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New comment by elviejo79 in "Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when reading scientific papers?"

elviejo79 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:26:47 +0000

1000 upvotes.

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

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when reading scientific papers?"

elviejo79 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:24:27 +0000

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 conclusions.

Very good abstracts.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

elviejo79 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 04:07:48 +0000

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 like me that find that unacceptable exist the GPL licenses.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder"

elviejo79 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:24:18 +0000

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 libraries in closed products as long as the library itself remains "libre". In this case the library is the renering engine: Chromium.

As a counter example MacOS was built on top of decades of work on the BSD operating system and Apple is under no obligation to give the code back to the BSD project... and it doesn't.

So the most valuable company in the planet took from the community and it doesn't bother to give back.

For some of us that is unacceptabme.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ask HN: If an existing language had browser support, which is the best fit?"

elviejo79 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:02:43 +0000

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

New comment by elviejo79 in "Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)"

elviejo79 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 22:06:42 +0000

Thank you.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)"

elviejo79 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:50:33 +0000

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 was the executive that finally approved the launch. No body was jailed for gross negligence. Even Ricahrd Feynman felt that the investigative comission was biased from the start.

So, since there is no "price to pay" to make this bad calls they are continuously made.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ask HN: What are some products that you use that give you joy?"

elviejo79 — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 15:33:50 +0000

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 Bosch dishwasher... everytine I don't do the dishes... a say a little prayer for the engineers that built it.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Jq – open-source implementation of q programming language"

elviejo79 — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:54:35 +0000

I was confused too.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ask HN: Whats your ideal PhD workflow"

elviejo79 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 04:00:40 +0000

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 anything... just the habit of writing is extremely important. Try to use the 5 paragraph esssay or the a logical tree exposition.

Use org-roam for a zettlekastem notes (that count to the 500 word limit)

And trying to use Literate programming (org-babel) to make your articles reproducible.

Use nixos in your personal computer so that you can control exactly what dependencies and libraries your papers need.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ask HN: Forming a Consultancy Cooperative"

elviejo79 — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 14:55:32 +0000

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 to own and operate and Platform Cooperative Consortium

New comment by elviejo79 in "Why Hypercard Had to Die (2011)"

elviejo79 — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 02:46:49 +0000

> 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 we try end to think that "worst is better".

New comment by elviejo79 in "Uncap - Map Caps Lock to Escape on Windows, Linux, and macOS"

elviejo79 — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 15:17:58 +0000

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 as an emacs user bloq mayus, get's remaped to CTRL.

Vin users need ESC.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note"

elviejo79 — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:52:26 +0000

Tangem cards with a color eink display? Sounds about right.

https://tangem.com

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ask HN: Bootcamp or Computer Science University Degree?"

elviejo79 — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 20:20:30 +0000

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 profession is based.

And a couple of bootcamps will give the currently in demand techniques and tools.

It's the difference between being an " programer" where X is your flavor of the month technology. And a "Software Engineer"

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ask HN: What's a small language feature you've grown to love?"

elviejo79 — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 22:39:31 +0000

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.fix

And that comes from the language and package manager.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ask HN: Remote Headhunters"

elviejo79 — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 02:21:30 +0000

I'm interested too.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones"

elviejo79 — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 13:33:56 +0000

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 self-driving. And there was no plan to have cars drive themselves on city streets, just on freeways and highways — on the Interstate. The plan was to bury cables in the pavement over which all the cars would drive and communicate with each other and with the road, itself. The goal was to fill the road with cars driving at the speed limit, spaced precisely one meter apart" [0]

[0] https://www.cringely.com/2016/08/25/self-driving-car-old-eno...

New comment by elviejo79 in "Ask HN: What to read after “Thinking in Systems”?"

elviejo79 — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 17:27:49 +0000

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 novels, they read lightly but the lessons are profound.

New comment by elviejo79 in "Web Programming with Continuations (2002) [pdf]"

elviejo79 — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 02:46:45 +0000

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