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by cortesi 17y ago
You might be interested in my visualisations of an IP geolocation database on the Hilbert Curve, also inspired by xkcd: http://corte.si/posts/code/hilbert/explorer/index.html
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by cortesi 17y ago
That's awesome! I plan to have a large print of my Hilbert portrait made for my study wall. I'm a bit enamoured. ;)
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by cortesi 17y ago
It's genuinely difficult to avoid being condescending given the type of conversations I've been having about this. For what it's worth, it's not aimed at you specifically. At any rate, I'm happy to ditch the snark, and talk about something
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by cortesi 17y ago
What surprises me is that NONE of my charming Perl correspondents have argued that the Github data is simply atypical. As I point out in my post, it's not just possible, it's likely that this is the case. Instead, every single one has claim
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by cortesi 17y ago
For comparison, after eliminating projects with 3 or fewer watchers and duplicate projects, my language breakdown looks like this: Ruby 35.3% Python 11.5% Javscript 9.4% PHP 7.6% C 5.4% None 5.3% Java 5.3% C++ 4.0% Objec
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by cortesi 17y ago
The surprise isn't that Perl's commit rate declines at all - it's that the decline seems to be so much sharper than that of other languages. A number of dedicated Perl programmers have fixated on that one speculative aside in my post - in f
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by cortesi 17y ago
What you describe is possible, but I'd be surprised if the size of core committer groups was that stable as project size grows. Intuitively, I'd expect the size of the core committer group to grow more or less at the rate of the total activ
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by cortesi 17y ago
The Lisp dataset was really small - after eliminating projects with less than 3 watchers and duplicates, there were 19 projects left. Haskell - with 18 projects - was left out for the same reason.
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Elinor Ostrom, the commons problem and Open Source(corte.si)
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by cortesi 17y ago
Eric S. Raymond has become such a ludicrous parody that it just seems cruel to make fun of him.
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Non-programming books for Programmers: The Superorganism, Hölldobler & Wilson(hatfulofhollow.com)
3 points by cortesi 17y ago|0 comments
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An IP geolocation database visualised on the Hilbert Curve(hatfulofhollow.com)
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by cortesi 17y ago
Not in my experience - in Australia, Mensa is a sort of lonely-hearts club for single, middle-aged programmers. The few meetings I went to were as tedious, awkward and onanistically self-congratulatory as you would expect, and I let my memb
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by cortesi 17y ago
That's an excellent list! Anyone who doesn't recognise some of these names (I didn't) should google them immediately.
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by cortesi 17y ago
Someone has to say it: Zed shaw is a cock. He doesn't get the recognition he thinks he deserves _partly_ because of his rotten public image, which he carefully crafted himself: crass, erratic, unprofessional, needy and infantile. The last d
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by cortesi 17y ago
We agree that the open source ecosystem is incentive-driven - most actual code contributions are made due to simple economic incentives (though not nearly as simple as you make out, but that's a whole different discussion). So, approaching
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by cortesi 17y ago
I've heard it, and I personally use OpenBSD much more than I use Linux. There's a whole different discussion to be had about the differences between the BSD and Linux models, and why Linux has soared and the BSDs have not. At any rate, I su
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by cortesi 17y ago
"There are two parts to the Linux community. One part sees Linux as a legitimate tool they can use to bring down costs while maintaining stability. The other sees this as some kind of holy war and is really just using Linux to act like dram
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by cortesi 17y ago
This chap has no idea what he's talking about - there are very good reasons why the Python interfaces are designed the way they are. The real rofl moment is in the comments when he kindly recommends that Python should "try to keep up and mo
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by cortesi 17y ago
Who the hell still listens to ESR? After the CML2 fiasco, his series of incredibly stupid border-line racist blog posts, and the general realisation that Raymond hadn't, after all, done anything much except for relentlessly promote himself,
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by cortesi 18y ago
I've always thought that sorting algorithm visualisation could be done better in static images than animation. Here's a blog post on the topic I prepared earlier... ;) http://www.hatfulofhollow.com/posts/code/visualisingsorting/...
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Podcasts for Geeks interested in Everything(hatfulofhollow.com)
1 points by cortesi 18y ago|0 comments