So I’ve been busy
And since I have been busy I figured it would be fair to give you an insight into some of the crap I have to deal with. Here’s a past major grievance: 1) Who the hell came up the Authenticator singleton over at the JDK team? What the fuck were you smoking? Seriously? Authenticator.setDefault() is one of […]
Posted at 2:14 pm on April 18, 2008 | Leave a comment | Filed Under: Software development, Stupidity | Continue reading
Concurrent idiocy
The next person that starts talking about the “Concurrency Crisis” I will hit over the head with a multi-core frying pan. I will try to make this brief and to the point: very few applications (note: applications, not games, not huge asynchronous data munching processes that live in some dark and half forgotten data center […]
Posted at 6:52 pm on January 14, 2008 | 2 comments | Filed Under: Architecture, Software development, Stupidity | Continue reading
The rise of the inevitable bitpipe 