I do not know how I read Julia Language as Julian Assange and thought why he was assiciated with C for numerical computing. I had to read the title again. Doh!
Reminds me of Kavka's toxin puzzle....the Political Manifesto. Before an election, a political party will release a written document outlining their policies and plans should they win office. Many of these promises may be difficult or impossible to implement in practice. Having won, the party is not obligated to follow the manifesto even if they would have lost without it.
If you read a bit into the interview, you will be starled by what he says about Java language development and Open Source contributions to Java. He tends to focus on "engineering the Java language" as a product is more difficult than developing the language, which constitutes only 2 or 3 percent. Also goes on to say that Open Source Contributions have not really been effective.
Well, I can understand where he is coming from, but is James missing out the picture of where it actually works? - Python, Apache, Linux kernel.. Are these less used software pieces than Java? Here is the portion that I am talking about.
So long as they do that. The development of Java is not an inexpensive thing. It takes a fair amount of funding. It's not just about writing code. Learning the code is two or three percent of the expense. You're shipping fifteen million copies a week, just the bandwith is horrible. The QA when you have to worry about something that has thirty issues. When you've got everything, every stock exchange, every phone company on the planet. Their security depends on Java. So it's not a causual piece of testing.
You know, when it comes to open source contributions, our history with contributions over the years have been kinda snarky. We'd get lost of people sending code and fixes. But on average, we'd get a submission that fixed the bug but it caused three or four more. And it probably didn't fix the bug for everybody. It probably only fixed the bug for their one case. And trying to get people in the community to actually think about the whole code base and not just their particular issue today. Doing one line of change means an immense amount of testing.
Most open source projects are way too casual for that. Sometimes when you get bugs that are potential security issues, you have to move fast, you have to put immense resources on getting it done. Maybe it's just one engineer fixing one character in one line, but then testing it and making sure you didn't introduce a bug. The harder stuff is if you have a bug, there are probably people out there who have worked around that bug, so how many of the workarounds are you going to break. And when you've got nine or ten million in the developer community you have enormous applications, trivial fixes are not trivial. And open source projects, the way the average open source projects are constituted. IT's easy to get people to do the fun stuff. It's hard to get people to do the hard stuff.
Like QAing the math libraries. Like doing QA on sine and cosine, you absolutely have to have a PHd in Mathematics. Sine and cosine: it sounds really simple, but there is unbelievable amount of depths of subtlety in there. There are extraordinarily few people on the planet qualified to QA that type of stuff.
This is quite true. I wonder why Google wanted to meddle with usenet. But I think, they still are in position that, if they want to rewamp it for good, they can do it. After they will get money through advertisements which will be aplenty in usenet.
Practically Speaking, I would like to see the implications of this change of law in society. With respective of creative arts, many are not aware of what is legal and what is illegal. Seriously. Many think, pirated DVDs are of poor quality and if you get high quality pirated DVDsit is worth their money to buy it. Legalese does not come into picture at all.
Majority of Indian's being aware of copyright laws one of one of best things to happen to country.
Have you ever tried to seriously concentrate on a single task at hand.
* A Single vim/emacs session with a code or text. No Windows, No buffers. * Or a single webpage open and you are concentrating on that one only.
You will switch only after one is over
Compare this with the multiple buffers open with multiple tabs and multiple applications open, which you constantly switch back and forth. It may not take a genius to figure that the first one is 'more efficient'. This research substantiates that.
I personally favor single tasking with a longer task switching.
Was this decision taken after the urge of FSF or they had it in their plans? I think the lobbying and urging by FSF to a corporate like Google seems somewhat undignified, at least to me. This act seems of higher quality and nature, be whatever its motivations are.
But yeah, I would be curious to know from the Google Insiders as how much of FSF urging help?
If you are worried that your laptop containing sensitive data might get stolen and thief would there by get the passwords stored in your firefox browser, then here is my suggestion. Use the finger print or retina recognition so that the laptop operates only when it recognizes you. These are becoming standard these days with IBM T400 series having finger print recognition and Dell Inspiron 15 series having retina recognition. If you are worried that there are so many passwords to maintain, then yes, I am worried about that too. Open IDs are coming up for help, but there are not there yet.
I, whenever possible use OpenID. then I store my passwords in firefox sxipper (with not all the values default, like I wont store my expiry date of the card, but would have input card number and password) and I dont use finger print recognition as I did not feel the need for it.
Yes, you are right. With the development of Google we have similar seen development of Open Source technologies too. Google offers a convenience to a lot of users. They don't force themselves upon users. That is why they seem to be popular with both general crowd(solely for convenience) and technical/philosophy minded crowd ( not forcing down your throat). People who don't want it, can of course live without it.
Not actually, he said "Linux is bloated" not "Linux is obsolete". There is a hell a lot of difference between bloated and obsolete. The bloated software never become obsolete. You have an excellent example, sorry, two excellent examples floating around.
Well, it is present as a required reading in many US schools, I suppose. No wonder, how they got the Apple's 1984 advertisement properly. If it had not been in their textbooks, do you think Apple would be where it is today?
Slashdot Mirror
I do not know how I read Julia Language as Julian Assange and thought why he was assiciated with C for numerical computing. I had to read the title again. Doh!
The question of whether a AI program can make people intelligent is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can teach swimming...
- /me
What? You have a cheese burger now? Fine, Thank you. I am happy with my sandwich. (I see sudo wagging it's tail)
I bet that was the case.
Reminds me of Kavka's toxin puzzle. ...the Political Manifesto. Before an election, a political party will release a written document outlining their policies and plans should they win office. Many of these promises may be difficult or impossible to implement in practice. Having won, the party is not obligated to follow the manifesto even if they would have lost without it.
