"Somewhere, Out There, There's a Way to write large programs without me having to sweat out Every Bloody Little Detail about how my parallel program communicates internally. Screw Java: I got a JVM with a super GC, fantastic JIT & decent concurrent libs"
"Dan Ingalls, one of the father of Smalltalk, is working on a new project called Lively. It is a rewrite of Morphic in Javascript, especially target for building a Squeak-like interface."
"the dragonfly 1.12 kernel does not scale to a second CPU on the benchmarks performed.... In all cases measured, FreeBSD 7.0 performs significantly better than both FreeBSD 4.11 and dragonfly 1.12 in both SMP and UP configurations."
Python faster than matlab: "I’ve discovered the power of python for numerical computing. being a slave of matlab for many years, I’ve decided to give python (and it’s numerical module numpy) a try, comparing its numerical crounching capabilities"
"I ran a poll ... in which I asked the users which selectors they used. As it turned out there were a great number that no-one had any use for ... At this point I removed them from the engine, breaking compliance with the CSS 3 Selector spec."
"I came across JMeter a while back but never got a chance to try it out. [...] This weekend I was able to test load on my 256 slice which this blog is running on."
"for static content, lighttpd is the clear winner, and for dynamic content, it is almost a draw between the 2 of the 4 - IMHO - coolest functional languages right now (the other two being F# and Scala), with a slight advantage to the Haskell framework"
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