![]() ![]() Hopefully soon I’ll have my full roster of sixteen interviewees signed up and can start figuring out how to stretch my rather small travel budget to get me all the places I need to go to do the interviews. I’ve got a half-dozen other queries out with more on the way. Simon Peyton Jones has also agreed to be interviewed assuming the publisher of another book of interviews that has already signed him up for a group interview about Haskell doesn’t object. Both of these guys were not only kind enough to agree to be interviewed but also invited me to stay in their homes when I travel to interview them. I’ve also signed up Joe Armstrong, inventor of Erlang, and Bernie Cosell, one of the software geniuses behind the original ARPANET IMPs. The interviewing has begun! Yesterday I sat with the people’s choice, Peter Norvig for our first interview session. If you have any comments about or questions for the folks I’ve signed up to interview or suggestions of who I should try to get to fill in the last ten spots, feel free to leave a comment. Of course these days the spammers are about the only comments I get so I haven’t had any live tests of my filter’s ability to recognize ham. It’s been very satisfying watching it eat up the steady stream of spam comments. The good news is that as tedious as the transcribing is, it does give me a chance to start mulling the material over in my head, getting ready to edit it or to prepare for subsequent interviews.įinally, I got around to putting a spam filter on the Coders at Work comments page so all the stupid link-bombing spammers’ efforts should now be completely for naught. Yes, I know you can hire people to do this but a) I don’t really have a budget for that and b) correcting a transcript can be about as much work as preparing it, particularly if the material is technical and your transcriptionist is not. Which means that for every two hour interview I do, it’s going to take me a full day just to prepare the raw transcript. ![]() That is, to transcribe 15 minutes of interview takes me about an hour. Even with my snazzy homebrew transcription software, I’ve been proceeding at a rate of about 4:1 real time to interview time. It’s all coming back to me how terribly painful it is to transcribe audio. I haven’t done any more interviews but I’ve been working on the transcription of my first interview with Peter Norvig. Jamie Zawinski - author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker.Peter Norvig - AIer and Lisper, Director of Research at Google.Alan Kay - inventor of Smalltalk and object oriented programming.Simon Peyton Jones - co-inventor of Haskell.Bernie Cosell - one of the main software developers on the original ARPANET IMPs.So it is possible.As of today, I’ve got seven interviewees signed up (assuming that other publisher doesn’t try to hoard Simon Peyton Jones). On my ubuntu installation on the same hardware SMPlayer has no problem at all with DVD's. However, I like mplayer a lot (and SMPlayer even more). (gnome-mplayer:13623): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1174 was not found when attempting to remove ideas? Since I can use VLC this is not the most important problem. (gnome-mplayer:13623): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1175 was not found when attempting to remove it (gnome-mplayer:13623): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1174 was not found when attempting to remove it (gnome-mplayer:13623): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 1173 was not found when attempting to remove it GMLIB-Message: after init: position=0.000 length=0.000 start_time=0.000 run_time=0.000 volume=0.00 player=dead media=unknown uri= ** (gnome-mplayer:13623): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: .ServiceUnknown: The name was not provided by any. I then tried opening a VOB from gnome-mplayer's menu, without seeing anything. I then tried the same with gnome-mplayer (starting it from a terminal window). MPlayer2 2.0-728-g2c378c7-4+b1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer TeamĬannot open file '/home/dd/.mplayer/nf': No such file or directoryįailed to open /home/dd/.mplayer/nf.Ĭannot open file '/ etc/mplayer/nf': No such file or directory Warning unknown option stopxscreensaver at line 5 Code: Select all $ mplayer -vo xv /dev/sr0 ![]()
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