But does it scale? Clinton Forbes (subscribed) is at it again, this time taking on the Big D Challenge: how does D the programming language compares to a Datsun 240Z?Multi core melt down, news at 11. Mark Nelson is not convinced the world will come to an end, now that we have multi-core CPUs in toaster ovens but not enough lock-free transactional systems to grind them to a halt:
And if those investments don’t work, and the software doesn’t come through, will the world come to an end? No. Instead of jumping from 16 to 32 cores, Intel will accept smaller performance gains by cranking up clock speeds, boosting the instruction set, making bigger caches, or whatever it takes.
I personally feel the need to be alarmed, at least until we can find a new crisis to talk about.
Another crisis averted! Jeffrey Zeldman explains why we should all stop worrying about the Web standards crisis and just get on with life:
The glacial pace of the W3C has given browser makers time to understand and more correctly implement existing standards. It has also given designers and developers time to understand, fall in love with, and add new abilities to existing standards.
Separated at birth. Gabe da Silveira notes that, contrary to popular belief, Firefox does not crash when loading content mixed with presentation:
The painful (to some people) truth is that there is an irreducible tension between content and presentation (and behavior). What we are going for with CSS is known as “loose-coupling†in programmer speak, but it seems some people have this ideal in their head of “no-couplingâ€, which of course is impossible.
Miscommunication. Elephant in room. Troubles brewing in the MySQL community, something to do with release schedules. Peter Zaitsev says its just an issue of trust:
Community does not like when it is attempted to be approached with Enterprise class marketing which tend to draw the rosy picture and replace true reasons with something which allows to keep the face. Have you ever seen Enterprise announcements saying something like “We fired our CEO because he was clueless in business and poor leader and Board was blind unable to notice it for years†?
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