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Computer Chronicles: Business Application Software(archive.org)
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by yawboakye 3y ago
not really. from my study (of both xerox and other companies with similar fate), it’s success that killed them. when you have a hugely successful product that people can’t seem to live without, and businesses can’t operate without, it’s ext
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by yawboakye 3y ago
when a business has an r&d department it's inherently suicidal to consider any current activity as ‘core biz’ especially in a competition. your research department’s objective is to move the puck into new locations, hopefully evadi
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Observer Theory(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
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by yawboakye 3y ago
ime, real time sharing works best when there’s shared context. otherwise it’s essentially an artist rendering a public performance in the presence of an audience. unless you derive some joy from watching people code it could get frustrating
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by yawboakye 3y ago
would be great if all or part of ‘We're excited to announce that Zed is now an open source project’ were hyperlinked to the repository, wouldn’t it?
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by yawboakye 3y ago
> and mortuus also takes the nominative, because it's a nominative complement. this is wrong. mortuus , dead, is the perfect active participle of morī , to die. its adjectival in nature, hence the attribution via esse . not too d
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by yawboakye 3y ago
the goal shouldn’t be to avoid death but to live our old age in adequately healthy and strong bodies (proportional to age and our daily routines) and a sharp mind still capable of following complex arguments. i doubt the strategy for this i
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by yawboakye 3y ago
i’d disagree here solely because whether brexit has failed or not is empirically measurable. we don’t have to defer to public/majority opinion for whom what ‘failure’ represents might be different from one person to the other. so let’s
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by yawboakye 3y ago
great explanation. one wonders how many attempts were made at mechanizing the exact manual sequence of passing the whole needle through, rotating, and passing it back up. because for everyone, that was sewing. it’s understated but worth t
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by yawboakye 3y ago
one wonders whether you’ve created having completed two of the items on the list, i can confirm that it makes you better, whichever way you’d like to measure it. as a google engineer told me once: operating systems and compilers are where a
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Amateur Station License Study Guide [pdf](irts.ie)
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by yawboakye 3y ago
incidentally my latin helps me very little in french but a lot in italian and spanish, for example. in fact, i studied latin to make my task of learning french easier—but that never happened. i picked up habits and rules that produce outrig
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by yawboakye 3y ago
agreed. so given that french grammar bears striking resemblance to german/english, and given that they’re all info-european languages, why are we quick to reject the germanic roots of the french language and classify it as romance? her
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by yawboakye 3y ago
so i’m fairly familiar with latin’s grammar because i speak it, proficiently. first, there’s material difference between latin and modern french grammars. for example, the genetive, dative, ablative, accusative noun cases have been largely
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by yawboakye 3y ago
the rare forms/orders are allowed for the purposes of literature and other forms of art. the grammar of the modern english language and its gradual adoption through intellectual training was intentionally done. it was necessary in orde
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by yawboakye 3y ago
how did the normand invasion change the language? is there a study you could reference? did they influence the structure of the language itself or their language became a source of loan words? or what really happened?
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by yawboakye 3y ago
what makes a language isn’t the core vocabulary but, crucially, the syntax structure. when you say ‘je suis malade’ instead of ‘suis malade’ that’s the germanic roots of french mandating the structure. latin loan words don’t make a language
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by yawboakye 3y ago
forget about the vocabulary for a second. french, unlike italian, spanish, portuguese, has germanic syntax structure too.
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by yawboakye 3y ago
and french as a germanic language? because french is a germanic language too.
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by yawboakye 3y ago
i haven’t ever visited abidjan proper. the people don’t even speak their native language. some are ashantis but can’t speak a word of twi. if you weep for a fabled paris, i weep for abidjan. and i weep for algiers too.
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by yawboakye 3y ago
while 1/2 of french is imported and mangled latin. so where did english borrow from really? given that it’s easier to figure out the latin roots of the anglicized?
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by yawboakye 3y ago
i could agree with you. my pet peeve is that the name of the phenomenon where repeated executions result in same result (where same even includes unique identifier) shouldn't be idempotency . especially in computing where, in my exper
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by yawboakye 3y ago
pet peeve: idempotency is badly named. idempotent literally translated is ‘same power.’ two or more things having the same power doesn’t necessarily mean they produce same, single result. if that were the case we wouldn’t need the special h
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by yawboakye 3y ago
webhooks were a phase we should have passed by now, not try to entrench with some standard. it’s a broken/obscure implementation of full duplex communications between two systems but thought up as if it were a luxury, auxiliary system
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by yawboakye 3y ago
not to nitpick but originally a history was a story/narrative, which inadvertently made the historian a storyteller. herodotus remains unparalleled in that sense, imo.
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by yawboakye 3y ago
plutarch admits when he’s propagating folklore, or unconfirmed history with moral tones. see for example his narration of the encounter between solon and croesus. that said let’s not forget that history as understood by the ancients were st
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by yawboakye 3y ago
agreed. the population has probably passed an inflection point where bureaucracy is at its peak, crosscutting concerns are unavoidable, and communication chains too long and winding to be considered communication at all. but we’re talking o
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by yawboakye 3y ago
so maybe a little more context will help here. i've been in the situation described as child labor here—been involved in hard labor since i was about 6-yo, mainly working on the farm, carrying heavy load of produce and firewood on my h
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by yawboakye 3y ago
ghanaian here: it’s not the business of mars (m&m makers) to ensure that no children are exploited during the production of the cocoa beans. and americans shouldn’t eat their chocolate with some trepidation that they might be eating the

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