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Interesting - Linux Foundation with IBM, Google and others announced last week JanusGraph [0]. Janus provides optional persistent storage option also. What are the good use cases for these ? [0] http://janusgraph.org/
Microsoft of 2017 makes me forget about Microsoft of 1997. It's insane how a shakeup of CEO and new cultural shift can seemingly add another major boost to it's brand. I welcome open source, eventually, I believe that it will eat commercial software, if the right economic incentives are in place. Microsoft may be signaling this to the market.
> Microsoft of 2017 makes me forget about Microsoft of 1997. Never Forget.
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Their OS team just put a Ubuntu-Linux subsystem into Windows via direct kernel calls. I'd be careful assuming anything about them.
They were also very careful not to touch anything GPL-licensed. The Linux syscalls were all implemented from scratch. So it's effectively a proprietary reimplementation of parts of the Linux kernel. I'm not sure how much that says about open-source plans of Windows itself.
WSL is a elimination of the Linux user mode programming environment. The fact that that requires implementing Linux kernel functionality is simply an artifact of the lack of a more modular design (or really any up front design) in Linux.
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Dev here. Cross-platform for Linux/BSD is on the way, and it's already in the repo now.
Does that include developing/compiling GE (and GE apps) on Linux/BSD?
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I don't get the outrage over the rumored UWP only windows. There is no indication that MS would drop win32. This is a separate product, likely for a particular market. It's more of an iPad competitor than a Windows desktop replacement. So don't use it if it offends you, that's OK. I don't think this is all that forceful really.
They already did UWP-only Windows. That was WindowsRT. Nobody bought into that either, but Microsoft still really, really wants that closed-market, walled-garden style business model to happen somehow and so they're going to keep trying. I believe that their next strategy is to release a full Windows OS (with Win32) that runs on ARM which lets Win32 apps run via an emulator. In this environment, Win32 apps will most…
Windows RT was about as popular as Windows 1.0. I think Microsoft views the upcoming ARM-based "Cloud Windows" (whatever the branding is going to be) as the second iteration of this idea, and hopes to really gain traction a few years later.
At this rate, are we going to see Windows open-sourced? MS is on a roll. My bias since 1996 is being eroded with each OSS release they have, and multi-platform targeted support. I started using VSCode regularly as my main Rust IDE, and I feel dirty for liking it. It's seemless across macOS and Linux.
* Intellectual Property.
* The concern about opening a can of security vulnerabailities and the associated negative press, is probably on their minds.
Still, I wish they would open source the components they can, if only as a gesture.
Although astroturfing doesn't seem to be a problem on HN, I'd really appreciate it if you didn't do it.
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OK, so ContentChanged is new since the last time I looked - thanks for that! However, IPC via files is still a PITA in general compared to something easy like sockets. Using an external IP address is a terrible solution for communicating with another process on the same machine. As soon as you disconnect from the network, it will stop working.
What does IPC between UWP and native buy you? Do you have some legacy code that has to run natively (been there with a Java app many years ago using TCP to talk to a tiny host process for some native code)?
Why do that? Indeed one could just call Windows 10 API from its existing client [1], but it seems that you would miss out on the easy install/update from the Store and other benefits a UWP app provides.
[1] https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/01/25/calling-wi...
At this rate, are we going to see Windows open-sourced? MS is on a roll. My bias since 1996 is being eroded with each OSS release they have, and multi-platform targeted support. I started using VSCode regularly as my main Rust IDE, and I feel dirty for liking it. It's seemless across macOS and Linux.
I've been running into the idea of computational graphs a lot recently. It's at the core of Tensorflow (and NN in general) but it also comes up for example in Apple's AVFoundation where all audio processing happens in a graph of audio units. Does anyone know what's the theoretical foundation of computational graphs? EDIT: I've created a wiki page for computational graphs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_G…
Automata can be represented as graphs- that's the main idea. When you look at the typical automaton diagram with states and transitions- that's a graph (with states as vertices and transitions as edges).
I think the confusion arises from the fact that, while automata can be represented as graphs, graphs can represent a much broader array of processes and objects (e.g. belief networks or semantic networks). I guess you can represent pretty much anything as a graph.
So "computational graph" as I understand it, just stresses the point that what is represented is a unit of computation (a.k.a. an automaton a.k.a. a grammar a.k.a. a language etc. etc.) rather than some other kind of graph.