gtycomb

17 ms·

121.
by gtycomb 10y ago
this was so many moons ago: I worked in an organization where I received a 'best contributor' award that year. Then my manager called me in to discuss a potential large project in the business. I was to go and find out what &quo
122.
by gtycomb 10y ago
One thing to note here in HN is that, competitiveness of many a business is on the table because of this state of affairs. This is really so. The opportunity to organically develop technology with the business is always lost if the CIO ski
123.
by gtycomb 10y ago
I helped an 8 year old get started in Python. It was an almost effortless process once we started with Python's Turtle Graphics. He started "innovating" himself when he saw what he could do with loops etc and draw with the Tu
124.
by gtycomb 10y ago
use perl5 instead because it is already there on unix systems. Use it to collect infrastructure data, scrape logs, query databases, or even for some statistics/math on the fly. If on an island I will take perl5 (and golang :-) I had ho
125.
by gtycomb 10y ago
UML as a specification language is the right tool in software architecture. I find it to be very flexible tool, helping software projects or process models. However _Enterprise_ architecture need to work with the "Business" (consi
126.
by gtycomb 10y ago
Enterprise Architecture. What is often an unmanageable bundle of "models", pictures, documentation (UML etc, or tools or “repositories”) giving way to concise and precise schema for architecture decision making – a pleasant outco
127.
by gtycomb 10y ago
> I would argue that plumbers, sewage workers and farmers should be paid higher than programmers. Then, of course, the plumber et. al. should consider moving into programming. No one is stopping them from training themselves and learning
128.
by gtycomb 10y ago
Emacs 25.1 RC1. Installed it, tried it on Fedora 23. It works like a charm. I continue to be amazed at the design. Thanks to all involved.
129.
by gtycomb 10y ago
I am thinking of George Boole (boolean algebra and logic) who wrote in the 18th centuary -- that a symbol (an individual gene in this case) in itself is not meaningful but that its meaning depends on how it combines with with other symbols.
130.
by gtycomb 10y ago
Prof. Stein's earlier post that had appeared here on HN ( http://wstein.org/mathsoftbio/history.pdf ) is enormously absorbing reading also. It has much more to tell about the significant challenges that stand in the
131.
by gtycomb 10y ago
Is porting OCaml code to F# on Unix straight forward? Is there something similar to the Opam package manager in F#? Thanks for your thoughts.
132.
by gtycomb 10y ago
To start conversation in OCaml, let is_palindrome str = str = String.rev str ;; (function is_palindrome will return true or false for input str )
133.
by gtycomb 10y ago
Is PLM missing? I used to program in PLM before C became popular for firmware coding.