The FAQ of Google Wave Protocol says that [HTML] "does not have desirable properties" and that "HTML makes OT (Operational Transforms) difficult if not impossible" [1]. Why is this so? What problem...

I'm playing around with Storm, and I'm wondering where Storm specifies (if possible) the (tumbling/sliding) window size upon an aggregation. E.g. If we want to find the trending topics for the prev...

I hope this question isn't too subjective, but why is Windows considered an unsuitable operating system for real time systems and high performance servers? Are there any technical papers or s...

I've heard nothing but good things about RTOSs--they give the programmer greater control over the scheduler so as to e.g. avoid priority inversion, their timing is more consistent, better multitask...