It says
The bad news is that Google Docs has just encountered an error.
The good news is that you've helped us find a bug, which we are now looking into.
We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you.
If you read a bit into the interview, you will be starled by what he says about Java language development and Open Source contributions to Java. He tends to focus on "engineering the Java language" as a product is more difficult than developing the language, which constitutes only 2 or 3 percent. Also goes on to say that Open Source Contributions have not really been effective.
Well, I can understand where he is coming from, but is James missing out the picture of where it actually works? - Python, Apache, Linux kernel.. Are these less used software pieces than Java? Here is the portion that I am talking about.
So long as they do that. The development of Java is not an inexpensive thing. It takes a fair amount of funding. It's not just about writing code. Learning the code is two or three percent of the expense. You're shipping fifteen million copies a week, just the bandwith is horrible. The QA when you have to worry about something that has thirty issues. When you've got everything, every stock exchange, every phone company on the planet. Their security depends on Java. So it's not a causual piece of testing.
You know, when it comes to open source contributions, our history with contributions over the years have been kinda snarky. We'd get lost of people sending code and fixes. But on average, we'd get a submission that fixed the bug but it caused three or four more. And it probably didn't fix the bug for everybody. It probably only fixed the bug for their one case. And trying to get people in the community to actually think about the whole code base and not just their particular issue today. Doing one line of change means an immense amount of testing.
Most open source projects are way too casual for that. Sometimes when you get bugs that are potential security issues, you have to move fast, you have to put immense resources on getting it done. Maybe it's just one engineer fixing one character in one line, but then testing it and making sure you didn't introduce a bug. The harder stuff is if you have a bug, there are probably people out there who have worked around that bug, so how many of the workarounds are you going to break. And when you've got nine or ten million in the developer community you have enormous applications, trivial fixes are not trivial. And open source projects, the way the average open source projects are constituted. IT's easy to get people to do the fun stuff. It's hard to get people to do the hard stuff.
Like QAing the math libraries. Like doing QA on sine and cosine, you absolutely have to have a PHd in Mathematics. Sine and cosine: it sounds really simple, but there is unbelievable amount of depths of subtlety in there. There are extraordinarily few people on the planet qualified to QA that type of stuff.
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free - Linus
Linus torvalds was a visionary in this regard and Android OS right adopted Linux on that basis.
What is that analogy?
Having a name as iRobot and creating a destructive robot is clearly threading on a path away from the three laws of robotics that we know about.
This is quite true. I wonder why Google wanted to meddle with usenet. But I think, they still are in position that, if they want to rewamp it for good, they can do it. After they will get money through advertisements which will be aplenty in usenet.
Why not 42?
Practically Speaking, I would like to see the implications of this change of law in society. With respective of creative arts, many are not aware of what is legal and what is illegal. Seriously.
Many think, pirated DVDs are of poor quality and if you get high quality pirated DVDsit is worth their money to buy it. Legalese does not come into picture at all.
Majority of Indian's being aware of copyright laws one of one of best things to happen to country.
This change is definitely a fine piece of work.
Have you ever tried to seriously concentrate on a single task at hand.
* A Single vim/emacs session with a code or text. No Windows, No buffers.
* Or a single webpage open and you are concentrating on that one only.
You will switch only after one is over
Compare this with the multiple buffers open with multiple tabs and multiple applications open, which you constantly switch back and forth. It may not take a genius to figure that the first one is 'more efficient'. This research substantiates that.
I personally favor single tasking with a longer task switching.
This makes sense. Yeah, be whatever the motive, the FSF might thank them as it still gets aligned to what they (FSF) wanted.
Was this decision taken after the urge of FSF or they had it in their plans? I think the lobbying and urging by FSF to a corporate like Google seems somewhat undignified, at least to me. This act seems of higher quality and nature, be whatever its motivations are.
But yeah, I would be curious to know from the Google Insiders as how much of FSF urging help?
He wont get a job at Google, when he tries to apply there few years down.
The previous guy must have been a kernel hacker, thats why.
If you are worried that your laptop containing sensitive data might get stolen and thief would there by get the passwords stored in your firefox browser, then here is my suggestion.
Use the finger print or retina recognition so that the laptop operates only when it recognizes you. These are becoming standard these days with IBM T400 series having finger print recognition and Dell Inspiron 15 series having retina recognition.
If you are worried that there are so many passwords to maintain, then yes, I am worried about that too. Open IDs are coming up for help, but there are not there yet.
I, whenever possible use OpenID. then I store my passwords in firefox sxipper (with not all the values default, like I wont store my expiry date of the card, but would have input card number and password) and I dont use finger print recognition as I did not feel the need for it.
Caching. Without that Google, it's services and the whole of the internet would be sloooooooooooooooooow and boring one
Yes, you are right. With the development of Google we have similar seen development of Open Source technologies too. Google offers a convenience to a lot of users. They don't force themselves upon users. That is why they seem to be popular with both general crowd(solely for convenience) and technical /philosophy minded crowd ( not forcing down your throat). People who don't want it, can of course live without it.
I'm looking forward to languages that integrate completely with an IDE, and leave simple character representation (ASCII e.a.) behind.
Wait no longer, www.alice.org is already there.
Not to mention, how many of them are passing themselves off as "Researchers" doing interesting research on those "Gamers".
Not actually, he said "Linux is bloated" not "Linux is obsolete". There is a hell a lot of difference between bloated and obsolete. The bloated software never become obsolete. You have an excellent example, sorry, two excellent examples floating around.
Well, it is present as a required reading in many US schools, I suppose.
No wonder, how they got the Apple's 1984 advertisement properly. If it had not been in their textbooks, do you think Apple would be where it is today?