DeWitt Clinton

I simply can't justify the expense for a machine that can't be upgraded. Disappointed about this, as I've grown fond of smaller/lighter laptops. - DeWitt Clinton

I believe the battery lasts much longer in the MacBook Pro, as well. The MacBook Air seems like an anachronism now that they've upgraded their MacBook Pro line a few times. - Mark Trapp

Scratching an itch with this one. Haven't discussed it with Kenton or Will yet, so we'll see what they say about it. - DeWitt Clinton

"The goal of this project is to push the state-of-the-art in autonomous helicopter flight: extreme aerobatics under computer control." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

You can also check the Marvin project at my university: http://pdv.cs.tu-berlin.de/MARVIN... The cooperative load transport is quite impressive. - Vlado Handziski via Android

As a loyal Windows ME user, I was vaguely insulted by the new FriendFeed Helvetica theme. I fixed it. - DeWitt Clinton

Amit: I think 5003 is the number of comments he had at the time. - Gabe

Via @noahharlan. - DeWitt Clinton

"Lisp machines were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. In a sense, they were the first commercial single-user workstations. Despite being modest in number (perhaps 7,000 units total as of 1988[1]), many now-commonplace technologies — including effective garbage collection, laser printing, windowing systems, computer mice, high-resolution bit-mapped graphics, computer graphic rendering, networking innovations and protocols like CHAOSNet — were commercially pioneered on Lisp machines. Several companies were building and selling Lisp Machines in the 1980s: Symbolics (3600, 3640, XL1200, MacIvory and other models), Lisp Machines Incorporated (LMI Lambda), Texas Instruments (Explorer and MicroExplorer) and Xerox (InterLisp-D workstations). The operating systems were written in Lisp Machine Lisp, InterLisp (Xerox) and later partly in Common Lisp." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

The article ends, "With the onset of the "AI Winter" and the early beginnings of the "PC revolution" (which would gather steam and sweep away the minicomputer and workstation manufacturers), cheaper desktop PCs soon were able to run Lisp programs even faster than Lisp machines, without the use of special purpose hardware." - DeWitt Clinton

This story was repeated several more times. The P-System was specifically designed to run Pascal. More recently, Sun's MAJC was designed specifically to run Java. Designing a specialty processor for too small a niche is not a winning strategy for the long term, the general purpose CPUs get far more investment. - DGentry

Because really, we're all on the same side here. - DeWitt Clinton

I'm amazed it didn't just fail spectacularly and start timing out or throwing up errors. Haven't seen anyone say they couldn't access the page. - Mark Trapp

Engineering @ Facebook posted a writeup of the preparation for the username land grab. http://www.facebook.com/note... - DGentry

I see a pattern over and over again. Great ideas (i.e., great visions) spring up all the time. Success depends on the execution of that vision. But as a project or company grows, it is vision, not execution, that is often lost. Future successes depend on finding that vision again. - DeWitt Clinton

I would add that _shared_ vision is essential -- needs to be enough vision shared by enough people that it doesn't get snuffed out. - Daniel Dulitz

@Daniel - true that. A good visionary is also someone who can make it a shared vision. - DeWitt Clinton

I use wmii as a window manager, and I start by opening a shell in desktop 1, then type chrome-linux& and hope over to desktop 2 with 'Meta-2'. I rarely get over there in time before chrome is already open on desktop 1. - DeWitt Clinton

We're getting ever closer to producing a recommended draft for the Open Web Foundation Agreement, an open IP "license" for specifications. Also introduced in this iteration is a human-readable Deed, similar to what the Creative Commons did with their license to make it easier for non-lawyers to understand (though the Agreement itself is designed to be readable to begin with). Your involvement and feedback is encouraged. - DeWitt Clinton

"For nearly 100 years, we have maintained a thesaurus to tag The New York Times. The thesaurus consists of over a million terms organized into five controlled vocabularies: subjects, personal names, organizations, geographic locations and the titles of creative works (books, movies, plays, etc). At last week’s Semantic Technology Conference, we announced our intention to publish The New York Times thesaurus under a license that will allow the community to both use it and contribute back to it. The results will, in time, prepare The Times to enter the linked data cloud." -Rob Larson and Evan Sandhaus, NYT - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

"This project aims to provide an object-oriented Python WebDAV client-side library based on Python`s standard httplib and Greg Stein`s davlib. The client shall fully support RFCs 4918 (basic specification), 3744 (access control), and 3253 (versioning)." - DeWitt Clinton

rel="edit", type should match the represenations used. application/wiki for wiki, application/atom+xml for AtomPub, etc. - MikeAmundsen

Generalizing makes sense to the wiki community and seems to be current practice. The button is already used by many non-wiki sites. Ward and I have updated the discussion to reflect this: http://UniversalEditButton.org/Registe... - MarkDilley

"RED is a robot that checks HTTP resources to see how they'll behave, pointing out common problems and suggesting improvements. Although it is not a HTTP conformance tester, it can find a number of HTTP-related issues." -Mark Nottingham - DeWitt Clinton

Found a problem with a few of my servers, easy enough to fix (Django middleware order is very confusing) - Benjamin Golub

"In a nutshell, RED is a framework for testing HTTP resources; it fetches responses, analyses them, and then based upon the responses it may interact with the resource more to see how it behaves. In this manner, it’s very purposefully encouraging RESTfulness." -Mark Nottingham - DeWitt Clinton