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by elviejo 5y ago
Yes this is called Games with a Purpose. It is Luis Von Ahn thesis. Luis created: recaptcha, to help digitilize books by harnessing millions of captchas. The ESP game to help tag images for search purposes. Both sold to Google And later fou
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by elviejo 5y ago
As others have pointed out using a used laptop or desktop computer is the cheapest option. For several years my favorite was Chromebook Acer AC720 with Linux installed, it was a beautiful light weight machine. So a Chromebook where you can
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by elviejo 5y ago
Robots doing most of the manual labor.
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Social networks most important metric is "engagement" number of minutes spent on the site. And turns out that it is human nature to engage with content that it's "dangerous" so the social networks have optimized to
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by elviejo 5y ago
Obligatory Simpsons reference: "Can you imagine a world without lawyers?" [0] But basically without JavaScript we would have used Java applets and the Java Virtual machine. So your browser would actually be a hypervisor where each
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by elviejo 5y ago
Emacs org-mode. Notion, Roam, GTD, Zotero, etc. before they were thing. Seriously if you want to have plain text productivity learn emacs with Org-mode.
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by elviejo 5y ago
There are 10 types of developers the optimizers that worry about the impact of storing and processing of a datum. Exemplified by C developers. And the modelers whose main worry is to represent the world in mental model that can fit in or br
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by elviejo 5y ago
He didn't choose to live in Russia, he was stranded there. Plus he also wants to return to the USA given that his judged in an open court. Not a secret one. He says so in this interview: https://youtu.be/PArFP7ZJrtg
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by elviejo 5y ago
How about GitFs mount a git repository as a directory.. Your apps don't need to know they are commiting changes to git. https://github.com/presslabs/gitfs
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by elviejo 5y ago
I own an ePaper Android tablet. Onyx boox max lumi. All my books are on it either PDF, epub or even kindle. Is such a relief for my eyes, and I can read more for longer.
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Because we were educated before "flavor of the month" JavaScript framework... And because if that we can appreciate elegant and practical tools and ideas. See also emacs and vim.
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I'll try this next time!! Thank you!
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To hit that number I enrolled in a small coworking space that is 20 minutes away from my house... It's 2500 steps from home... So just going and getting back from the office gives me 5,000 steps...
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by elviejo 5y ago
Yes, it's called nix-shell.. It's different and a little hard but once mastered makes local development of any programming stack a breeze.
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by elviejo 5y ago
Yes. On this study: A comparative study of programming languages in Rosetta code they show that Haskell programs are (brief) less lines of code to achieve the same goal. Binary size is small.. And very important to me they could be executed
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by elviejo 5y ago
Suggestions for such an app?
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How old is your kid? Because I wouldn't suck the "joy of expressing one self digitally through programming" with project management considerations whenn he is too young. But depending on his age you can try something simple s
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by elviejo 5y ago
Mearsheimer has been proposing the same since 2015.. as can be seen on this video: https://youtu.be/lfk-qaqP2Ws And his proposal, for Ukraine to be a kind of neutral zone, was not for Putin, it was for the USA and Ukraine..
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by elviejo 5y ago
For Putin having Ukraine part of NATO is as dangerous as it was for the US to have Russian missiles in Cuba. It's something he is not willing to risk. So almost any price is worth it for him. I've found the first 25mins of this co
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by elviejo 5y ago
It's not difficult at all to use qwerty. And I don't use Dvorak on mobile... Although I should probably try it.
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by elviejo 5y ago
Small co-working space within walking distance from home. Get the benefits of working from home (no commuting, no traffic, closeness to family) Get the benefits from the office: other professionals with whom to share, clear boundaries betwe
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by elviejo 5y ago
I learned Dvorak 16 years ago. To avoid carpal tunnel surgery... I practiced 1 hour daily for 3 weeks, then flipped my personal and work computers to Dvorak.. It took me another week to become comfortable. So I would say it takes one month.
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by elviejo 5y ago
One that changed my life was:The secret history of the credit card.
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by elviejo 5y ago
Is there a webserver that can take org-mode emacs files and display them as html? Or ask another way something like Caddy but with .org files instead of .md? Ps: I Kno about org-publish but I want a webserver that executes org-publish witho
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by elviejo 5y ago
I love literate programming. But it requires 3 skillets: writing well, programming well and a little DevOps in order to automate the execution of the literate program. So it is actually very difficult to do... But the results are Worth it t
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by elviejo 5y ago
I love that keyboard, that is how I want the keyboard in my laptop to be: track pad in the center .. with split keyboard on the sides. 17 inch laptop
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by elviejo 5y ago
Jhon Carmack (creator of wolfstein and quake) reimplements quake when he wants to learn. http://functionaltalks.org/2013/08/26/john-carmack-thoughts-...
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And shows the AGPL solves the loophole that the GPL has. So if a company refuses to use AGPL because they don't to respect the user freedom to see the code... Then is good they go searching for some other software with other license.
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by elviejo 5y ago
Save enough to cover all expenses of my family for 5 years. Once 1) is complete enroll in PhD in mathematics (category theory and informatics). Beat my internet addiction
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by elviejo 5y ago
Mhh the internet has been getting better than any point in the past /all the time/. So in order to prove that abolishing net neutrality was a good idea, they would need to show that it got better than the level it was going to imp

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