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Roberto Di Cosmo

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Roberto Di Cosmo's personal blog at dicosmo.org covers politics, economics and systems. Since 2012, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Why HN links it

Roberto Di Cosmo's blog, linked for posts on CoreOS and OCaml. One commenter calls the CoreOS overview great work and points to his ami-thinner project; another cites an Lwt threading link.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. rdicosmo · 2016-02-11Recommends
    That's great work, you may also look at https://github.com/rdicosmo/ami-thinner which is described in http://www.dicosmo.org/MyOpinions/index.php?post/2013/02/08/...

    Comment linking /MyOpinions/index.php?post/2013/02/08/131-optimising-the-disk-footprint-of-gnu-linux-distributions

    on “CoreOS Overview, Part One”
  2. Submitted Optimising the disk footprint of GNU/Linux distributions for the Cloud (2013) as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  3. There are apparently some such libraries already. I haven't used any, but they seem to all use process-level threading; there's no lightweight threading library (like Lwt) that uses real threads. Actually, I'm wrong; turns out it is possible to delegate Lwt threads to system threads: http://ocsigen.org/lwt/api/Lwt_preemptive . This model doesn't seem to allow communication between them, however. 1. http://projects.c…

    Comment linking /code/parmap/

    on “Fantasy World OCaml (2013)”
  4. Submitted Combo-economics at work in Argentina as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Hijacking the World: The Dark Side of Microsoft [pdf] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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