DavidCary

I started this SoftwareBazaar wiki 2005-01-10.

I’ve programmed in quite a few programming languages. I worry that my programming skills are getting rusty, so I want some practice. Rather than the same boring old drills in the textbooks, I thought it might be interesting to do something useful.

I’m also active over at the Visual wiki and the original wiki.

What else should I say here ?

– DavidCary

Much like Kevin Knuth [1], “I have always marvelled at the amount of time and effort people spend solving puzzles where the answers are known. I was surprised to learn from this talk that people have spent 9 Billion Hours playing computer solitaire in 2003! In the talk, Luis highlights that it took only 7 Million Human Hours to build the Empire State Building, which is only 6.8 days of world-wide Solitaire-playing. In addition, the Panama Canal took 20 Million Hours to build, which amounts to one day of Solitaire-playing. Personally, I prefer to work on unsolved problems. Granted, they are more difficult, but far more satisfying.”

Should I cross-link MeatBall:WikiJobs? http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiJobs with a page here at Software Bazaar?

I think it would be fun to experiment with Wiki:WikiForLiterateProgramming . Is there any place the full source code to a program is already being discussed on a wiki? Would SoftwareBazaar be a good place to try this ?

MeatBall:WikiAsSourceControlRepository

Do I need some sort of Forum or ChitChat?? or CoffeeTable?? page to encourage discussion ?

SoftwareIntaller

See install.

programming-related humor

I’m thinking we need to scatter bits of programming-related humor all around this wiki.

Wiki:WikiMailBox

David, no prob about the link. I corresponded with Muñoz briefly about the “OCM”. It was interesting. I like this subject, and I hope that it will begin to go places. (Note, if you look at AsteroidMeta:PlanetMath?_Feature_Requests, you’ll see that the first item is something vaguely similar for math, a sort of “open market” for answering math questions, not too dissimilar to an open market for hacked code.) Maybe subsequently to our creating this sort of open math market for PlanetMath?, we could create an authentic OCM on AsteroidMeta:PlanetComputing?? --AsteroidMeta:jcorneli

(AsteroidMeta? has moved to http://planetx.cc.vt.edu/AsteroidMeta/ . Fix the above links to point to:

• http://planetx.cc.vt.edu/AsteroidMeta/Feature_Requests
• http://planetx.cc.vt.edu/AsteroidMeta/PlanetComputing
• http://planetx.cc.vt.edu/AsteroidMeta/jcorneli )

What about “the Encyclopedia of free software downloads” http://Softpedia.com/ ?

More Money in Software or Sites? by Nivi 2005

"Geeks in Toyland" article by Brendan I. Koerner 2006-01-04. “Imagine Flickr for robotics” – Søren Lund

“Until recently, companies were skittish about customer innovation, fearing that outsiders might leak trade secrets or that they simply lacked the necessary technical skills. But Lego has warmed to the power of the open source ethos. It’s clear to the Lego execs that Mindstorms NXT would be a lesser product without the MUPers’ input. Inviting customers to innovate isn’t just about building better products. Opening the process engenders goodwill and creates a buzz among the zealots, a critical asset for products like Mindstorms that rely on word-of-mouth evangelism.”

Søren Lund, director of the Mindstorms division of LEGO, asked some LEGO enthusiasts (“brickheads”) to help them design their new robotics set. The brickheads jumped all over this chance to become “de facto Lego employees” and develop the new set, without pay. The brickheads helped development, and maintained absolute secrecy until the new set was released. In return, they received

• a few LEGO sets, and
• a prototype version of the new Mindstorms set.

This seems related to CommunityWiki:HypeAndEnthusiasm

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