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by sergius 4y ago
This is one of the best analysis for this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-... It is a filter strategy!
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by sergius 4y ago
Seems they didn't review their code :-)
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by sergius 4y ago
It would be a good idea for the OP to read the Systemantics book :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
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by sergius 4y ago
This book looks interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origamics
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by sergius 4y ago
On similar lines but a bit more ironic is Robert Sheckley's: To ask a Foolish Question https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33854
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by sergius 4y ago
The world would make more sense if you read the small book that C. Cipolla wrote long ago. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla
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by sergius 5y ago
If you install git for windows, https://gitforwindows.org/ , you get a ready to go Cygwin installation of most tools you need, including bash. But probably WSL is you best bet for a saner environment.
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by sergius 5y ago
Find the presentation: Instantly Better Presentations by Damian Conway in YouTube from 2011. Notes are in http://damian.conway.org/IBP.pdf It will be the best 50 min investment you can make to make you a better presenter.
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by sergius 5y ago
But you have to use OCaml... really? :-)
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by sergius 5y ago
How does this compare with Nim and MicroPython?
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by sergius 5y ago
My favorite is "The Immortal": https://matiane.wordpress.com/2019/10/11/immortal-by-jorge-l...
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by sergius 5y ago
This blog post is a short read on the the book: https://medium.com/@dvxwang/book-lessons-the-mythical-man-mo...
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by sergius 5y ago
A case of 'Innovator's Dilemma' perhaps?
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by sergius 5y ago
And then you moved to use Perl...
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by sergius 6y ago
Another case of "I like what I know and I know what I like" :-)
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by sergius 6y ago
And don't forget regex uses!
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by sergius 6y ago
Basic was a real bad idea to begin with...
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by sergius 6y ago
In popular micros that came out in 1980? In 1970 you still huge expensive boxes as computers...
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by sergius 6y ago
Imagine if they had put a Forth interpreter instead? That would have been real genius... but alas we got a crappy BASIC because everyone else had one.
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by sergius 6y ago
Rotation group maybe? And those gauge symmetries... heck, just look into quantum mechanics operators.
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by sergius 6y ago
Both are walking dinosaurs at this point waiting for a meteorite...
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by sergius 7y ago
No mentioning of the classic from the 70's: Systemantics :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
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by sergius 7y ago
Pensando == Spanish word that translates to: thinking https://www.google.com/search?q=translate%3A+pensando
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by sergius 7y ago
Why not just use Nim?
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by sergius 7y ago
Maybe they found the waters they were looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_(short_story) https://www.torindoppelt.com/teaching/phil204/borgesimmortal...
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by sergius 7y ago
I've noticed that that a few acquaintances with the same trend... they like to take risks and optimize locally rather than globally. Not dumb but just narrow focused like most of us in technical areas.
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by sergius 7y ago
Why not Minix 3? https://www.minix3.org/ Heck, while we are dreaming: Why not buy the rights to Plan 9 and start improving on those ideas, now that would be interesting.
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by sergius 7y ago
Don't forget Ethernet over Power... works great on some houses and you don't need to lay out cables. But if you can nothing beats wiring the hole house.
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by sergius 8y ago
Reminds me of Plan 9.
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by sergius 8y ago
They provide a place to sit and use free WiFi...

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