ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier

Re:ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Ident... by jmtulloss on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:55PM (#18772072)

This is a "holy grail" problem in distributed systems (which this library doesn't solve on its own), but suggesting that it's not a valid problem to solve is confusing. Have you not encountered the use cases or do you prefer a different solution? With either of those objections spelled out this could be an interesting thread!

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Re:ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Ident... by mmirate3 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @05:21PM (#18773159)

Information-security can be oversimplified as one big "holy grail" problem unto itself - and when someone presents some software and proclaims it is "the" solution to that problem, but in fact has presented only a partial solution, then we call it "security theatre" and denounce it with extreme prejudice.

I believe the comment you replied to, may be making an analogous argument here about distributed systems.

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Re:ULID: Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Ident... by int0x80 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @03:31PM (#18772394)

Any reference to this "holy grail" problem?

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