Once upon a time, threads were a new thing. Hardcore Unix architectures were processes-only, cheap forking, and would have none of this lightweight threads business. Some system architects -- stuck in the 1970s -- still produce architectures for modern operating systems that consist of dozens of processes. I have personally seen a complex UI application on Windows that relies on >35 processes, of which eight different processes display parts of the application's UI (at the same time!). There...
I don't typically rant about security or "The Cloud", but as an avid Dropbox and Instapaper user I've had some comments building up inside for the past few weeks. Dropbox is a simple private file sharing service which gives you access to your files from a variety of devices (I use it on my Windows laptop, Windows desktop, MacBook Air, iPhone, and iPad). Instapaper is a tool for saving web pages for later viewing – when I don't have time to read a long blog post or interesting...