I recently beat seasonal allergies without relying on any medicine at all. I simply decapitated myself with a steak knife. It was so easy, no more running nose, or red, watery eyes!
John.
PS And there's an added benefit: I can't see the hideous/. IT color scheme any more!
Sorry, I'm saying "bullshit" to that comment. Yes, Larry Wall got an award. There's a once yearly award for a "Grand Master of Open Source": who are we going to give it to? Some guy who wrote a three link patch for banana-wumpus-6.5?
The $500 awards go to plenty of other people that aren't in the news all the time and deserve the awards and recognition. And secondly if people would nominate more projects and people then we'd know about other deserving winners.
This is partly what the Open Source Awards are about. Anyone can nominate people or projects for awards and $500 Merit Awards are handed out quarterly. You can see the current list of winners.
Voting will soon get underway for Q3 winners so get nominating!
I agree. As much as I like these "Graham-grams" I'm not sure this particular one was anything really relevant to Slashdot (apart from reminding me that Paul Graham is smarter than me... again:-).
> for specific reasons. Persons question the redaction of this post or its original contents or its existence or <> may be held without trial. Please read the next post and forget about this one.>
> The reason is, the motivation for open source is > not because the person gets paid but the person > gets prestige. The developers are designing for > each other and they are so feature rich--geeks > love features--and you get more prestige by adding > features. For the average person fewer features is > better and easier to understand.
This has been a constant battle on POPFile. People are forever asking me for this option, or that option, which are useful to a user community consisting of themselves and the two other people in the world who want the same thing. I've been argued with strenously for not adding various features and in general to innovating in the UI really slowly, but the lesson is clear: the average user should be guided by the software to the right behaviour. POPFile does have 100s of special options and they are available in a cfg file that a geek can get at.
The other problem with open source and GUIs are all the people who want things in very specific places. e.g. I got constant "Put button X at the top, no, put button X at the bottom, no put it at the top and bottom" type conversations. Finally, we've boiled the UI down to the things that most people like and anyone else can hack the HTML templates and make the UI just as they want it.
Overall, we've settled on:
1. Lots of flexibility exposed at the geek level 2. The every day functionality exposed in the UI.
There's still a lot to do to make POPFile's UI really friendly, but the biggest lesson has been to resist the power users when it comes to adding UI widgets.
Email me and I'll send you an invitation to gmail. I have a gmail account that I don't use and I still have the ability to send some invites to people.
I really interesting book about France and the French from a North American perspective is 60 million Frenchmen can't be wrong. I read it and came away with a different impression of France and a better understanding of how and why the French think the way they do. Well worth reading if you're interested in how your preconceptions match with reality.
Re:Ah the French...
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Vive La Loafing!
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· Score: 5, Informative
Insightful?! Not sure the French are complaining about the Americans being more successful, they're actually sitting on the beach going on about how productive they are...
A much more informed view of "Europe vs. USA" can be found in a recent Economist. There's a multi-page special on the subject that boils down to:
1. USA has higher GDP/capita than EU, but 2. USA and EU have similar GDP/capita growth rates (in fact the same if you eliminate Germany which is having to cope with unification). How about the US tries merging with South America? 3. GDP/work hour is similar in USA and EU 4. US citizens have higher disposable income than EU citizens because US citizens work 40% more hours, i.e. EU citizens have same productivity as US, but work less hours, hence lower GDP/capita. Or to put it another way EU citizens have traded GDP/capita for leisure time, US citizens work much more and hence buy more stuff (TVs, cars,...)
So there's no fundamental difference in GDP/work hour or productivity between the two federations. Europeans just take more time off, which might have a lot to do with the better health and better life expectancy in the EU. US citizens work like crazy and hence can afford houses stuffed with electronics, appliances and multiple cars.
I assume that you are a US citizen, perhaps you'd like to spend some of your disposable income buying the article here.
John.
The title is a pun
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Vive La Loafing!
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· Score: 4, Informative
On the title of a very famous French book called Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness).
Just so long as they also bring back the mini-skirted 1960s era women whose job was to have Kirk fall in love with them. And make sure that they have too much make-up on and for some reason get to hang around the bridge even though they don't work there.
Personally use VMWare with the following Virtual Machines:
1. Windows 2000 2. SuSe Linux 8.0 3. Solaris 9 for x86
And my real OS is SuSE Linux 8.0. With that configuration in my laptop I can go anywhere with the major operating systems that my company has to support.
Wow, using sloccount on the full POPFile source shows that developing it would have cost around $500K in a regular software company. That seems about right given the length of time we've been working on it and the number of people involved. Cool tool.
Now if only I could push the donations up above $5,000:-)
YRO now extends to driving around while not watching the road? If this didn't involve a DVD player, but involved a driver distracted by the aadvark he'd let loose in the truck would it be YRO?
The whole Kevin and Sarah thing is sickening. (And no, not because I'm jealous, I've met Sarah and she's nice enough but not my type).
The whole show has gone to shit since Leo was canned and G4 took over, and I keep wondering what's going to happen if the Kevin/Sarah thing breaks up. They've made it part of the show, are we going to get to see them sniping at each other on air as well?
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GNU arch was awarded an Open Source Award last quarter.
As ever people OSI is accepting nominations for OSAs.
John.
Looks like Soyuz and Gemini problems are related to me: they put the Gemini bolts in the Soyuz and vice versa :-)
I recently beat seasonal allergies without relying on any medicine at all. I simply decapitated myself with a steak knife. It was so easy, no more running nose, or red, watery eyes!
