Hello! /var/log/mind is using DISQUS, a powerful comment system, to manage its comments. Learn more.
Community Page
- blog.dhananjaynene.com Jump to website »
-
Subscribe -
Community
-
Top Commenters
-
Popular Threads
-
Recent Comments
- I hope you people realize how inefficient the code you've written is... After you've divided out all the 2's from the number, you still try to find out if it is divisible by...
- Boss!! and Bossess!!!! Please use perl for everything. Perl is ultimate for any purpose. Python is slow (even with psycho, pypy) and Java is over verbose. (But Java is faster) Check modperl before...
- Yes, and I needed to know. What is the smallest prime factor? I guessed around: 7 (Also, your "copy to clipboard" links don't work for me).
- There are supposed to be tab indentations. Not sure how to keep the tabs in a post
- I just wrote this code (works in python 3.0 with the special "//" for division of integers). This code is much faster and will find your prime factors. I take advantage of the fact that...
/var/log/mind
Dhananjay Nene’s free (as in free speech) opinions on all things related to Software Engineering
Google just launched “Knol” today (announced here on their blog). Back in january, I had written up a blog post - Will the knol be a knowall ?, so I was immediately curious to get a first hand experience. Here’s my fresh off the oven first impressions of
... Continue reading »
11 months ago
But, Knol may have an edge over wiki because of Google' search power!
11 months ago
11 months ago
- The reason Knol is called as authoritative because others can rate and comment on articles, which is not possible with Wikis.
- Knol has content about almost everything, try searching for it. Most of it is imported from Wikipedia though.
- The license for the content is Creative Commons, which means content is owned by author and cannot be used for commercial purposes. This is same as Wikipedia.
- Unlike Wikipedia, Knol tries to put in some well formed structure around the content. It essentially tries to incorporate all the essential elements we use while publishing a paper.
- Ability to have multiple articles on same topic is a very good feature as against Wikipedia. This was one very big drawback with Wikipedia, you could either edit existing article or have to pick article name so that it doesn't coincide with existing article. This is very essential feature for lot of controversial topics.
Knol is a competition for Wikipedia and not for Wikis in general so I don't see any usecase for enterprises internal use.