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"Our goal is actually to have about 75% utilization if we had one hundred CPU we would hope that our program will go 75% faster without tweaking it."
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Joe Armstrong (programmer)In a file system, if a program opens a file and does something and the — Joe Armstrong (programmer)
"In a file system, if a program opens a file and does something and then crashes, the operating system closes the file for you. Its not still open and then you can use it again. So I thought to myself, well, a call is like a file. So, what happens if you do this hook, you crash the program. Somebody else will watch (the operating system) will watch) and it will close the call just like closing a file. That was the origin of this thing thats now I call Let It Crash."
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Joe Armstrong (programmer)
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Joseph Leslie Armstrong was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.
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"So whats wrong with the shell? and whats wrong with Erlang? Its not LISP!"
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"The number of states of three variables in javascript could have is greater of the total number of the atoms of the planet."
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"We are computer scientists, we are slaves who works for these big companies [Google, Facebook]."
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"I will never ever make any statement about performance that is not based on measurement and I will never ever advise anybody on how to write their code without saying write it and measure. I just will not speculate. I think people who do speculate about this should not speculate about it and they should write it, run it and measure it."
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"The cornerstones of fault tolerant programming are to isolate errors to make sure if one thing crash it does not crash anything else. Thats what the processes in operating system do."
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