/. IT color scheme any more!
John.
PS And there's an added benefit: I can't see the hideous
Sorry, I'm saying "bullshit" to that comment. Yes, Larry Wall got an award. There's a once yearly award for a "Grand Master of Open Source": who are we going to give it to? Some guy who wrote a three link patch for banana-wumpus-6.5?
The $500 awards go to plenty of other people that aren't in the news all the time and deserve the awards and recognition. And secondly if people would nominate more projects and people then we'd know about other deserving winners.
John.
This is partly what the Open Source Awards are about. Anyone can nominate people or projects for awards and $500 Merit Awards are handed out quarterly. You can see the current list of winners.
Voting will soon get underway for Q3 winners so get nominating!
John.
I agree. As much as I like these "Graham-grams" I'm not sure this particular one was anything really relevant to Slashdot (apart from reminding me that Paul Graham is smarter than me... again :-).
Perhaps it's time for paulgraham.slashdot.org?
John.
> for specific reasons. Persons question the redaction of this post or its original contents or its existence or <> may be held without trial. Please read the next post and forget about this one.>
> The reason is, the motivation for open source is
> not because the person gets paid but the person
> gets prestige. The developers are designing for
> each other and they are so feature rich--geeks
> love features--and you get more prestige by adding
> features. For the average person fewer features is
> better and easier to understand.
This has been a constant battle on POPFile. People are forever asking me for this option, or that option, which are useful to a user community consisting of themselves and the two other people in the world who want the same thing. I've been argued with strenously for not adding various features and in general to innovating in the UI really slowly, but the lesson is clear: the average user should be guided by the software to the right behaviour. POPFile does have 100s of special options and they are available in a cfg file that a geek can get at.
The other problem with open source and GUIs are all the people who want things in very specific places. e.g. I got constant "Put button X at the top, no, put button X at the bottom, no put it at the top and bottom" type conversations. Finally, we've boiled the UI down to the things that most people like and anyone else can hack the HTML templates and make the UI just as they want it.
Overall, we've settled on:
1. Lots of flexibility exposed at the geek level
2. The every day functionality exposed in the UI.
There's still a lot to do to make POPFile's UI really friendly, but the biggest lesson has been to resist the power users when it comes to adding UI widgets.
John.
Email me and I'll send you an invitation to gmail. I have a gmail account that I don't use and I still have the ability to send some invites to people.
John.
Yeah, but it was only on flights to Chappaquiddick.
John.
John.
I really interesting book about France and the French from a North American perspective is 60 million Frenchmen can't be wrong. I read it and came away with a different impression of France and a better understanding of how and why the French think the way they do. Well worth reading if you're interested in how your preconceptions match with reality.
John.
Is here.
John.
Insightful?! Not sure the French are complaining about the Americans being more successful, they're actually sitting on the beach going on about how productive they are...
...)
A much more informed view of "Europe vs. USA" can be found in a recent Economist. There's a multi-page special on the subject that boils down to:
1. USA has higher GDP/capita than EU, but
2. USA and EU have similar GDP/capita growth rates (in fact the same if you eliminate Germany which is having to cope with unification). How about the US tries merging with South America?
3. GDP/work hour is similar in USA and EU
4. US citizens have higher disposable income than EU citizens because US citizens work 40% more hours, i.e. EU citizens have same productivity as US, but work less hours, hence lower GDP/capita. Or to put it another way EU citizens have traded GDP/capita for leisure time, US citizens work much more and hence buy more stuff (TVs, cars,
So there's no fundamental difference in GDP/work hour or productivity between the two federations. Europeans just take more time off, which might have a lot to do with the better health and better life expectancy in the EU. US citizens work like crazy and hence can afford houses stuffed with electronics, appliances and multiple cars.
I assume that you are a US citizen, perhaps you'd like to spend some of your disposable income buying the article here.
John.
On the title of a very famous French book called Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness).
John.
?> is pronounced "what's greater". Surely appropriate for the new name for /.
John.
Hopefully we can drop /. now and instead hold down the SHIFT and all surf over to ?>
John.
That's the current street price of heroin measured in grams.
John.
Just so long as they also bring back the mini-skirted 1960s era women whose job was to have Kirk fall in love with them. And make sure that they have too much make-up on and for some reason get to hang around the bridge even though they don't work there.
John.
Personally use VMWare with the following Virtual Machines:
1. Windows 2000
2. SuSe Linux 8.0
3. Solaris 9 for x86
And my real OS is SuSE Linux 8.0. With that configuration in my laptop I can go anywhere with the major operating systems that my company has to support.
John.
Right, and I'm not Jewish!
Wow, using sloccount on the full POPFile source shows that developing it would have cost around $500K in a regular software company. That seems about right given the length of time we've been working on it and the number of people involved. Cool tool.
:-)
Now if only I could push the donations up above $5,000
John.
YRO now extends to driving around while not watching the road? If this didn't involve a DVD player, but involved a driver distracted by the aadvark he'd let loose in the truck would it be YRO?
John.
The whole Kevin and Sarah thing is sickening. (And no, not because I'm jealous, I've met Sarah and she's nice enough but not my type).
The whole show has gone to shit since Leo was canned and G4 took over, and I keep wondering what's going to happen if the Kevin/Sarah thing breaks up. They've made it part of the show, are we going to get to see them sniping at each other on air as well?
John.