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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] A little more ado about async Tclunk
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:20:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5ee20bfa3b7e67896951fcb2e491765@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C304C402-6BB7-4842-96AD-A24B0A30F05B@gmail.com>

> >> Let's try to define 'decent' for this thread -- a decent fileserver is one
> >> on which close()s do not have any client-visible or semantic effect other
> >> than to invalidate the Fid that was passed to them. Lets see how many file
> >> servers we can think of that are 'decent': fossil, kfs, ken,
>
> Decent meant cacheable. Your meaning as nemo said... not so decent. cacheable != "clunk is nop"
> even further
> cacheable != "clunk can be processed asynchronously". Both concepts are orthogonal.

that's sort of recursively begging the question.  cachable in what
sense?

> Cathegory theory is useful for thinking about topology and other things. It is not abstract nonsense, only abstract. It *is* noise in this thread though.

at the risk of the explaination devolving into general abstract nonsense, ...
in the english literature, category theory is often refered to as
abstract nonsense.  it's a mathematician joke, and a complement,
that i thought would be appreciated here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_nonsense

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-29 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-27  3:02 Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-27  4:23 ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-27  6:27   ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-27 13:50     ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-27 13:53       ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-27 13:55         ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-10-27 14:12         ` John Floren
2010-10-27 14:13       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-27 14:48         ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-27 15:45           ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-27 15:54             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-27 21:04               ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-28 12:12               ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-28 13:32                 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-28 14:30                 ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-28 14:39                   ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-28 14:58                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-28 14:41                   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-10-28 14:45                     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-28 14:56                       ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-10-28 15:37                         ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2010-10-28 15:40                           ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-28 15:53                           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-10-28 19:17                             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-28 19:24                 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-28 20:18                   ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-28 20:32                     ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-28 20:55                       ` Nemo
2010-10-28 21:22                         ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-28 22:17                           ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-10-28 23:51                     ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-29  5:37                       ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-29  7:44                         ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-29  8:51                           ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-29  9:01                       ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-29  8:58                         ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-29 16:38                           ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-29  9:45                         ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-29  9:56                           ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-29 16:01                           ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-29 15:58                             ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-29 16:02                             ` roger peppe
2010-10-29 16:17                               ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-29 16:47                                 ` roger peppe
2010-10-29 16:04                           ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-29 14:14                         ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-29 15:21                           ` roger peppe
2010-10-29 15:36                             ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-29 15:39                             ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-29 15:49                             ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-29 15:50                               ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-29 15:59                                 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-29 16:28                                   ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-29 17:16                                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-29 16:47                               ` David Leimbach
2010-10-29 17:13                                 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-29 17:22                                   ` David Leimbach
2010-10-29 17:26                                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-29 17:47                                       ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-29 19:33                                         ` roger peppe
2010-10-29 20:27                                           ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-29 20:41                                             ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-29 20:44                                               ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-29 22:31                                                 ` Bakul Shah
2010-10-29 22:39                                                 ` roger peppe
2010-10-29 22:43                                                   ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-29 23:07                                                     ` roger peppe
2010-10-29 23:28                                                       ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-30  9:08                                                         ` Nemo
2010-10-31  5:39                                                           ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-31  8:52                                                             ` roger peppe
2010-10-31  8:57                                                               ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-31 10:25                                                                 ` fgergo
2010-10-31 11:11                                                                   ` fgergo
2010-10-31 11:21                                                                   ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-31 11:23                                                                 ` roger peppe
2010-10-31 13:06                                                                   ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-31 13:07                                                                     ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-31 13:22                                                                       ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-11-02 14:29                                                                     ` Richard Miller
2010-10-31 14:21                                                               ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-31 22:17                                                                 ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-31 22:32                                                                   ` EBo
2010-10-31 22:41                                                                   ` Steve Simon
2010-11-02 13:49                                                                   ` Richard Miller
2010-11-02 14:02                                                                     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-29 18:27                                       ` David Leimbach
2010-10-29 17:18                                 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-29 17:17                                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-29 17:25                                     ` David Leimbach
2010-10-29 18:03                                   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-10-29 18:54                                   ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-10-29 19:30                                     ` David Leimbach
2010-10-29 20:20                                     ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-10-29 15:55                         ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2010-10-29 13:12                     ` roger peppe
2010-10-29 13:20                       ` Lucio De Re
2010-10-29 15:51                       ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-29 16:36                       ` Charles Forsyth
2010-10-27 15:09       ` David Leimbach
2010-10-28 21:39 erik quanstrom

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