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I was very fortunate to have worked on Arvind's Monsoon project as a contractor for Motorola. He was the very model of what a professor ought to be: an active and outgoing research…

rejecting for example Confucius Institutes at universities because they are promulgating an ideology that is diametrically opposed to the foundational principles of universities in…

What you don't get (or try to spin away) is this: - the money that China spends at Oxford and at US universities is an attempt to spread the ideology I describe - inside China (I l…

- block access to the (non-Chinese) internet - deny land ownership rights to everyone other than the gov't - routinely exercise this power by confiscating homes and plots of land -…

That was a great compiler group. I had the privilege of doing a short internship there one summer. Remember Lisp/VM? Lots of good people there. And many great stories about Fran Al…

>> Go has built-in mutable containers, and no const, yet they still use SSA. Right, as you say, compilers are converging on SSA, and almost all languages have mutable containers. A…

Yes, mutation of containers is definitely a problem. The natural semantics in SSA is something like container' = F(container, key, value). But of course this functional semantics s…

It is a money laundering case. HSBC tipped off the US gov't to a transfer that was effectively made using a false identity, to a recipient that was on a sanctions list. The US has …

There are news reports suggesting that she was arrested for arranging bank transfers from banks in the US to Iran, using false identify for the sender of the funds. The further sug…

This is great for SaaS startups. Auto-scaling of DynamoDB never really worked as well as one would like: too fiddly and inadequately responsive.

AWS Lambda@edge only supports the node.js runtime, so a comparison between workers and lambda@edge isn't so unreasonable; they have very similar execution models, I think.

I'm talking about using the Lambda@edge console to push a new, numbered version of a lambda function written in node.js. I have pushed 100s of versions in this way, and I would gue…

The article says that pushing a new lamda@edge function takes 30 minutes. That has not been my experience. I routinely push lambda@edge versions from the AWS console and the new ve…

Apple's SDK has an EULA that says it cannot be deployed on a server and made available as a service. Why can't mongo just create a license that says such a deployment requires a co…