elviejo

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   by elviejo 5y ago

   Emacs I've only donated to the GNU project once... but emacs is so useful in my life that I should do it at least once a year. Xmonad the only sane window manager in this age of "point and grunt" interfaces. Ubuntu linux
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   by elviejo 5y ago

   I was in the same boat a year ago and went to a mathematics professor teacher and he suggested this book: Conceptual Mathematics by Lawvere[1] The book teaches category theory to, smart, highschool students. It's a great start. After t
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   by elviejo 5y ago

   I agree, and I think less noisy languages are those in which white space is significant so: Haskell and python
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   by elviejo 5y ago

   And that is why we need to keep using, and creating, free as in freedom alternatives... "there is no cloud just other people's computers"
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   by elviejo 5y ago

   If you want to finish your thesis, the best advice I can give you is to select a topic that your advisor is already working on . If your advisor has already an area of interest, she probably, already has the dataset that you are going to
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   by elviejo 5y ago

   Because in the US climate change is denied by approx. 35% of the general population and around 69% of the self identified republicans... so to that audience any mention of climate change is an offense to their identity... and as we know fro
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   by elviejo 5y ago

   CSS + HTML5 the goal was you were going to write your document in semntic HTML5 and then use CSS to generate beautiful web pages for any screen or any device... need something printed? no problem print.css has you covered. But as the web ha
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   by elviejo 5y ago

   buy everything pre-owned/used. the whole baby industry caters to first time parents with the idea that "if you love your kid, you will give it (buy) it the best / more expensive". but experienced parents know that is bul
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   by elviejo 5y ago

   https://kfocus.org/ their laptop specs are amazing..
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    by elviejo 5y ago

    came here to say the same thing... that don't need to experiment anything... just bring back Google Reader... obligatory mention to: https://www.ripgooglereader.com/#
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    by elviejo 5y ago

    https://www.cringely.com over 3 decades of IT industry commentary and insight. he doesn't post as frequently anymore but I still enjoy it.
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    by elviejo 5y ago

    Story points shouldn't be used since there is no correlation between the points and the time a task will take to implement. On this [0] article they tried to find the correlation between story points they used 25 projects from 4 differ
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    by elviejo 5y ago

    I enjoy gitless a lot. I think it made the right decisions in terms of usability. For example branch operations are atomic... one cannot contaminate the staging area.
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    I'm looking for 'X' is to Neo4j as Sqlite is to SQL any suggestions for what project is X?
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    This is a very good question.... a related one could be: which companies apply the lessons of peopleware well? ie private offices with a door. don't breaker jelled teams
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    I've been wondering the same myself... I want: - reliable scripts::in my case this means strong typing. Because for example currently to see the exit status of a program one need to check the exit number 0 or non zero plus the string f
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    also there is open source https://www.taiga.io
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    I, for one, welcome our one eye leader... the summarizer
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    That laptop sounded like a dream came true... Onyx if you are listening please make it happen.
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    Boox eInk 15.6 Tablet (April first)(youtube.com)

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    by elviejo 6y ago

    Did you look at Netlogo it is designed specially for this kind of simulation.
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    My dishwasher! I used to spend 45 minutes everynight doing the dishes... now I load it in 10... let it run through the night and recover 30 more minutes of sleep... which has helped with overall mud and health... best purchase ever
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    Yahoo pipes was such a powerful and user friendly technology and I don't think it had been successfully replaced on the market.
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    thank you! this summary is enough for me to try it!
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    start a habit of writing daily and once a week publish one of the articles that you wrote. This habit alone is the most powerful thing for your self learning. 2nd. learn Anki spaced repetition to learn more effectively.
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    Emacs with org-mode.. the ability to write an article about programming, and the code to and the diagrams (plantuml) in one place has been revolutionary as an author.
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    because videos with a "talking-head" are more engaging that slides alone. as was reported in this study: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2556325.2566239 "Our main findings are that shorter v
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    I mean email is like a cubicle farm and slack is like the open office plan... What I need is an office with a door that I can close, in order to focus and do deep work. But I'll settle for a cubicle over open plan office every day.
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    I love Cal Newport's books. However in this chapter he skips to mention that with all it's flaws email is a 10 times better for productivity and relaxation than slack!
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    by elviejo 6y ago

    How does Milk compare to Descript? what are the advantages / disadvantages ?