Permanent storage for implementation docs referenced from image
While doing a bit of background reading on the Random algorithm used in the image I found this [1] which describes the choice of the initialised magic numbers. So I would like to reference this document from the class comment. However one day the link may die, so I was wondering if such could get a permanent place under Pharo control (e.g. files.pharo.com), or we just submit them to the WayBackMachine [2] [3] and hope for the best. [1] http://www.firstpr.com.au/dsp/rand31/p1192-park.pdf [2] http://archive.org/web/ [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20150919033900/http://www.firstpr.com.au/dsp/rand... cheers -ben
On 19 Sep 2015, at 05:42, Ben Coman <btc@openInWorld.com> wrote:
While doing a bit of background reading on the Random algorithm used in the image I found this [1] which describes the choice of the initialised magic numbers. So I would like to reference this document from the class comment. However one day the link may die, so I was wondering if such could get a permanent place under Pharo control (e.g. files.pharo.com), or we just submit them to the WayBackMachine [2] [3] and hope for the best.
[1] http://www.firstpr.com.au/dsp/rand31/p1192-park.pdf [2] http://archive.org/web/ [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20150919033900/http://www.firstpr.com.au/dsp/rand...
cheers -ben
Great read! Thanks Ben.
There is no reason to expect that files.pharo.org links will not rot away for such unusual content. Also I'm pretty sure that copying it there is against copyright; this however also applies for Web Archive (plus the owner of the domain can retroactively remove content from Web Archive). So why not just put there the name of the article (and it's DOI), which is sufficient to always trace the article (just like any reference in any article), and have the regular link for convenience? Peter p.s.: pharo.com is a hedge fund ;) On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
While doing a bit of background reading on the Random algorithm used in the image I found this [1] which describes the choice of the initialised magic numbers. So I would like to reference this document from the class comment. However one day the link may die, so I was wondering if such could get a permanent place under Pharo control (e.g. files.pharo.com), or we just submit them to the WayBackMachine [2] [3] and hope for the best.
[1] http://www.firstpr.com.au/dsp/rand31/p1192-park.pdf [2] http://archive.org/web/ [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20150919033900/http://www.firstpr.com.au/dsp/rand...
cheers -ben
On 19 Sep 2015, at 11:40, Peter Uhnák <i.uhnak@gmail.com> wrote:
There is no reason to expect that files.pharo.org links will not rot away for such unusual content. Also I'm pretty sure that copying it there is against copyright; this however also applies for Web Archive (plus the owner of the domain can retroactively remove content from Web Archive). So why not just put there the name of the article (and it's DOI), which is sufficient to always trace the article (just like any reference in any article), and have the regular link for convenience?
Yes, that is the way to go.
Peter
p.s.: pharo.com is a hedge fund ;)
They had enough money to buy the domain⦠Marcus
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