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Users don't even venture out of their bubbles anymore because they don't know how. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-06-10 · in Protocols, not platforms: A technological approach to free speech (2019)

Haha, awesome. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-05-31 · in Call for a Public Open Database of All Chemical Reactions

…programs. The first is functions, and the second is sequences of states. - Leslie Lamport .. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup - see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_machine - and you won't regret learning…

comment by contingencies · 2022-05-31 · in Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)?

…of complex non-linear systems that can help one's thinking about them. - Alan Kay ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-05-31 · in I grew up gifted, but my life didn’t turn out the way I expected (2019)

…Donald Knuth, 'The Errors of TeX' (1989) https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf (4.8MB) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-05-24 · in Leslie Lamport revolutionized computer science with math [video]

Love it. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-05-23 · in Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model

…time is finite, attention is rivalrous, and information is not infinitely actionable. ... added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-04-27 · in Ask HN: Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information?

Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-04-24 · in The Curse of Systems Thinkers

…Science: off by one errors, cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton Quotes via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-04-19 · in Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

…require learning on the part of the beholder, not just bones tossed at puppies. - Alan Kay, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-04-10 · in Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios

Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-04-09 · in Drone footage of Tesla factory

…Law (Popular formulation): When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-04-08 · in 1.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Sub-Millimeter Details (2017)

…saying planes don't fly unless they can fool birds into thinking they're birds. - Peter Norvig, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup IMHO other intelligence tests are the same - they tend to measure familiarity with established…

comment by contingencies · 2022-04-08 · in 1.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Sub-Millimeter Details (2017)

…that sometimes being a master class engineer all it takes is not using it. Love it. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-04-03 · in Show HN: A tiny solar-powered server only awake during the day

…future-proofing exists by default. Interfaces before implementation. For more wisdom tidbits try https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ;)

comment by contingencies · 2022-03-21 · in Ask HN: Are you using actors in production? Why/Why not?

AI is short for advertising industry at this point. Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-03-13 · in Smart-TV blocklist for Pi-Hole

Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-03-02 · in “The smartest engineers I know are burned out and starting vegetable gardens”

There's a whole section of quotes on writing with applicability to programming in https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup Personally I think Lamport's statements on the subject are hard to disagree with.

comment by contingencies · 2022-02-13 · in Putting Ideas into Words

Added as Learc's Lamentation to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-02-07 · in Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

…of a machine you've never heard of stops you from getting any work done. - Leslie Lamport ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-01-17 · in Real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines

…- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2022-01-05 · in OneBag: The Art and Science of Travelling Light

https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup provides much of the same content but in fortune format.

comment by contingencies · 2022-01-01 · in Hacker Laws

Added attributed original to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-12-10 · in Avoiding Internet Centralization

…design regrets on the UNIX creat(2) system call and the fallacy of premature optimization) .. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-12-02 · in ImageMagick: CLI for Image Editing

I maintain a large collection of pithy quotes on such matters: https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup Less in the self-help context, more in the process context, one I often appreciate for its simplicity is this: There are two models of…

comment by contingencies · 2021-11-21 · in Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?

All possible successor states of any state. - Leslie Lamport, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-10-31 · in Repeat Yourself, a Lot

…job, pick the right framework which secures you extra work for being a tool. - @iamdevloper ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-10-28 · in Software Architecture Patterns: 5 minute read

If you like snippets in text consider the unix fortune tradition, I maintain https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup which produces bitesized memes in glorious ANSI color. Some startuppy, mostly software architecture/design focus, some more…

comment by contingencies · 2021-10-05 · in Advice from YC founders and partners

Haha. Added to taoup . https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-09-27 · in Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in Lua

…competition or oversight. Competition is for losers - Peter Thiel (2014 speech at Harvard) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup Rights have to be regulated in to existence or actively fought for. These days the populace is so…

comment by contingencies · 2021-08-23 · in Platforms want to be utilities, self-govern like empires

Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-08-10 · in Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more

Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-08-05 · in The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream

…but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle. - Joe Armstrong ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-07-31 · in Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap (2011)

More succinctly: Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-07-01 · in Move fast, but understand the problem first

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Einstein ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-06-27 · in The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

…of premature optimization) ... with respect for constrained environments, by way of contrast, via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-05-24 · in Why Some Old Computers Are Interesting

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The Tao of Unix Programming

story by graderjs · 2021-05-12 · 0 comments

…keeping that quote! Apparently Robert Hilliard Barrow (1922-2008), USMC four-star general. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-04-30 · in Shipping containers are falling overboard at a rapid rate

…is to learn things, because change is the constant thing that's going on. - Alan Kay (2017) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-04-26 · in CEOs are hugely expensive – why not automate them?

…is really meaningful you should be able to express it in mathematics. - Leslie Lamport ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-04-26 · in Has UML died without anyone noticing?

Added to the substantial Alan Kay section of https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-01-28 · in Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science (2014)

…grail. - Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire .. via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ... point being, sometimes expiring products are superior, it depends upon the use case.

comment by contingencies · 2021-01-18 · in Review broken products instead of new ones

…Law (Popular formulation): When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2021-01-06 · in Huawei Tops Intel as Top Linux Kernel Contributor for 5.10

…pays for that with degraded performance on the set of all remaining problems). ... quotes via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup FWIW at my company we do embedded robotics, use ridiculously underpowered processors with very limited…

comment by contingencies · 2020-12-31 · in Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry

…thinking stimulation purposes and are optimized for brevity. Many are derived from books or papers. https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2020-12-27 · in Systems design explains the world: volume 1

Timely and humanistic quote I added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup yesterday from the father of cybernetics... Who was I, a man whose proudest ancestor had led a life in a Moslem community, to identify myself exclusively with…

comment by contingencies · 2020-12-24 · in Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018)

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comment by contingencies · 2020-12-10 · in Games people play with cash flow

…has been the mistress, and to her in all points make my appeal. - Leonardo Da Vinci ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2020-10-15 · in Beware the Casual Polymath

…tool might be you. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding . - H. H. Williams ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup [0] https://theconversation.com/most-successful-entrepreneurs-ar...

comment by contingencies · 2020-09-21 · in We need young programmers; We need old programmers

If you like these, try my fortune descendant at https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2020-09-12 · in Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?