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by daly 7y ago
Test-Driven Development "Literate programming has never provided a convincing story about how it would co-exist with today’s test-centric priorities." What nonsense. You can inline tests as well as code (which I do) and you can ha
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Modern features in programming languages I love the thought that we're "modern". But we still use the pile-of-sand (POS) style of organization, putting semantics is directory names (e.g. src, inc, lib, and the always empty &q
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by daly 7y ago
Literate revision management Ummm, seriously? You don't put a changelog in a literate program. That's what git is for. Just like your driving instructor doesn't teach you about cars by reading the mechanics comments... change
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Tooling To extract source code from latex requires a 170 line C program. It runs in less than a microsecond. A simple Makefile stanza looks like all: pdflatex file.tex tangle file.tex >file.c gcc -o file file.c and, by
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IDEs An IDE is a tool. Tools make tasks easier for the person using the tool. But the tools needed to build a program have nothing to do with what the program does and why it does it. I have a whole workshop of tools to work on cars. The to
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I don’t need no stinking comments Literate programs are not comments. Literate programming is no "documenting". Literate programming is communicating ideas and details to other humans. A physics textbook is not "documenting p
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Literate programming is too much work and/or not necessary I write literate programs all the time. I write in Latex and use a Makefile. THe Makefile compiles the source and rebuilds the PDF. My PDF reader refreshes automatically and I
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It solves problems that don't need to be solved anymore. "Some critics of literate programming say that modern programming environments no longer have these kinds of issues." Have you tried understanding and maintaining a pro
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Randell Monroe (xkcd, as if you didn't know) might have come up with these ideas before me :-)
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Also note: We may have found a use for a black hole. A "laboratory sized" black hole would be a great place to put stuff. Although I suspect the boundary radiation would be at least as intense as anything thrown into it, radioacti
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Well you could cover the ground around the storage area with highly radioactive material. Anyone who approaches dies. Skeletons tend to be an obvious clue. People tend to avoid areas with lots of skeletons. Also note that rather than "
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I spent several thousand hours in fltsim. We ran it on the original IBM PCs, way back when. I signed up for my private license, showed up the first day. They had the exact Cessna I'd always flown. I inspected the plane with a walk-arou
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Like you, I think Nuclear power is a viable technology for reducing carbon in the atmosphere. I've been studying developments for the last 15 years, reading deeply in the physics textbooks and listening to technical talks. Sure, the nu
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Like a bicycle bell on the handlebars? :-)
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First use by Scott Fahlman, CMU professor.
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HN for Climate News?
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Sarah Mei and Richard Stallman appear to be attached to MIT, making them "colleagues". Morals are rules we inherit from our parents and our society. These rules are not shared by everyone since we are all brought up by different p
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Book Review: Non-Nuclear Futures – Lovins and Price
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Book Review: The Uninhabitable Earth – David Wells
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I worked in WSL for a week. Then Microsoft decided to automatically reboot my system while I was sleeping. I lost a weeks worth of work. WSL is cute but it is a toy. Microsoft doesn't value your work. Stick with a real linux distro. My
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From Gulag Archipelago At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference at every mention of his name). The hall echo
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Open Letter to Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos
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Literate Programming Missive(lists.nongnu.org)
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This is not new. I worked at IBM Research and slept under my desk for about 3 months. Showering at the health club. Of course, "back in the day" we had our own office.
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poptarts, hot dogs, hamburgers spaghetti
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I use my business cards.
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IBM OS gets loaded into memory which the hardware marked as "read-only". However, a bad bit in the memory caused a change which caused the hardware to mark the page as "dirty" so it got paged out with the failed bit copi
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Therapist: So you're afraid that you're letting down people you've never met and who you've given something for free? Me: Yeah, basically -- Mathew Garrett
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If you don't like parens, don't use lisp. There are thousands of other languages discovering things like "lambda" as if it was a new idea. It is easy to create a domain-specific language on top of lisp if you want someth

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