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I would be surprised if that page wasn't at least 5-6 years old. Philip Greenspun founded ArsDigita which released the software known now as OpenACS. His thou

by cd34 16y ago

I would be surprised if that page wasn't at least 5-6 years old. Philip Greenspun founded ArsDigita which released the software known now as OpenACS. His thought processes were quite interesting and his theory on hiring the top .2% of the programming elite were radical at the time, but, proved to be quite on-the-money. The implosion of that company has been told on the net many different ways, but, some of his methods still hold quite a bit of merit.

mechanical_fish 16y ago
This book is over ten years old. Most of what you see there was in place in mid-2000.
- toadi 16y ago
  I'v read this around that period. Learned a lot from it.
cellularmitosis 16y ago
Your comments about ArsDigita reminded me of ADUni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_University http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_University), which hosted free video lectures of an intensive one-year computer science curriculum. Back in the day I had attempted to download these lectures, but a slow pipe and the large number of lectures / assignments / etc discouraged me from finishing. Lo and behold, the modern era of youtube and google video has seen the resurrection of these videos. Someone named "Chao Xu" has uploaded (nearly) all of the videos to google. see http://mgccl.com/2008/04/06/aduni-videos-now-on-google-video http://mgccl.com/2008/04/06/aduni-videos-now-on-google-video (in fact, there's even a course on databases)
- mbowcock 16y ago
  You can find most of the coursework from arsdigita here. http://aduni.org/ http://aduni.org/
  - cellularmitosis 16y ago
    also, I just realized archive.org has a complete mirror of all of the lectures, exams, etc. http://www.archive.org/details/arsdigita http://www.archive.org/details/arsdigita EDIT: actually its only the first 8 courses (there are 12 total). EDIT: wrong again; they have all 12 courses, but only list the first 8 on the landing page.

by cd34 16y ago

mechanical_fish 16y ago

This book is over ten years old. Most of what you see there was in place in mid-2000.

toadi 16y ago
I'v read this around that period. Learned a lot from it.

cellularmitosis 16y ago

Your comments about ArsDigita reminded me of ADUni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_University http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_University), which hosted free video lectures of an intensive one-year computer science curriculum. Back in the day I had attempted to download these lectures, but a slow pipe and the large number of lectures / assignments / etc discouraged me from finishing. Lo and behold, the modern era of youtube and google video has seen the resurrection of these videos. Someone named "Chao Xu" has uploaded (nearly) all of the videos to google. see http://mgccl.com/2008/04/06/aduni-videos-now-on-google-video http://mgccl.com/2008/04/06/aduni-videos-now-on-google-video (in fact, there's even a course on databases)

mbowcock 16y ago
You can find most of the coursework from arsdigita here. http://aduni.org/ http://aduni.org/
- cellularmitosis 16y ago
  also, I just realized archive.org has a complete mirror of all of the lectures, exams, etc. http://www.archive.org/details/arsdigita http://www.archive.org/details/arsdigita EDIT: actually its only the first 8 courses (there are 12 total). EDIT: wrong again; they have all 12 courses, but only list the first 8 on the landing page.