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Especially we are losing the initial generation of programmers.
Have you ever made serious mistake? That if given an opportunity, you would start over with a different approach.
Comparing how you think about doing research now with how you thought when you were starting out, what is the biggest change in your thinking?
> all mounted file servers export the same file-system-like interface, regardless of the implementation behind them. Some might correspond to local file systems, some to remote file systems accessed over a network, some to instances of system servers running in user space (like the window system or an alternate network stack), and some to kernel interfaces. To users and client programs, all these cases look alike.
And Rob Pike once said[2]:
> When I was on Plan 9, everything was connected and uniform. Now everything isn't connected, just connected to the cloud, which isn't the same thing. And uniform? Far from it, except in mediocrity. This is 2012 and we're still stitching together little microcomputers with HTTPS and ssh and calling it revolutionary. I sorely miss the unified system view of the world we had at Bell Labs, and the way things are going that seems unlikely to come back any time soon.
Then, his writing style never bother me again.
> all mounted file servers export the same file-system-like interface, regardless of the implementation behind them. Some might correspond to local file systems, some to remote file systems accessed over a network, some to instances of system servers running in user space (like the window system or an alternate network stack), and some to kernel interfaces. To users and client programs, all these cases look alike.
> There's scope for something very powerful (almost PC-like) in the $70 price range. If I was starting a new venture today, this is where I'd aim.
There is very powerful project like Bunnie Huang's Novena [1], but just the board will cost $550.
- Markdown support, even pictures could be added in comment
- Sub-forums, so one could follow (or ignore) particular topics
- Read comments without living the homepage
- Optimization for mobile device
- Social features, e.g. AT or FOLLOW particular ID
- New submissions will randomly appear in homepage, so we don't need to count on up-votes immediately after submit
Could someone explain what does this mean?
I'm an editor at Programmer Magazine in China (http://special.csdn.net/programmercovers/), as a coincidence, after 14 years operation, we just release the last print issue last week and withdrawal towards the electronic version only. I think we share the similar experience and feeling about how the tech medias evolved recently.
But media is still a very active field, if you have read the New York Times innovation report that leaked earlier this year, you may get a mixed feeling that with the risks, there are still opportunities to build an independent site with in-depth articles, code, algorithms, and reliable product reviews, which quality media should have.
But unfortunately, most decisions were not made by the ones who love this career, have ability and skill to lead the change, and do not fear to face the risks.
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
The newly designed fonts in recent years for Chinese have much better Roman parts which are already distributed by operating system or could obtained for free:
- Microsoft YaHei in Windows http://www.fonts.com/font/microsoft-corporation#product_top
- Hiragino Sans GB in Mac (http://blog.jjgod.org/2009/06/04/updates-on-font-changes-in-...)
- Source Han Sans free from Adobe (http://blog.typekit.com/2014/07/15/introducing-source-han-sa...)
Many Chinese websites have already using one of them as their default font. There are also a dozen of commercial Chinese fonts which contain higher quality Roman typeface (although could not catch up most classic ones).
And for professionals (like book publishers or designers) in China, they often combine one Chinese font and one Roman font in their product for better result. (e.g. FZNew ShuSong + Sabon for Serif).
And for who may interested in the idea behind chording keyboard, Bill Buxton wrote an informative chapter in his book http://billbuxton.com/input06.ChordKeyboards.pdf
> For the record, I am coding right now, just like I was last week.I expect the FB deal will avoid several embarrassing scaling crisis for VR.
> I can't follow the volume of tweets today, so if you want a real answer to something, try in a couple days after things die down.
> I have a deep respect for the technical scale that FB operates at. The cyberspace we want for VR will be at this scale.
> I suppose I will get a FB account now, so that may lead to some writing a little longer than tweet length...
They already did the teardown work well from their article, why criticize them like you care about the appearance but not the idea.
The Internet is an example. The GFW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project) surveillance all connections in China like NSA but since 10 years ago and people are used to it.
Even large payment companies in China (like Alipay) could do litter about economic innovation, they have to obey the rules set by the government and bank.
Any big company in China could challenge these rules by using a method which independent of any central authority in the future? I don't think so.
I couldn't imagine any big company in China will officially accept Bitcoin in the future at all.
A copy of the GNUstep Live CD with GNUstep and all applications pre-installed on an instance of the latest version of Debian Linux.
Estimated delivery: Feb 2014
Armadillo Aerospace run out of money and hibernate (2013), id Software had been acquired by ZeniMax Media (2009), id software President Todd Hollenshead has quit after 17 years of service (2013) and there's a long time without really big new Game.
Now John Carmack some kind of working for another company…
Wearable Computing researchers usually use a chording keyboard for typing. You could see how this work with Emacs in real life by Thad Starner (a technical lead on Google's Project Glass) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2i_7oX8mw
If the only object or the judgment criteria of the quantity way is quantity, and without any deliberate practice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)#Deli...) why the students finally not just only develop a way to produce high quantity product?
It's not the same way MacCready solve Henry Kremer's problem (http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-wrong-problem/), although looks similar.