Monthly Archives: November 2007

Are programmers smarter than Hollywood writers after all?

Posted on November 28, 2007 by yodaiken

Don Marti in comments below notes Reruns of “I Love Lucy” and “Knight Rider” don’t stop working when the studio fails to bring in writers to maintain them. Maybe the programmers are smarter after all.

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Congratulations readers!

Posted on November 25, 2007 by yodaiken

According to this rating site. (No comments on the writing level. )

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Soft real-time and QOS (revised)

Posted on November 20, 2007 by yodaiken

[ revised version of an older post] “Soft real-time” is a perfect example of the “soft design” noted in an earlier post. There are perfectly good ways of characterizing quality of service (QOS) assurances precisely. Doug Jenson proposes one possible … Continue reading →

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