The Samza/Kafka guy doesn’t like the #CAP theorem and criticizes it on basically vacuous grounds, and #databases that attempt to characterize themselves using it on somewhat less vacuous grounds.
a profanity-filled rant about how the web sucks
Old source releases of #guix.
The history of #Guile up to 2009 by Andy Wingo.
The GNUnet #decentralization system.
The “Pure Darwin” port of #Nix doesn’t depend on XCode, using instead a patched clang.
“#Docker is a tool to make manual linking easier. More specifically, it’s a tool to let you do manual linking and then save your work.” #virtualization #containers #linkers
#EWD on half-open intervals: “Why numbering should start at zero”
Available public datasets on AWS
The Google Books Ngrams #dataset (2.2TB) #n-grams
Public #datasets directory on AWS, including a cannabis genome, the Enron emails, Freebase, Wikipedia page trafic, MSDSes, the Million Songs Collection, OpenStreetmap, Wikipedia itself, etc. Kind of dormant though. Only like two updates in the last year.
ROM images of various Apple ][ family machines and their peripherals, and also the Lisa, for #emulation and #archival
The 2006 #ICFP programming contest task involved implementing a new #virtual-machine (called the Universal Machine) and solving puzzles inside of it