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by daly 11y ago
Physically Based Rendering book Lisp in Small Pieces book Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography book (that is, literate programs)
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by daly 11y ago
Computer Algebra and Computational Mathematics will still be meaningful (although the companies that host them will no longer exist).
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by daly 12y ago
Emacs works everywhere (windows, linux, mac, etc). It is not specific to any language so I can use it for many projects. It works on remote systems as well as local systems. It has decades of extensions (rmail, slime, org mode, etc). It wor
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by daly 12y ago
Three major points were missed. First, TeX is archival. I can still tex documents from my work in the 80s and get the same results. My MSWord files won't load. Thus, MSWord documents die. Second, TeX allows Literate Programs. I can wri
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by daly 12y ago
I'm the main developer on Axiom, another computer algebra system. I'm also looking for employment. I wish Robert all the luck he deserves. -- Tim Daly
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by daly 12y ago
Coding is easy. Anyone can learn to code. What makes programming hard is the frustration. Almost everything you write will fail in some obscure way. The levels of frustration in programming knows no bound. Even worse, very few people will b
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by daly 12y ago
I love the nonsense people spout. It never ceases to amaze me. I've been working in AI (robotics, expert systems, etc) most of my life. I'm currently developing episodic memory for robot-human interaction at CMU. The system learns
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by daly 12y ago
Buy a copy of Physically Based Rendering (Pharr and Humphreys). It is a literate program that won an academy award. Make that your "gold standard" for good programming. Literate programs explain "why", not "what&quo
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by daly 12y ago
"WFH is a trick to make employees work longer" -- the term for this is "Living at Work" rather than "Working from Home". Some days work gets WAY more time than 8 hours, some days it gets WAY less time. Programm
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by daly 12y ago
I've worked remotely for the last 10 years. My largest coding effort lasted 6 years, generated 60k lines of code, and 6k pages of documentation. The same averages (10k loc, 1k docs, per year) seem to hold for all projects. In general
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by daly 12y ago
What matters most is what you do for free -- John Gorka What would you do if nobody paid you to do it?
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by daly 12y ago
Try Axiom
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by daly 14y ago
I did a self-study on a project that lasted several months. I wrote down everything, including mis-typed characters, grammar errors, syntax errors, and semantic errors. I did a root cause analysis of the result. One general result is that I
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by daly 14y ago
Axiom costs several thousand dollars a year. I fund it. The main contributors are academic mathematicians since Axiom is a computer algebra system. I have tried to get funding from IBM, RedHat, the NSF, and several other funding sources. Fu
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by daly 15y ago
Read literate programs. See "Implementing Elliptic Curve Cryptography", it is a program written as a book. Then learn to write your programs in literate form. Soon people will be reading your programs as examples. Tim Daly
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by daly 15y ago
The exact phrase is "We don't think you will fit in to our culture". I won't name names for two reasons. First, I'd likely get a law suit. Second, the attitude is pervasive. Recent post-graduates doing first level "filter interviews" asking
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by daly 15y ago
Well, not quite. I read a recent post that said that people over 35 should find other things to do with their life. Mark Zuckerberg is quoted as saying that young people are just better. Japanese companies won't hire programmers over 35. T
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by daly 15y ago
How can we convince programmers that literate programming will improve their code quality and keep their code alive? Tim Daly daly@axiom-developer.org
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by daly 15y ago
Literate programming can be done in any language. Here is an example in HTML: http://axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/litprog.html In addition to the benefits mentioned there are at least 3 others I can site. First, since you spend time
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by daly 15y ago
Try the "Billy Joel" test. Billy Joel taught a class. He talked about a song he wrote. Originally he thought of it as a Reggae song (which he demonstrated), but then thought of it as broadway (demo), then country (demo), the rock (demo)..
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by daly 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Pittsburgh, PA or remote http://daly.axiom-developer.org I have 40 years of programming, co-authored 4 commercial languages, am the lead developer on 3 open source projects, have a consulting business (Literate Software), h
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by daly 15y ago
Curiously I think you missed the more important point of the post. The literate programming insight is clearly more valuable as a "take-away" idea. Literate programming has the potential to allow a program to "live". Certainly it allows a p
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by daly 15y ago
I agree. I have been on the interview trail for 10 months and do not get responses to either emails or phone calls. I have a masters degree, loads of experience, and a strong work ethic. I have a patent, have published cited papers, and hav