BLDGBLOG: Procedural Brutalism
a few GIFs of procedurally generated architecture by a game developer named Cedric, built using Unity. Cedric describes himself as an “indie game dev focused on social AI, emergent narrative and procedural worlds.” Imagine whole game worlds powered by real-time computation at the building level, constantly and parametrically fizzing with architectural forms, barely predictable new Woolworth Buildings and Barbicans sprouting on-demand from the ground whenever needed.
(tags: brutalism architecture games graphics design procedural generation gifs animation)
Comcast Wi-Fi serving self-promotional ads via JavaScript injection | Ars Technica
Comcast is adding data into the broadband packet stream. In 2007, it was packets serving up disconnection commands. Today, Comcast is inserting JavaScript that is serving up advertisements, according to [Robb] Topolski, who reviewed Singel’s data. “It’s the duty of the service provider to pull packets without treating them or modifying them or injecting stuff or forging packets. None of that should be in the province of the service provider,” he said. “Imagine every Web page with a Comcast bug in the lower righthand corner. It’s the antithesis of what a service provider is supposed to do. We want Internet access, not another version of cable TV.”
The company appears to be called Front Porch: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/meet-the-tech-company-performing-ad-injections-for-big-cable/(tags: comcast ads injection security javascript http network-neutrality isps)
“Perspectives On The CAP Theorem” [pdf]
“We cannot achieve [CAP theorem] consistency and availability in a partition-prone network.”
(tags: papers cap distcomp cap-theorem consistency availability partitions network reliability)
Aerospike’s CA boast gets a thumbs-down from @aphyr
Specifically, @aerospikedb cannot offer cursor stability, repeatable read, snapshot isolation, or any flavor of serializability. @nasav @aerospikedb At *best* you can offer Read Committed, which is not, I assert, what most people would expect from an “ACID” database.
(tags: aphyr aerospike availability consistency acid transactions distcomp databases storage)
How Twitter Uses Redis to Scale
‘105TB RAM, 39MM QPS, 10,000+ instances.’ Notes from a talk given by Yao Yu of Twitter’s Cache team, where she’s worked for 4 years. Lots of interesting insights into large-scale Redis caching usage — as in, large enough to max out the cluster hosts’ network bandwidth.
CLion – Brand New IDE for C and C++ Developers
JetBrains (makers of the excellent Intelli/J) have come out with a C/C++ refactoring IDE which looks utterly fantastic. If I wind up hacking on C/C++ again in future, I’ll be using this one
(tags: c c++ refactoring ide intelli-j clion jetbrains editors coding)