There are huge gaps between the scientific paper and how you actually operate and scale Paxos from an engineering point of view. See "Paxos Made Live - An Engineering Perspective" by Tushar Chandra et.al.

Paxos also has drawbacks like being slow or lacking liveness guarantees. Some alternatives are discussed in https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/leader-election-in-d...

Not true at all

+1

I think Steven Blank was right about Customer Development methodology.

What do you guys think about this project? Digitalizing your retailer receipts. It seems to me a huge project where they will be able to get SKU level data out of it. It seems to be very cool.

I have used it for ram memory (free) and processes (ps) monitoring.

Doesn't top do the same job?

I don't believe that "Nearly four in 10 millionaires buy wine that costs about $10". That does not look how our world works...

Nice point of view.

What has happened? A lot of complains from paying users. This might kill the project. I could not back up my data.

http://getsatisfaction.com/buxfer/topics/is_buxfer_dead

I assume you have seen this:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/buxfers-founders-both-work-...

PS. You might get a better response if you retitle your post "Ask HN: is buxfer (YC07) dead?"

Thanks about the post retitle. Although i did not expect they shut the page off.

hi i find it kind of slow...