Archive for August 4th, 2008

File error correction

Posted by Michael on August 4th, 2008

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I found this interesting article this morning. I need to read up on Reed-Solomon codes.

fixing open source software usability

Posted by Michael on August 4th, 2008

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Slashdot had a post up about an essay by Matthew Paul Thomas. You can read it here.
Its point is that while the open source model of software development is able to achieve good code quality by opening up all sources & letting others fix and build on your previous work, the model breaks [...]