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My Rs Blew Off

Redis is cool.  Erlang is...  There are some really cool apps written in Erlang.

Edis is Redis in Erlang.

It's protocol-compatible (with a few caveats); that is, an application written to use Redis will run happily against Edis.

But it uses an on-disk, log-structured database (Google's LevelDB, in fact) rather than an in-memory datastore.  So it's not as fast, but it's not limited by the size of your memory either.

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This. Is. Terraria!

So I was looking for something to do while my keyboard dried out* and this is what I found: The best explanation of what Terraria is about that I've yet seen.**



* I spilled my drink on it, after which it wasn't working terribly well, so I took it outside and hosed it down to get the sugary liquid out...  And now it doesn't work at all.  I'm typing this on the spare PS/2 keyboard I keep for when the BIOS decides it can't see my usual wireless keyboard.

** For values of "best" slightly skewed from normality.

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Emerald Anaconda

This is real code:

# Python
def readfile():
  for line in open("/some/file"):
    yield line

# Ruby
readfile.to_enum.each do |line|
  puts line
end

# Python
def iterate_list():
  for item in [ 1, 2, 3 ]:
    yield item

# Ruby
items = []
iterate_list.to_enum.each { |item| items << item }
puts items == [ 1, 2, 3 ] # => true

At least, it's real code if you are running RubyPython.

You can embed JavaScript in Ruby, and Lua in Python, so that gives you four languages in a single environment.  Five if you count CoffeeScript, which is a CoffeeScript to JavaScript compiler written in CoffeeScript.*

And you can of course chain things so that Lua can call back to Python which calls back to Ruby which calls a CoffeeScript function which you precompiled to JavaScript.**

* They used magic.
** Because it was there.

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Shana

I've had parts sitting around to upgrade Nagi, my Windows 7 box, for about a year now.  The problem is that I haven't had any time when I could shut it down and do the upgrades.

So what I did instead was buy a few more parts so I can build a whole new computer.  The config is a bit of a mish-mash, a mixture of 2010 and 2011 components: A Phenom X4 945, which is not exactly new, but with a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 motherboard and 16GB of DDR3-1600 memory.

8 x 1TB Seagate 7200.11 drives (which is what I already had sitting around; drives are too damn expensive at the moment).  And a pair of Radeon 6770 video cards; combined they'll give me the speed of a 6970 for about 40% less expense, and drive 8 monitors at once into the bargain.*

Parts have shipped to the office, where I'll pick them up on Monday, so I can build the system, hopefully, some time after Christmas.

Nagi is three years old now and hasn't ever been reinstalled - I upgraded from the original Vista install to Windows 7 early this year - and is slowly succumbing to bit rot, so it's time for a change.  Once Shana is up and running I'll probably reinstall Nagi with the latest Windows Server.

* I don't actually have 8 monitors, but it's the thought that counts.

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