I was just sitting on my seat at Sun Microsystems’ India Engineering Centre (Sun Office), Bangalore after the JavaOne Conference, when Ganesh sir comes in and says “Avinash, you have an interview tomorrow and you will have to tell about your experiences at J1″… I seriously did not know what to say! I was like “Ok… But…..” but Ganesh told me “No buts… just go and tell your experiences as a Campus Ambassador and how much fun you had at [...]
Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend about winning a programming contest with a single compilation. Andrew Binstock: You are one of the fathers of the open-source revolution, even if you aren’t widely heralded as such. You previously have stated that you released TeX as open source because of the problem of proprietary [...]
