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Doesn't encryption protect against these low level network backdoors? I'd think that encryption happens in the upper layers so by the time traffic goes through the ME, it is just gibberish. Someone with expertise enlighten me, please!

I've been looking for an article that I think I found 10+ years ago on the web about a very similar topic, something like "the evolution of database systems". It was a very well written article that I just skimmed through and planned to read properly but could never find it again. I remember it had hand-drawn-style diagrams of database architectures with blue backgrounds, sometimes squiggly lines and maybe even some bees on them (could be just my mind mixing it with something). I'd be eternally grateful if someone here could find it.

This post feels like recent movie trailers. The way you wrote it makes me believe you know what you are talking about but I have no idea. Care to give the curious reader pointers to the topics you mention? I mean the "printing press to furnace" analogy of the economy, or what you mean by 1971 or the gold bug or the 50 year transistor omg what?

This really seems like php. I also think that mixing UI with logic is a recipe for disaster and there is already php (and several others?) for that. I suppose the creators of such a thing have a decent knowledge of compilers and related domains, knowledge which really seems wasted on a project like this.

I almost peed.

Never heard of Level1Tech, just looked them up. Man... These people are so likeable! Great content!

The author seems to be very knowledgeable about the different aspects of programming. Whether you agree with his opinions or not, this article I think is a great starting point for learning about many interesting topics. Definitely bookmarked for later.

I'd like to hear about this too!

Ken Thompson wrote in his famous paper [1] about quines:

If you have never done this, I urge you to try it on your own. The discovery of how to do it is a revelation that far surpasses any benefit obtained by being told how to do it

Every once in a while I give them a try but I couldn't yet create one and it frustrates me very much. Afraid of being denied that "revelation" I never dared to read his paper past that point. I'm afraid I might never read it because of my ego.

1: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

I appreciate the clarification but what I didn't get is what "symbolic processing" has to do with "hard real-time" (who cares what the language looks like?) and similarly, how is "single processor" related to "hard real-time"

In every paper there comes a line at which I completely lose what they are talking about. If I'm lucky, this happens after the abstract/intro. In this case, this was it: "A real-time symbolic processing system on a single processor should have the following four features". What?

Reading through the comments here (and very much feeling the pain they describe), this idea came: Shouldn't we have a search engine that heavily favours the types of websites that we typically look for? You know, the classic 90s style tech blogs, the plain HTML documentation pages. Ignoring websites with ads, sites with lots of baggage (fonts, scripts, whatnot), sites with lots of images. Maybe increase the ranking of pages that don't change much in their look and content as time goes by. I don't know. Would it be useful? How would it pay for itself?

This resonates with me so freaking much. I am disgusted by how every bit of information on webpages seem to be buried between paragraphs of empty EMPTY talk and even when they seem to get to the point, most of the time there is no real information there. Sorry, this had to come out. We really need better search engines.

Fantastic job. I love that I can easily read breadth-first.

Can someone help me understand what is usually meant by "systems" as in "A systems approach"?

The way the author describes static and dynamic typing seems to imply that static == compiled and dynamic == interpreted. I probably misunderstand something, can someone help me clear things up?

Such a simple and good looking game. Fantastic! Gives you a sense of just how big our oceans are.

Where should I start if I want to dip my toe in this topic? Have a few years of web development experience and a Bsc in software engineering in progress.

Good point, thanks for the excellent article!

We know that sharing Hadoop helped our competitors, but we also know that the revenue stream comes from ads.

This is not clear to me, can you please explain? I'm still stuck at thinking "if you help your competitors then you give up some of your market share".

EDIT: your pie analogy is really nice, I guess it means you grow the whole market by sharing tools like Vespa so you get a smaller slice of the bigger pie. I still don't get how the "revenue stream comes from ads" part relates to everything else.

2nd point seems valid. 1st one however suggests that people will try to use it to their own benefit - some of them to compete with Yahoo. Why else would they contribute to the project?

I don't understand how such a move is profitable for a business. Can someone please point me to some articles that discuss this?

Someone please explain us:

- what the heck are we seeing

- why is a twisted 3d object such a big deal

- what are the applications

Thanks! Can someone tell me what kind of architectural style does that house on the landing page represent?

Where are the people like Andrew Ng: machine learning gurus from tech giants like Fb, Amazon, Google, Baidu etc... ? Shouldn't those guys be in the front line of such committee?

Do spaceships travel in a straight line? I thought their trajectories are heavily curved in really weird ways due to the garvities of stars and planets around them. Please enlighten me!

I have been silently following FarmLogs for a long time, it is wonderful to see technology being merged with nature. I often thought about what it would be like working for them but the problem is that I'm from mid europe (Hungary). The majority of our country is farmland, we even have a somewhat similar and quite successful startup here, SmartVineyard who do similar stuff but specifically for grapes. Is it possible for non-US developers to join FarmLogs without relocating?

It would really be helpful if such mathematical papers included the pronounciation of those greek (or whatever made-up) letters at least once when they are first used.

don't waste time reading articles about how to not waste your time

All this done by one man? How much time in total? This is awe-inspiring