Re: [fonc] Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong!: A Wild Screed about the Future

2012-04-03 Thread Steven Robertson
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Tom Novelli tnove...@gmail.com wrote: Even if there does turn out to be a simple and general way to do parallel programming, there'll always be tradeoffs weighing against it - energy usage and design complexity, to name two obvious ones. Not necessarily. As to

Re: [fonc] How Books Work (was: something about ebooks)

2012-03-08 Thread Steven Robertson
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Casey Ransberger casey.obrie...@gmail.com wrote: Do you know how it works? Of course. Lots of people, most people know how your book works. Can you tell me everything about how a Kindle works? Can you tell me everything about how bookbinding works? If your