Interview with Donald Knuth
Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend about winning a programming contest with a single compilation. Andrew Binstock: You are one of the fathers of the open-source revolution, even if you aren’t widely heralded as such. You previously have stated that you released TeX as open source because of the problem of proprietary implementations at the time, and to invite corrections to the code—both of which are key drivers for open-source projects today.…
Inside pictures of Google
The pictures you see were taken in Google Zurich, the employees have full access to all places with no exceptions: Reception of Google Zurich. A slider connects two zones, second floor is a cafeteria and first a gymnasium. Why wait the elevator?
Re: PCI MAINTAINER change
From the LKML: * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > And now I get to figure out just how much trouble I’ve gotten myself into… Mwhahahaaa! Sucker. You’ll find out.
New baby
Our new baby is about to born, look how beautiful: