Shlomi Fish - Slashdot User

Comment OpenHatch, and the "Teaching Open Source" Wiki (Score 2, Informative) 151

by Shlomi Fish on Sunday July 04, 2010 @04:45PM (#32793696) Attached to: Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help?

OpenHatch was mentioned previously, but I'll mention it again for completeness sake. I'm now getting a "500 Internal Server Error from it." (Slashdot effect). Also, there's a list of projects with mentors on the "Teaching Open Source" wiki. Furthermore, as people noted, most open source projects could use some help and you can approach those that interest you.

Finally, touting my own horn, I'd like to note that I'm willing to mentor people with their first steps in my own open source projects. Hack on!

Submission + - Announcing Freecell Solver Enterprise Edition (blogspot.com)

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on Thursday April 01, 2010 @12:39AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "Freecell Solver Enterprises Inc., on behalf of the Freecell Solver development team, is glad to announce the upcoming availability of Freecell Solver Enterprise Edition. In its Enterprise Edition, Freecell Solver will be enhanced to solve generalised Freecell, in which there can be an arbitrary number of card ranks. Since generalised Freecell is NP-complete. This will allow using Freecell Solver's ingenious, cutting-edge algorithms to solve the previously hard, provably NP-Complete problems of the Travelling Salesman problem, Subset sum, Sudoku and Enterprise content management.

Read more on the announcement to learn more about this and upcoming exciting developments."

Comment I'm glad to see that apology (Score 4, Informative) 576

by Shlomi Fish on Thursday September 10, 2009 @11:57PM (#29385937) Attached to: Alan Turing Gets an Apology From Prime Minister Brown

I'm glad to see an apology for Turing's treatment being set straight. Alan Turing definitely didn't deserve the bad treatment that was inflicted upon him for his sexual orientation. He certainly deserves this apology.

One historical note is that several models of computers (or actual computers) preceded the more formal computer science, but naturally, the theoretical work of Turing (and related early CS pioneers such as Alonzo Church), and their rigour should also be highly regarded.

Submission + - Open Source Licenses Wars (shlomifish.org)

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on Friday August 21, 2009 @03:49PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "There is a new article on my site titled "FOSS Licenses Wars", explaining the features and differences between various the various categories of open-source licenses, and some popular individual one, and that gives some recommendations for which licenses to avoid. I also touch on the aspect of whether use of permissive open-source licenses constitutes a risk to software freedom."

Submission + - Slashdotted Feature Causes AdSense Termination (livejournal.com)

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on Saturday July 11, 2009 @09:18AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "Shortly after the publication of the Slashdotted April Fools' Day feature on my site, Google suspended my AdSense account claiming it posed a "significant risk to advertisers". Read my the link for more information on what I tried to regain access to my lost account, how I was not successful, and how bad Google's AdSense support is. Apparently Google ignores their customers just like most other big corporations."

Submission + - Interview with the Author of "Mastering cat

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on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @01:57AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "O'Reilly is publishing a new book titled "Mastering cat", about the UNIX "cat" command. Here is an interview O'Reilly-Net conducted with the author about it. Read it to see if this book should be part of your bookshelf of technical books."

Submission + - Optimizing Code for Speed (shlomifish.org)

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on Thursday February 19, 2009 @11:06AM

Shlomi Fish writes: "There's a new essay called "Optimizing Code for Speed" available on Shlomi Fish's site. It covers the motivation, methods and terminology of optimizing code, and provides many links and examples to illustrate this important subject."

Submission + - Israeli Censorship Law Rolls On

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Shlomi Fish

on Tuesday May 22, 2007 @04:23PM

Shlomi Fish writes: "A New Internet Censorship Law Proposal has been passed in a pre-voting process, despite many objections, including some from the Israeli Ministry of Treasury and the Ministry of Law. This law proposal aims to prevent minors from accessing questionable sites, and would require grown-ups to identify using bio-metric identfication for a non-restricted access to the Internet."

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