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The choice of TCP over UDP (or vice versa) might not always be obvious. In a sense, replacing TCP with UDP is trading off reliability for interactivity.

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The most critical factor in selection of TCP over UDP or vice versa is usually related to acceptable delays

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“WHY are functional programming languages not popular for interactive programming purposes?" and "WHAT we can do about it?"

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IMNSHO, deterministic Actors are the very best thing in existence for interactive programming, with lots of very practical benefits (from production post-mortem, to protection of in-memory state against server faults).

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Password hashing is a Big Headache, and doing it right is complicated

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Note that none of the C++11 random number engines (LCG, Mersenne-Twister, or Lagged Fibonacci) can be considered good enough for cryptographic purposes – in short, they’re way too predictable and can be broken by a determined attacker, given enough output has leaked.

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The basic idea behind Continuous Integration is simple: as soon as you commit something, a build is automatically run with all the tests you were able to invent by that time

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One thing which should be noted about agile criticisms, is that there is no real disagreement about what needs to be done; the sentiment in such criticisms is usually more along the lines of “we’re doing it anyway, so do we need fancy names and external consultants?