The adage, quoted again this week by Bruce Schneier:
The plural of “anecdote” is not “data.”
But lest we enshrine raw data as holy in itself, another perspective:
And the plural of “datum” is not “proof.”
Archive for August, 2008
Anon on Data
Posted in Friday Thoughts on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Embedded Multicore Development Webinar with Lee, Reinders, and Truchard
Posted in Concurrency, Talks & Events on August 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last month, I was privileged to be part of a panel in a webinar on Embedded Multicore Development moderated by Richard Nass, Editor-in-Chief of Embedded Systems Design, Embedded.com, and the Embedded Systems Conferences. It’s online and available on demand.
I say “privileged” especially because of the stature of the other panelists. These distinguished gentlemen were:
Edward A. [...]
Effective Concurrency: Lock-Free Code — A False Sense of Security
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Concurrency, Java on August 5, 2008 | 13 Comments »
DDJ posted the next Effective Concurrency column a couple of weeks earlier than usual. You can find it here: “Lock-Free Code: A False Sense of Security”, just went live on DDJ’s site, and also appears in the print magazine.
This is a special column in a way, because I rarely critique someone else’s published code. However, [...]
Server Concurrency != Client Concurrency
Posted in Concurrency on August 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Today I received an email that asked:
I have recently come across your excellent articles on concurrency and the changes in software writing paradigm. They make a lot of sense, but I am having trouble translating them to my world of Telecom oriented web services, where practically everything is run through a DBMS. It seems to [...]
