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Re:Wave Protocol Prototype Source Code on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @01:58AM (#717456)
i'll spend as much time on this as i did on opensocial : zero
machine trading has been in heavy use for a decade. a little late to wonder about its efficacy now
Re:Computing with JavaScript Web Workers on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @01:53AM (#717452)
i'll be happier when john et al push through the next major lang revision

this clinginess to js strikes me of stockhold syndrome. people are working themselves into a lather as to how awesome and powerful it is, but most of this power is rooted in crappy hacks. namespaces for example. or crockfords currying stuff. very hacky.

js will do. it gets the job done. would i choose to code on the server side with it over python, perl, or haskell? nope

Re:Computing with JavaScript Web Workers on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @01:50AM (#717449)
tragedy of the commons. wow, i just can't wait for every amateur web designer to take up the mantle of threaded coding.

get used to "kill -9", you're going to be using it to preempt all this amateur-hour worker code people slap together and foist on you