Have mozilla considered Tracy Island?

PCI compliance i think, also merchants wouldn't touch you with a barge pole if you don't have dedicated hardware... so no aws/gce.

Contemporary PCI compliance does not require dedicated hardware -- You can by PCI Level I compliant on DO, AWS and many other shared-infra providers.

Also, worth noting, since most places are integrating payments through, e.g., Stripe, the requirements on the gateway server are much lower.

You can definitely run PCI compliant infrastructure on services such as AWS. Stripe runs on AWS IIRC. Many (most?) AWS services are PCI compliant and using them won't prevent you from being PCI certified.

Did you guys use a custom allocator for rust? And if so how did it differ from jemalloc and how could it be compared to C++ allocators like tbb::scalable_allocator?

We use a custom version of jemalloc, with profiling enabled so that we can use it.

We also tweak jemalloc pretty heavily for our workload.

I did try ITerm2 out for a long time but I found it dramatically reduced the battery life of (newish) macbook, I'd get perhaps 2 hours less per charge, as a result i've switched back to Terminal and using MouseTerm for scrolling in vim.

Have you looked into ITerms' performance in comparison to Terminal?

Maybe it's because you're getting so much more work done! ;)

Add to that:

Landlord is not a criminal

Does not have rats

I don't think London's rental market problems can be solved by startups, at least not beyond what's already been achieved.

The Deposit Protection Scheme was introduced in 2007, and that made a huge difference. Landlords could no longer expect to steal deposits.

There's already schemes to license landlords renting a "House for Multiple Occupancy", whose definition varies by area. Typically, it's 3 or more people who aren't related to each other. This should be extended to all landlords.

I lived in an illegally converted flat for a year, though I didn't realise it. At the end of the year, an inspector from the council appeared, and said there shouldn't be a "37A", "37B", "37C", but just a "37". The house had been converted without planning permission _fifteen years earlier_.

3 million Londoners weren't born in the UK, and in my experience are less aware of the rights they do have. I don't know how to solve that one.

But 39% of Tory MPs, and 22% of Labour MPs, are landlords, so I don't expect the situation to change. [1]

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/jan/14/mp-la...

Is not next to a squat

Not a council house

Was not previously occupied by criminals

It doesn't have elderly neighbours

No kebab / chicken shops within x metres

Why not an (ex)-council house?

Or do you really mean not a council house, in which case the question is "what letting agents are advertising current council houses?"

with (ex)-council house / flat there is a good chance it is surrounded by operating council houses / flats.

I'm curious - why would you not want elderly neighbours?

Actually, I don't think any of those criteria should definitively rule a place out.

Personally me neither but I can understand the other reasons to some extent

Because some are difficult - for example being nosy, over-sensitive to noise and so on.

Everyone can be difficult - I rented a room in London where the guy below us had a habit of playing shooter games on his home cinema system around 10-11 pm. During those hours, it felt like living in the warzone (constant loud explosions, shooting etc.)

That is true, but I found out that issues with living among elderly neighbours are much more troubling. So I would like to filter that out if I was ever to look for a flat again.

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check out MS Orleans, it's similar to Erlang. https://github.com/dotnet/orleans

I heard about Orleans but how much is it in use internally at MS? Lot of services are not even on Azure, yet? Ever? It's well known that new fancy modern approaches take years to be understood and absorbed int the company strategy, think Git, Agile, elastic services, REST, mobile... Don't get me wrong I'd love to see MS going back to be an innovator, and Orleans might be an oppotunity. How long has it been cooking, 2 3 years? Where's the disruptive plan to make it the new paradigm?

>I heard about Orleans but how much is it in use internally at MS

They have a small game called Halo which uses it.

yes and no, while the previous GC pauses wouldn't have really affected anything the size of a hobby game, the improvements are welcome. The bigger problem with Go regarding game development is operator overloading and interfacing with C, the latter being a pain when it comes to memory management.

Would these GC improvements put Golang in the same league as C# (which is widely used for game development e.g. Unity3D, the .NET runtime has a GC) or can these comparisons not be made?

As heads up when talking about Unity3D, please be aware of the pre-historic .NET runtime they still are shipping versus what Xamarin and Microsoft deliver.

So always take the JIT/GC complains in Unity3D context with that caveat in mind.

Thanks. Whilst I was aware that Unity3D was shipping with an ancient version of Mono (and more or less consequently with an ancient version of C#), I wasn't aware there were a lot of JIT/GC related complaints against it.

I have dual feelings with regard to Unity guys.

On one side they did a great job increasing the visibility of C# among game developers, which tend to only switch languages when the OS and console SDKs push them to do so.

On the other hand, they spread the feeling that C# is bad for game development among developers that don't understand "language != implementation" and take their Unity's experience as how C# implementations performs in general.

However I also should say that they are aware of it and planing to improve the situation after their IL2CPP compiler stabilizes.

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