Interesting article on the move towards parallelism in computer architecture. See also the Berkeley page on the subject. I think we are going to have to undergo a major programming paradigm shift or risk stagnation in program performance. (via Upper Bounds)
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President of India on Yahoo! Answers
The President of India asked a question about terrorism on Yahoo! Answers. I’m not sure that terrorism is a question that anyone has the answer for, but it is nice to see a world leader trying to engage the public (via digg).
Diamond Age
Scifi is making a miniseries based on Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age. I hope they do a good job – Diamond Age is my favorite Stephenson book (via Boing Boing).
Emacs Blog
I’ve been using Emacs for all of my text editing since mid-summer, and I just stumbled upon the blog minor emacs wizardry. It looks brand new, but there are already some useful tips.
MacFUSE
It’s a few days old, but I just got around to installing MacFuse by Google’s Amit Singh. FUSE allows developers to implement file systems in userspace without having to modify the kernel. The release of a Mac port is probably most significant because it will finally allow NTFS support, but I’m enjoying sshfs, which mounts a remote host using ssh and scp.