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Re:Waltz: A Distributed Write-Ahead Log on Monday September 09, 2019 @11:43PM (#20924863)

Waltz seem related to Tango. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/09/paper-summary-tango...

Half Bakery: Communal database of ideas for products/features

Posted by mattdemon on Thursday April 04, 2019 @06:35PM
from the halfbakery.com dept.

http://www.halfbakery.com/category/Product

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Re:Nobody wants to read your shit (2009) on Monday March 25, 2019 @03:21PM (#19485863)

Here is a summary/review about it: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/06/nobody-wants-to-re...

Here is a summary/review for his earlier book: War of Art. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/04/book-review-war-of-...

Finally, Draft No.4 was a really good read. http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/03/book-review-draft-n...

Re:IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:21PM (#18650886)

Previous HN discussion on IPFS whitepaper and protocol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16430742

Based on the review at https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/02/paper-review-ipfs-...

Routing Internet connections over Starlink, SpaceX's LEO satellite constellation

Posted by mattdemon on Sunday November 18, 2018 @02:00PM
from the muratbuffalo.blogspot.com dept.

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/11/hotnets18-networking-in-space.html

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My Emacs journey

Posted by mattdemon on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:27AM
from the muratbuffalo.blogspot.com dept.

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/11/my-emacs-journey.html

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The Five Universal Laws of Success

Posted by mattdemon on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:23PM
from the bloomberg.com dept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-13/the-five-universal-laws-of-success

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Don't tell people what to do, ask them how to do it

Posted by mattdemon on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:19PM
from the riccomini.name dept.

https://riccomini.name/dont-tell-people-what-to-do-ask-them-how-to-do-it

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SDPaxos: Building efficient semi-decentralized geo-replicated state machines

Posted by mattdemon on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:17AM
from the muratbuffalo.blogspot.com dept.

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/11/sdpaxos-building-efficient-semi.html

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Re:Dandelion Seeds Fly Using ‘Impossible’ Method Never Before Seen in ... on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:55PM (#18244202)

Wow, new parachute designs may be possible then! They will look scary, but can be more effective.

Schema-Agnostic Indexing with Azure Cosmos DB

Posted by mattdemon on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @11:33AM
from the muratbuffalo.blogspot.com dept.

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/08/schema-agnostic-indexing-with-azure.html

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The many faces of consistency

Posted by mattdemon on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:52AM
from the muratbuffalo.blogspot.com dept.

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-many-faces-of-consistency.html

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Crypto: How the code rebels beat the government (Book 2001)

Posted by mattdemon on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @08:10AM
from the muratbuffalo.blogspot.com dept.

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/04/book-review-crypto-how-code-rebels-beat.html

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Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas and Insight

Posted by mattdemon on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:18AM
from the muratbuffalo.blogspot.com dept.

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/05/book-review-accidental-genius-using.html

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Re:Setting Emacs theme based on ambient light on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:56PM (#16805910)

I sometimes do this manually:

M-x set-background-color snow2, snow3, or snow4

or wheat2, wheat3, wheat4. or MistyRose1, MistyRose2, MistyRose3.

Re:Systems built on trust, norms, and institutions function better tha... on Friday April 06, 2018 @01:14PM (#16775018)

Relevant article. Replying to why decentralization matters

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/change-my-mind-abou...