All of this is why I tend to use telnet when debugging HTTP.
Dean Allen aggregates popular Twitter posts, with a powerfully-attractive manifesto:
It works on three principles: first, that anyone who wants to can have their vote counted; second, that things people find interesting are more important than people who find things interesting; and third, that by any means necessary, web-strategy, social-media, online-marketing webcocks — unaware as they are of how toxic their presence is in the arenas they cannot shut up about — must and shall be filtered out of view.
This fall, Marty’s going to teach even the old hands a new Django trick or two.
In this day of multi-core CPUs and parallel programming platforms a common meme amongst developers has become “Is library X thread safe?”. As reasonable as that sounds, it’s actually not a particularly interesting question to ask, and anyone who claims to have a useful answer, probably doesn’t know what’s going on.
More importantly:
Phrases like “W is completely threadsafe” or “X isn’t thread safe” should be a red flag to you. They’re a sign that the speaker doesn’t quite understand the subtlety of the question, and the irrelevance of the answer without further qualification.
(Via Planet Intertwingly)