October 2011
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The Point and Those Who Miss It
A lot has been said about Ted’s successful troll and the several responses that seem to miss the point—including mine. To that I say: if a point is never properly made, can one truly miss it? There are two reasons people are benchmarking Fibonacci in response to Ted’s post: Ted himself benchmarked it and concluded it was slow. This is wrong—it’s comparatively fast. But...
Oct 4th
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Node.js Cures Cancer
I apologize for the title. But it’s no less accurate than this embarassing, poorly-reasoned article by Ted Dziuba. It’s flamebait, but I couldn’t resist. Sigh…here we go. First, Ted takes issue with this claim on Node’s homepage: Almost no function in Node directly performs I/O, so the process never blocks. Because nothing blocks, less-than-expert programmers...
Oct 3rd
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