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I have been messing around with Node.js pretty much like I did with Ruby back in the day.

Its quite cool, and seems a bit faddy when you get to the nitty gritty. I can't be bothered to write some actual content I have linked some posts that outline just some of the reasons node isn't all that - If  "it's fucking javascript on the server" isn't a good enough reason.

Almost no function in Node directly performs I/O, so the process never blocks. Because nothing blocks, less-than-expert programmers are able to develop fast systems.

This statement is enticing, encouraging, and completely fucking wrong.

via Node.js is Cancer.

Next, suppose you're an expert programmer, and you've got some CPU bound work that you fork off to child processes to keep your event loop trucking. OK man, how complicated do you want to make this thing? At full capacity, you're at par with threads, provided it's not memory bound. At this point, you are less focused on solving the problem at hand than you are on coming up with something you can blog about and get on programming Reddit.

via Straight Talk on Event Loops

If the US economy really is creating jobs, then you’d expect the rate of creation to be up there with growth. But it isn’t. In the last quarter of 2011, American economic growth was recorded as 2.8%. In that period, roughly 145,000 jobs were ‘created’ according to the Labor stats. That adds up to a 0.3% growth in jobs. New technology to cut costs is gradually rendering more and more of middle class America unemployed. 243,000 jobs were ‘created’ in January alone – still only a 0.5% increase. A good time to look again at this will be the end of March, when Q1 economic performance can again be compared side-by-side with ‘new’ jobs.

via US JOB STATS: Why the Americans are getting excited about nothing. | The Slog.

The puzzle is why firms pay huge sums to big name consulting firms, when their advice comes from kids fresh out of college, who spend only a few months studying an industry they previous knew nothing about. How could such quick-made advice from ignorant recent grads be worth millions? Why don’t firms just ask their own internal recent college grads?

via Overcoming Bias : Too Much Consulting?.

Will Solaris be renamed So-Larry-Us?

via Oracle Drags Microsoft, Red Hat Into Itanium Lawsuit Swamp | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com.

Assuming ~93% of ZNGA’s bookings are generated through FB average of first three quarters of 2011, then total net FB bookings for ZNGA for 2011 would be $1,117mm based on FB’s ZNGA rev of $445mm divided by 30%, generating gross FB bookings of $1,484mm for ZNGA, then multipled by the 70% that ZNGA keeps.

via Zynga & its Facebook Problem — Tech News and Analysis.