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Re: Does this ad work for you?

Neil Bartlett — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:08:17 -0000

Yes I did, so I suppose I need to correct myself. The ad works... I just don't like it.

In a sense there's no such thing as a bad ad. Even the irritating ads at least make you aware of the brand, and might even stick in your head better than the entertaining ones.

Re: Does this ad work for you?

Neil Bartlett — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:11:04 -0000

Hmm it looks kind of like a Mind Map, but less structured and with distracting doodles.

Nope, doesn't really work for me.

Re: ShareMe -The Mobile Future : Weblog

Neil Bartlett — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:54:58 -0000

Hi Rick.

In general I don't take Fred's rants seriously -- even the few I can actually understand -- and I doubt anybody else does either. So I'm not going to comment on this specific case. But let me point you at another article in the DZone franchise... who do you think wrote this:

http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/comparison-ec...

Was it Matthew Schmidt? It says "Submitted by Matthew Schmidt" at the top, and Matt's name and picture appear in the "About the author" bar on the left. Or was it actually me? My name does appear, but only way down at the bottom.

I've given you the benefit of the doubt since I assume the problem cropped up when you moved to your new publishing platform and the old content was reposted. But I'm nervous about publishing any more content with you until you can demonstrate that you take attribution seriously.

Regards,
Neil

Re: ShareMe -The Mobile Future : Weblog

Neil Bartlett — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:17:50 -0000

Fred, what on earth is the point you're trying to make here? The screenshots are too small to make out.

Re: ShareMe -The Mobile Future : Weblog

Neil Bartlett — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:24:22 -0000

Fred, I don't believe your nonsense belongs on Planet Eclipse, so to that end I have opened a request in BugZilla to have your feed removed.

Here is the URL: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2...

I encourage you to respond in the comments of that bug if you wish to defend the inclusion of your blog.

Re: Transactional Memory is the wrong path to concurrency

Neil Bartlett — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:43:54 -0000

What nonsense. The most tragic turn would be if neither STM nor message-passing concurrency caught on, and we continued trying to build everything with locks.

I don't see much from Logan in terms of real arguments, except the repeated assertion that we shouldn't share state. Of course minimising shared state is laudable, but you can never squeeze all of the air out of the balloon. If we accept that sharing state, is necessary albeit rare, then STM is exactly what we need to make it tractable.

The interesting thing for me about this STM-vs-message-passing debate is that we can essentially build Erlang in Haskell (i.e. implement message passing on top of STM) but we can't build Haskell in Erlang (i.e. STM on top of message passing).

Re: London Haskell User Group

Neil Bartlett — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:03:19 -0000

23rd of May, not 29th... otherwise, thanks for the plug!

Re: More factor: tabular to triples

Neil Bartlett — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:58:48 -0000

Just for a laugh, here it is in Haskell. You can type this at the interpreter.

let insertList x = map (insert x) where insert x (y,z) = (x,y,z)

let cols = ["col1","col2","col3"]

let rows = [["a","b","c"],["e","f","g"]]

concat $ zipWith insertList [0..] $ map (zip cols) rows

This prints [(0,"col1","a"),(0,"col2","b"),(0,"col3","c"),(1,"col1","e"),(1,"col2","f"),(1,"col3","g")]

No preview available so I don't know if your blog software is going to mangle that!

Re: Mirror mirror on the wall, which blog search is best of them all?

Neil Bartlett — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:00:36 -0000

In my experience, Google returns far more results, but they also get periodically overrun with spam.

I monitor the Google blog search feed for a technology I'm interested in, "OSGi", and currently the feed is clean. Every now and again though, it gets flooded with spam for a couple of weeks, and then it all goes away. Of course it's an arms race... the sploggers find a way to get their content into the feed; Google find a way to block it off; and then the cycle repeats.

Technorati doesn't have any of these problems, but it also doesn't return any where near as many results.

Re: Microsoft “rebooted the Web” yesterday

Neil Bartlett — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:28:30 -0000

Where are the development tools then?

What's that, I have to PAY for them? Not only do I have to run Windows to do development, but I then have to give even more money to Microsoft for the privilege of producing code that enhances their platform?

Forget it. Come back when Visual Studio is free, and runs on Mac... or when there's an Eclipse plug-in I can download.

Re: If I were evil…

Neil Bartlett — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:49:24 -0000

Robert, your Facebook profile is NOT the "who's who" of the whole Tech industry. It's just the who's who of the small segment of the Tech industry that you happen to be interested in. There's a hell of a lot more to it than that.

Regards
Neil