Posted in Tech on April 23rd, 2012 No Comments »
The past couple of years I have been on the quest for the Holy Grail of concurrency. Oracle Coherence is perfect for as far as I’ve pushed it, with the tiny drawback of 7-figure license fees. Erlang has a bit of concurrency brilliance in exchange for shocking primitiveness in things non-concurrency related, but even the [...]
Posted in Current Events, Tech on August 21st, 2011 No Comments »
I remembered I had a blog. Well, I hadn’t forgotten that I had one, just that for years it had some incomprehensible wordpress error that came up when you went to it. And I think we spoil our computer programs too much if we jump to try to fix them right away whenever they break. [...]
Posted in Current Events, Games, Tech, Uncategorized on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Nothing pisses me off these days like Apple-fan-boyism, so I really want to set the record straight on something. The iPhone did NOT start the touch-screen revolution. There are only 5 million or so iPhones that have been sold. On the other hand, there are over 70 million Nintendo DS’s that have been sold, it’s [...]
Posted in Tech on September 11th, 2006 No Comments »
Computers have been pissing me off for a while now. Long enough that I’ve been trying to think of more new and more precise ways to express my pain. The problem with computers, I’ve realized, is not that they do stuff wrong. It’s that when they do something wrong, they do it again. And again. [...]