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prostoalex writes "Brad Fitzpatrick presented at OSCON with on overview of his little project. Interesting facts about the evolution of the Livejournal back-end architecture."
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and to those who'd mention emu ports, the processor in a mac is not as powerful as that in a PC of the same price-range, nor are most emulators that are ported to mac optimized to run on mac. additionally, i don't believe all pc games are really shite these days. some gems are released occasionally... not that the mac gets ports of them most of the time anyway.
seriously, i can't understand why anyone with even rudimentary knowledge of information technology would use a mac, other than the simplicity of use after a hard day's work on a real computer. as for me working on a mac feels almost condescendingly... simple. that's all well and good for someone who desires only to do simple tasks on their [vastly overpriced] computer, but for someone who needs to get into the guts of the machine for either fun, hobby, or simple necessity, macs are clearly not the best computers to get.
the audience for apple products is essentially people who either:
a) are better off not fiddling with the workings of a system [those unskilled when it comes to PCs]
b) people who still believe macs have better video & audio quality or are better for audio/visual editing. generally artfags, sometimes professionally.
c) people who believe the 'think different' ad campaign and the faux-utopian company-manufactured apple 'community' mean apple products make them cool. artfags, trendy college kids, yuppie blogger types.
c2) people too stubborn to switch to PCs because they have been using apple products for years and have developed 'brand loyalty'. these people are just idiots.
d) ipod users. another subclass of c, really, because they are stupid enough to buy a more expensive, less reliable, nigh-featureless product simply because everyone else has one. apple has a near-monopoly on digital music hardware and DRM'd music sales both [a 54% share of the mp3 player market against MANY competitors, plus something like 80-90% of the digital music sale market, i'm not sure about the latter figure, i haven't checked lately]. the ipod is shit hardware with shit support [the battery problem], and the alternatives are cheaper & better.
and worst of all:
e) people who buy the computer because it comes in a prefab cabinet that looks like a lamp and is therefore 'prettier'. these people are the same who hire interior designers and 'feng shui' twats to tell them what to buy and where to put it. yuppies mostly. fucking yuppies.
think boycott.
build your own pc for 1/3-1/2 the price. when it comes to laptops, you can get more powerful machines from other huge companies for a better price because they don't look like massive, colourful clamshell-style BC pillcases. you don't even have to install windows on the fucker if you don't want to. i'm sure some company still sells machines with no OS. go linux if you want to be different and special. or beos. or something that doesn't suck.
Running mod_perl for doing some small taks is fine, but using Perl tu essentially run your entire site is fscking stupid.
Just because a large site uses SOME amount of perl for SOMETHING does not mean the entire site is running on it. Your post gets a scroe of "0: Completely meaningless"
Hmmm...large scale community web site with user journals that is feature-rich, skinnable and has minimal downtime (503 Service Unavailable? What's that?) - built using Open Source Software. Who knew?
Something the Slashdot coders could learn from, perhaps?