Archive for June, 2008
I tried to explain them how important it was to me, since I am not intellectually simulated in my school, and how meeting other smart colege students was imporant to me.
:-)
http://prez.wordpress.com/2006/10/16/facebook-has-a-post-limit/
As an update to my last post, I didn’t find an image which goes to 100.000 tasks for performance, but the Kilim guys have a graph for creating 200.000 tasks.
Perhaps they implement an supervisor architecture too. And perhaps this makes it into a future JDK.
Update: There is also a Google talks video about Kilim on […]
Interesting picture: Benchmarking Erlang versus Java concurrency
9 Comments Published June 21st, 2008 in Erlang, JavaI stumbled upon a nice Java framework called Kilim. It implements message passing in Java and it’s interesting to compare to Erlang:
As I’ve said before, usually comparing Java to Erlang is stupid, because it compares threads to actors, not Java to Erlang. Comparing actors in Java to actors in Erlang is the right thing to […]
I’ve bought a SMC WGBR14-N router as a replacement for my current Fritzbox. The FB is too slow for wireless with only a small - non replaceable - antenna. I thought I could attach my Qnap 409 to the SMC draft-n router to speed up time machine backups and copying to the NAS.
Reality: The […]
Another Rails and dynamic language fallacy concerning missing methods
5 Comments Published June 13th, 2008 in Java, Rails, RubyRussell writes in the post The Dynamic Language Advantage: A Concrete Example:
“All you have to do is make the call to the non-existent method that contains your column names and Rails will dynamically generate the method for you.”
Though he got quite some flak for his opinion.
@cards = Card.find_all_by_cardType_and_expirationData(cardTypeId, expirationDate)
Which looks magic to most […]
