Sun.Feb 23, 2020

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AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of things

The Morning Paper

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., CIDR’20. The Web provides decentralised publishing and direct access to unstructured data ( searching / querying that data has turned out to be a pretty centralised affair in practice though). AnyLog wants to do for structured (relational) data what the Web has done for unstructured data, with coordinators playing the role of search engines.

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References, simply

Sutter's Mill

References are for parameter passing, including range- for. Sometimes they’re useful as local variables, but pointers or structured bindings are usually better. Any other use of references typically leads to endless design debates. This post is an attempt to shed light on this situation, and perhaps reduce some of the time spent on unresolved ongoing design debates in the C++ community.

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