"NP-complete!" as a lame excuse
Some time ago I bumped into a usual Stackoverflow question. A guy asked for a C# algorithm that could pick elements from array so that their sum is equal to a specified number. A usual NP-complete...
View ArticleBinary compatibility of C++ Shared Libraries in Linux
A year ago I've completed my first "scientific" paper. I presented it in a local conference for junior researches. It actually didn't have much effect: as far as I understood no one at the conference...
View ArticlePrisoners and Fairness
Fairness is rarely pronounced, yet an important concept in computing. Its applications appear in different domains. Even when its unspoken about in documentation and descriptions of systems, I...
View ArticleConsistency Models Explained Briefly
Wikipedia used to do a pretty bad job at explaining the theoretical foundations behing the different consistency models of multithreaded/distributed systems. Especially cryptic was the definition of...
View ArticleA Mutex Puzzle
I wrote earlier that I know very few decent programming puzzles. To be more precise, I know one, The Prisoners Riddle. So I was reading that The Art of Multiprocessor Programming book (I already made a...
View ArticleMultithreaded Consensus Versus Practice
Many programmers complain that most of what they've learned in their universities is completely useless in their daily work. Anecdotal evidence, a survey among some MIPT alumni, suggests that the...
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