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21,161 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-10T21:52:40 | 10 common geek misconceptions about businesses | null | http://www.seolime.com/2007/05/10/top-ten-geek-business-myths/ | 13 | 9 | [
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21,162 | juwo | 2007-05-10T21:54:13 | The exasperating problem with advice | null | http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/05/exasperating-problem-with-advice.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,166 | Tichy | 2007-05-10T22:01:09 | Looking for two specific search engine startups | null | 1 | 5 | [
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21,169 | byrneseyeview | 2007-05-10T22:04:42 | The New Economy: Profits are dropping, stocks are tanking, and we should be fine with it (2002) | null | http://www.scripting.com/davenet/2002/05/29/johnRobbTheNewEconomy.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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21,195 | dawie | 2007-05-10T23:35:32 | CenterNetworks: Need a domain name? These guys say they can help! | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/need-a-domain-name-these-guys-say-they-can-help | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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21,211 | mattjaynes | 2007-05-11T00:54:29 | 10 Attributes of Really Lazy People | null | http://www.holyjuan.com/2007/05/10-attributes-of-really-lazy-people.html | 3 | 0 | [
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21,213 | mattjaynes | 2007-05-11T00:57:48 | How To Build An Open Source, Distributed Google Clone | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_build_an_open_source_google.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,217 | rokhayakebe | 2007-05-11T01:07:29 | Cloning is an Unethical but Rewarding business. | null | http://www.frazr.com | 2 | 1 | [
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21,219 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-11T01:09:46 | Motorola to Announce iPhone Competitor | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/10/motorola-to-announce-iphone-competitor/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,226 | amichail | 2007-05-11T02:30:33 | Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering | null | http://www2007.org/paper570.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,227 | amichail | 2007-05-11T02:34:03 | Powerset and Natural Language Search Talk by Barney Pell (Powerset, Founder and CEO) | null | http://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/unrestricted/colloq/details.cgi?id=613 | 3 | 6 | [
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21,230 | lupin_sansei | 2007-05-11T02:50:09 | Interesting iPod Mashup... Literally | null | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8H29jU8Wrs&mode=related&search= | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,235 | lupin_sansei | 2007-05-11T03:22:05 | The Contractor's Note (The Hacker's Answer to Artie Fufkin) | null | http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Classics-Week-The-Contractors-Note.aspx | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,240 | natrius | 2007-05-11T03:31:33 | Facebook to Offer Free Classifieds | null | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/business/11facebook.html?_r=1&oref=login | 3 | 3 | [
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21,242 | elialfordj | 2007-05-11T03:47:10 | Facebook Marketplace - Facebook to Launch Classifieds | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/10/facebook-to-offer-classifieds/ | 1 | 1 | [
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21,252 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-11T05:10:04 | Choose your Partners Wisely | null | http://www.robertoalamos.com/got-a-business-opportunity-choose-your-partners-wisely | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,258 | far33d | 2007-05-11T06:07:24 | Who's afraid of Google? | null | http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/11/GOOGLE.TMP | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,269 | mqt | 2007-05-11T07:39:27 | Death of the URL | null | http://blog.simon-cozens.org/post/view/1228 | 10 | 10 | [
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21,274 | mattjaynes | 2007-05-11T08:22:19 | Don't try to fool Mother Google (Re: due diligence in acquisitions) | null | http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/05/10/dont-try-to-fool-mother-google/ | 2 | 1 | [
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21,280 | far33d | 2007-05-11T09:01:54 | Has Overuse of Bayesian Analysis Screwed Google Search? | null | http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=abb7a3b5-8848-4669-8340-82160a6ba2a7 | 4 | 4 | [
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21,283 | sharpshoot | 2007-05-11T09:28:08 | Exact twitter clone in German gets funded | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/09/samwers-bankrolled-facebook-clone-now-twitter-clone/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,295 | danw | 2007-05-11T11:35:22 | Orbitz, the worst IPO of 2007? | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/05/11/orbitz-the-worst-ipo-of-2007/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | http_other_error | 520: Web server is returning an unknown error | null | null |
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21,296 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-11T11:36:01 | Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX all look nice, but what I really want is better file upload | null | http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/05/flash-silverlight-and-javafx-all-look.html | 25 | 15 | [
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21,299 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-11T11:49:34 | LinkedIn to Attention Streams | null | http://www.loosewireblog.com/2007/05/linkedin_to_att.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | LinkedIn to Attention Streams | 2007-05-11T11:04:42+00:00 | null |
TechCrunch spots a new feature on LinkedIn, the business network service, that allows people to see who has been looking at their profile. Commenters liken it to MyBlogLog and call it a social networking feature, which is true, but only part of the story. I’d say it is also an example of an early foray into the world of attention data. From the point of the person doing the viewing, who they view and what they click on would be the kind of information that would feed into an attention stream (i.e. outgoing data) and go to tailoring the content of that person’s data feed (i.e. the incoming information):
Users choose what information they’d like to disclose when viewing a profile (name and headline, anonymous profile characteristiscs, or don’t show any info). The default choice is the anonymous profile information.
