Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
25apr2008
We Tell Stories 6, Six authors. Six stories. Six weeks. Pengiun dabbles into alternative reality fiction.
Paxos Made Live – An Engineering Perspective, by Tushar Chandra, Robert Griesemer, and Joshua Redstone. Google paper: “We describe our experience building a fault-tolerant data-base using the Paxos consensus algorithm. Despite the existing literature in the field, building such a database proved to be non-trivial. We describe selected algorithmic and engineering problems encountered, and the solutions we found for them. Our measurements indicate that we have built a competitive system.”
In praise of idleness, by Bertrand Russell. “Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.”
Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. — Augustinus, Confessiones XI, 14
Game/Space: An Interview with Daniel Dociu, and really awesome imagery.
Breast milk cheese: Any takers?, WJW.
Settling the OS X focus-follows-mouse debate, Steve Yegge tries to fix it.
Concrete examples don’t help students learn math, study finds, works for me, though.
ZooKeeper is a service for coordinating processes of distributed applications. Historically distributed processes are coordinated using group messaging, shared registers, or distributed lock services. ZooKeeper incorporates elements from all these servers, but incorporates them into a replicated centralized service. The interface exposed by ZooKeeper incorporates the wait-free aspects of group messaging and shared registers with an eventing mechanism similar to those of locking services to provide a simple, yet powerful coordination service.
Oh, the flowers of indulgence and the weeds of yesteryear,
Like criminals, they have choked the breath of conscience and good cheer.
The sun beat down upon the steps of time to light the way
To ease the pain of idleness and the memory of decay.
— Bob Dylan, Every Grain Of Sand
OpenProcessing is a ‘flickr’ish place for processing community to share their sketches, comment on each other’s pieces, etc…
Mega Wall, DerGuteMoritz rocks: “Classic NES Mega Man on my room’s wall, made of 7x7cm paper squares, about 2m in height.”
Passive polarization clock, nifty idea.
Hadoop Summit and Data-Intensive Computing Symposium Videos and Slides, March 2008. I like Pig.
MetaScheme, or untyped MetaOCaml, Oleg writes: “We implement the four MetaOCaml special forms – bracket, escape, cross-stage persistence (aka `lift’), and run – in Scheme. A Scheme system thus becomes untyped MetaOCaml, in which we can write and run code with an arbitrary number of stages. We point out how distinct the staging annotations are from Scheme’s quasiquotation, despite superficial similarity.”
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