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by elviejo79 2y ago
1000 upvotes. I wish papers were written in html or markdown... and the beautiful typography applied later with latex.
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by elviejo79 2y ago
In this regard I find medical papers much better than CS ones. The ones in medicine in the abstract write the methodology, the results the CI (confidence interval) and the conclusions. Very good abstracts.
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by elviejo79 2y ago
What is unacceptable for "some of us" is that rich corporations are parasites of the commons. ANd give very little back. Like Apple on top of BSD or AWS on top Riak. For people like me that find that unacceptable exist the GPL lic
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by elviejo79 2y ago
The rendering engine: Chromium had to be kept "libre", because khtml/Webkit was LGPL. The browser: Chrome. could be kept closed because the LGPL allow the integration of libre libraries in closed products as long as the libra
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by elviejo79 2y ago
Smalltalk, then each tab would be its own image (vm). Web Apps would be a natural derivation of tje VM.
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by elviejo79 2y ago
Thank you.
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by elviejo79 2y ago
It happens extremely frequently because there is almost no downside for management to override the engineers decision. Even in the case of the Challenger, no single article say WHO was the executive that finally approved the launch. No bod
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by elviejo79 5y ago
Emacs... it's likean extension of my brain ar this point. It allows me to record my thoughts org-mode, draw (plantuml), take notes of whay I learn (org-roam) and program. My silent Bosch dishwasher... everytine I don't do the dish
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by elviejo79 5y ago
I was confused too.
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by elviejo79 5y ago
It was a long tine ago that I was in academia, but the advice that I would hibe an student today would be: use beeminder.com to set a bet to yourself to write 500 words daily... on anything... just the habit of writing is extremely importan
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by elviejo79 5y ago
Congratulations... I think a cooperative is the right property model for a business were knowledge is more important than capital. some resources to get you started are Book: Ours to own and operate and Platform Cooperative Consortium
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by elviejo79 7y ago
> Why did FileMaker die? IDK, but 80% of web apps were during the 2000s so so interfaces on top of a relational database... And FileMaker was so superior... Seems that in computer we try end to think that "worst is better".
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by elviejo79 7y ago
Inverse: question you have a big key, in the home row. That is a very valuable keyboard position. What is a function in your programs deserve such a prominent position?? In my case as an emacs user bloq mayus, get's remaped to CTRL. V
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by elviejo79 7y ago
Tangem cards with a color eink display? Sounds about right. https://tangem.com
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by elviejo79 7y ago
It's not are "either or" question. You can and probably should do both. Formal education will give you the insights to understand the mathematical principles on which the profession is based. And a couple of bootcamps will gi
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by elviejo79 7y ago
Elm's package management. In elm if you change your API you must change the version of your package following Semantic versioning. 1.1.2 Major.minor.patch. Or better: Break.feature.fix And that comes from the language and package manag
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by elviejo79 7y ago
I'm interested too.
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by elviejo79 7y ago
Your proposal is exactly how self-driving cars were created: "Back in 1995 the goals for self-driving cars were more modest than they are today. They weren’t called autonomous, but self-driving. And there was no plan to have cars drive
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by elviejo79 7y ago
The Fifth Discipline by Senge. Also a great introduction to systems thinking. Also everything written by Goldratt. In particular: The Goal and It's not luck Both are business novels, they read lightly but the lessons are profound.
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by elviejo79 7y ago
A framework that works with continuations is Seaside in smalltalk, it is a delight to work with it. https://seaside.st
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by elviejo79 7y ago
you and I hate the same companies, and as you explain making things that people hate are profitable in the short and medium term. I still cannot forgive Micro$oft for their past behavior, even if they seem cool now.
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by elviejo79 7y ago
For me a partner should have: 1. We share the vision. ie we want to create the same company. 2. we share ethical values. 3. has skills that I don't have. you are focusing only on the skills, but shared vision and values is even more i
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by elviejo79 8y ago
Currently my Favorite tool to Diagram Sofware Architectures is the C4-Model [1]. For the static view and use a normal Sequence Diagram for the Dynamic View. In both cases I like to use Plant UML, so that the text get's converted to the
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by elviejo79 8y ago
Stenography Look at this video introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62l64Acfidc&t=80s And this is a developer using steno, to program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBiri3CD6w
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by elviejo79 15y ago
I think is a reference... to an ad written in the same way. but it was to recruite people to go the first expedition that was going to cross the south pole... I think they all died by the way.
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by elviejo79 15y ago
Pair programming. when you keep discussing what you are doing with a collegue, your mind keeps the flow.
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by elviejo79 15y ago
What other languages have you used? Im starting to teach an intro cs course n highschool next semester and would love to hear some real experiences on this. have you looked at: etoys scratch starlogo alice or scheme ?
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by elviejo79 15y ago
My point is that there are good tools to learn programming. I think that there are languages in which difficult concepts befome easier to explain. logo being the prime example of such a teaching language.
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by elviejo79 15y ago
This goes to prove that java is a pretty bad language to teach pogramming. in logo this is how you draw a square forward 100 Right 90 Forward 100 Right 90 Forward 100 Right 90 Forward 100 Right 90 Then in the second lesson you introduce loo
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by elviejo79 16y ago
Exactly this is the middle path of Zen and Buddhism is the path that is in the middle and above the dualistic notions of expression / repression or anger / joy....

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