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   by belfalas 4y ago

   I felt this was a thoughtful writeup! It does seem reasonable that if someone publishes an open source package to an index for distribution, they are accepting that the index may place some constraints on them once their package hits critic
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   by belfalas 4y ago

   Everyone else ;)
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   by belfalas 4y ago

   "It is nice to end up where you wanted to be, but the person you are when you get there is far more important." - Richard Hamming
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   by belfalas 4y ago

   Nice! I especially like “it improves engineering skills” - if an organizations engineers are never doing anything new their skills stagnate.
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   by belfalas 4y ago

   "Just because something can be done with a computer does not mean it should be done." - Richard Hamming
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   by belfalas 4y ago

   > Imagine a bar where every time you walked in the door a half dozen dudes invariably turned around on their barstools and told you your clothes look like shit, your face is disgusting, you hair style is stupid, you smell like trash and
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   by belfalas 4y ago

   Depends on where in the world you hail from originally. I have also seek "fks" to mean the same thing. More common with non-native English speakers.
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   by belfalas 4y ago

   I am indeed here posting my original question after first trying the Manga Guide to Linear Algebra and finding it was not what I was looking for. Where I wanted visual explanation they went to textbook definitions, not helpful. A few illust
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   by belfalas 4y ago

   Thank you, this is a great point! I am in the category of someone who needs linear algebra in order to apply it for day-to-day stuff, hands on not blue sky. Currently my primary use case is image filtering but a bit down the line signal pro
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    Ask HN: Best beginner friendly linear algebra book?

    259 points by belfalas 4y ago|126 comments
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    by belfalas 4y ago

    Obviously not.
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    by belfalas 4y ago

    > After listening to Hardcore History's Wrath of the Khans, I think they have been the most evil group humanity has produced so far. Never forget that history is written by the victors. The Mongol Empire was replaced by the Russia
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    by belfalas 4y ago

    I love it - this is true startup spirit and kaizen attitude.
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    by belfalas 4y ago

    I have always found SQLite to have fantastic documentation. Very clear writing. https://www.sqlite.org/docs.html Back in the heydays of Ruby on Rails I also found the Net::SSH library by Jamis Buck to be very excellent in t
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    by belfalas 4y ago

    It is quite old school at this point but I loved The Longest Journey for a classic adventure throwback.
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    by belfalas 4y ago

    This was a thing in ICQ back in the day, you could see what the person was typing real-time as they typed it.
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    by belfalas 4y ago

    It is a well known open secret in the newspaper industry that if you want to make sure they use a bad photo of you, just be a jerk to one of the journalists. They talk to the photographers.
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    DevOps for Application Developers(simplermachines.com)

    3 points by belfalas 4y ago|0 comments
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    by belfalas 4y ago

    App Platform from Digital Ocean is not as full-featured as Heroku but you can tell they are building towards parity. Good pricing and thus far no real hiccups for us in 1 year of usage.
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    by belfalas 4y ago

    Very cool! Is this powered by Marqeta under the hood?
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    by belfalas 4y ago

    > it’s a remarkable artifact of modernity that we say these things about computers, but not about the dictionary or our regimented education system. When I was at university I had some humanities professors who were studying this kind
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    by belfalas 5y ago

    Meanwhile the Buddhists are unattached about being left out of the survey. They don't mind.
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    by belfalas 5y ago

    Reminds me of this comic - "You should have asked!" - great illustration of these dynamics: https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/
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    by belfalas 5y ago

    > Imagine the convenience of enabling your customers to open help tickets, provide feedback, add feature requests directly to your shared, read-proof store. Reliably deployed in production for many years at all Fortune 500s!
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    by belfalas 5y ago

    > The term is communicating the "Commanders Intent". There is a classic presentation from Mary Poppendieck on this, highly recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEMdjslEOI
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    by belfalas 5y ago

    Wonderful stuff! To anyone who enjoyed The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, please please please do yourself a favor and read The Smith of Wooton Major as well. It is one of those books that gets overlooked but it's a wonderful read. The
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    by belfalas 5y ago

    Really interesting article! For anyone curious about perspective in art, see the book "Perspective Made Easy" by Ernest Norling. It is easy to follow and has simple helpful exercises. A more technical and challenging book is &quot
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    by belfalas 5y ago

    Looks very worth checking out! Will this be made available for installation via Cloudron some time in the future?
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    by belfalas 5y ago

    Dear OP, my username bows to yours.
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    by belfalas 5y ago

    This made me wonder if debouncing is also a thing with software keyboards? For years I have sworn that I type things correctly on the iPhone keyboard but it gets it wrong.