Month: January 2004

My Yahoo! RSS

After 2-3 years of stagnation, My Yahoo! has finally done something interesting. They have added a hosted RSS aggregator feature to the site. For the time being, I’ll still probably stick to using like Radio Userland better, because it organizes articles by date (regardless of source) and My Yahoo! is very source-centric. However, I’m hopeful […]

Threads considered harmful

In the past month I’ve seen at least 3 messages on the development email lists at work asking questions about developing multi-threaded applications. From a software engineering standpoint, this troubles me. I’ve always thought that multi-threaded apps in C/C++ are simply too difficult for most engineers to understand. There’s too much non-determinism, too many race […]