Another weblog alternative, discussed as part of a Dave Winer profile in Wired 5/2001, starting on p100: www.Editthispage.com. From that url: "This a free web hosting service using a revolutionary server application called Manila that makes it easy to create and write and design a web site, entirely within a web browser. There are hundreds of sites here, a growing community, and you're very welcome to join."
IANA low level programmer (at the moment), but i like what i understand of Eiffel's "Design by Contract"(tm) assertion/documentation methodology. It seems like it should help the programmer debug and understand his code. The language also has garbage collection and plays well w/C & C++. And comes with a large open source library. So why is Eiffel faring poorly in the 'language wars'? Thx alot.
Helpful heuristic for the Slashdot staff: 'tis better to publicize contests pre their deadline for submission.
And i still say it'd be smarter to make a backup copy of a website before slashdotting it. (The backup can be auto'ly disabled as soon as the website staggers back to its feet.)
The SciAm article says that URL is a subset of URI.
Example: the "local devices" the article talks about (eg, the stereo that needs to be lowered) would be referenced via URI and not the URL we're used to, i imagine.
The semantic web, as proposed, has both natural language and computer-oriented info for use by software agents (eg, <RELATION> tags). So natual language and the SW tags aren't in competition and your criticism therefore doesn't apply.
You are correct that what SW tech is trying to do isn't easy. Getting disparate companies and countries to cooperate in a world wide web must not have looked easy to him (Tim B-L) either.
From what i've seen as a grad student at U Cal Irvine, Polytechnic U in Hawthorne NY, and other places, you are correct. If it wasn't for the credits and degree, there is no way in hell students would stand for what passes for teaching in many if not most classrooms. It's very different, typically, in undergraduate courses, but once you're on the graduate level it's like suddenly anything goes.
That's a simple fact that you won't find in too many school catalogs.
"Experience is a harsh master but the fool hath no other."
Before the crash, i wanted to see a real example of a dot-com business plan before writing my own. Partly because I never found one (either in bookstores nor online) I paid to have professionals write it, which set me back quite a bit, as you might imagine. I was told that federal rules limit how you may offer investment opportunities such as those represented by business plans, particularly if you are raising >=$1 million. That, and secrecy, i believe has everything to do with this scarcity.
"and you install the Equifax CA cert designating them as a valid CA" Does that mean that browsers looking at the website go into https: mode as smoothly as if the browser was IE?
The site's up now, except for the demos. It says you need only Gnome to install Mozilla 1.0 if you're running RedHat 6.1,6.2, or 7 on a IA/32 chip. Is IA/32 how we're spelling Pentiums these days?
You're correct about 1) but re: 2), slide 10/10 at the company website mentions that a special car palette would make it possible for regular cars to ride the rail. That sounds pretty good to me--no more wear and tear on my car for the long trips upstate. One can also better attend to their boredom driving hands free.
Why doesn't Microsoft develop its own products with functional languages? Does any large software publisher? Microsoft has been around long enough to get by both objection (a) (if invalid) and objection (b).
But thx for the info. I will do more playing with those languages when i can.
You're right, and Petreley may not know that to keep your RedHat Linux up-to-date auto'ly via the Internet you pay them a yearly subscription to their "up2date" service so obviously there are ways to make money with this. (i may have gotten a detail wrong here [eg, w/subscription length] but that's basically it.)
If good support exists, and you can write an app's core in C for speed, why do you think it is that functional languages haven't caught on? Every programmer would rather program than debug, right? And certainly Microsoft wouldn't turn down an opportunity to make money (selling a Visual Scheme etc).
That saying does not apply to info exchanges between strangers. One can do many people a large favor posting a Look Out!! sign. Negative commentary is a Good, unless you involve Betrayal, Unfairness or Untruth.
In short, when aunt jemima bakes you a lousy cake, your jaw flaps do rightly cleave, but do not forsake the public good for fear of slighting the litigious and candied ass, for that slander is ill perceived.
I'm paying $80/mo for SNET's "professional plan" but that doesn't entitle me to be able to report an important technical problem to tech support. I'm paying for a static ip address, but more than a week later it's still all over the place. Tech Support told me they just give out the ips, that's all they knew about them, and transferred me to another dept that transferred me, etc etc, in circles. I never reached anyone that professed to know anything or returned my calls. (Though i have to admit that a hail mary email to a usually useless "feedback@snet.net" did net me a "sorry for the inconvenience".)
Re: "publishers need to ensure that code be proofread as diligently as the prose" in the review,
Isn't it much better to test code instead of trying to proofread all the errors out of it? I haven't been able to figure out why it it's so common for published code to have errors in it. Why wouldn't they test it and then just paste the code into the book text once it works?
