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BuildSys 2012 Calling for Papers: Sensors, Buildings, Energy(cccblog.org)
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by josefonseca 14y ago
Is this relevant? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Tesserac...
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by josefonseca 14y ago
Coding is necessary for computing, it's not going away, just like math isn't going away due to the evolution of computers. The better computers will use math better, but math is there because it's the basis for what we call "computing". Cod
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by josefonseca 14y ago
> The spotlight here goes to the browser, and what this means to it's future. It probably means that the web browser's future is to be an awesome web browser.
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by josefonseca 14y ago
> eliminating coding will eventually be realized > people will still need to know how to program I think that by coding, you mean typing? In your example, we won't be eliminating coding, we'll just be entering code using a different
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by josefonseca 14y ago
I stand corrected.
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by josefonseca 14y ago
> Git is a notoriously user-hostile piece of software Then you probably didn't use any SCCS before git. Because CVS is even uglier, Bitkeeper is the reason Linus wrote git and every other I tried was more "user-hostile" than git. >
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by josefonseca 14y ago
Never heard of him here in Brazil. He probably gave up his Brazilian citizenship as well. I wouldn't be surprised though, taxes here are 3x those in the USA.
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by josefonseca 14y ago
How about the microcode on the CPU running the pacemaker's code?
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by josefonseca 14y ago
Funny how extreme the views here are. So I either hit the bars and get drunk every night or I run on a manic schedule? The premisses here are entirely false. There is a balanced life in between which IMHO is where we should be aiming.
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by josefonseca 14y ago
I know many people who I presume like you, let chaos and drama rule their lives. So you either wake up at 4:54 AM or you let "chaos and drama" rule your life? Aren't we missing some possibilities in between? balanced, produc
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by josefonseca 14y ago
Does this give anyone else the sense that with amazing processors we have available that we're being really wasteful with these bloated apps we currently have? I mean if these guys are able to do this in 4K, what else could be done in opera
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by josefonseca 14y ago
Here(Brazil) everything seems to work like that. You sign 200 pieces of paper each day and if you'd enforce everything you agree to in just one day, the legal system would halt. Recently I tried to purchase a small stereo, one of those tiny
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by josefonseca 14y ago
That only works as long as everything works. Soon as you car breaks down coming back from the gym, soon as your kid has a flu and you've got to take him to the hospital and come back at 2 AM, everything has broken down. Then the next day yo
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by josefonseca 14y ago
What if your kids catch a flu? What if your car breaks down? What if a friend has a broken car two blocks from your house and calls you and asks for help? These types of tight schedules where everything is machinized and controlled don't wo
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by josefonseca 14y ago
1) build some regularity into your daily routine [ ... ] 2) Systemisation will set you free Translation: transform yourself into a cron daemon that fires up at 4:54AM and sleeps at 9PM.
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by josefonseca 14y ago
Here’s my daily routine Wake up at 4:54am [ ... ] Jump in front of my iMac IMO if you wake up before 5 AM and jump in front of your iMac then there's either something wrong with your to-do list program or with your to-do
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by josefonseca 14y ago
> How is the rise of the (unfortunately) sole technology that the ubiquitous multimedia platform of the beginning of the 21st century understands "surprising"? I recall that 14 years ago DHTML was the all the rage and javascript was the
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by josefonseca 14y ago
He probably does lots of explaining on TSA scanners at airports.
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by josefonseca 14y ago
Great article! It is sad how this culture of discovery and hacking is being killed by a stupid "human beings factory" mentality. These days I was chatting with a friend and suddenly she stared blankly at the crowd and said "look, everyone d
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by josefonseca 14y ago
It is terrible to see these wild animals behaving just like civilized humans.
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by josefonseca 14y ago
I recall from Economy 101: the economy is moved by incentives.. Incentives in a wanted area cause that area to prosper, taxation causes an unwanted area to slow down. If a sipmle photoshop-plugin-like application like Instagram is worth U$
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by josefonseca 14y ago
But it's probably easier to find out than if Amazon was not publicly traded. I am no expert on this, but I am sure that major stockholders have means to find out everything they want about Amazon's Kindles sales.
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by josefonseca 14y ago
What, a Microsoft vs. Netscape war? Impossible!
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by josefonseca 14y ago
> Facebook, Inc. just filed a new amendment to its IPO prospectus (S-1) tonight which offers new transparency into its weak Q1 results Amazing what an IPO can do for transparency. This is the sort of thing you'd never find out about a l
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by josefonseca 14y ago
Well, just yesterday I thought to myself: I should compile a good list of blogs for reference, instead of the usual marketing blogs disguised as Compsi(most of them are really just trying to sell you something, not discuss real CS). Thanks
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by josefonseca 14y ago
We're all here on this planet for a limited amount of time. One of the principles of life is to "leave a mark" on the planet. We reproduce and feel awesome about our kids, because that is part of our "mark" on the planet. They'll carry on.
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by josefonseca 14y ago
"What's the best language" is a sure fire way to not get any useful answers(because you'll get all possible answers) from a crowd of programmers, IMO. What's "best" for what? Does the safety critical system need to be fast and respond to re
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by josefonseca 14y ago
> If it did, it would be doing so on the downswing of the desktop as a platform. This may be true, but I'd like to point out that I've been hearing this since 1980something.
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by josefonseca 14y ago
This widely depends on your geographics. Writing from Brazil here : still over 70% of the visitors, on average, to most sites I monitor are using some version of IE. So claiming a "feature" like that down here would be like rejecting 70% cu

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