Lethbridge's study about rarely consulting and updating general software documentation is available here: How Software Engineers Use Documentation: The State of the Practice
-Do we ask questions because of difficulty or because the underlying technology is more popular? -Are javascript developers more likely to use sites like stackoverflow vs traditional means (books, mailing list, forums, etc). -Do we underestimate javascript usage? Does javascript span more projects, i.e. I have a C# based web-project, but still use javascript for the UI.
These are the underlying questions that would have to be answered before we could derive anything from this sort of analysis. That said, in our recent study of stackoverflow questions (publication pending), we found that there was a strong correlation between the frequency of using a particular API class (as defined by google code search), and the numbers of questions asking about those classes. This could suggest questions have a large popularity component, or it could mean people are more likely to run into difficulty with popular components!
CNN uses this for comments on many of their stories. The quality of discussion tends to be better, people self-regulate more crazy responses, and the comments are longer (rather than one sentence rants).
Blog sites use comment hosting systems such as disqus. In my experience, a blog post will receive much more comments when hosted in this manner, rather than just the site's internal comment system.
Dogs have communication hands down. I've seen many dogs understand numerous commands and engage with humans well (we don't have bomb-sniffing cats).
On the other hands, I think dogs lack more "frontal" intelligence. The type of top-down intelligence that involves planning, top-down control. Perfect illustration: one of my stupid dogs trying to get to a squeaky toy with a fairly see-through blanket would try running through a blanket barrier to get to a squeaky toy. This was non-stop aggressive behavior lasting for many minutes with no top-down consideration. This would even continue if there was an opening in the blanket.
Wrong. A earlier study in 2006 used fMRI. This study used a simple classical conditioning test where they played a tune before blowing in the patients eyelid.
Web Book and Web Forager were tools created by Xerox Parc which allowed you to organize webpages into books, which could be placed onto a bookshelf or table.
You could interact with the pages, and move them around the desktop. You could flip through the pages like a real book. This paper was done in 96.
It sounds like he's just looking for exposure. I would have never heard of this case if he didn't pull the "I rather be in jail instead of waiting for them to go on trial" stunt. He also wanted to get back the bail that his friend posted for him. He's been doing these type of things the whole time, and they seemed to have been giving the trial a lot of publicity.
There seems to be no good evidence that he did this, and he's been harassed by the FBI for a year, before they charged him with this.
If you've read the replies to the mailing list, everyone is against the idea of stopping the protestants.
The general idea is that they believe that the momentum built up for supported this cause will be deflated. They believe Adobe is trying just avoid Bad Press and extinguish the grassroots of public pressure from building up. So it is generally agreed that the EFF won't be there to give a hand, but the other protesters will still be carrying the signs and chants as planned.
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Information about the study is here (as in listed in summary):
Documentation usage of Android Developers
Lethbridge's study about rarely consulting and updating general software documentation is available here:
How Software Engineers
Use Documentation: The State of the Practice
Robillard's study about problems with API documentation can be found here:
What Makes APIs Hard to Learn? Answers from Developers
-Do we ask questions because of difficulty or because the underlying technology is more popular?
-Are javascript developers more likely to use sites like stackoverflow vs traditional means (books, mailing list, forums, etc).
-Do we underestimate javascript usage? Does javascript span more projects, i.e. I have a C# based web-project, but still use javascript for the UI.
These are the underlying questions that would have to be answered before we could derive anything from this sort of analysis. That said, in our recent study of stackoverflow questions (publication pending), we found that there was a strong correlation between the frequency of using a particular API class (as defined by google code search), and the numbers of questions asking about those classes. This could suggest questions have a large popularity component, or it could mean people are more likely to run into difficulty with popular components!
Nice!
Already taken by the javascript "extJS" framework.
CNN uses this for comments on many of their stories.
The quality of discussion tends to be better, people self-regulate more crazy responses, and the comments are longer (rather than one sentence rants).
Blog sites use comment hosting systems such as disqus.
In my experience, a blog post will receive much more comments when hosted in this manner, rather than just the site's internal comment system.
Dogs have communication hands down. I've seen many dogs understand numerous commands and engage with humans well (we don't have bomb-sniffing cats).
On the other hands, I think dogs lack more "frontal" intelligence. The type of top-down intelligence that involves planning, top-down control. Perfect illustration: one of my stupid dogs trying to get to a squeaky toy with a fairly see-through blanket would try running through a blanket barrier to get to a squeaky toy. This was non-stop aggressive behavior lasting for many minutes with no top-down consideration. This would even continue if there was an opening in the blanket.
Wrong. A earlier study in 2006 used fMRI. This study used a simple classical conditioning test where they played a tune before blowing in the patients eyelid.
Web Book and Web Forager were tools created by Xerox Parc which allowed you to organize webpages into books, which could be placed onto a bookshelf or table.
You could interact with the pages, and move them around the desktop. You could flip through the pages like a real book. This paper was done in 96.
It sounds like he's just looking for exposure.
I would have never heard of this case if he didn't pull the "I rather be in jail instead of waiting for them to go on trial" stunt. He also wanted to get back the bail that his friend posted for him.
He's been doing these type of things the whole
time, and they seemed to have been giving the
trial a lot of publicity.
There seems to be no good evidence that he did this, and he's been harassed by the FBI for a year, before they charged him with this.
If you've read the replies to the mailing list, everyone is against the idea of stopping the protestants.
The general idea is that they believe that the momentum built up for supported this cause will be deflated. They believe Adobe is trying just avoid Bad Press and extinguish the grassroots of public pressure from building up. So it is generally agreed that the EFF won't be there to give a hand, but the other protesters will still be carrying the signs and chants as planned.