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21,301 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-11T11:53:46 | Rapid coding collaboration (Web based) | null | http://www.springloops.com/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,302 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-11T11:57:32 | How Will Twitter Affect Search? | null | http://publishing2.com/2007/05/10/how-will-twitter-affect-search/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 | null | null |
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21,304 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-11T12:11:36 | XForms using javascript (No server side processing, no plugin needed!) | null | http://www.formfaces.com/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,305 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-11T12:13:03 | XForms: the next generation of HTML / XHTML forms and can stand alone | null | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xforms | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,307 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-11T12:15:52 | Xforms example: Submit Validation | null | http://www.formfaces.com/faces/Examples/Test%20Pages/submit-validation.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | timeout | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T01:53:11 | null | train |
21,313 | jjorgens | 2007-05-11T12:51:22 | How would/did you publicly launch a web based application? | null | 5 | 3 | [
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21,316 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-11T13:03:49 | How a blog spammer got past Akismet's filters | null | http://www.bomega.com/2007/05/11/wordpress-matt-mullenweg-and-spam/ | 10 | 19 | [
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21,319 | rms | 2007-05-11T13:10:17 | LinkedIn Answers: Can you recommend an Angel Investor? | null | http://www.linkedin.com/answers/startups-small-businesses/starting-up/STR_STP/42039-1186227?browseIdx=3&sik=1178888754826&goback=%2Eahp | 4 | 2 | [
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21,339 | vlad | 2007-05-11T14:19:36 | Psychic Whois - Instant Ajax, Context-Based Domain Name Suggestions and Lookup | null | http://www.psychicwhois.com/ | 1 | 1 | [
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21,340 | jkush | 2007-05-11T14:20:55 | Steve Jobs Answers Questions at Shareholder Meeting | null | http://roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/60A1C88F-B504-4CD7-ACC4-4104C9887A5A.html | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,349 | sabat | 2007-05-11T14:44:55 | Hey, You Startup Monkeys: Will Quickbooks Be Enough? | null | 5 | 12 | [
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21,359 | oo7jeep | 2007-05-11T15:45:02 | Y Combinator News LinkedIn Group | null | 13 | 6 | [
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21,364 | mattjaynes | 2007-05-11T16:51:58 | YC.News Lesson: Lose over 50 Karma points in a matter of minutes! | null | http://blog.nanobeepers.com/2007/05/11/ycnews-lesson-lose-over-50-karma-points-in-a-matter-of-minutes/ | 5 | 14 | [
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21,368 | transburgh | 2007-05-11T16:58:56 | Bail on One Idea Today | null | http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/5/11/bail-on-one-idea-today/10152/view.aspx | 14 | 4 | [
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21,374 | Mistone | 2007-05-11T17:11:49 | The Secret Weapon of Small Business Success | null | http://www.promoterforce.com/blog/2007/05/10/the-secret-weapon-of-small-businesses-success/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,377 | abstractbill | 2007-05-11T17:19:37 | Google shareholders say "Go right ahead, be evil." | null | http://jwz.livejournal.com/761788.html | 12 | 42 | [
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21,382 | rokhayakebe | 2007-05-11T17:53:21 | What Mobile startup would you like to see? | null | 1 | 1 | [
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21,405 | far33d | 2007-05-11T18:57:50 | Apple, others draw legal threat over media players | null | http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6183105.html | 1 | 1 | [
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21,413 | edgeztv | 2007-05-11T19:29:18 | Groovy/Grails vs. Ruby/Rails vs. Python/(something)? | null | 7 | 20 | [
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21,425 | mattjaynes | 2007-05-11T20:33:02 | Marc Fleury: My view on why "Microsoft is Dead" | null | http://marcf.blogspot.com/2007/05/microsofts-long-demise.html | 2 | 1 | [
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21,426 | mattjaynes | 2007-05-11T20:37:07 | Examining Zoomable Interfaces (not just for maps?) | null | http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000858.html | 6 | 2 | [
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21,442 | cata | 2007-05-11T21:09:55 | PHP anyone? | null | 6 | 29 | [
