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The effect of this simple shift of emphasis can be so profound as to change one's whole approach to programming. Under the literate programming paradigm, the central activity of programming becomes that of conveying meaning to o
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Another thing I've been enjoying lately is literate programming. Amazingly it turns out to be faster to write a literate program than an ordinary program because debugging takes almost no time. --Bill Hart
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Yet to me, literate programming is certainly the most important thing that came out of the TeX project. Not only has it enabled me to write and maintain programs faster and more reliably than ever before, and been one of my greatest
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Lisp has the same ability to define things in any order. Java wants specially named paths to files. The Makefile can create the directory structure and use the "tangle" program to extract the files to the correct place. That'
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There is a trivial C program that is also in the document. It does the actual "chunk" extraction from the Latex. The Makefile uses it to extract named chunks. The program scans the Latex looking for named "chunk" blocks.
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Well, you're editing the Latex version of the literate program. But since my development "style" is to make small changes, rebuild, test, and re-create the code and PDF, my "thinking" isn't focused on the &quot
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The slides basically show examples from other literate programs. I also intended to give a live demonstration of literate code development, as outlined above. It only takes a minute or so to start from the PDF to create a running, tested ve
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Copyright / Trademark Your Sperm?
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You wrote "There's a fundamental problem with generating a beautifully typeset document for a codebase: it's dead. It can't render inside just about any actual programming environment (editor or IDE) on this planet, and
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Actually, that's no longer true for me, now that I think about it. All of my code is now written as a literate program. I never write naked code anymore. Thus my "lisp" files are actually latex and read: \documentclass{book}
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50 year lisper here with my style guide... ( thing thing ... thing )
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https://youtu.be/DTysKBBRL_Y?t=2123 Quoting Dr Griffin (Jan 8, 2022): We are clearly seeing with this Omicron wave vaccines really do work to protect people against severe disease. (Review of a published paper): Risk Factor
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Richard Epstein is a recognized expert in Communication Law, Constitutional Law, Employment Law, Health Law and Policy, Intellectual Property, Law and Economics, Property Rights, and Tort Law Sadly it appears that he has no expertise in Vir
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I used to be a VM/CMS systems programmer.
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Hmmm. Real research on a vaccine would require at least 30,000 subjects, several months, millions of dollars, and a bio lab. Getting a double blind research result would likely earn a PhD. No, "do your own research is NOT that simple&q
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Content Addressable Memory and Neural Networks
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I'm doing research on self-reproducing (SRP) systems. The idea is that each SRP unit makes 2 copies of itself and then moves off to perform another task, such as finding raw materials. By this "power of 2" you get exponential
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Putting a giant magnetic field at L1 will move the generator so there has to be some form of continuous thrust.
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Computing “In the Noise” Room at the Bottom
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SWIFT ( https://www.swift.com/ ) is an international arrangement to transfer money. It deals in all-electronic cash, just like Bitcoin. It keeps records of all transfers, just like Bitcoin. It handles a trillion (U.S.) dollar
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You wrote "The issue that I am trying to point out is that programmer tooling is incredibly obviously underproduced, and the reason why is because it's a public good." I disagree with your premise. I write open source. Toolin
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I spend all of my days reading PDFs. I want an 8.5x11 device with large-size microUSB. Nothing fancy, no markup, no net connection, huge battery. Simple page turning (could be touch or button). Simple file handling. Memory of where I stoppe
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Overshoot. https://www.amazon.com/Overshoot-Ecological-Basis-Revolution...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system... is a literate program.
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HN feature: A “forum” for topic threads that repeat
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Personally I thought it was "Timmy"... most of the time, on things like christmas cards, you see "timmy" as the center of the joke.
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I've looked at a lot of funding sources (govt grants, company grants, contribution "buckets", charity organizations, crowd funding, google summer of code, etc.) One key problem is the need for "fiducial oversight".
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Props to Rich Hickey and Co. After 20 years of maintaining open source software on multiple projects and getting $0 dollars of support I applaud the attempt to reward these professionals. Building and maintaining "personal infrastructu
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I was a developer for 50 years. Almost every other software developer I can think of "retired into management". I was offered a management position 8 times in my career and turned all of them down. Management is a skill that I don
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Charge a $250/hr consulting fee.

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