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by spit2wind 2y ago
Whoa, congrats! Been watching this project for years, seeing the steady progress toward a 1.0. It's been no small feat. Congrats! Excited for you!
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by spit2wind 2y ago
A great history of Tor was recently published (with open access). Super interesting read. https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5761/TorFrom-the-D...
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by spit2wind 2y ago
You probably know more about this than I do since you claim "people keep repeating this without context." Looking at your links, it seems to me a confusion of terms. Yes, the legal entities behind GM and Chrysler went away...in or
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by spit2wind 2y ago
RMS has a nice write-up about it https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Is there a list of the books at the bottom given somewhere? The resolution is low and some books are too thin to see clearly
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by spit2wind 2y ago
What's an ICT? The post doesn't define it yet, it appears their entire argument depends on understanding what it means.
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by spit2wind 2y ago
I try to avoid Jupyter related things. Every time I encounter them, it seems worse. Point in case, an open issue from 2017 requesting "copy/paste" be (re)added to the right-click context menu, still open. https://g
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by spit2wind 2y ago
I second this. If Peopleware or The Mythical Man Month are for managers, The Effective Executive is for individual contributors.
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by spit2wind 2y ago
I second Emacs Lisp. Call `emacs -Q` (to open it without an init) and press enter. Emacs should have started with the default splash screen open and the cursor over the link to the tutorial. Read the tutorial and understand the basics of Em
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Here's a great demo of the REPL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B_4vhsmRRI
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by spit2wind 2y ago
CatB is a fine book. That feels like such add choice for the situation, aside from just seeing if the person was willing to engage with ideas within software. I'm curious what texts people would suggest for a non-developer to get some
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by spit2wind 2y ago
"The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" by Gottman. It's not the best writing in the world yet it's based on 50 years of actual research. "Peopleware" by Tom DeMarco. It's a book every manager shou
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Unfortunately they don't talk about Bootstrappable builds: https://lwn.net/Articles/841797/ Guix and others in the GNU community were able to bootstrap Guix from 357-byte program last year. https:/&#x2F
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Nice meta analysis examining the situation from the perspective management versus measurement: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4801131_Measurement...
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by spit2wind 2y ago
+1 came here to point out what should be obvious: the US is not, and has never has been, a free market. There is, and always has been, "rules and regulations" beyond the "natural" which dictate the behavior of the market
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by spit2wind 2y ago
It says "Oral History". Is there an audio recording? The Computer History Museum has recordings for other people. I can't find one for this.
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by spit2wind 2y ago
I miss the bindings, too, when using applications that don't support them. In those situations (and other situations beyond simple key assignment), I reach for the extensibility to modify the system...and find nothing that compares. I
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by spit2wind 2y ago
The thing about Emacs isn't it's key bindings. It's the extensibility and integration of the overall system. As others say, begin with the built in tutorial. It should be as simple opening Emacs and pressing enter. If for som
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by spit2wind 2y ago
This is what the lisp repl is like. There's not much else like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B_4vhsmRRI PS: You can also do copy and paste :)
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by spit2wind 2y ago
Is this gleaned from a talk he gave? If so, is there a link to the audio, video, or transcript of it?
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by spit2wind 2y ago
It's always good to follow this up with John Stewart's appearance, the one that got the show canceled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
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by spit2wind 3y ago
Strunk & White is always good to thumb through: https://archive.org/details/TheElementsOfStyle4thEdition The Wikipedia has links to other copies, like on Project Gutenberg.
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by spit2wind 3y ago
This reduces to a belief, which I also hold, that you have inherent worth. It's like Bret Victor's story of Puddles. Imagine you adopt a puppy. You name him Puddles. You take puddles home and you give them a little snack and you s
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by spit2wind 3y ago
> Is the Malta-based company vehemently against giving archivists access to the newspaper's archives? I can't imagine they would have any good use for it. Holding it for ransom is one "good" use for it.
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by spit2wind 3y ago
Guile Scheme: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/index.ht... It looks like it should be good. There is a lot written. However, it's extremely disjointed and unfairlt assumes readers
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by spit2wind 3y ago
David Parnas has a great take on this: "Automatic programming always has been a euphemism for programming with a higher level language than was then available to the programmer. Research in automatic programming is simply research in t
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by spit2wind 3y ago
I have read Skienas book, both the second and third edition. Love the idea. There is an errata nearly every other page for the second edition. Third edition appears better...for now. Someone needs to get this man a proper editor! - https:&
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by spit2wind 3y ago
Eglot and use-package allow Installing packages from source, allowing you to easily switch between bleeding edge, tagged versions, and contribute changes.
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by spit2wind 3y ago
Is that 425,000 lines of APL?!
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by spit2wind 3y ago
> Removal of meaningful choice is a deliberate, anti-competitive tactic. Other people's points about network effect and the Goldilocks Moment are valid and surely play a part. In reality it's more likely laws and enforcement ha

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