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Daily Kos: Catholic Priest Rips Fox News a New One

Daily Kos: Catholic Priest Rips Fox News a New One

Fox News: "But but but, he's a hater! A, hater, we're saying it so it must be true right? Yup yup he is he still we're saying it over and over again until people believe it, hater hater bigot bigot anti-American."

Father Michael Pfleger totally owned Fox News in this one. Awesome.

links for 2008-04-19

• Bob Ippolito on Erlang
  I just finished watching Bob's presentation. The best introduction to Erlang I've seen, so if you've been wondering why I'm pointing to Erlang so much, watch this and you'll understand.
  (tags: erlang video presentation programming concurrency ippolito c4)
• from __future__ import *
  Bob Ippolito's weblog
  (tags: blogs cocoa erlang python ippolito programming mochiweb daily)
• Exploring Erlang @ C4[1]
  Links for Downloading slides and code for Bob Ippolito's Erlang presentation at C4. It's quite helpful to have the slides open in your browser while you watch the video since they aren't always visible while he speaks.
  (tags: c4 programming presentation erlang)
• Andre Pang: Concurrency and Erlang (LCA2007)
  Presentation slides from Ande's talk at linux.conf.au 2007. Explains the problem with shared-state concurrency (ie: threads and locks) pretty convincingly, and explains how Erlang does a great job of avoiding the problem and how it performs so well.
  (tags: concurrency erlang presentation programming scalability reliability)
• LCA2007: Concurrency and Erlang (Lambda the Ultimate)
  Followup on the link to Andre Pang's talk, here's the LtU post about it. Lots of good info in the comments.
  (tags: concurrency erlang presentation programming ltu)

Bob Ippolito, Erlang vs Ruby, Sun server sales

I just finished watching the end of Bob Ippolito's talk on Erlang from C4.

At the end of the talk an audience member mentioned they were using Ruby and their senior guy didn't want to use Erlang so they wrote their own distributed queue thingy.

Bob said (not a perfect quote, watch the video to get it) "Ruby is great if you want to spend 15 to 20 times more on hardware than me".

Which makes me wonder... could it be Sun loves Ruby because it needs lots of their servers to scale?