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A crime against common sense

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September 25, 2015
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A crime against common sense

My lightning talk from Surge 2015. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg6-LVCHmGM#t=58m23s
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September 25, 2015
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  1. A crime against common sense CTO [email protected] Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill

  2. Plex blowing up in LX

  3. Patrick is not crazy

  4. Something good came out of it

  5. Not any closer to knowing what’s broken

  6. The unit tests bail out?

  7. A great place to start

  8. madvise(2)

  9. MADV_DONTNEED

  10. MADV_WTF?!

  11. MADV_FACEPALM

  12. Um...

  13. Phew!

  14. Wrong semantics

  15. Man page needs “clarification”

  16. A crime against common sense

  17. Tru64?!

  18. Tru64!

  19. MADV_FREE?

  20. There I fixed it!