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Problem: on the web, enable a large number of message producers send a very large number of messages to a much larger number of message consumers. Example: allow 100,000 publishers send a total of 1 million messages per …

For years I’ve been continuously fighting with backups. I have not been particularly good or consistent at it. We’ve been okay with Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner, but the recent addition of a digital SLR to our gadget collection …

On a theoretical world, given the ability for a processor to run an infinite amount of threads, we could prove the following statements (no attribution purposely given):

• If you do more CPU than I/O, use threads.
• If you do more
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I’ve been using Markdown since 2006, taking all my notes at work using a simple text editor and using the Markdown text markup format. I also use Markdown for writing down thoughts and posting to this blog. I rarely, if …

I am playing with a new query language. I am defining the grammar as EBNF, but I want to show railroad diagrams for those readers that are more graphical and less familiar with BNF. I’ve found limited support for generating …

Update (2011/9/11): this post is picking up again 8 months later, I’ve written an update as of where we stand.

Jason Hoffman (Chief Scientist, Founder at Joyent) has posted some good questions to me, based on my original …

Update: Jason Hoffman (Chief Scientist, Founder of Joyent) has written a very good response to this post. Obviously I owe him some responses, which is on a separate post.

If you have not watched Douglas Crockford’s video lecture on …