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21,445 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-11T21:20:27 | Google's making enemies... and becoming "the new microsoft"? | null | http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/11/MNGRIPPB2N1.DTL&type=business | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,447 | Dennis | 2007-05-11T21:25:34 | The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines - SPECIAL UPDATE | null | http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_top_100_alt_search_engines_april07_update.php | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,466 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-11T22:33:45 | In S.F., it's all about Java | null | http://news.com.com/Photos+In+S.F.%2C+its+all+about+Java/2300-1007_3-6183137.html?tag=nefd.lede | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,468 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-11T22:41:16 | Google faces shareholder vote over China (Includes case of Chinese Yahoo victim sueing Yahoo) | null | http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article1773239.ece | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: Quota exceeded for quota metric 'Generate Content API requests per minute' and limit 'GenerateContent request limit per minute for a region' of service 'generativelanguage.googleapis.com' for consumer 'project_number:854396441450'. | The Times & The Sunday Times | null | null | We haven't been able to take paymentYou must update your payment details via My Account or by clicking update payment details to keep your subscription.Act now to keep your subscriptionWe've tried to contact you several times as we haven't been able to take payment. You must update your payment details via My Account or by clicking update payment details to keep your subscription.Your subscription is due to terminateWe've tried to contact you several times as we haven't been able to take payment. You must update your payment details via My Account, otherwise your subscription will terminate. Accessibility LinksSkip to contentSubscribeEditor's picksSponsoredSponsoredHUGO RIFKINDThe luxury of small talkAimless chatter is the soothing white noise of our lives, it is the sound of companionship and community, and we would be lost without it, says Hugo RifkindvideoTimes obituaries brought to life in a podcastThe Times has been publishing life stories of the great and the good (and the not so good) for more than 170 years. Now the obituary is also becoming a podcast, explains Anna TemkinWord WatchCan you spot the real definition among the fakes?Word WatchPrintable PuzzlesMindGames and Brain Boost puzzles to print and solve at your leisurePrintable Puzzles
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21,486 | danw | 2007-05-11T23:31:09 | Sherry Turkle's sobering thoughts on communication and alienation | null | http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2007/05/11/sherry_turkles_....html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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21,491 | bootload | 2007-05-11T23:59:00 | The Hitmen | null | http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-innovation-scouts-hitmen.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | The Hitmen | 2007-05-01T09:00:00+00:00 | Danielle Sacks | Ryan Reber, Brent Weinstein, Barrett Garese, and Jason U. NadlerUnited Talent AgencyAt 6:45 a.m., a 27-year-old guy rolls out of bed, flips open his laptop, and burns the first 45 minutes of his morning browsing online videos of amateur drummers and speed painters. But he’s not a slacker. Jason U. Nadler is one of Hollywood’s emerging crop of online talent scouts. The morning regime is his equivalent of an A&R guy hanging in the back of a smoky bar. “I allow myself to get lost [online],” he says. “It’s where you find the gems.”Last fall, Nadler and two other assistants at United Talent Agency were tapped to form a new division dedicated to discovering talent online. UTA had already exported some online stars to traditional entertainment tracks (exhibit A: Andy Samberg of TheLonelyIsland.com fame, who’s now a Saturday Night Live regular). But Nadler’s team was charged with pioneering an entirely new model: matching up creators of obscure Web videos with the online divisions of traditional media companies, portals, and ad agencies, all of them hungry to try a new sort of storytelling.“We’re not going to sign someone just because they have a lot of hits on YouTube or a lot of friends on MySpace,” says Brent Weinstein, who heads the group. “What we try to do is drill down and distill whether the artists behind that wacky Internet video are people who can replicate that success over and over again.” Among the two-dozen-odd artists UTA Online has signed: the creative team behind Rednecks TV, an episodic online talk-variety show, and Big Fantastic, a team of five twentysomethings behind a serialized online murder-mystery soap opera, which has already won funding for its next project from Michael Eisner’s production company.The online scouts are starting to chip away at the ethos–and let’s face it, the etiquette–of the Hollywood ecosystem. At most talent houses (including UTA), agents routinely blow off any screenplay or reel that lands unsolicited in the mail room. But Weinstein’s team revels in the unusual, uncredentialed suspects. It recently brokered a deal with the peer-to-peer video-sharing site Veoh, which allows aspiring talent to submit videos directly to UTA’s agents. “If we see something we’re passionate about, we go after it as quickly as possible,” Weinstein says. “Because if we’re seeing it, chances are other people are as well. And we want to get there first.” | 2024-11-08T02:12:28 | en | train |
