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Re: [Haifux] Lecture Idea: Freecell Solver - It's not just about C

Muli Ben-Yehuda
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 00:16:40 -0700

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:28:58AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 
> Many of you may have heard me telling a lot of tall tales on Freecell
> Solver, which is my most active pet project. Open-Source Projects are not
> just about code. They are also about the people who use them. My lecture's
> theme would be how people and my code helped each other.
> 
> I will talk about the various people who contacted me in regard to
> Freecell Solver, what they thought about it, the problems they had, the
> requests, and how it eventually affected the development of FCS. I will
> talk about changes that I made to the code, even such that I thought on
> my own, but it will also cover how other people regarded them.

Interesting theme, although I would prefer a technical lecture. 

> I don't think it is off-topic. We already had a lecture about
> Sys-call-track and this lecture has a similar theme.

Not really, the syscalltrack lecture was highly technical (as
technical as you can get in 2 hours with such a broad subject) and it
used what journalists call "the human element" only for added color. 
-- 
The ill-formed Orange
Fails to satisfy the eye:       http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~mulix/
Segmentation fault.             http://syscalltrack.sf.net/

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