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comment by contingencies · 2020-08-25 · in The robotics revolution is here, and it's changing how we live

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comment by contingencies · 2020-08-22 · in Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools

…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 · 2020-04-19 · in A twenty-year professor on starting college this fall: Don’t

…with Alan's. Living in the present: man, you're just out of it. - Alan Kay (2017) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2020-04-17 · in Assuming Responsibility for Time

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comment by contingencies · 2020-04-09 · in Two new potentially fatal bugs found in 737 Max software

…Cynthia Cole, former 32 year Boeing employee and former President, Boeing Engineers' Union ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup Amusing(?) idea for outlandish conspiracy theory (in the spirit of 'virus all the things!'): bad…

comment by contingencies · 2020-04-08 · in Two new potentially fatal bugs found in 737 Max software

…it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2020-04-02 · in Release cycle about SMTP stack

…understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly . - Henry Spencer Many architecture tips here: https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2020-03-16 · in Ask HN: How do you write code so it's easy to change?

…we found was that you had to look at the whole problem. - Joseph Henry Condon, Bell Labs ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2020-03-09 · in Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software

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comment by contingencies · 2020-03-04 · in Unfashionable pursuits (1983) [pdf]

…is merely decades old. Also, their advice is better written. And funnier. - Peter Hilton ... from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup (Edit: One of PG's main points here is succinctly summarized by this other pithy taoup quote: Lest men…

comment by contingencies · 2020-02-21 · in How to Write Usefully

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comment by contingencies · 2020-02-17 · in Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it

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comment by contingencies · 2020-02-15 · in Why do so many developers get DRY wrong?

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Joe Ancis ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2020-02-04 · in You have a set amount of “weirdness points” – spend them wisely (2014)

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comment by contingencies · 2020-01-16 · in Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years

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comment by contingencies · 2020-01-14 · in Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?

…are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage. - Buckminster Fuller ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2020-01-12 · in Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay

…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 · 2019-12-08 · in The Lesson to Unlearn

…put it eloquently: I don't trust security people to do sane things. - Linus Torvalds (2017) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-11-27 · in I'm not burned out, I'm pissed off

…is really meaningful you should be able to express it in mathematics. - Leslie Lamport ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup If you need to visualize, take more precise states as a basis and take a look at graphviz[0]. If you need…

comment by contingencies · 2019-11-19 · in Ask HN: A modern-looking UML diagram tool?

…these slogans because I discovered most adults couldn't deal with paragraphs. - Alan Kay ... from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-11-14 · in Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket

I believe booking.com ran on perl for a very long time. Maybe still does. ~relevant quotes from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ... In #devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script. - @devops_borat Comedy: You, trying…

comment by contingencies · 2019-10-07 · in Successful machine learning models: lessons learned at Booking.com

…if it worked you'd name it after what it does, like a dishwasher or a vacuum cleaner). ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup We call them 'service locations'.

comment by contingencies · 2019-10-04 · in Ask HN: Who is building something that will change the world?

…Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. - Henry Spencer ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-10-03 · in Design patterns for hacking together prototypes: object dictionaries

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comment by contingencies · 2019-10-01 · in Zeigarnik Effect

…to ignore newspapers, with their constant supply of causes for things. - Nassim Taleb ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-09-22 · in Proximate vs. Root Causes: Why You Should Keep Digging to Find the Answer (2017)

…it in mathematics. - Leslie Lamport UML - Unnecessary Management Lingo. - @iamdevloper ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-09-21 · in The C4 model for visualising software architecture

…of our time. The trick is to know which books to read. - Carl Sagan, 'Cosmos' (1980) ... from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-09-21 · in Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers

Since it declares the interpreter at the beginning ( https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup/blob/master/taoup#L1 ), you should just be able to chmod +x it and run it as ./taoup Since it's an executable like that, this would also allow you…

comment by slenk · 2019-09-18 · in Hong Kong tries and fails to hire PR firms to rebuild image

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comment by contingencies · 2019-09-17 · in Hong Kong tries and fails to hire PR firms to rebuild image

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comment by contingencies · 2019-09-13 · in The Myth of the Wealthy Welder

…and interact in simple ways with other components in the system. - Terry Crowley ... from https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-09-01 · in The Paxos Algorithm, or How to Win a Turing Award

…local decision making in a way that minimizes the real costs involved. - Martin Fowler ... added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-08-24 · in Software Architecture Guide

…more complex. - Google Vizier: a service for black-box optimization Golovin et al., KDD'17 ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-08-15 · in Anime4K: Real time high quality video upscaling

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comment by contingencies · 2019-08-13 · in Somehow I Became Respectable

My collection is at http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup .. though not exclusively non-engineers, I find it genuinely useful to recalibrate if stuck for fresh perspective.

comment by contingencies · 2019-08-05 · in All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

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comment by contingencies · 2019-06-28 · in IT professionals should work in a mainframe environment at some point (2015)

…any use for them, since we didn't do accounting. - Dr. Butler Lampson, on Xerox PARC (2016) ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-05-22 · in Computing's first 'killer app' changed everything

…mostly. In #devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script. - @devops_borat ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-05-09 · in Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO

…programs. The first is functions, and the second is sequences of states. - Leslie Lamport ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-05-08 · in Modeling Adversaries with TLA+

…were. - Alan Kay (2016) Living in the present: man, you're just out of it. - Alan Kay (2017) ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-05-05 · in Ask HN: When have you taken a decision in code outside your domain of expertise?

If you try to ban the future, it will just happen elsewhere. - Paul Graham (2017) ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-04-19 · in Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with severe penalties

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comment by contingencies · 2019-03-30 · in The key to building an idea seems to be blind faith

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comment by contingencies · 2019-03-25 · in Why Is It So Hard to Build Profitable Robot Companies?

…on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. - David Ogilvy ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-02-03 · in A Post Mortem on Growth Hacking

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good. - Edwin Land, founder of Polaroid ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2019-02-03 · in A Post Mortem on Growth Hacking

…Hobbes (17th century) Thus... A little bit of history, repeating... - Alex Gifford (1997) .. via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-12-31 · in Larry Roberts has died

…to avoid at all costs is any language that's all syntax and no semantics. - Leslie Lamport ... via http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

comment by contingencies · 2018-12-28 · in Please do not attempt to simplify this code

You may enjoy this quote from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup ... The current wave of reducing everything to a combination of 'data & algorithm' and tackling every problem with more data and better algorithms is the logical end-point…

comment by contingencies · 2018-12-27 · in The vanished grandeur of accounting (2014)

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

comment by contingencies · 2018-12-18 · in Stop Learning Frameworks