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A crime against common sense

Bryan Cantrill
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

Bryan Cantrill

September 25, 2015
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Transcript

  1. A crime against common sense
    CTO
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    Bryan Cantrill
    @bcantrill

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  2. Plex blowing up in LX

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  3. Patrick is not crazy

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  4. Something good came out of it

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  5. Not any closer to knowing what’s broken

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  6. The unit tests bail out?

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  7. A great place to start

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  8. madvise(2)

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  9. MADV_DONTNEED

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  10. MADV_WTF?!

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  11. MADV_FACEPALM

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  12. Um...

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  13. Phew!

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  14. Wrong semantics

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  15. Man page needs “clarification”

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  16. A crime against common sense

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  17. Tru64?!

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  18. Tru64!

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  19. MADV_FREE?

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  20. There I fixed it!

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