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21,495 | bootload | 2007-05-12T00:08:05 | Unity of interface | null | http://www.mozilla.org/unity-of-interface.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
21,498 | bootload | 2007-05-12T00:14:18 | The Rise of "Worse is Better" | null | http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | The Rise of ``Worse is Better'' | null | null |
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The Rise of ``Worse is Better''By Richard Gabriel
I and just about every designer of Common Lisp and CLOS has had
extreme exposure to the MIT/Stanford style of design. The essence of
this style can be captured by the phrase ``the right thing.'' To such
a designer it is important to get all of the following characteristics
right:
Simplicity-the design must be simple, both in
implementation and interface. It is more important for the interface
to be simple than the implementation.
Correctness-the design must be correct in all observable
aspects. Incorrectness is simply not allowed.
Consistency-the design must not be inconsistent. A design is
allowed to be slightly less simple and less complete to avoid
inconsistency. Consistency is as important as correctness.
Completeness-the design must cover as many important situations
as is practical. All reasonably expected cases must be covered.
Simplicity is not allowed to overly reduce completeness.
I believe most people would agree that these are good characteristics.
I will call the use of this philosophy of design the ``MIT approach.''
Common Lisp (with CLOS) and Scheme represent the MIT approach to
design and implementation.
The worse-is-better philosophy is only slightly different:
Simplicity-the design must be simple, both in implementation
and interface. It is more important for the implementation to be
simple than the interface. Simplicity is the most important
consideration in a design.
Correctness-the design must be correct in all observable
aspects. It is slightly better to be simple than correct.
Consistency-the design must not be overly inconsistent.
Consistency can be sacrificed for simplicity in some cases, but it is
better to drop those parts of the design that deal with less common
circumstances than to introduce either implementational complexity or
inconsistency.
Completeness-the design must cover as many important
situations as is practical. All reasonably expected cases should be
covered. Completeness can be sacrificed in favor of any other
quality. In fact, completeness must sacrificed whenever implementation
simplicity is jeopardized. Consistency can be sacrificed to achieve
completeness if simplicity is retained; especially worthless is
consistency of interface.
Early Unix and C are examples of the use of this school of design, and
I will call the use of this design strategy the ``New Jersey
approach.'' I have intentionally caricatured the worse-is-better
philosophy to convince you that it is obviously a bad philosophy and
that the New Jersey approach is a bad approach.
However, I believe that worse-is-better, even in its strawman form,
has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing, and that the
New Jersey approach when used for software is a better approach than
the MIT approach.
Let me start out by retelling a story that shows that the
MIT/New-Jersey distinction is valid and that proponents of each
philosophy actually believe their philosophy is better.
Two famous people, one from MIT and another from Berkeley (but working
on Unix) once met to discuss operating system issues. The person from
MIT was knowledgeable about ITS (the MIT AI Lab operating system) and
had been reading the Unix sources. He was interested in how Unix
solved the PC loser-ing problem. The PC loser-ing problem occurs when
a user program invokes a system routine to perform a lengthy operation
that might have significant state, such as IO buffers. If an interrupt
occurs during the operation, the state of the user program must be
saved. Because the invocation of the system routine is usually a
single instruction, the PC of the user program does not adequately
capture the state of the process. The system routine must either back
out or press forward. The right thing is to back out and restore the
user program PC to the instruction that invoked the system routine so
that resumption of the user program after the interrupt, for example,
re-enters the system routine. It is called ``PC loser-ing'' because
the PC is being coerced into ``loser mode,'' where ``loser'' is the
affectionate name for ``user'' at MIT.
