The cost of program energy efficiency

There's been somewhat of a movement of late to make programs be energyefficient (both for applications that might be running on laptops andfor applications that might run in a cloud computing environment withdetailed charging). This all sounds very good and worthwhile, and hardto argue against.

But it has a problem (the same problem as always, really). Ingeneral, such efficiency is not free since development time is notlimitless. Saying that applications should be optimized to be 'green' inthis way


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1.
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任逍遙


剛剛讀完賈樟柯的文集"賈想"

趁假日有空就看了他的舊作"任逍遙"

這是一齣悲傷的電影

在山西大同市

兩個窮青年

和當地大量看不到出路的年輕人一樣

找不到方向

活得不踏實

卻又無法出走

有志難伸

我深深明白那種悲哀

也許這是

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Encapsulation may be in the eye of the beholder

Here is an interesting question: is getloadavg() a more orless encapsulated way of getting the load average than (onLinux) reading /proc/loadavg ? I wound up thinking aboutthis in the aftermath of feeling rueful about discovering Python's interface to getloadavg() ,and I don't think it's as simple as I made it out to be in my originalentry .

For me, what it comes down to is different perspectives. An interfacelike getloadavg() is nicely encapsulated for


霜花店 (Frozen Flower)---最近最值得推介的電影

三位主角之間的感情細膩動人,演技精湛。sex scenes是為愛而性,不勉強、不造作,比《色戒》出色很多。

得閒寫影評....(太忙)

stay tune

六月快要來了。生者與死者一同在我耳邊喧鬧,嬉戲,噪音把我淹沒,萬千工作像風灌滿我的耳蝸,直通我的神經。他們都是受到宰制他們不得不如此,對於不得不如此之事我stay tune。過去幾週幾乎週產萬字,開兩處筆戰,同時在

Hosted servers, cloud computing, and backups

For all that we roll our eyes when people have only online backups or redundancy andsuffer data loss as a result of it, I don't think it's necessarilyas easy to do things the 'right' way as we make it sound, or evenfeasible at all in some situations.

Suppose that you are a modern, efficient Internet-based business, andso you are running your servers the smart way; instead of buildingyour own machine room in a corner of your office space and bringing in


what is she talking about? Written Chinglish!

No wonder she's not in!


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