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52 pointscallum8510y ago9 comments

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I've grown curious about Bak's implementation of Smalltalk (OOVM A/S) that was mentioned in this article. Has anyone here had a chance to tinker with it?

igouy10y ago

Unfortunately not. afaik the technology disappeared into Java focused Esmertec.

There are a few papers and slide-decks:

"Design, implementation, and evaluation of the Resilient Smalltalk embedded platform" ====> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.84....

"A New Approach to Developing Robust Embedded Software" ====> http://lore.ua.ac.be/Events/VM/BE.pdf

munificent10y ago

Kasper Lund's thesis is about OOVM and it goes into great detail about all sorts of parts of it:

http://verdich.dk/kasper/RES.pdf

Dorian-Marie10y ago

The comic they talk about: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome

davidw10y ago

Interesting article, touching on some of the differences between the US and Denmark.

Here's the other Lars Bak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak in case anyone's curious.

applecore10y ago

It's pretty clear; browsers were too slow to run ads.

vonklaus10y ago

I'm pretty cynical, but I just can't believe that was the only/major reason. In 2009, I have to believe that browsers could run advertisments pretty well. I am sure it was a great ancilliary benefit for them, but I think it has much more to do with the apple approach to tech.

You can keep people in your ecosystem if you use a chrome browser, an android phone/tablet, and author all your documents with google drive. Except instead of the hub being a mac computer, the hub is your chrome browser which you use to search, create documents, go for entertainments and purchase products. If chrome is ultra fast, it can handle and process all your data and give you a great UX as well.

IDk, I guess you are right though, the faster you surf the more adverts you see I guess.

justinlardinois10y ago

Exactly. Google's game for the last half decade or so has been setting up an OS-agnostic ecosystem. That's why they have (almost) their full suite of apps on iOS too, even though they have the Android platform.

ariwilson10y ago

Can we get a bot that regexps for Google in the article, makes sure Google's actual ads products (AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick) are not mentioned, and then posts this worthless comment so it can be ignored/downvoted into oblivion? Thanks.

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