I’ve been experimenting with git for version control of my document folder, before I use it professionally. It has several things I like, particularly the blazing speed and the fact that there’s a single .git directory instead of a myriad of .svn all over the place (which made it a bit of a pain […]
I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so […]
Lately I’ve been reading Joe Armstrong’s Pragmatic Programming in Erlang, learning a couple new tricks. In chapter 8 he proposes a problem:
Write a ring benchmark. Create N processes in a ring. Send a message round the ring M times so that a total of N * M messages get sent. Time how long this takes […]