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  1. Re:Why Python? by cdrudge · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Interview Responses From BitTorrent's Bram Cohen
    From when the questions were asked, Jamie wrote this message:

    "He already answered this to a large extent, in an essay on Advogato, How to Write Maintainable Code.
    'My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.'"
    I think that the best language is the one that he can maintain, understand, and use. Sure if it was written in pure assembly it would be faster, but it's a bitch to maintain. The clients work reasonably well. I've never had the official client crash on me. It works up to a fairly large scale with decent hardware and bandwidth.
  2. Re:Why Python? by jamie · · Score: 4, Informative · on Ask Bram Cohen about BitTorrent
    He already answered this to a large extent, in an essay on Advogato, How to Write Maintainable Code.

    "My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters."

  3. AI4U is such a manual for free AI source code by Mentifex · · Score: -1 · on Prime Time Freeware Manual: the Dossier Series

    AI4U: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual is just such a "deadtree" (i.e., paper) manual for a specific version (Mind-1.1) of an artificial Mind that exists as readily available free AI source code on the Web, and which has future prospects of evolving further towards a Technological Singularity.

    The Free Software Donation Directory (FSDD) has a Mentifex entry that shows how a printed manual for open-source AI code may take the place of shareware fees in supporting an ambitious GOFAI (good old-fashioned artificial intelligence) project.

    Mentifex (contribute by buying AI book is an example of how the donate-by-buying-the-manual meme propagates across the Web from the FSDD.

    Book Publishing By Web Page is a resource on how to create a manual first by launching and lengthening Web pages, that you eventually convert into a finished, published book.

  4. Quick File Distribution Challenge on Advogato by teqo · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Ghost for Unix
    There has been this post at advogato couple of weeks ago which is about distributing huge amounts of data to many machines within a hilarious time... Though the solution implied by the author has not been revealed on there, it's quite an interesting read. The challenger excludes multicasting in order to make his question harder, but some posters there refer to multicast anyway...

    Personally, I agree with UDP multicasting being the way for multiple network-based clones... For only a handful of clones Mondo+Mindi might be an alternative, too... No network, but CD-ROMs over sneakernet though... :)

  5. makes sense... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on Yahoo Moving to PHP

    ...considering it's initial creator is now a Yahoo! employee

  6. Re:is porting / converting a good use of time? by Thalinor · · Score: 2 · on Should Open Source Content Management Interoperate?

    uhm hello? why are you re-posting the thread from advogato here?

    -gregor

  7. More details about MS in Peru by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft in Peru, Living Room

    I submitted this earlier today, but it was rejected, it has some more interesting links, some of them in Spanish, feel free to post translations(I don't have the time to do it myself)

    2002-07-16 12:59:06 Microsoft buys Peru (articles,news) (rejected)
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    The firts news, in Spanish, from Barrapunto, Advogato have another article about it in English, and another news item from Register, and more coverage in Spanish in a Peruvian news site.

    Basically MS is "giving" 550$ million in software and consulting, including setting up an intranet for the congress, a "secure" web site for the government and giving away software for a few thousand schools.

    I wonder how much is this really costing to MS? and how much will they get back from it? How much will Peru have to pay in the next "upgrade cycle"?

    The proposed bill to mandate Free/Open software in the government have been put on hold, and will probably be dismissed, but some people(including Dr. Villanueva) will continue working on getting it accepted.

    Well, we all knew that it was just matter of time until MS bought their own country...

    At least we all have gained from this a great anti-FUD
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    How much buys you 550M $$? This days it seems yo buy you a full country... with president and all...

  8. Trust metrics, Advogato, and elitism by yerricde · · Score: 2 · on Overpeer Spewing Bogus Files on P2P Networks

    This solves nothing. In general, trust is not transitive.

    Advogato seems to have developed a trust metric that does work transitively.

    The question then becomes, how does one enter the community in the first place? On Advogato, you can't post anything, not even comments to stories, until you have already been certified to at least level 1 by another level 1 user. (There are three levels.)

  9. Re:UI is not that hard by KevinDumpsCore · · Score: 1 · on Is There Such a Thing as "Too User Friendly"?

    In my experience, you're absolutely correct. But they will look at on-line help, if it is available. Check out the article I wrote about it on Advogato: http://www.advogato.com/article/374.html

  10. the AMVA modular voting architecture by tgw · · Score: 1 · on Caltech & MIT Urge Wait On Net Voting

    The CalTech-MIT report lays out a generic "modular voting architecture" called AMVA. In the description of it, the report's authors refer to it as "a new framework". After reading the AMVA section of the report, I realized that the AMVA is almost an exact duplicate of a voting system design I posted online three and a half months ago. I wrote out more details on this here.

  11. Re:Reverse Engineering file formats by mprudhom · · Score: 2 · on Brief Analysis On Reverse Engineering Software
    I have never heard of Microsoft ever suing anyone for reverse engineering their data formats.
  12. Re:Out with the "Advocacy" in with the FUD... by paul.dunne · · Score: 2 · on Has Linux Lapped Apple As Competition For Redmond?
    > does *anyone* remember the last time
    > he even bothered to take part in a discussion around here?

    Don't hold your breath: Advogato: Personal info for esr

  13. More GPL Programmers! CODE! by sness · · Score: 1 · on Download The Human Genome
    This next small step is very exciting, and we *need* all you Linux hackers out there to get involved and write more code to do cool things for this project. There are not nearly enough young programmers working on this project, get out there, learn a little about DNA and start HACKING! We just had a young Linux hacker work for us at the BC Genome Sequence Centre, and he took a program (fpc) that used to take 1.5 WEEKS to run on a hot Sun box, and it now runs in about 17 hours on our distributed Linux cluster (30 processors)!!! FPC has been around for years, and this speedup has *revolutionized* map building. There's LOTS more opportunties, so get out there and get CODING

    send resumes! :) (sness@sness.net)

  14. Microsoft would have it otherwise... by Greyfox · · Score: 2 · on From Paper To PDF?

    According to this Microsoft believes you can patent a file format, if not quite the .doc one. I'm gonna patent me raw ASCII...

  15. Re:Ugh, this is even more Ill-Informed by Ginger+Warrior · · Score: 1 · on Linus, Transmeta, Proprietary Code and Metcalfe

    I have to agree, it would be interesting to see what instruction sets people come up with.

    I quite like the idea of a code morphing layer for MMIX (mentioned in this interview with donald Knuth at advogato).

    Why shouldn't I be able to write programs for MMIX and have them work on the next chip just by rewriting the code morphing layer?

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  16. Re:Ugh, this is even more Ill-Informed by Ginger+Warrior · · Score: 1 · on Linus, Transmeta, Proprietary Code and Metcalfe

    I have to agree, it would be interesting to see what instruction sets people come up with.

    I quite like the idea of a code morphing layer for MMIX (mentioned in this interview with donald Knuth at advogato).

    Why shouldn't I be able to write programs for MMIX and have them work on the next chip just by rewriting the code morphing layer?

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