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Why is MPI considered harder than shared memory and Erlang considered easier, when they are both message-passing? There's a lot of interest these days in Erlang as a language for writing parallel programs on multicore. I've heard people argue that Erlang's message-passing model is easier to program than the dominant shared-memory models such as threads. Conversely... Started by lorin on Thursday, October 09, 2008, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Erlang is based on a concept. Be considered hard and Erlang easy is the match of model to the domain.

Which books are considered classics for .Net? So Far I know CLR via C# is considered one Started by on Monday, September 08, 2008, 10 posts by 10 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): My two favorites (apart. ASP.NET with Examples in C#" used to be considered the book on the subject, at least for those to be considered "classics" in the sense that K&R used to be considered a classic.

Is erlang considered managed or do you have to handle memory/pointers? Is erlang considered managed or do you have to handle memory/pointers? Started by mrblah on Wednesday, December 02, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Garbage Collection in.... Functional programming features do not work well with the semantics of explicit memory release . According to Craig Stuntz , all functional languages use garbage collection, which essentially means that they are managed languages .

Function chaining is also considered as callbacks ? When I implement a chaining such as in: ToUpper().ToString(). .... Would that chaining also be considered as a callback ? Started by on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Public void Caller() { // We can use .... It allows a lower-level object to call a method defined in a higher level object . Usually a callback is in the form of delegate that is passed as an argument to another object or method call . No, it would not be.

Are pipes considered dangerous to use in Windows, from a security standpoint? Are pipes considered dangerous to use in Windows, from a security standpoint? Started by Brian R. Bondy on Friday, October 24, 2008, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): I don't know exactly how they are implemented in Windows, but I would expect that pipes between processes/threads on the... . If you are concerned about network sniffing, I suppose they could be since I don't think that pipes between systems are encrypted .

Are both LINQ and Entity Framework considered ORM? What is the difference between LINQ and Entity Framework Are both LINQ and Entity Framework both considered ORM? What is the advantages of both. Started by BALAMURUGAN on Saturday, November 14, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Entity Framework is properly a framework to let you model your domain top-down LINQ is a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language... . Linq stand for " Language-Integrated Query ", so you can use it to translate your tsql query in c# code .

Is base64 considered encryption in an iPhone app? Is simple base64 encoding (for posting binary data to apples validation servers) considered encryption and would I have to report this when uploading my app to the appstore? Started by RexOnRoids on Saturday, October 03, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): As others have said, you never. Not be considered encryption, because it is a known encoding algorithm, and has nothing to do with encryption considered an encryption technology by the NIST/Commerce Department.

Why are singletons considered to be a bad practice? Duplicate: What is so bad about Singletons? I was reading this question, and was surprised to see that (s)he considered a singleton to be considered a "bad practice," and in fact thought that this was common knowledge. I've used singletons quite a bit... Started by Matt Grande on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): If you have a singleton, that means one or more . They are usually considered bad in conjunction with unit testing.

Is using flash on a website homepage considered bad practice? Hi, We are revising our company website and I wondered if it considered bad practise to use flash on the home page. This would cause issues for those users who dont have flash installed (and maybe dont want flash) Thanks Started by sipickles on Wednesday, January 06, 2010, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): In.... If you're in the business of web development, it is quite reasonable to display your abilities at the home page . It depends on the type of your company and customers . Not in and of itself - use flash sparingly and make sure it degrades gracefully .

(Why) Is HTTP/SOAP considered to be "thick" I've heard some opinions that the SOAP/HTTP web service call stack is "thick" or "heavyweight," but I can't really pinpoint why. Would it be considered thick because of the serialization/deserialization of the SOAP envelope and the message? Is that really... Started by Andy White on Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 9 posts by 9 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): I considered it "thick" because of the relatively large overhead involved. Implementations...