Re: [fonc] Incentives and Metrics for Infrastructure vs. Functionality

2013-01-02 Thread Ondřej Bílka
On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 04:57:05PM -0700, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: On 1/1/13 3:18 PM, Ondřej Bílka wrote: On opposite end of spectrum you have piece of haskell code where everything is abstracted and each abstraction is wrong in some way or another. Main reason of later is functional

Re: [fonc] Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug - Slashdot

2013-01-02 Thread Carl Gundel
-Original Message- From: Pascal J. Bourguignon Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 4:22 PM To: Fundamentals of New Computing Subject: Re: [fonc] Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug - Slashdot Carl Gundel ca...@psychesystems.com writes: “If there are

Re: [fonc] Incentives and Metrics for Infrastructure vs. Functionality

2013-01-02 Thread Loup Vaillant-David
On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 11:18:29PM +0100, Ondřej Bílka wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 09:12:07PM +0100, Loup Vaillant-David wrote: void latin1_to_utf8(std::string s); Let me guess. They do it to save cycles caused by allocation of new string. instead of std::string

Re: [fonc] Current topics

2013-01-02 Thread Simon Forman
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: The most recent discussions get at a number of important issues whose pernicious snares need to be handled better. In an analogy to sending messages most of the time successfully through noisy channels -- where the noise also

Re: [fonc] Current topics

2013-01-02 Thread BGB
On 1/2/2013 10:31 PM, Simon Forman wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: The most recent discussions get at a number of important issues whose pernicious snares need to be handled better. In an analogy to sending messages most of the time successfully

Re: [fonc] Current topics

2013-01-02 Thread David Barbour
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: As humans, we are used to being sloppy about message creation and sending, and rely on negotiation and good will after the fact to deal with errors. You might be interested in my article on avoiding commitment in HCI, and its