What do you mean by "Unix"? Are you talking about some specific Unix version, or is there something in the POSIX spec that says that libc isn't a library?
Could you elaborate why Glibc isn't any better? I remember some funny problems with Glibc, like, 20 years ago, but it's been invisible to me (as a user) since then. You get a new Glibc, old binaries still work, it's…
You don't know, that's fine. You were saying that specific other people don't know either, which is weird.
> How many ways can you think of would there be for your statement to be false? Not as many as you might think. The systems at Google may seem incredibly complicated--and they are--but when I worked there, the scenarios…
From what I remember, Chubby was one of those services that was a bit more sensitive to poor client behavior. You could cause problems for other users with poor Chubby behavior, and you could accidentally end up with…
Just to be clear... I wasn't explaining the reason these projects get shut down, just the timeline of events and some of the contributing technical factors, since these factors are a little different at Google than at…
Collateral damage is an interesting way to put it. I've heard the internal story from people who worked at Google at the time, and it sounds like the rough sequence of events goes like this: 1. Google Reader is…
Get a job working at these companies and go out for drinks with the old-timers.
“Big cloud” has had fires take out clusters, and somehow they manage to keep it out of the news. In spite of the redundancy and failover procedures, keeping your data centers running when one of the clusters was…
> There was this Oregon company - Mentor Graphics, I think they were called - really caught a cold trying to rewrite everything in C++ in about '90 or '91. I felt sorry for them really, but I thought people would learn…
What do you mean by "Unix"? Are you talking about some specific Unix version, or is there something in the POSIX spec that says that libc isn't a library?
Could you elaborate why Glibc isn't any better? I remember some funny problems with Glibc, like, 20 years ago, but it's been invisible to me (as a user) since then. You get a new Glibc, old binaries still work, it's…
You don't know, that's fine. You were saying that specific other people don't know either, which is weird.
> How many ways can you think of would there be for your statement to be false? Not as many as you might think. The systems at Google may seem incredibly complicated--and they are--but when I worked there, the scenarios…
From what I remember, Chubby was one of those services that was a bit more sensitive to poor client behavior. You could cause problems for other users with poor Chubby behavior, and you could accidentally end up with…
Just to be clear... I wasn't explaining the reason these projects get shut down, just the timeline of events and some of the contributing technical factors, since these factors are a little different at Google than at…
Collateral damage is an interesting way to put it. I've heard the internal story from people who worked at Google at the time, and it sounds like the rough sequence of events goes like this: 1. Google Reader is…
Get a job working at these companies and go out for drinks with the old-timers.
“Big cloud” has had fires take out clusters, and somehow they manage to keep it out of the news. In spite of the redundancy and failover procedures, keeping your data centers running when one of the clusters was…
> There was this Oregon company - Mentor Graphics, I think they were called - really caught a cold trying to rewrite everything in C++ in about '90 or '91. I felt sorry for them really, but I thought people would learn…