That's not what the paper is about. They still provide Consensus (i.e., total ordering).

Yep, I also think it's kind of a misleading name. It's still Consensus but with stronger assumptions on the network (kind of, it depends on an external master for correctness, which could itself use something like classic Paxos). Simplifying it a bit, they use a single sequencer that every packet must go through to get "ordered". As the authors suggest, that could be implemented in a programmable switch. Given that abstraction, they can simplify the consensus protocol itself.

From what I understand, there are three stages:

- interpreted

- If run 'enough' times, the code is JIT compiled (fast compilation)

- If run 'enough' times again, it is JIT compiled with the most optimizing compiler (slow compilation)

The question is what the firefox JS interpreter has to do with baseline performance in CPython.

He was being sarcastic =P From my experience with a galaxy s2, most of the software from Samsung is not that great (and can't be removed without installing something like cyanogen... quite annoying).

Paper reading is one of the ways of learning what else is out there. You can substitute that with talking to other people. Which Feynman did a lot, judging from the stories in his books.

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, it seems to actually be MUCH more efficient (if you have smart people to talk to): trying to find the good papers in the middle of the sea of publications/noise is a very time consuming task.

Publications from reputable journals are easier to find than to find smart people firsthand who are experts in the field.

Unless of course you're Richard Feynman, and you happen to know them because you all worked on the Manhattan Project together.

I agree. finding smart, expert people who are willing to talk to you is left as an exercise for the reader ;)

going on preferences->appearance and changing the theme from GTK to classic made it much better for me (will look just like previous version). Also, in classic mode, the UI fonts are integrated with the window manager so you can change them, make them smaller, etc...

The classic look suffers from the same issues. The padding is far too heavy on most of the UI elements.

If you use Eclipse on OSX or Windows with a lot of project folders loaded at once, you will see how much better it is than on Linux.

Maybe this is the issue I'm having when trying to explain the problem I'm facing. A lot of people seem to think that I'm complaining about the new Juno interface when this issue has been around much longer than Juno.

I also have some anxiety problems and from time to time my sinusitis shows up. What do you mean you just had a chronic sinus infection (instead of anxiety/depression)? What kind of symptoms are you talking about? This might be relevant to me...

Hollywood must be paying handsomely

They are: http://www.defendtheinter.net/

(scroll down to see a list of Congress members ranked by media industry donations)

Curitiba here

People do stupid shit because most of the time they don't know "what" is the stupid shit in whatever they are doing. It is hard and only looks easy on hindsight. This is the part were a mentor or good teacher can make a HUGE difference.