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"Death March", by Ed Yourdon. Most of the reccommended books In this thread are about trying to keep a project in a good place. This book is about what to do when it has already gone wrong. You can make a not terrible argument tha
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I can verify the parts are easy to get. We got the boiler, sans power cord, for 5 usd at a yard sale. we ordered a replacement cord and there wre no snags anD as I recall the price was good. That was 5 years ago and it still works well.
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Source?
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I always find this [1] article to be the most trenchant regarding Forth: > "Forth is about the freedom to change the language, the compiler, the OS or even the hardware design". > …And the freedom to change the problem. In
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In the dark future there is only war between the Thadbots and the Manndroids!
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Do it anyways. Dave Mills and NTP deserves it. Also: Olson timezone database and its various maintainers. Paul Eggert is the current maintainer, I think. Arthur David Olson could be interesting as well.
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The Java Syntactic Extender, which I think was 2001, should be interesting to you then. https://people.csail.mit.edu/jrb/papers/jse-oopsla-2001.pdf
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In traditional Smalltalks, all the method objects have a shared object representing the file that method source is stored in (either .sources or .changes, with room for more) and an offset in the method to point to the text. On compilation,
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GCC 2.96 was a development version that incorrectly got released by Redhat on Redhat 7 (and possibly other distros). https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.htm...
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REA accounting is one of the alternatives [1]. It is used in some managerial accounting systems. I would imagine you could make it generate a set of double entry records to make regulating authorities for financial accounting happy, but you
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“No one will survive the attack of the killer micros!” -- Eugene Brooks, circa 1990
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Start with advertising from the past and work your way forward? It looks lame now, but that stuff used to consistently work.
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I've been told that people who actually do fail out of school tend to not have these kinds of dreams, or at least at a reduced rate. I've asked some aquaintences over the years and their experiences didn't contradict that ass
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Has anyone started a fork from the last Apache licensed version?
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Yeah, this should have been studied 30 years ago.
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I know almost nothing about this area. Just how much effort do you think it would take to get these tools to "good enough but no more"/MVP? Days/Weeks/Months/Years/Decades etc.?
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This reads a lot like Engelbart's work on organizational augmentation/collective IQ etc. Tough stuff to get right. https://robm.me.uk/2021/07/collective-iq-improvement/ https://www.douge
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Object-Oriented Software Engineering is the title of Jacobson's 1992 book describing a reduced tool-less version of Objectory that was referred to as OOSE. ISBN 0-201-54435-0 To this day I still use OOSE notation when sketching a des
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You draw the dimensions and forces, etc. on a diagram (as exactly as possible) and measure the diagram to get the result. Us3ed a lot on the old days when teaching statics. eg. http://web.mit.edu/4.441/1_lectures/1
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You wouldn't happen to know if they also did the jackscrew work for McDonnell Douglas?
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Here is a golden opportunity for the info/data visualization community to show how their tools can handle big datasets to make them comprehensible to the public.
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So much great UI from the past. https://www.dlib.org/dlib/june96/hearst/06hearst.html https://aspoerri.comminfo.rutgers.edu/Teaching/InfoVisResour... Cone Trees https://www.yo
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Isn't MCL now Clozure CL?
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I suspect the Pythonistas would suggest something like the below is somehow better. I'm not confident in it's superiority, particularly since python doesn't really optimize. def searchRow(row,r): found = None for
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I think it's gonna be like steam engines...lots of historical attempts until the stars align and suddenly people see the need.
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Cantillion effects possibly
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I want to see that on Reddit
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Examples from the past, chat with blocks: http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...
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The Autodesk File is fabulous. Timeless advice in many places, alternating with interesting glimpses of the early software industry. For that matter there is a bunch of interesting stuff at the fourmilab site.
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Letter to the Editor he sent Wired . Actually there have been several kicks at the can for rebuttals. Most recent ones are videos: Shorter Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-5cGEU9S0 Feature length: https:/&#x

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