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Jul 29, 2008 16:38

The best article I've read about a tech breakthrough in a while.
Warning for the squemish reader: Mildly vulgar.

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thymidinekinase July 30 2008, 00:40:58 UTC
It certainly was colorful. What little I understood of it sounded promising. Actually, articles like that remind me how sparse my knowledge of computer programming really is, and make me grateful that a bare knowledge of perl is enough for everything I need to do on a weekly basis. All hail perl.

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baudot July 30 2008, 00:41:57 UTC
perl is lovely.
and by lovely I mean very useful.

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baudot July 30 2008, 06:07:07 UTC
Long story short: One of the hardest tricks in high end computing is figuring out how to safely handle information that other programs might be modifying at the same time. I don't even want to go into the myriad subtle ways things can go wrong here. It's usually a senior/graduate level computer science class, and a beast of a class at that ( ... )

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