Name: Anonymous 2009-11-10 7:06
tl;dr We can crash the Internet
Today I was quite hungry after two hours of Computability Theory class, so I just focused my attention to getting some food while talking with a friend about pratical stuff. Yes, I'm one of that nerds that are not happy until they put hands into some code, but I appreciate theory abstraction too.
The main argument was "remote storage of settings". Does your GNU/Linux user's have some settings that you would like to keep consistent among more than one computer? By example, are the Pidgin accounts the same on both your laptop and the University computer?
So we talked about some sites that give you a similar service for Firefox extensions. I don't know which service is, but AFAIK it keeps track of a list of firefox extensions, and if you add an extension somewhere the same extension will be installed (obviously at the first login) on every other hosts using the same "virtual" profile.
My point is the following: suppose for sake of discussion that there are N websites providing the same service for different application (say Pidgin, Firefox, Evolution). Basically we are moving the problem on the following recursive floor, since sooner or later we'll require a service that keeps track of services keeping track of application.
At this point, would be such a website writable? Would it be able to classify itself in an effective way? If we just try to develop it we may fall in some coding paradox (reference http://www.geekherocomic.com/2009/08/19/a-coding-paradox/).
What do you suggest?
Today I was quite hungry after two hours of Computability Theory class, so I just focused my attention to getting some food while talking with a friend about pratical stuff. Yes, I'm one of that nerds that are not happy until they put hands into some code, but I appreciate theory abstraction too.
The main argument was "remote storage of settings". Does your GNU/Linux user's have some settings that you would like to keep consistent among more than one computer? By example, are the Pidgin accounts the same on both your laptop and the University computer?
So we talked about some sites that give you a similar service for Firefox extensions. I don't know which service is, but AFAIK it keeps track of a list of firefox extensions, and if you add an extension somewhere the same extension will be installed (obviously at the first login) on every other hosts using the same "virtual" profile.
My point is the following: suppose for sake of discussion that there are N websites providing the same service for different application (say Pidgin, Firefox, Evolution). Basically we are moving the problem on the following recursive floor, since sooner or later we'll require a service that keeps track of services keeping track of application.
At this point, would be such a website writable? Would it be able to classify itself in an effective way? If we just try to develop it we may fall in some coding paradox (reference http://www.geekherocomic.com/2009/08/19/a-coding-paradox/).
What do you suggest?