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Apple and GNU/Linux

So, Apple sell a lot of computers. But Windows still has the major market share, even after the disaster that is Vista.
Users of GNU/Linux can use any manchine they can get the system to compile on (and since most computers still use the x86 architecture, this is most computers).
Some users, like myself, are prepared to [...]

Erlang

I’ve been wanting to learn about some new programming languages (or at least, languages with concepts and paradigms that are new to me) for some time now.
One such language is Erlang. It’s a concurrent, functional language designed for large-scale fault-tolerant systems. It also happens to be pretty useful when combined with multi-core systems (as are [...]

Backend Changes

The site was down for a little while yesterday, while I moved server.
From Cardero (freeBSD) to a Shared Accelerator. Feels speedier.

Bookmarks for January 23rd

Sullivan nod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia -

In 2007, the year MS released Vista, its desktop os market share dropped by 1.26%. Mac and Linux gained. Linux on the desktop is now a measurable (and tracked) data point.

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Hey, I'm Chris. I'm an English Theoretical Physics student, but most of this site is to do with web development topics. I like messing about with all sorts of programming languages, and generally hacking things together.
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