Friday, March 3rd, 2006 at 6:22 pm
[DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast] Episode 41 - GC Elves vs. Bread Elves
In this episode, Charles and I discuss the ins and outs of garbage collection, Zen vs. other religions, and the elves that live inside your computer.
(This episode edited by Coté)
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March 4th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Another cool podcast guy’s. Thanks
March 4th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Thanks to you Cory, and everyone else, who leaves compliments. We really do appreciate it.
And sorry for the shitty volume of my voice: it was before I leanred the lesson of mic’ing myself correctly.
March 4th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Hey want to meet for lunch next week? I’ll be in town Mon-Thu.
March 4th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
It’s alway’s a pleasure to listen to your podcast’s there Cote. Keep em coming
March 6th, 2006 at 12:27 am
About the whole tree falling in the forest thing.
The point of the question is to think about if “a sound” is the sound waves, or the interpretation of those sound waves by our ears.
PS - I’ve been listening to the show for a long time, I always have a good laugh, thanks.
March 9th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
[…] Last week on the drunkandretired.com podcast, the boys chatted about Garbage Collection Elves vs. Bread Elves. (Note to non-technical audiences: garbage collection is a real “computer thing” where as bread and elves are not.) Anyway, Charles was talking about the problems he’d been having with interfacing a Java program he’s developing with an external system. Essentially, the external system frees its memory at, shall we say, inopportune moments, leading to errors in Charles’s program. However, earlier in the podcast there was a discussion about garbage collection — the Java way of memory management — versus reference counting — the Microsoft COM and Mozilla XPCOM way of doing things. […]