Niners on 9: Sven Groot - Past, Present and Future
- Posted: Oct 07, 2009 at 1:25PM
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Sven Groot is a long time Niner and one of the more active contributors to the C9 forums (you'll note that Sven answers technical questions when he can
and has always been respectful in the way he interacts with his fellow Niners). Sven is also a PhD student at Tokyo University where he is working on and thinking about large scale distributed clustered computing (now we know why he was so keen on my producing
a Dryad piece for Going Deep - Sven is a clever guy...).
Sven was in town recently on vacation in Seattle (why not Maui or one of the Tahitian islands, man?), so we had to interview him. Also, I brought Sven to a randomly generated team meeting of one of the most innovative teams at Microsoft (and filmed it). So you will see more of Sven and learn more about some very interesting technologies, but here we learn all about Sven, the man, the legend.
We cover a lot in this impromptu conversation and Sven has many interesting things to say about cloudy computation and the future of distributed computation somewhere up there. It's great to have you as a vocal member of Channel 9, Sven. Thank you for the feedback on C9 (some of which is shared in this conversation) and for being helpful to your fellow Niners. See, Niners, when you come to Seattle, you never know if you will sit down in front of a camera, rolling 9.
Enjoy and thank you again, Sven!
Sven was in town recently on vacation in Seattle (why not Maui or one of the Tahitian islands, man?), so we had to interview him. Also, I brought Sven to a randomly generated team meeting of one of the most innovative teams at Microsoft (and filmed it). So you will see more of Sven and learn more about some very interesting technologies, but here we learn all about Sven, the man, the legend.
We cover a lot in this impromptu conversation and Sven has many interesting things to say about cloudy computation and the future of distributed computation somewhere up there. It's great to have you as a vocal member of Channel 9, Sven. Thank you for the feedback on C9 (some of which is shared in this conversation) and for being helpful to your fellow Niners. See, Niners, when you come to Seattle, you never know if you will sit down in front of a camera, rolling 9.
Enjoy and thank you again, Sven!
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I think that a nice feature specific for Chan9 videos, would be an account specific perk to remember the play position of an incompletely viewed video, so whenever you leave and come back, so you can continue from the position in the video you were watching.
If we're talking C9 'perks' (was that a MW reference? ) I think it'd be nice to have a XBL style years-as-member number built into the avitars (composed on top).
Regarding Sven's point about videos being long and the difficulty in finding time to set aside for them, one thing that might help would be bookmarking / sectioning. It would also be nice if you could actually put a reasonable summary and maybe keywords into the videos meta tags. This would make the so much easier to refer back to when stored locally.
Another feature that's present in Media Player, but not in the Silverlight player is playing at a higher speed, thus taking less time to watch the video.
Sven Groot always make me smile ... Hope Sven Groot have all nice day in C9
I wish we could have heard more about Sven's day to day routine, he may think it's boring or routine but to some of us who only dream of doing what he's doing - it really sounds interesting! PhDK! Japan! Wow! Cool!
Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky over at stackoverflow.com have had some really useful conversations related to large site moderation, administration, and feature scaling. From what I remember, they really hit alot of the same points regarding what you guys were talking about:
http://feeds.conversationsnetwork.org/~r/channel/itc/~3/FsPMpRhSvWs/detail4216.html
http://feeds.conversationsnetwork.org/~r/channel/itc/~3/YsIJd4cv21w/detail4159.html
http://feeds.conversationsnetwork.org/~r/channel/itc/~3/uYlG_LZF_po/detail3978.html
I've been pretty busy of late, but had to take the time to download, and watch a niner I have the utmost respect for.
Missed the friday C9 show a few weeks back, but this was thoroughly enjoyable.
It's actually nice and interesting
Who's next on the list?
btw I also agree that videos are really time consuming, and you have to be picky what you watch (as you cannot possibly watch them all), but I strongly against reducing video length.
That's what weekends are for.
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