uast23
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Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks for recommending this. I read the reviews, it looks awesome. I just placed the order.
Comment · 14 years ago
This amuses me. In my experience I haven't seen any porn site player being faster or better than youtube; or may be I have too little experience to make a judgment on this. I find the fast-forwarding on youtube most efficient when compared to other video playing sites on web. The switching between full screen and half screen acts cranky at times, but other than that youtube videos run just fine. Also, many players don't even allow fast forwarding.
Comment · 15 years ago
Oh yes, the MIT lectures. I should have known that. Thanks for the link.
Comment · 15 years ago
You totally sold your FYI. Noted down in the list. Once I am done with some basics, this book is definitely going to be read.
Comment · 15 years ago
Hm, but wouldn't that be specific to the current happenings rather than the basics, even if you go for an years subscription. It will definitely give a lot of insights. I don't follow 'The Economist', so you can correct me.
Comment · 15 years ago
Not at this point. I am a developer and I run a consultancy with one more guy, so I am generally short of hours. But I will see how much I can grasp on my own and then may be consider something.
Comment · 15 years ago
Pretty small text :). Going to begin with it.
Comment · 15 years ago
My understanding is:
When you are using a ruby or python based web framework, each request is a blocking request i.e. after each request you wait for the response before proceeding further e.g. urllib.urlopen(), which as a result causes the no of requests handled/second to go down. Using eventmachine or gevent respectively for ruby or python is one way to overcome this.
In node.js there is no such concept of blocking requests and everything is processed in a single thread. But you can always fork multiple processes using its cluster module http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/cluster.html
edit: Oh, I was not trying not advocate anything. nodejs is indeed just a choice, if I didn't make myself very clear when I said "My understanding is:"
Comment · 15 years ago
Yes, thats pretty valid. But I have seen people trying to promote their product on support forums facing a huge backlash. Although I can assume that if my product really has something valuable to offer, trying it won't be worthless.