Comments for Ted Leung on the Air

Comment on NodeConf 2011 by JSConf and NodeConf - 2011 | Adam Christian

JSConf and NodeConf - 2011 | Adam Christian — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:08:30 +0000

[...] hang out with some of the old OSAF gang, @towns, @twleung (who did two great writeups of JSConf and NodeConf), @mde, and @mikeal. It was interesting to hear all the different views on the attention explosion [...]

Comment on Blogaversary 2012 by orcmid

orcmid — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:27:05 +0000

Wow! I had to go back and look. My first post is dated 2002-10-28. I am having trouble with my divided attention these days, too, plus needing to provide maintenance on my blogs, sites, projects, … .

I put a reminder to post on 2012-10-28. It will be an interesting time, just before the 2012 US Elections.

Comment on Blogaversary 2012 by MJ

MJ — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:54:36 +0000

I started following you a long time ago on your blog when you were making posts on Lisp and Dylan. I track over 200 feeds, and prune them from time to time–yours always stays in because I like the things you post about and like your personal take on what’s going on in the technology world.

These shifts of content creators moving into the walled gardens like Facebook and Google+ makes me sad. I don’t want to be a product in their systems and don’t want to add yet another destination for content which was solved by RSS a long time ago. Don’t forget about us out here that care about open content.

Comment on NodeConf 2011 by Dave

Dave — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:01:52 +0000

The most significant issue with Node is cross-platform compatibility.

The choice & binding to-to-the-death of Node to Google’s V8 JavaScript engine is troubling to individuals who can not adopt Node, because Google’s V8 does not run on their Open SPARC platform.

There needs to be an effort to bring Node to SPARC. If this means more cooperation in the Mozilla V8Monkey, then so be it. It is best if the Node community could support this compatibility library.

Node needs a complete ecosystem where Network Management systems, which have a long history of non-blocking infrastructure, are offered an alternative to Java for cross-platform Network Management tools.

In the TelCo industry, this means Solaris, Windows, and Linux… it also means Intel and SPARC.

Comment on Adobe open sources Flex by Adobe abandonne Flex à la fondation Apache : Mistra Blog

Adobe abandonne Flex à la fondation Apache : Mistra Blog — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:11:33 +0000

[...] Flex Mobile qui sera dans les bacs pour 2012.[source]Quelques liens intéressants sur Flex:Adobe libère Flex (2007)Mauvaises compréhensions autour de FlexUne des nombreuses illustations résumant pourquoi Flex [...]

Comment on Clojure Conj 2011 by Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:03:32 +0000

Thanks for the writeup, very nice. A few questions:

a.) the mention more than once of Clojure and Android, but why not iOS for the iPhone / iPad? If CouchDB can run on the iPhone why not Clojure based apps?

b.) Some people like myself are fairly agnostic about languages, but as always there is learning curve involved (learning the libraries, syntax, etc.). What would be the #1 compelling case for using Clojure over other languages? For example, in my case, I’ve never been a big an of Java (but really liked Objective-C and have since also added Ruby to my repertoire). Is Clojure today considered bleeding edge or leading edge? Is it likely to have enough interest to grow those proverbial “legs” to sustain and have enough of the specialist eyeballs on it to make sure it thrives long-term?

Cheers,

-Eddie

Comment on Clojure Conj 2011 by SI Hayakawa

SI Hayakawa — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:05:59 +0000

Nice write-up. Typo alert: “between it’s orientation around functional programming” — should be possessive “its” (no apostrophe).

Comment on Clojure Conj 2011 by Ted Leung

Ted Leung — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:26:00 +0000

Cristiano, the REPL you described was done by the speaker for the Android session.

Comment on Clojure Conj 2011 by Cristiano

Cristiano — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:13:46 +0000

When you said “The thought of talking to a REPL running on a phone, or tablet is a tasty one.” it seemed to me you’re not aware of the existing Clojure REPL for Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sattvik.clojure_repl&hl=en

Comment on Clojure Conj 2011 by Sam Aaron

Sam Aaron — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:30:14 +0000

Great writeup! Just one minor point – the canonical URL for the Overtone repo is http://github.com/overtone/overtone. The repo you’re pointing to is really rather old.

Comment on Clojure Conj 2011 by Ted Leung

Ted Leung — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:53:27 +0000

Thanks Lindsey – I did know that, but somehow I messed up. It’s fixed now.

Comment on Clojure Conj 2011 by orcmid

orcmid — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:48:59 +0000

Nice summary. It looks like exciting work. I remember my first meeting with Dan Friedman. It was in a Stanford University cafeteria line at the first AAAI Conference and he was talking about the excitement around Doug Hofstadter’s dissertation (soon to be a very famous book). I believe it was also the occasion of the first-ever Lisp and Functional Programming Conference.

I love this area so much, I need to figure out why I don’t spend more of my life immersed in it.

Comment on Clojure Conj 2011 by Lindsey Kuper

Lindsey Kuper — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:35:32 +0000

Thanks for the update! It’s actually Indiana University, not University of Indiana. Here’s a link to our PL research group.

Comment on Surge 2011 by Ted Leung

Ted Leung — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:43:35 +0000

Yes, they did, and they discussed their evaluation of node vs doing it in C. It wasn’t just a blind decision because they are pushing Node.

Comment on Surge 2011 by Sam Penrose

Sam Penrose — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:53:34 +0000

Hey Ted –

Did Joyent mention they employ node’s author? Kinda reduces the “even Bryan Cantrill chose node” factor.

Thanks for the writeup!

Comment on Surge 2011 by Raymond Blum

Raymond Blum — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:28:42 +0000

Thanks for the writeup: one thing that I hope came across was the fact that we recognize that the more data you have, the more value is placed on every byte – it’s not linear – and that’s why we place such a high expectation on recoverability.

This is counterintuitive to some degree but the key thing to bear in mind is that if a service is unavailable 5 minutes out of a month, that doesn’t invalidate the remainder of the time, but if you take 5 bytes out of a file, the rest of the file is often useless.

Comment on Surge 2011 by Chris Winters

Chris Winters — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:06:41 +0000

Another great writeup. I look forward to your conference writeups because you take the time to reflect and synthesize rather than just summarize. Thanks much, it’s appreciated.

Comment on Notes on A History of Erlang by Erlang: Links, News and Resources (1) « Angel “Java” Lopez on Blog

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:45:45 +0000

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Comment on 2010 in Photography by The Daily Shoot, otro calendario fotográfico para disciplinarse

The Daily Shoot, otro calendario fotográfico para disciplinarse — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:39:19 +0000

[...] con la fotografía a nivel de estas comunidades, es muy interesante leer la entrada del blog de Ted Leung, donde cuenta cómo se organizó durante el pasado año 2010, usando una cámara Panasonic GF-1, [...]

Comment on Adobe wants to be the Microsoft of the Web by AIR, Flex and the Open Web |

AIR, Flex and the Open Web | — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 06:37:29 +0000

[...] of the web. Criticism of Adobe for the proprietary nature of its technology is hardly novel. A widely read piece by Ted Leung calling Adobe the "Microsoft of the Web" is about to celebrate its first [...]