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There are also reasons outside infosec concerns. For example where such PKs would be directly related to your revenue, such as orders in an e-commerce platform. You wouldn't want competitors to have an estimate of your daily volume, that kind of thing.

Summary > Latency section [1]

https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-fastest-messaging-system...

> (I remember an article from HN about how bash had to be written by someone who hadn't seen the unix shell code or something like that).

I believe you're referring to Clean Room Design[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

Today I Found Out has an episode on it too [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/CPERnfB-q3o

> It'd be demotivating if someone thinks they can do your project better than you can, right?

This would be valid thinking though should the project go inactive.

A relevant post, "Open Source is Not About You" by Rich Hickey.

https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...

> Enter username to play for free directly in your browser

I was so happy after seeing this thinking, "so amazing of them to let me check it out without having to register" only to discover that it led to a register form :(

Possibly coincidence but started around today's google outage, spamming multiple issues per minute, first one at 1358 CET.

Edit: fix typo

Another really good reading about distributed systems is Kyle Kingsbury's (aphyr) distsys-class notes:

https://github.com/aphyr/distsys-class

It has joins, so no ;)

too soon

Smaller nitpick, it was Cypher.

This is reminiscent of

    int getRandomNumber()
    {
        return 4;  // chosen by fair dice roll.
                   // guaranteed to be random.
    }

Related to your comment, here's the paper [0] and Because Science recently made a video about how such a game would look like [1].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmODVYPDLA