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by shoover 12y ago
This is a very good breakdown of a useful pattern. I think they dismiss declarative approaches with too broad of strokes, but there is always room for frank discussion of lighter, straightforward approaches that get the job done. This overl
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by shoover 12y ago
You make good points. I guess I'm more hopeful that the UI is fungible if the core ideas shine through. I'll be most interested to see if they figure out a way to make federation easier to understand and use. At first I thought I
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by shoover 12y ago
Because of drag/drop refactoring and the detail in the page journal, they have to track the history of every paragraph, which requires UI for interacting with individual paragraphs. You can't have just a big old textbox for the wh
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by shoover 12y ago
These are all UI complaints and all fixable by anyone with a better idea and JS chops whether Ward likes the particular changes or not.
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by shoover 12y ago
That said, there are also options to use databases for page storage on the back end: https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki-node .
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by shoover 12y ago
Right on. I recently deployed a fedwiki farm for my team after playing with it myself and catching just a whiff of the possibilities. I had a litany of complaints myself, but was compelled to press on due to the intriguing promise of the g
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by shoover 12y ago
Smith tells me that a Morgellons patient who finds unusual fibers in their skin will typically bring a sample to show their doctor. But when they do this, they’re unknowingly falling into a terrible trap. It is a behavior that is known amo
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by shoover 12y ago
This takes me back to Bret Victor's talk Inventing on Principle. There are many ways to live your life. That's maybe the most important thing to realize in life, that every aspect of your life is a choice. But there are default c
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In which we take a deep breath before the upcoming plunge(technomancy.us)
1 points by shoover 12y ago|1 comments
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by shoover 12y ago
Agreed. Figuring out how to evaluate the trades and schools seems really important. I would be worried about ending up with more debt and still no job, in cases where the school was bad or the job market wasn't really there in the end.
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by shoover 12y ago
How do they pick? Maybe they need help picking better. Seems like there's a lot of people around here interested in trends and intelligence that could help with that.
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by shoover 12y ago
Thanks for the tip. The seal let some coffee through one time and I also had some slime growing inside it. Gross. But it's several years old maybe expected at some point.
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by shoover 12y ago
Yep, it was an immediate upgrade when my wife wanted coffee after our second child was born. When I found out my dad was pressing two cups through the Aeropress every morning to take to work, I couldn't buy him a Chemex fast enough.
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by shoover 12y ago
That's a cool hack. It could be handy on the road as more hotels buy these units.
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by shoover 12y ago
Right. I've been using the Aeropress for about seven years. To this day I still use it every week, if not every day. I think the plunger is starting to go. The point is it makes great coffee, and I've convinced many friends and fa
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by shoover 12y ago
High level, instant startup, message passing, isolation from complex APIs (interfaces), and a good module system. Sounds like he's advocating for Go.
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by shoover 12y ago
Shop Class As Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford completely changed and focused how I think about work and mental healthy. The Accidental Creative and Die Empty by Todd Henry provide excellent tools and background for adding practical disciplin
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by shoover 12y ago
The more accurate title is in the article: How to Read News Stories about Charter Schools. And then the justification for why bother: It grows tiresome to dispute every tendentious article written on charter schools. But let's see ho
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by shoover 12y ago
Works fine with http://aspell.net/win32/ and two lines of elisp.
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by shoover 12y ago
What really devastated my generation was the spiritual malaise inherent in Taylorism's perfectly mechanized human labor. But Taylor had never seen a robot or a computer perfect his methods of being human. By the 1980s, we had. In the
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by shoover 12y ago
It sounds expensive, hectic, and really time-consuming, which raises concerns about the kinds of jobs that one should expect waiting at the end of the chute. I feel Lou H's comment: "Mostly they prove they can work insane hours fo
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by shoover 12y ago
From the comments: "Look on the bright side. It's like being a professional mechanic in a town full of klutzy amateurs. The more they mess up, the more work we get. True, it's horrible work, but it's work!" c.f. ht
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My Lawn(blog.cleancoder.com)
1 points by shoover 12y ago|0 comments
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by shoover 12y ago
This paper is a good economic perspective complement to Matthew Crawford's more philosophical and mental health-oriented book Shop Class As Soulcraft. Both analyze the implications of tacit knowledge on the structure of work and reach
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by shoover 12y ago
Nice one. This line of thinking could open up some possibilities.
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by shoover 12y ago
> Oh well... ;). Though it might seem like it, it doesn't give me any problems. I usually remember more-less how I named a file with a particular thought I need, and if I can't, there's always grep to the rescue :). Make
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by shoover 12y ago
That's a very extensive list of org files you have there :) I bypass org-agenda for mobile viewing by scheduling a job to call org-html-export-to-html on each .org file. Dropbox mobile works well for viewing the exported HTML. There is
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by shoover 12y ago
I used MobileOrg for a while but couldn't figure out a seamless workflow to eliminate manually pushing and pulling on the desktop. Automatic HTML export to dropbox works fine for mobile viewing, though. How do you do the indexing part?
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Joe Armstrong – The mess we're in(vimeo.com)
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by shoover 12y ago
Well done, sir. I've always thought something like this was needed. Paid products are fine, but why not open source if a person or crew wants to take the time to build it with the polish required to pull it off? Well, you built it and

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