Reddit has an active discussion on the quote by Joel Spolsky that I posted… the other day. Which is way longer than the discussion here, but explains how I suddenly got 3500 page views in a day… about a 50x increase from the typical average.
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Joel Spolsky: You cannot program parallel in C, period
I found this quote in Stackoverflow Podcast #68 quite funny in its extreme dislike of parallel programming in C…
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StackOverflow interviews CouchDB
Last year, FLOSS Weekly interviewed Jan Lehnard of the CouchDB project. I put up a blog post on this, noting that it was interesting with a scalable parallel program written in Erlang, a true concurrent language. The interview was interesting, but not very deeply technical. Now, almost a year later, the StackOverflow podcast, number 59, interviewed the founder of the project, Damien Katz. This interview goes a bit more into the technical details and what CouchDB is good for and what not, as well as some details on the use and performance of Erlang.