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1000 upvotes. I wish papers were written in html or markdown... and the beautiful typography applied later with latex.

In this regard I find medical papers much better than CS ones. The ones in medicine in the abstract write the methodology, the results the CI (confidence interval) and the conclusi…

What is unacceptable for "some of us" is that rich corporations are parasites of the commons. ANd give very little back. Like Apple on top of BSD or AWS on top Riak. For people lik…

The rendering engine: Chromium had to be kept "libre", because khtml/Webkit was LGPL. The browser: Chrome. could be kept closed because the LGPL allow the integration of libre libr…

Smalltalk, then each tab would be its own image (vm). Web Apps would be a natural derivation of tje VM.

Thank you.

It happens extremely frequently because there is almost no downside for management to override the engineers decision. Even in the case of the Challenger, no single article say WHO…

Emacs... it's likean extension of my brain ar this point. It allows me to record my thoughts org-mode, draw (plantuml), take notes of whay I learn (org-roam) and program. My silent…

I was confused too.

It was a long tine ago that I was in academia, but the advice that I would hibe an student today would be: use beeminder.com to set a bet to yourself to write 500 words daily... on…

Congratulations... I think a cooperative is the right property model for a business were knowledge is more important than capital. some resources to get you started are Book: Ours …

> Why did FileMaker die? IDK, but 80% of web apps were during the 2000s so so interfaces on top of a relational database... And FileMaker was so superior... Seems that in computer …

Inverse: question you have a big key, in the home row. That is a very valuable keyboard position. What is a function in your programs deserve such a prominent position?? In my case…

Tangem cards with a color eink display? Sounds about right. https://tangem.com

It's not are "either or" question. You can and probably should do both. Formal education will give you the insights to understand the mathematical principles on which the professio…

Elm's package management. In elm if you change your API you must change the version of your package following Semantic versioning. 1.1.2 Major.minor.patch. Or better: Break.feature…

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Your proposal is exactly how self-driving cars were created: "Back in 1995 the goals for self-driving cars were more modest than they are today. They weren’t called autonomous, but…

The Fifth Discipline by Senge. Also a great introduction to systems thinking. Also everything written by Goldratt. In particular: The Goal and It's not luck Both are business novel…

A framework that works with continuations is Seaside in smalltalk, it is a delight to work with it. https://seaside.st

you and I hate the same companies, and as you explain making things that people hate are profitable in the short and medium term. I still cannot forgive Micro$oft for their past be…

For me a partner should have: 1. We share the vision. ie we want to create the same company. 2. we share ethical values. 3. has skills that I don't have. you are focusing only on t…

Currently my Favorite tool to Diagram Sofware Architectures is the C4-Model [1]. For the static view and use a normal Sequence Diagram for the Dynamic View. In both cases I like to…

Stenography Look at this video introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62l64Acfidc&t=80s And this is a developer using steno, to program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBiri…

I think is a reference... to an ad written in the same way. but it was to recruite people to go the first expedition that was going to cross the south pole... I think they all died…