Chiba-City

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by Chiba-City 9y ago
The hard part is reaching a committed niche in the user base, whether paying customer or audience kinds. Software tools generalize from and for niche sponsors with more specific needs. Software growth is then the "consensual delusion&q
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
This is a lovely article. Software is a possibly a) errant and b) misinterpreted operational semantics of some other semantic horizons of contractual or implicit expectations. Knuth's Literate Programming was onto something. We inhabit
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Some permutation of "pair programming" helps with "mission critical" software execution risks. We call this "the bus test" in DC no-nonsense engineering. Project execution must survive anyone getting "hit
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Think schedules, skills and resources against relocation patterns and not just proportions abstracted from schedules. Think of the housing industry as a CPU. Think of babies as data coming across buses and switches. Never forget mortgage de
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I typed this to let younger folks know that plenty of older Netizens do not care one little bit about any consumers or programmers making money off consumers. I wrote the late 80's Harvard Ultrix manual and worked with Steve Crocker, B
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I don't watch TV, cable or NFLX. I read newspapers, nerd papers, old Project Gutenberg philosophy books and watch YouTube lectures or instrumental music. Amazon is great for my never shopping habit. Hobbyist sites are better than magaz
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
In defense, the scope, scale, timeline and ripple effects of change were different (slower and slower spreading) for most of human history before trains, automobiles, airplanes or widespread literacy, photography and now film and TV. His di
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
First, I worked with Arnold Kling. He's a wonderful guy. I appear in his old book Under the Radar. Second, Kurzweil is a creepy promoter of "inevitability." He is a bright guy with good access to privileged programmatic resea
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I do not enjoy phones except for pocketable phone, camera and map. I still have an old stubbornly adequate Moto-G. Chromebooks are cheap lightweight browsing and light typing devices. They work better than fine with no surprises.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
That was poetically agressive. I recommend checking out Strong Towns. Across our shifting political and geographic spectrum folks are looking at 2 phenomena that landed Americans in peculiar distributions. First, Eisenhower era highway buil
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Early business Web was Decision Support and not ad distraction based. There were cool "calculators" that would match relocation zip codes in Tulsa most like my favorite DC zip code or pick optimum breed/age/weight dog fo
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I disagree entirely. Every minute wasted in transit is wasted. I was lucky to make the most of a private school scholarship (Baltimore) and received overlapping theater, voice, writing, instrumental and athletic training alongside academic
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Donald Norman in "Things That Make Us Smart" points out distinguishing between education and entertainment is not impossible but difficult. Artworks are performance outputs like proofs or designs. Then there are material sciences
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
FWIW, spreadsheets are another remarkable group planning tool with an HDMI big screen. Many projects work forward against backwards constraint logic not always clear from day 1. Bugs made shallow with enough eyes applies early in projects.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Why don't you ask a question? I am not an MBA. I wrote Harvard's Ultrix manual, C on SunOS, Windows and Linux. I sat at whiteboards with Steve Crocker, Sunil Paul, Mark Pincus and Brad Cox across telecomms, finance, early Net and
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Conversations around whiteboards between stakeholders creates value. Pair programming makes for lower defects and more reliable scheduling. Software is a design delivery operation. There was recent article on MS office space redesign to cre
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Sorry I recalled the author wrong. I'll leave your correction. Thanks.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I used to go to the NASA Forth User Group meetings in the early 90's to hang with compiler and language nerds. Chuck Moore is a genius problem solver. His Starting Forth is one great example of an introductory language text.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
FWIW, I wrote a graphing menuing system with primitive scalable fonts (for Arabic) in Turbo Pascal in '89 on US taxpayer dimes for live variable twiddling graphing of demographic simulations. It was all roll our own back then on 512K P
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
You are sadly wrong and your examples show your parochialism. I don't enjoy moving picture fictions, recorded edited entertainment or packaged food. I went to Harvard and live in DC getting everything live and in person 24/7. I do
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
The average American who "owns a home" moves every 7 years last time I checked. We are a nation of itinerants. Equity investments give better returns apart from political windfalls.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
There are no private languages. Quality is a social determination. Preferences are idiomatic to exposure. They never matter in defining words.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
This is lovely. Its treatment of arity reads like an implicit pattern matching against tuples across the operators.
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Many software companies fail outright. Other enduring bad software delivery outfits enjoy specific types of subsidies or captive pricing powers until they fail. Those are different cases. Outright unsubsidized failures that never deliver an
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Bad aesthetics and non-existent information architecture of visually obsessed people are unskillful detractions from credible calls to action. Even church and restaurant sites make actionable perusal difficult much less parking an event or
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Haskell Type Classes are brilliant. But I would recommend a strict evaluation language like ML (and modules with signatures) for Semester #1 and lazy Haskell for Semester #2. Anyone could cover a ton of useful contextual material taking jus
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
The simplest things are not contextualized. The methods are sold like aspirin for any pain point. We confuse methods with instant "solutions." The best salad recipes fail of unripe or overripe ingredients. We might better contextu
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I invite folks to look at all methodologies within an overall CMM framework. I fashioned a 90's Agile type methodology based on Release abstractions and project progress visibility. There were always 3 Releases (MRTP - Multi-Release Te
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
Reading is more fun in discussion groups or even reading aloud with discussion. Immersive fiction reading is just one special mode of reading. The focus of research reading is more intensive than immersive. There is some social intent. HN i
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by Chiba-City 9y ago
I imagine a curate Wiki of credible home non-invasive therapies and management regimens would garner more positive response than "anarchic" direct confrontations. There are tons of such therapies underwritten by medical researcher

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