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Sonntag, 28. August 2005

Stefan Rinner: Helma + Jackrabbit = Hackrabbit. Wooha.

2005-08-28-hackrabbit

The Statistics of iTunes' Party Shuffle.

Muss man wissen!

2005-08-28-iStat

Robert X. Cringely' [create Peak Google Theory]: "Larry and Sergey know too well the story of Yahoo!'s boneheaded purchase of [create Broadcast.com], making [create Mark Cuban] an instant billionaire and an affliction on both reality TV and the NBA. I blame Yahoo for that, and Google is working hard to learn from Yahoo's mistakes."

Max Levchin, quoted: "What you want to do [...] is listen to your customers and bring out every two weeks improved versions that would each take your competitor two months to complete. That's when you are on a rocket -- they can't keep up so they can't compete. They lose hope and pretty soon you have the market pretty much to yourself."

Back to Cringely: "[Google is] famously paranoid, sure, but they'd be a lot less paranoid if it didn't make them famous. Google, like Microsoft, is a brand built at least partially on envy, which you know is a sin."

2005-08-28-g00gle

Andrae Muys: "When I wrote the [[create Pthreads] tutorial] I was still enamoured with threads, an infatuation that didn't last very long :). Since then, my experience working with pthreads, auto-parallelising compilers, Java, Erlang, Kowari, and 10 years of professional programming, have fundamentally changed my perspective on how to approach concurrency.

Concurrency bad.
See 1.
Shared-memory concurrency very very bad.
See 3."

2005-08-28-concur

Jot kann nun Embedded SVG als Image rendern (ergo kein Plug-In vonnöten), eines der mannigfaltigen [create CNXA]-Features, die wie CNXA höchstselbst das gleissende Licht der Öffentlichkeit nie wirklich erleben mussten (und ob der ~~konzeptuellen~~ implementierungstechnischen Schwächen ist das vielleicht mehr Glück als Schaden - on va voir, wie lange die letzte verbliebene CNXA-Instanz noch dem [create Carrier]-Transfer wiederstehen kann).

2005-08-28-jotgfx