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I don't understand how this is a paper. It's just two dudes in a chatroom and the 'authors' felt it was necessary to format it with LaTEX? Also, the title has
by mrstone 10y ago
I don't understand how this is a paper. It's just two dudes in a chatroom and the 'authors' felt it was necessary to format it with LaTEX?
Also, the title has a spelling error in it.
- brynet 10y agoThe authors of the paper are French, it's in the form of a loose transcript of a recent talk given at this years AsiaBSDCon. https://2017.asiabsdcon.org/program.html.en https://2017.asiabsdcon.org/program.html.en "P10A: Comprehensive and biaised comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD" In was probably presented and formatted this way because of tradition, also.. https://www.openbsd.org/events.html https://www.openbsd.org/events.html
- tedunangst 10y ago"Slides are useless. We want talk transcripts." Here's a transcript. "Take it away, take it away!"
- sverige 10y ago"Or at least clean up their funny pronunciation and grammar first!"
- cperciva 10y agoAsiaBSDCon has a lot of attendees whose English is less than completely fluent. Having material in written form allows them to read at their own pace rather than struggling to keep up with a conference speaker.
- ajross 10y ago... and the French are known for their affinity toward chat transcripts?
- Nomentatus 10y agoYou'll want to stay strictly away from Plato (the philosopher, not the website) if you can't take information in dialogue form seriously.