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by TruffleLabs 3y ago
Well done interview! I like the idea Professor Kawakami Hiroshi shared to make inconvenient design ideas as design principles. His inconvenient design cards reminded me of the IDEO Method Cards ( https://www.ideo.com/post&#x2
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by TruffleLabs 3y ago
This is a press release article…
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by TruffleLabs 3y ago
My portable machine of youth was the HP95LX ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_95LX ). It had Lotus 1-2-3 built in, MS-DOS, and a nice HP calculator app :)
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by TruffleLabs 3y ago
Subtitled "Why Douglas Hofstadter Is Changing His Mind on A.I."
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‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’(nytimes.com)
3 points by TruffleLabs 3y ago|3 comments
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by TruffleLabs 3y ago
Real. I worked on a TI Explorer with IntelliCorp's Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE) to develop a tool called Conceptual Design Representation (CODER) to help with US Air Force cockpit design. https://en.m.wikipedia.or
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
There is The Array Cast podcast that covers mainly APL and it's related languages (k, q, J, etc.) that is helpful for learning what is happening in array focused languages. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast&#x2
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Frederick P. Brooks * still relevant re: people are the key to getting things done; understand how people work together. https://www.abebooks.com/products/isbn&#x2
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
HandBrake is your gui to FFMpeg "HandBrake uses FFmpeg under the hood and generally can open whatever FFmpeg will, in addition to disc-based formats like DVD and Blu-ray." Via https://handbrake.fr/docs/en&#x2F
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
Sadly the WhatsApp 2 step really is just a pin and an email. I believe this really isn't 2 step as there is no ever-changing code. https://faq.whatsapp.com/2976081889094372/
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
Looks like this is a command line RSS reader system(?)...
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
The nostalgia effect will make it sound like there were better times in 1992. However, the issues then are still the issues of today: * software maintenance is not exciting but is critical. * designing software & systems still requires
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
See this article The “10,000-hour rule” was debunked again. That’s a relief. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/23/20828597/th... "Which is why I find these debunkings of the 10,000-
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
Casio had a watch in the mid 1980s that was smaller with calendar, contact, and notes...
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
This was a Ransburg Scout camp trading post staple!
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Choco Tacos are gone for good, a victim of ‘tough decisions’(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by TruffleLabs 4y ago|3 comments
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
Great video to see core historical technologies and approaches to software design. And, these ideas can be used today with Smalltalk-78 emulated with Lively Web https://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
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Alto System Project: Dan Ingalls Demonstrates Smalltalk(youtube.com)
3 points by TruffleLabs 4y ago|1 comments
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
The paper's title "A QUARTER of Americans say they are ready to take up arms against the government" compared to the cited report from University of Chicago's Institute of Politics "And 28 percent of voters, includi
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
"our goal is to have 100 percent accurate data, 100 percent of the time." Good to have a goal... how are you verifying to know you reached that goal? Reality check: if there are humans involved in any part of the process then that
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
Scapple is best for organizing bits of information into charts. It is not great at mindmaps or outlining. If you want an outline organizer then use something like iThoughts or XMind.
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by TruffleLabs 4y ago
APL was not originally a programming language (pardon the pun) but as a notation for array mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) "A mathematical notation for manipulating arrays was
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by TruffleLabs 5y ago
Seeking the ever elusive Oracle to help us make sense... And when we have the Oracle, we can still choose to ignore what it tells us... I believe Freebase was trying to meet similar goals ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by TruffleLabs 5y ago
Any one saying they are not using a framework is not being honest with themselves. They may not be using a formal published framework like those mentioned in the article, but they have a personal set of tools, techniques, and methods on whi
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by TruffleLabs 5y ago
I call BS on no code: "Deploy your Algorithm" implies some form of logic, directional instructions, or configuration to "Deploy your Algorithm". "Tradebase lets you create complex algorithms and combine multiple ind
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by TruffleLabs 5y ago
Where did you get 40%?
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Bank robber thought being covered in lemon juice would help him get away with it(qz.com)
1 points by TruffleLabs 5y ago|0 comments
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Apollo Guidance Computer Part 1: Restoring the computer that put man on the Moon(youtube.com)
1 points by TruffleLabs 5y ago|0 comments
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Lego-Like Stackable Homes Could Help Cities Solve Housing Crises(springwise.com)
1 points by TruffleLabs 5y ago|1 comments
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by TruffleLabs 5y ago
Gmail to FastMail FastMail to Gmail Both sends ended in the normal email (not spam) folder. Probably not 100% identified as spam. Also, the paste of tiny font only works if the email rich text is on.

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