Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 10/04/2013 08:37 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: Ezra Klein's Wonkbook from The Washington Post */. They're loading 11 CSS files and/**62 (wat?) JavaScript files on each page, uncompressed and without expires headers, writes Spektr44. They have blocks of HTML inexplicably wrapped in script tags.

Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread glen
Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 10/03/2013 02:56 PM: For software, if one has immediate, tight loop expectations, it is close to already having it. But normally there are a bunch of unstated or unknown expectations that where the payer just wants to inherit the best practice (assuming there is

Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread y...@icgamma.ru
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Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread y...@icgamma.ru
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Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 10/4/13 9:30 AM, glen wrote: But even when, say, buying a pinwheel in Chinatown or a US flag at a big parade, if it's handed to you for free, it can take you awhile to really determine whether it's worthless or if there's some joy hidden somewhere inside. I see your point (and about the bad

Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread Steve Smith
Glen/Marcus- On 10/4/13 9:30 AM, glen wrote: But even when, say, buying a pinwheel in Chinatown or a US flag at a big parade, if it's handed to you for free, it can take you awhile to really determine whether it's worthless or if there's some joy hidden somewhere inside. I see your point (and

Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 10/4/13 9:53 AM, y...@icgamma.ru wrote: Я нахожусь в отпуске до 16 октября. По срочным вопросам обращайтесь к Елене Федоровой fedor...@icgamma.ru Why reminds me, what sort of interesting computer architectures are coming out of Russia these days? A lot of this appears to be reselling

Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread y...@icgamma.ru
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Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread y...@icgamma.ru
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Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread y...@icgamma.ru
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Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Owen Densmore
So much for CMSs! God they suck. -- Owen On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote: On 10/04/2013 08:37 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: *. They're loading 11 CSS files and** 62 (wat?) JavaScript files on each page, uncompressed and without expires headers,

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread y...@icgamma.ru
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Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 10/4/13 10:13 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: So much for CMSs! God they suck. The repository has basically nothing in it. Some jquery files and some Ruby Jekyll code, and a file from Google Search Appliance, and some stubbed out HTML. https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov No application

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread cody dooderson
is that an automated response from yuri? Cody Smith On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:05 AM, y...@icgamma.ru y...@icgamma.ru wrote: Я нахожусь в отпуске до 16 октября. По срочным вопросам обращайтесь к Елене Федоровой fedor...@icgamma.ru

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread y...@icgamma.ru
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Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread y...@icgamma.ru
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Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Eric Smith
I think it says he is traveling until the 16th of October, and if you need anything, call Elena Fedorova. On Oct 4, 2013, at 3:15 PM, cody dooderson wrote: is that an automated response from yuri? Cody Smith On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:05 AM, y...@icgamma.ru y...@icgamma.ru wrote: Я

[FRIAM] 8 Queens Problem

2013-10-04 Thread Frank Wimberly
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Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Stephen Guerin
I just switched Yuri's account to 'moderated' until he returns. Hopefully that will avoid the noisy traffic. -Stephen --- -. . ..-. .. ... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... stephen.gue...@redfish.com 1600 Lena St #D1, Santa Fe, NM 87505 office: (505) 995-0206 tollfree: (888) 414-3855 mobile:

Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread glen
Steve Smith wrote at 10/04/2013 08:52 AM: I think this is (finally) the nut of the discussion? But isn't the attention given to an artifact/idea precisely what gives it value in a marketplace? I admit that the market is a fickle bitch sometimes and some of the best ideas or artifacts likely

Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread Steve Smith
On 10/4/13 2:45 PM, glen wrote: Steve Smith wrote at 10/04/2013 08:52 AM: I think this is (finally) the nut of the discussion? But isn't the attention given to an artifact/idea precisely what gives it value in a marketplace? I admit that the market is a fickle bitch sometimes and some of

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
Who is Elena Federova? Fedora is a Linux distribution, isn't it?  -J. Sent from Android Original message From: Stephen Guerin stephen.gue...@redfish.com Date: 04/10/2013 21:37 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com Subject:

Re: [FRIAM] 8 Queens Problem

2013-10-04 Thread George Duncan
Fascinating! George Duncan georgeduncanart.com (505) 983-6895 Represented by ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 Dynamic application of matrix order and luminous chaos. On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Frank Wimberly wimber...@gmail.com wrote: This came up at physical Friam

Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread Steve Smith
Maybe if any of us had a grasp of Russian folklore, we might find that the name Elena Federova is a play on the idea of a Federalized Government and Yuri is just adamantly reminding us of the tragic lessons of that particularly relevant folktale? Probably not... autoresponder is more likely!

Re: [FRIAM] openness

2013-10-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 10/04/2013 04:11 PM, Steve Smith wrote: Maybe if any of us had a grasp of Russian folklore, we might find that the name Elena Federova is a play on the idea of a Federalized Government and Yuri is just adamantly reminding us of the tragic lessons of that particularly relevant folktale? It's

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 11:04:36AM -0600, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: On 10/4/13 10:13 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: So much for CMSs! God they suck. The repository has basically nothing in it. Some jquery files and some Ruby Jekyll code, and a file from Google Search Appliance, and some stubbed

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 10/04/2013 06:06 PM, Russell Standish wrote: The result of subcontracting out on freelancer.com, and picking the lowest hourly rate? Sigh.. http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/10/what-developers-can-learn-from-healthcare-gov.html

Re: [FRIAM] Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Gary Schiltz
Regardless of the wisdom of their choices for software stack, I'm really impressed to see a government agency using open source, and moreover, publishing it. I guess I won't hold my breath for NSA to publish their algorithms on GitHub, though... Gary On Oct 4, 2013, at 7:06 PM, Russell

Re: [FRIAM] Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 10/4/13 6:03 PM, Gary Schiltz wrote: Regardless of the wisdom of their choices for software stack, I'm really impressed to see a government agency using open source, and moreover, publishing it. I guess I won't hold my breath for NSA to publish their algorithms on GitHub, though... It

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Wonkbook: Obamacare's web site is really bad

2013-10-04 Thread Owen Densmore
So much for CMSs! God they suck. The result of subcontracting out on freelancer.com, and picking the lowest hourly rate? So, so true! -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at

Re: [FRIAM] 8 Queens Problem

2013-10-04 Thread Stephen Thompson
I have been looking at the genetic algorithm again and thought the 8-queens problem would be an interesting challenge for figuring out a representation structure to encode the problem. I thought one queen per row in any of the 8 horizontal positions, generate a collection of rows, then construct