The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf]

Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by cfqycwz on Saturday December 14, 2013 @01:26PM (#6906497)

More specifically, it's actually a link to a copy of the same pdf hosted on scribd, the intention being to offer a means of viewing the pdf that's less cumbersome than Adobe Reader.

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Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by _pmf_ on Saturday December 14, 2013 @01:54PM (#6906615)

I couldn't think of a way to make Scribd's user experience any less enjoyable. I usually give up after the 3rd page hangs and navigation and even reloading fail.

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Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by jimktrains2 on Saturday December 14, 2013 @01:40PM (#6906553)

Interesting. I never clicked on it so I never noticed it was an additional link!

I've never liked the scribd interface, but what's more is that Chrome and FF have their own, decent, pdf viewers which are light-years better than either the scribd or adobe viewers.

I wonder how much HN gets to put that link there.

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Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by icebraining on Saturday December 14, 2013 @01:54PM (#6906614)

HN is owned by YCombinator. Scribd was founded under the YCombinator program. There's really not much to it.

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Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by jimktrains2 on Saturday December 14, 2013 @03:52PM (#6907065)

I never see any other links like that for YC companies (and there are a lot of YC companies) on HN; that's why I was curious.

Aside: Why can I respond to you and not cmelbye?

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Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by ics on Saturday December 14, 2013 @04:04PM (#6907110)

> Why can I respond to you and not cmelbye?

There is a timer on new posts before anyone can reply. It's to force people to think a little before they post and is pretty effective in rate-limiting flamewars.

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Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by davidw on Saturday December 14, 2013 @03:19PM (#6906952)

Not a scribd fan , but to be fair, they have been around longer than FF and chrome PDF viewers have.

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Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by cmelbye on Saturday December 14, 2013 @03:46PM (#6907055)

What? You think Scribd pays their investor to promote their product? Isn't it much more likely that their investor is promoting the product they invested in for free?

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Re:The Saddest Moment: Byzantine fault tolerance [pdf] by jessaustin on Saturday December 14, 2013 @01:59PM (#6906633)

scribd may be the only means of viewing a pdf more cumbersome than Adobe Reader.

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