programmer, security researcher, artist, or entrepreneur you can make a differenc…

I'm truly confused by your message, because your latter statement sounds as if you are in agreement? No one (intelligent) is trying to make a moral argument for 'piracy' or media e…

Actually, piracy is the act of forcefully commandeering another's maritime vessel; theft is the legal act of taking & depriving another of property, and I'm really not sure what "f…

I'm the original poster, and I was talking about ads, not metered queries. :) [edit] and perhaps that was a poor choice of words. as a developer of high-volume low-latency exchange…