From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from snark.thyrsus.com (static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [71.162.243.5]) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E12F20191C for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 14:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 36D2E40475; Mon, 7 May 2012 17:52:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 17:52:10 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Dave Taht Message-ID: <20120507215210.GD21259@thyrsus.com> References: <20120501151435.4a6a5373.gem@rellim.com> <4FA43068.2080606@wildgooses.com> <20120504160455.4514ac26.gem@rellim.com> <20120506214138.GB14699@thyrsus.com> <4FA6F396.70307@tmsw.no> <4FA7BDF1.7030708@wildgooses.com> <4FA7CFB2.9080807@tmsw.no> <4FA7E197.9010902@wildgooses.com> <20120507205843.GA21259@thyrsus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net, Ed W , gpsd-dev@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Thumbgps-devel] [gpsd-dev] PPS over USB X-BeenThere: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 21:52:47 -0000 Dave Taht : > When eric and I first started talking about this 11 months ago we > stalled out for 9 months on some of the basic problems. Then he > blogged... Going from concept to working hw in the under 60 days since > is astounding. In truth, I'm a little astounded myself. Maybe I really *am* Manfred Macx. For the rest of you: Manfred Macx is a character in Charles Stross's novel "Accelerando" who describes himself as a "venture philanthropist" - wanders around seeding product concepts for free and connecting people who need each other to make business ideas work. Charlie once told me, after I voiced a suspicion, that Macx was not in fact me but was designed as sort of a composite of several people he knows, two of them being RMS and myself. Novel here: http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/accelerando.charles_stross/sisu_manifest.html > We just arbitrarily picked 100 as a good number. More would be better, > 2 would be a start. And I took the scaling issue very seriously. It's why I zeroed in on "Plain Jane" and mostly ignored all the clever DIY ideas. > Several posters here seem to have the assumption that the > hardware/OS/queues in play can't heisenbug the data, and I assure you, > it can.... Yup. Anyone who's done OS-level work ought to have known that going in. -- Eric S. Raymond