The MIT guy did not see any code that handled this case and asked the
New Jersey guy how the problem was handled. The New Jersey guy said
that the Unix folks were aware of the problem, but the solution was
for the system routine to always finish, but sometimes an error code
would be returned that signaled that the system routine had failed to
complete its action. A correct user program, then, had to check the
error code to determine whether to simply try the system routine
again. The MIT guy did not like this solution because it was not the
right thing.
The New Jersey guy said that the Unix solution was right because the
design philosophy of Unix was simplicity and that the right thing was
too complex. Besides, programmers could easily insert this extra test
and loop. The MIT guy pointed out that the implementation was simple
but the interface to the functionality was complex. The New Jersey guy
said that the right tradeoff has been selected in Unix-namely,
implementation simplicity was more important than interface
simplicity.
The MIT guy then muttered that sometimes it takes a tough man to make a
tender chicken, but the New Jersey guy didn't understand (I'm not sure
I do either).
Now I want to argue that worse-is-better is better. C is a programming
language designed for writing Unix, and it was designed using the New
Jersey approach. C is therefore a language for which it is easy to
write a decent compiler, and it requires the programmer to write text
that is easy for the compiler to interpret. Some have called C a fancy
assembly language. Both early Unix and C compilers had simple
structures, are easy to port, require few machine resources to run,
and provide about 50%--80% of what you want from an operating system
and programming language.
Half the computers that exist at any point are worse than median
(smaller or slower). Unix and C work fine on them. The
worse-is-better philosophy means that implementation simplicity has
highest priority, which means Unix and C are easy to port on such
machines. Therefore, one expects that if the 50% functionality Unix
and C support is satisfactory, they will start to appear everywhere.
And they have, haven't they?
Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses.
A further benefit of the worse-is-better philosophy is that the
programmer is conditioned to sacrifice some safety, convenience, and
hassle to get good performance and modest resource use. Programs
written using the New Jersey approach will work well both in small
machines and large ones, and the code will be portable because it is
written on top of a virus.
It is important to remember that the initial virus has to be basically
good. If so, the viral spread is assured as long as it is portable.
Once the virus has spread, there will be pressure to improve it,
possibly by increasing its functionality closer to 90%, but users
have already been conditioned to accept worse than the right thing.
Therefore, the worse-is-better software first will gain acceptance,
second will condition its users to expect less, and third will be
improved to a point that is almost the right thing. In concrete
terms, even though Lisp compilers in 1987 were about as good as C
compilers, there are many more compiler experts who want to make C
compilers better than want to make Lisp compilers better.
The good news is that in 1995 we will have a good operating system and
programming language; the bad news is that they will be Unix and C++.
There is a final benefit to worse-is-better. Because a New Jersey
language and system are not really powerful enough to build complex
monolithic software, large systems must be designed to reuse
components. Therefore, a tradition of integration springs up.
How does the right thing stack up? There are two basic scenarios: the
``big complex system scenario'' and the ``diamond-like jewel''
scenario.
The ``big complex system'' scenario goes like this:
First, the right thing needs to be designed. Then its implementation
needs to be designed. Finally it is implemented. Because it is the
right thing, it has nearly 100% of desired functionality, and
implementation simplicity was never a concern so it takes a long time
to implement. It is large and complex. It requires complex tools to
use properly. The last 20% takes 80% of the effort, and so the right
thing takes a long time to get out, and it only runs satisfactorily on
the most sophisticated hardware.
The ``diamond-like jewel'' scenario goes like this:
The right thing takes forever to design, but it is quite small at
every point along the way. To implement it to run fast is either
impossible or beyond the capabilities of most implementors.
The two scenarios correspond to Common Lisp and Scheme.
The first scenario is also the scenario for classic artificial
intelligence software.
The right thing is frequently a monolithic piece of software, but for
no reason other than that the right thing is often designed
monolithically. That is, this characteristic is a happenstance.
The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable
to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right
thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on
it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.
A wrong lesson is to take the parable literally and to conclude that C
is the right vehicle for AI software. The 50% solution has to be
basically right, and in this case it isn't.
But, one can conclude only that the Lisp community needs to seriously
rethink its position on Lisp design. I will say more about this
later.
[email protected]
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21,506 | mattjaynes | 2007-05-12T00:56:15 | Rails Developers, Junior and Senior | null | http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/05/rails-developers-junior-and-senior.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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