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Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2009

"[...] [F]or a period of time Mono had two JIT engines built into it, the new and the old one. Here is where the clever trick comes in: an environment variable contained the number of methods that should be compiled with the new JIT engine. After the Nth method had been compiled, the engine would switch code generators. This was used to bisect regressions and failures."

2009-01-21-biCompile

'Most magazine articles and corporate breakroom debates about [the U.S.] healthcare system always focus on the question of *how* to pay for the medical care but I wonder how come nobody raises the question of "why"?'

Is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt an unreasonable guess?

2009-01-21-unHealth

Reginald Braithwaite: 'This is a key benefit of being "older" and "experienced:" You know about old stuff that was ahead of its time, good ideas that didn't pan out for one reason or another. Recycling those is often worth far more than recycling things that everyone knew were successful back then.'

"These could be mammals!"

2009-01-21-agey

Neu & super: fm4.orf.at [ Ø P3K • ]

Alt & super: fm4v2.orf.at

Ich habe selten einen so gut den grundlegenden Charakter einer Site bewahrenden und gleichzeitig elegant rundum-modernisierenden Relaunch erlebt. Dass die (gute; in diesem Fall wirklich) alte Site als Archiv, frozen in time, weiterleben darf: Der Nostalgiker in mir sagt nur hell yeah. Zum Glück gab's kein Importbudget.