3 ms·

Interestingly, the name of the algorithm alone takes up more memory than the executable code. /s

by tomcam 4y ago

gumby 4y ago
It started out as just the Boehm collector but grew. And I'm always glad to see Weiser's name: he was a great guy, and quite creative.
- DonHopkins 4y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17353666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17353666 DonHopkins on June 20, 2018 | prev | next [–] Mark Weiser once told me that Ubik was one of his inspirations for Ubiquitous Computing. https://web.archive.org/web/20050204163428/http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050204163428/http://www.ubiq.c... >Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes, each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing. https://blog.canary.is/from-tesla-to-touchscreens-the-journey-of-the-internet-of-things/ https://blog.canary.is/from-tesla-to-touchscreens-the-journe... >One year earlier, in 1998, Mark Weiser described it a little differently, stating that, “Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality. Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world,” Weiser asserted, “ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world with people.” This wasn’t the first time someone broached the idea of IoT. In the early 1980s, students at Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science department created the first IoT Coke machine. Author Philip K. Dick wrote about the smart home in the 1969 sci-fi novel Ubik, and four decades before, inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla addressed the concept in Colliers Magazine. In an amazingly prescient 1926 interview, Tesla said, >"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain…We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance…and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik https://arounddate.com/philip-k-dick-ubik https://arounddate.com/philip-k-dick-ubik “Five cents, please,” his front door said when he tried to open it. One thing, anyhow, hadn’t changed. The toll door had an innate stubbornness to it; probably it would hold out after everything else. After everything except it had long since reverted, perhaps in the whole city … if not the whole world. He paid the door a nickel, hurried down the hall to the moving ramp which he had used only minutes ago. […] “I don’t have any more nickels,” G. G. said. “I can’t get out.” Glancing at Joe, then at G. G., Pat said, “Have one of mine.” She tossed G. G. a coin, which he caught, an expression of bewilderment on his face. The bewilderment then, by degrees, changed to aggrieved sullenness. “You sure shot me down,” he said as he deposited the nickel in the door’s slot. “Both of you,” he muttered as the door closed after him. “I discovered her. This is really a cutthroat business, when —“ His voice faded out as the door clamped shut. There was, then, silence. […] “I’ll go get my test equipment from the car,” Joe said, starting towards the door. “Five cents, please,” “Pay the door,” Hoe said to G. G. Ashwood. [...] “Can I borrow a couple of poscreds from you?” Joe said. “So I can eat breakfast?” “Mr. Hammond warned me that you would try to borrow money from me. He informed me that he already provided you with sufficient funds to pay for your hotel room, plus a round of drinks, as well as —“ “Al based his estimate on the assumption that I would rent a more modest room than this."
  - throw0101c 4y ago
    Also Marshall McLuhan (with references to earlier works, like Sapir 1933): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village Also this sounds prescient: > No chapter in Understanding Media, later books, contains the idea that the global village and the electronic media create unified communities. In an interview with Gerald Stearn,[16] McLuhan says that it never occurred to him that uniformity and tranquility were the properties of the global village. McLuhan argued that the global village ensures maximal disagreement on all points because it creates more discontinuity and division and diversity under the increase of the village conditions; the global village is far more diverse. * Ibid
  - gumby 4y ago
    Sadly the world moved in a different direction from Mark's prediction "calm technology". I go to some effort to make my environment calm.

Interestingly, the name of the algorithm alone takes up more memory than the executable code. /s

by tomcam 4y ago

Interestingly, the name of the algorithm alone takes up more memory than the executable code. /s

It started out as just the Boehm collector but grew. And I'm always glad to see Weiser's name: he was a great guy, and quite creative.

DonHopkins 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17353666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17353666 DonHopkins on June 20, 2018 | prev | next [–] Mark Weiser once told me that Ubik was one of his inspirations for Ubiquitous Computing. https://web.archive.org/web/20050204163428/http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050204163428/http://www.ubiq.c... >Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes, each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing. https://blog.canary.is/from-tesla-to-touchscreens-the-journey-of-the-internet-of-things/ https://blog.canary.is/from-tesla-to-touchscreens-the-journe... >One year earlier, in 1998, Mark Weiser described it a little differently, stating that, “Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality. Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world,” Weiser asserted, “ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world with people.” This wasn’t the first time someone broached the idea of IoT. In the early 1980s, students at Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science department created the first IoT Coke machine. Author Philip K. Dick wrote about the smart home in the 1969 sci-fi novel Ubik, and four decades before, inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla addressed the concept in Colliers Magazine. In an amazingly prescient 1926 interview, Tesla said, >"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain…We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance…and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubik https://arounddate.com/philip-k-dick-ubik https://arounddate.com/philip-k-dick-ubik “Five cents, please,” his front door said when he tried to open it. One thing, anyhow, hadn’t changed. The toll door had an innate stubbornness to it; probably it would hold out after everything else. After everything except it had long since reverted, perhaps in the whole city … if not the whole world. He paid the door a nickel, hurried down the hall to the moving ramp which he had used only minutes ago. […] “I don’t have any more nickels,” G. G. said. “I can’t get out.” Glancing at Joe, then at G. G., Pat said, “Have one of mine.” She tossed G. G. a coin, which he caught, an expression of bewilderment on his face. The bewilderment then, by degrees, changed to aggrieved sullenness. “You sure shot me down,” he said as he deposited the nickel in the door’s slot. “Both of you,” he muttered as the door closed after him. “I discovered her. This is really a cutthroat business, when —“ His voice faded out as the door clamped shut. There was, then, silence. […] “I’ll go get my test equipment from the car,” Joe said, starting towards the door. “Five cents, please,” “Pay the door,” Hoe said to G. G. Ashwood. [...] “Can I borrow a couple of poscreds from you?” Joe said. “So I can eat breakfast?” “Mr. Hammond warned me that you would try to borrow money from me. He informed me that he already provided you with sufficient funds to pay for your hotel room, plus a round of drinks, as well as —“ “Al based his estimate on the assumption that I would rent a more modest room than this."
- throw0101c 4y ago
  Also Marshall McLuhan (with references to earlier works, like Sapir 1933): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village Also this sounds prescient: > No chapter in Understanding Media, later books, contains the idea that the global village and the electronic media create unified communities. In an interview with Gerald Stearn,[16] McLuhan says that it never occurred to him that uniformity and tranquility were the properties of the global village. McLuhan argued that the global village ensures maximal disagreement on all points because it creates more discontinuity and division and diversity under the increase of the village conditions; the global village is far more diverse. * Ibid
- gumby 4y ago
  Sadly the world moved in a different direction from Mark's prediction "calm technology". I go to some effort to make my environment calm.