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Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by withinboredom »

raziel2p wrote: post #17
vnxli wrote: post #4

How often are tech trees used in software development/ project management? I’m leading a hardware development project and I made a tech tree for my team- but I had only ever seen them in video games. Would love some professional examples

Could you elaborate on how you made a tech tree for a development team/project? I'm struggling to imagine how that would look.

Usually when joining a fairly technical team, the team has put together "learn these things" to get up to speed. For example, on our team where I am currently, you should be fairly familiar with statistics and maths after the first year on the team.

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by weinzierl »

dataking wrote: post #9
threeseed wrote: post #8

Some curious selections there: - 4 books on SQL but none on key/value, graph, document, time series, bigtable etc databases. - 3 books on C, 2 on JS but none on Haskell (leading FP language) or Scala (first to bridge FP/OOP). - None on search engines / algorithms even though it's the most widely used aspect of computing. - None on anything mobile even though it's the dominant computing platform.

I was also surprised they picked "Programming Rust" over "The Rust Programming Language" book.

Surprised me too, but most listed books are from traditional publishers, like Elsevier, Springer, O'Reilly, etc. I expected that they'd just ignored books from No Starch, but then there is Randall Hyde's "The Art of Assembly Language".

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by polote »

> We believe women's unique role in founding and shaping computing and technology deserves its own section.

Hummm, ok, what about men's role ?

One of the biggest complain women make, is the world keeps reminding them that they are a women. Well this is one of them

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by [deleted] »

dathinab wrote: post #7
indy wrote: post #6

It's strange that they've omitted video-games which are the intersection of software and culture these days.

Yea, I mean video-games are THE way of software sneaking into culture. I mean there is also programming culture but it's constantly changing, split into a innumerable number of sometimes conflicting variants and is often more like work culture then art. But it's also art, it's complicated tbh. I mean how many opinions are based around what feels nice and/or looks nice instead of what works most reliable and well? Thr…

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Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by raziel2p »

withinboredom wrote: post #21
raziel2p wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate on how you made a tech tree for a development team/project? I'm struggling to imagine how that would look.

Usually when joining a fairly technical team, the team has put together "learn these things" to get up to speed. For example, on our team where I am currently, you should be fairly familiar with statistics and maths after the first year on the team.

Okay, so it's just an onboarding-type list but with "dependencies" to structure them like a tree?

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by jcahill »

As an archivist with work in Svalbard, I'm broadly in support of the notion here.

But the 100 Classics approach to media that seems to be showcased in this provisional reamde fundamentally dooms the collection to irrelevance.

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by bewuethr »

cyphar wrote: post #15
zurfer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

exactly, and one don't even need to comment on HN, but can just open an issue or even better a pull request ;)

It's a bit late for that -- the archive snapshot has already been created and stored.

The initial archive yes, but the tech tree would be added later, as I understand it.

Re: GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree

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Post by bewuethr »

z29LiTp5qUC30n wrote: post #22

It s missing solid pieces, like how to bootstrap a C compiler from nothing: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0 or how to use that C compiler to bootstrap the rest of the software: https://guix.gnu.org/

How to actually read QR codes, untar/decompress, bootstrap a C compiler and so on is supposed to be part of the index on each reel, but I'd really love to see these instructions! They are mentioned as the "Representation Information" (see https://git.io/JJDLP).
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