Re: [fonc] Task management in a world without apps.

2013-11-03 Thread Tom Novelli
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Josh Grams j...@qualdan.com wrote: On 2013-11-01 10:37AM, Chris Warburton wrote: My dislike of canvas is that it arrogantly presumes that a user agent has a display to be formatted. I used to develop a CMS called ocPortal which got lots of praise from its

Re: [fonc] Hacking Maru

2013-10-21 Thread Tom Novelli
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Ian Piumarta piuma...@speakeasy.netwrote: I'd love to build a common platform. Maru is in particular trying to be malleable at the very lowest levels, so any special interest that cannot be accommodated easily within the common platform would be a strong

Re: [fonc] Software Crisis (was Re: Final STEP progress report abandoned?)

2013-09-09 Thread Tom Novelli
Good point, Casey - it's not just software. I see shabby service and workmanship all around, an Industrial Crisis brought on by a preoccupation with short-term gain... although that in itself is amplified by modern software/communication technology. Hopefully that will all balance out and

Re: [fonc] Everything You Know (about Parallel Programming) Is Wrong!: A Wild Screed about the Future

2012-04-03 Thread Tom Novelli
Is Ungar focusing on general-purpose computing or just high-performance computing? Unless he's strictly talking about HPC, he could be way off the mark. For the past 5-10 years there's been a general assumption that massive parallelism will be necessary as CPU speeds max out. But then there's