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I’ve posted about HacketyHack before, and I believe it’s a wonderful tool that will no dbout grow to a huge fanbase. But Holy Smokes Batman, something is wrong at the Batcave!
I wonder what’s wrong? This all started as a problem with the shared programs, not being able to well… share them.
Let’s hope that _Why gets back from dreamland, or at least back home and gets the problem fixed. I was hoping to get more lessons, and especially past lesson 5a sometime soon.
5/31/07- 500 server error is gone, but the shared programs do not work. It’s a really neat feature that needs fixed!
I’m a Python developer, dabble in Ruby, run FreeBSD on over 20 machines, plus I like to boot Ubuntu once after Saturday in order to still prove that Linux trumps Windows any given ‘Sunday’.
When I see articles like this on parallelism, I wonder if they really know why there can’t be more split work on threading. Intel given compilers aside, there is only so much extra work that can be divided among threads before there is too much overhead involved in the processing of said work.
In the end, you can call octacores the end of all, or you can wonder what the world will be like when you have 200 terabytes on board, with your 80 core machine running on an 8 gigabit connection. We simply don’t know what to split all those tasks into, let alone the system being able to reach any efficiency about it.
I’m a big why fan, and there are a number of reasons for that distinction. I was finally getting around to reading my blogs again. I found out via redhanded that he has focused himself into a new project called hacketyhack.
I thought tryruby was his best work. I think I’m going to be swaying my vote a bit 