[silk] [FoRK] Raise your hand if you rate minimum LOC as an important metric

2013-01-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-12 Thread Thaths
At today's Chennai silk list meetup the topic of history podcasts came up. I offered to post to silk list asking everyone for recommendations. 1. What are two (history or other) podcasts that are the best in your opinion? 2. What is a podcast that you wish existed but does not? I'll kick this

Re: [silk] [FoRK] Raise your hand if you rate minimum LOC as an important metric

2013-01-12 Thread Charles Haynes
I have used code complexity arguments successfully in the past. How hard is this to change? Where are the bugs? Cyclomatic complexity (highly correlated with local of course) The supposed advantages of the c++ solution should be measurable or they are simply faith. The measurements should support

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
1. historyofoil.typepad.com the history of rome (the LSE lectures though not only about history do have some excellent history talks) 2. Too many to list and at the same time nothing to list. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: At today's Chennai silk list meetup

[silk] temperature as forex

2013-01-12 Thread Dave Long
Another metaphor for temperature: there are two basic currencies in physics, entropy and energy. If you have an ordered state, you can usually easily trade it for a less-ordered state, and if you have an energetic state, you can usually easily trade it for a less-energetic state.

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-12 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: At today's Chennai silk list meetup the topic of history podcasts came up. I offered to post to silk list asking everyone for recommendations. 1. What are two (history or other) podcasts that are the best in your opinion? UC

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-12 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
At today's Chennai silk list meetup the topic of history podcasts came up. I offered to post to silk list asking everyone for recommendations. 1. What are two (history or other) podcasts that are the best in your opinion? My vote is for In Our

Re: [silk] temperature as forex

2013-01-12 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Dave Long dave.l...@bluewin.ch wrote: Another metaphor for temperature: there are two basic currencies in physics, entropy and energy. If you have an ordered state, you can usually easily trade it for a less-ordered state, and if you have an energetic state,