Linus’s Law June 30, 2006
Posted by Ananth in Open Source.add a comment
Eric Raymond in his famous essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” formulated Linus’s law - “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”.
Lose Memory or Money Back ! June 29, 2006
Posted by Ananth in General, Human Memory, Rants.3 comments
I am not particularly a fan of biology but Memory, the way it works and the its effects on perception is something that is fascinating to study. J Krishnamurthy is a proponent of the theory that memory prevents us from experiencing truth and that our perceptions are stunted by a memory, that compares and contrasts and works based on repetition all the time. Edward De Bono has parallel ideas when says that memory is a limiting factor to your creativity.
DTrace on FreeBSD June 20, 2006
Posted by Ananth in Solaris.add a comment
DTrace on FreeBSD has been in the news for sometime now. Even as I am typing this post, Bryan just sent out a reply on some facts about the FreeBSD port and thoughts on Linux and DTrace.
Relatively Absolute June 14, 2006
Posted by Ananth in Computer Science.2 comments
One of the best things about Solaris is that it has got absolutely awesome debugging tools like mdb and kmbd, leave alone dtrace, apptrace, adb, kadb, dbx, truss, proc tools and the lot. One whole week of single stepping in mdb to find the cause of a bug did not result in any Eurekas. In desperation, I tried coaxing Bryan to help me with the problem, and even that didn't work out. So I quit poking around with that bug. But there is an interesting observation that rose out of the whole process …
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The Matrix is Born ! June 10, 2006
Posted by Ananth in Computer Science.1 comment so far
Game theory is the most fascinating subject I have ever understood and nothing in Game Theory has the kind of enigmatic history that Chess has. Babbage, Von Neumann, Turing, Shannon - Literally the "4" fathers of the modern computer, all had a dream of creating a chess playing automaton that would eventually beat a master human player. Their dream was achieved only when Deep Blue beat Kasparov on a historic day in February 1996. But ages and ages before that, a guy called Wolfgang von Kempelen, created a mechanical chess playing device that beat human players hands down (Napoleon Bonaparte was one of its victims). What was the secret behind that machine ?
RIF Time June 9, 2006
Posted by Ananth in General.3 comments
It has been a gloomy time in office ever since the RIF (an acronym for Reduction in Force) was announced by Jonathan last week. It has been dubbed as the "Sun Fire 5000" meaning that Sun is laying off 5000 employees. (more…)
