Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

sounds organic, try to avoid that job.

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

I thought a web garden was a hobbyist version of a server farm.

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

No, that's a web allotment On 12 October 2015 at 10:49, Staven wrote: > I thought a web garden was a hobbyist version of a server farm. > > >

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

I think I once saw one at the Chelsea flower show, Designed and produced by a team of 37 spiders... -Steve > On 12 Oct 2015, at 10:49, Staven wrote: > > I thought a web garden was a hobbyist version of a server farm. >

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

if it's the term used by IIS, i think it refers to how a server handles web requests: (a) one process handling all requests -- i.e. in a select() loop -- or (b) a process pool, with each process handling one request. the latter is a "web garden" model. plan9's httpd starts a proc for each new

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 05:57:16PM +1300, Andrew Simmons wrote: > As a diversion from the discussion of the existential essence of Javascript, > could I ask the group for a view on the meaning of the term "Web Garden"? > I was just asked about this in a job interview. This is a concept that

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

I had never heard this term before, but this is perfect. Well done. > I thought a web garden was a hobbyist version of a server farm.

Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference

erik quanstrom wrote: |On Wed Oct 7 14:25:58 PDT 2015, elbingm...@gmail.com wrote: |in the case of system crash, fsync doesn't provide strong \ |guarantees that the |write will not be lost, or the fs not corrupted even in li\ |nux. some versions of |the linux kernel

Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference

On 10 October 2015 at 19:25, Álvaro Jurado wrote: > While checking out it looses in any moment some sha key and then fatal. > Other times not. Why do you think that was fsync, and not something else?

Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference

On 12 October 2015 at 17:49, Álvaro Jurado wrote: > what ensures sha key is in fs. The reason many of us are a little sceptical about it being fsync as such preventing the data appearing is that if the git function that writes the key does a write or pwrite, the key will

Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference

I remember tracing entire clone process. It was hanging in a function (don't remember which, the only one has fsync) what ensures sha key is in fs. I bypassed it with a rare mess, so if key is there, it works, if not, fails. In fact fsync changes introduced by Linus was in the line of ensuring

Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference

Has sense. Thanks Charles. Álvaro El 12/10/2015 19:03, "Charles Forsyth" escribió: > > On 12 October 2015 at 17:49, Álvaro Jurado wrote: > >> what ensures sha key is in fs. > > > The reason many of us are a little sceptical about it being fsync

Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference

2015-10-12 19:00 GMT+02:00 Charles Forsyth : > > On 12 October 2015 at 17:49, Álvaro Jurado wrote: > >> what ensures sha key is in fs. > > > The reason many of us are a little sceptical about it being fsync as such > preventing the data appearing

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

Thanks to all for the excellent and occasionally informative suggestions. I don’t think there’s any risk of my being offered the job, but I wish I’d had the concepts of “web allotment” and “web sharecropper” to hand during the interview. > On Oct 13, 2015, at 5:13 AM, Kurt H Maier

Re: [9fans] Web Gardens

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:57:16 +1300 >Andrew Simmons wrote: > > As a diversion from the discussion of the existential essence of > Javascript, could I ask the group for a view on the meaning of the > term "Web Garden"? I was just