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If you weren't in Japan I'd recommend a http://www.prepaidlegal.com/, which is a legal hmo that's usually been v. good for me.
Haven't used it myself.
IANA low level programmer (at the moment), but i like what i understand of Eiffel's "Design by Contract"(tm) assertion/documentation methodology. It seems like it should help the programmer debug and understand his code. The language also has garbage collection and plays well w/C & C++. And comes with a large open source library. So why is Eiffel faring poorly in the 'language wars'? Thx alot.
And i still say it'd be smarter to make a backup copy of a website before slashdotting it. (The backup can be auto'ly disabled as soon as the website staggers back to its feet.)
Example: the "local devices" the article talks about (eg, the stereo that needs to be lowered) would be referenced via URI and not the URL we're used to, i imagine.
You are correct that what SW tech is trying to do isn't easy. Getting disparate companies and countries to cooperate in a world wide web must not have looked easy to him (Tim B-L) either.
From what i've seen as a grad student at U Cal Irvine, Polytechnic U in Hawthorne NY, and other places, you are correct. If it wasn't for the credits and degree, there is no way in hell students would stand for what passes for teaching in many if not most classrooms. It's very different, typically, in undergraduate courses, but once you're on the graduate level it's like suddenly anything goes.
That's a simple fact that you won't find in too many school catalogs.
"Experience is a harsh master but the fool hath no other."
Napster's hot water notwithstanding?
Why aren't people willing to review? Scientists have less time than they used to?
Can you flesh out what you think the fundamental rethinking needs to be?
An analysis of that disaster is here.
Before the crash, i wanted to see a real example of a dot-com business plan before writing my own. Partly because I never found one (either in bookstores nor online) I paid to have professionals write it, which set me back quite a bit, as you might imagine. I was told that federal rules limit how you may offer investment opportunities such as those represented by business plans, particularly if you are raising >=$1 million. That, and secrecy, i believe has everything to do with this scarcity.
"and you install the Equifax CA cert designating them as a valid CA" Does that mean that browsers looking at the website go into https: mode as smoothly as if the browser was IE?
Recognition of which Root CAs are in IE and Netscape by default?
thx.
Have you seen any benchmarks for VP? I didn't see any at www.amiga.com, just an interview and a tutorial on it with fairly vague speed claims.
Mozilla 1.0? I posted that too quick. I meant Eazel 1.0.
The site's up now, except for the demos.
It says you need only Gnome to install Mozilla 1.0 if you're running RedHat 6.1,6.2, or 7 on a IA/32 chip.
Is IA/32 how we're spelling Pentiums these days?
You're correct about 1) but re: 2), slide 10/10 at the company website mentions that a special car palette would make it possible for regular cars to ride the rail. That sounds pretty good to me--no more wear and tear on my car for the long trips upstate. One can also better attend to their boredom driving hands free.
But thx for the info. I will do more playing with those languages when i can.
apt-get is an application dev'ed by Debian to keep .deb's installed on its version of Linux easily up to date.
You're right, and Petreley may not know that to keep your RedHat Linux up-to-date auto'ly via the Internet you pay them a yearly subscription to their "up2date" service so obviously there are ways to make money with this. (i may have gotten a detail wrong here [eg, w/subscription length] but that's basically it.)
If good support exists, and you can write an app's core in C for speed, why do you think it is that functional languages haven't caught on? Every programmer would rather program than debug, right? And certainly Microsoft wouldn't turn down an opportunity to make money (selling a Visual Scheme etc).
Do Mercury, ML, Scheme, etc have enough support to use seriously? E.g., libraries, toolkits, debuggers, IDEs?
In short, when aunt jemima bakes you a lousy cake, your jaw flaps do rightly cleave, but do not forsake the public good for fear of slighting the litigious and candied ass, for that slander is ill perceived.
I'm paying $80/mo for SNET's "professional plan" but that doesn't entitle me to be able to report an important technical problem to tech support. I'm paying for a static ip address, but more than a week later it's still all over the place. Tech Support told me they just give out the ips, that's all they knew about them, and transferred me to another dept that transferred me, etc etc, in circles. I never reached anyone that professed to know anything or returned my calls. (Though i have to admit that a hail mary email to a usually useless "feedback@snet.net" did net me a "sorry for the inconvenience".)
Re: "publishers need to ensure that code be proofread as diligently as the prose" in the review,
Isn't it much better to test code instead of trying to proofread all the errors out of it?
I haven't been able to figure out why it it's so common for published code to have errors in it. Why wouldn't they test it and then just paste the code into the book text once it works?