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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
ServiceNow. Perfect storm of abysmal design/UX used to represent a bloated and confusing underlying information architecture. It's possible that I'm using an poorly configured version/instance of the product, but good l
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
Not the parent, but I think one of the main differences here is that your definition seems to imply that one abstracts from code where parent's definition seems to imply that one abstracts from the domain which one's computer
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
I can sympathize with this perspective. One strategy that I try to employ is to find books which are both small and good. In the case of Prolog, Clocksin and Mellish's "Programming in Prolog" falls in that category. The Ar
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
One thing I find annoying and occasionally hazardous about Gitlab merge requests is that per-file diffs which exceed a certain length are collapsed by default. This introduces risk since it is very easy for a reviewer to skim right past th
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
When it comes to modern/living polymaths, it's worth mentioning Noam Chomsky. He did groundbreaking work in formal language theory that is fundamental to lots of theory of computation. He basically (re)invented modern linguistic
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
For those not familiar with Steve Reich's music, it makes great programming music, in my opinion. Melodic, repetitive, propulsive and most pieces lack a foregrounded instrument vying for your attention. Some favorite pieces of mine ar
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
Since you're here, I'd just like to say that the font you're using (Bona Nova) is wonderful. I smiled ear to ear when I saw the capital-Q in the phrase "Quite possibly".
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by daviddaviddavid 7y ago
Not a KaiOS user, but I am a daily flip-phone user on a Kyocera DuraXTP running Brew MP. In my flip-phone dreams, the features I would love out of an OS would be: * Obviously, calling/texting. * A fast, minimal app that served a
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by daviddaviddavid 7y ago
Very surprised not to see Nico Muhly on this list. There are many of his short pieces on youtube. I highly recommend "It Goes Without Saying", "Motion" and "Drones In Large Cycles". Another interesting musici
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by daviddaviddavid 7y ago
Another fun fact about Bill Rapaport (mostly of interest to Buffalonians) is that he was the author/maintainer of what used to be the best Buffalo restaurant guide on the web: https://cse.buffalo.edu/restaurant.guide&#x
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by daviddaviddavid 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but I've had a print subscription to The New Yorker for many years and I always read the Shouts & Murmurs satire pieces and the absolute most riotously funny one I've read is "Sunday Routine" by J
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by daviddaviddavid 8y ago
Clocksin & Mellish has the benefit of being a slim volume, which makes it approachable. Sterling & Shapiro (Art of Prolog) has much more depth. Not sure I'd recommend to a beginner. (It has a beautiful cover, though and is al
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by daviddaviddavid 10y ago
No, I'm talking quarter notes in 4/4 time here. Bass drum on one, snare drum on 3 and timekeeping hand playing on all four quarter notes. In your "boom...bap...boom...bap", the ellipses are quarter-note rests. Listen t
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by daviddaviddavid 10y ago
That's not correct. In a typical jazz swing drum beat the high-hat is closing on 2 and 4 (the upbeats). In a typical rock drum beat the bass drum is on 1 and the snare drum is on 3 (the downbeats). There's almost never emphasis o
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by daviddaviddavid 10y ago
One of the central features of jazz (or any music) is rhythm. In the case of swing-based jazz, including bebop you have the upbeats of 2 and 4 emphasized. It's the opposite of rock. The Metheny track here has a typical rock beat, so
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by daviddaviddavid 11y ago
This is a gold mine. My profession life is half programmer / half jazz musician. Every musician I've forwarded this link to has been blown away. The commentary accompanying the clips I've sampled is just great. It reminds
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by daviddaviddavid 11y ago
I have been through a slew of logic texts. By far, my favorite for both theory and practice is Computability and Logic by Boolos, Burgess and Jeffrey. http://www.amazon.com/Computability-Logic-George-S-Boolos/dp... An
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by daviddaviddavid 11y ago
For all we know based on the article, the people who wouldn't take him seriously were also black. The article puts the blame squarely on institutional infighting which has apparently been a problem for a very long time. Maybe that&#x
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by daviddaviddavid 11y ago
If my only criterion in choosing a programming language was to make myself smarter, I would probably choose Prolog or a similar language. I find that when I'm writing Prolog I am forced to think precisely about the problem at hand. T
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by daviddaviddavid 11y ago
Rapaport is also the man behind the rather exhaustive Buffalo Restuarant guide: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/restaurant.guide/ And he was a central figure in the construction of the Buffalo sentence: https://e
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by daviddaviddavid 12y ago
This reminds me of Prolog's definite clause grammars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_clause_grammar
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by daviddaviddavid 12y ago
"Ignorance is not a prerequisite for disagreement." This is a very memorable and useful quote. Thanks for saying it. It deserves to be a classic, in my opinion.
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by daviddaviddavid 12y ago
Who says the criteria for separating parts of programming language identifiers need be dictated by whether the words are separated by spaces in English? The "mistakes" here are all examples of phrasal verbs: http://en.w
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by daviddaviddavid 12y ago
"Lonely Woman" is one of the most iconic and haunting melodies in jazz. I'm glad that the interview explains where its title came from. Though, I'd always assumed it must have come from a much darker place. Also, this q
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by daviddaviddavid 12y ago
Only loosely related but for lovers of weird programming texts, there's a bizarre gem called "Elementary Basic - Learning To Program Your Computer In Basic With Sherlock Holmes" by Henry Ledgard and Andrew Singer. http:&#x2F
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by daviddaviddavid 12y ago
And for a hilarious satirical romp which treads similar territory, see Black No More by George Schuyler: http://www.amazon.com/Black-No-More-George-Schuyler/dp/04864...
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
I probably average around 60hrs per week and my biggest reservations about this are: 1. That's 60hrs of being a sedentary lazy-ass 2. The more I work outside of work, the less well-rounded I will be I'm a fit person and take regul
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
I love this. One issue: I seem to get the same behavior from "right angle" line mode and the "diagonal" line mode. I would have expected the latter to use the forward back slash characters.
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
Every six months or so I come across Erik Demaine's biography and am instantly cured of any intellectual hubris that may have accumulated since last reading it.
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by daviddaviddavid 13y ago
The explosion in use of web fonts is something I find a bit mystifying. There's nothing more jarring than watching the font of a web page change at load time. It's hard for me to imagine that the positives outweigh this one pote

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