I cant' believe it's almost 10 years since he died. My favorite quote of his is "Who needs a bucket list when you have love?” I wish more people would take his ideas seriously, especially his "Collective Code…
Also sad that now all three are gone.
Elm started as a FRP language and ended up giving up FRP[1] for ease of use. If ease of use is targeted, signals might not be the best approach. I distinctly remember things becoming easier when they went away. [1]…
Pleasure is not the right goal. Homeostasis, balance, equanimity, peace are much better. Learn to appreciate beauty. Learn to create beauty. Learn how to get better at both.
Learn Argentine Tango. If you live in a big enough city, most likely there will be a tango community. Classes 2 times a week, one practica and one milonga and puff most of your week is covered.
I think that it is more important to remember that Montessori tried to bring education in the 20th century using the science that was available to her 100+ years ago. Most schools today are still stuck into the factory…
My favorite approach remains the Dome of Visions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bn2o-xyS6M
You might want to read first "How to Read a Book" and then proceed to the recommended list [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book#Reading_lis...
> "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco Apple is very good at maximizing "consumer satisfaction". This means giving consumer the best deal for their money considering as many of the consumer needs as…
I personally think the self-help movement peaked with "Lead the Field" by Earl Nightingale. The only things better than that program can be found in science backed endeavors from something like Psychological…
Good enough for vertical markets and admin/back-office apps.
Go to Buenos Aires. Programming is draining on the brain and you need a way to disconnect from your project in order to rest your mind. Tango will provide you with the much needed balance. This way, you can code during…
Even good software runs in a context. The last commit I did was just to add a comment about a specific ordering in an argument to a function call that had to be that way to compensate for a bug in the library from where…
Hate is such a strong word and most likely not the best description here. We all have beliefs about reality and these beliefs generate a lot of emotions. We also interact with our beliefs as if they are the reality and…
Gerald Sussman of SICP fame was asked why they stop teaching SICP and he said that the way programming was being done changed mid 90s. It moved from programming from first principles to programming against an API. This…
> Why are people seemingly so drawn to identifying themselves as anything at all? This is biologically preconditioned. We have brain wiring for identifying "Us" and "Them". BigThink put up a compilation video [1] on…
> I’ve never fully understood why the events emit a value of some message type In Elm, the Model can be updated faster than the DOM. In other words, the view is rendered at the speed of requestAnimationFrame but the…
> “Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’” - Randall Munroe The way I see this is that it might be one of those tests…
Alan Kay said at one point: > I have always done my work in the context of a group that is set up to maximize a wide spread of talents and abilities. Just as “science” is “a better scientist than a scientist”, such a…
Hotmail offered 2Mb space and Yahoo proudly claimed "twice the space of other providers" with their 4Mb offer. I had a GMX.de account that was providing 25 Mb and felt like a king. Then April 1, 2004 came and nothing…
Tim Ferriss is responsible for a large amount of studies on the effect of psilocybin on depression. I think he invested something like $2M in research.
Switching to using stack and cluster has simplified my layouts tremendously.
I think that there really is a need for the general public to know what science IS. How it came about, how it works. Unfortunately, for that to happen at the level it needs, there needs to be a change in how Education…
The University of Medicine where I got my Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering is now teaching a course in Homeopathy. So, yeah.... there is also a need for "scientists" to know how science works.
The challenge of scientific thinking is becoming aware of the ways in which your mind might lead you to wrong conclusions. This is the Toyota way and what Chris Argyris calls productive reasoning. It is becoming aware…
I cant' believe it's almost 10 years since he died. My favorite quote of his is "Who needs a bucket list when you have love?” I wish more people would take his ideas seriously, especially his "Collective Code…
Also sad that now all three are gone.
Elm started as a FRP language and ended up giving up FRP[1] for ease of use. If ease of use is targeted, signals might not be the best approach. I distinctly remember things becoming easier when they went away. [1]…
Pleasure is not the right goal. Homeostasis, balance, equanimity, peace are much better. Learn to appreciate beauty. Learn to create beauty. Learn how to get better at both.
Learn Argentine Tango. If you live in a big enough city, most likely there will be a tango community. Classes 2 times a week, one practica and one milonga and puff most of your week is covered.
I think that it is more important to remember that Montessori tried to bring education in the 20th century using the science that was available to her 100+ years ago. Most schools today are still stuck into the factory…
My favorite approach remains the Dome of Visions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bn2o-xyS6M
You might want to read first "How to Read a Book" and then proceed to the recommended list [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book#Reading_lis...
> "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco Apple is very good at maximizing "consumer satisfaction". This means giving consumer the best deal for their money considering as many of the consumer needs as…
I personally think the self-help movement peaked with "Lead the Field" by Earl Nightingale. The only things better than that program can be found in science backed endeavors from something like Psychological…
Good enough for vertical markets and admin/back-office apps.
Go to Buenos Aires. Programming is draining on the brain and you need a way to disconnect from your project in order to rest your mind. Tango will provide you with the much needed balance. This way, you can code during…
Even good software runs in a context. The last commit I did was just to add a comment about a specific ordering in an argument to a function call that had to be that way to compensate for a bug in the library from where…
Hate is such a strong word and most likely not the best description here. We all have beliefs about reality and these beliefs generate a lot of emotions. We also interact with our beliefs as if they are the reality and…
Gerald Sussman of SICP fame was asked why they stop teaching SICP and he said that the way programming was being done changed mid 90s. It moved from programming from first principles to programming against an API. This…
> Why are people seemingly so drawn to identifying themselves as anything at all? This is biologically preconditioned. We have brain wiring for identifying "Us" and "Them". BigThink put up a compilation video [1] on…
> I’ve never fully understood why the events emit a value of some message type In Elm, the Model can be updated faster than the DOM. In other words, the view is rendered at the speed of requestAnimationFrame but the…
> “Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’” - Randall Munroe The way I see this is that it might be one of those tests…
Alan Kay said at one point: > I have always done my work in the context of a group that is set up to maximize a wide spread of talents and abilities. Just as “science” is “a better scientist than a scientist”, such a…
Hotmail offered 2Mb space and Yahoo proudly claimed "twice the space of other providers" with their 4Mb offer. I had a GMX.de account that was providing 25 Mb and felt like a king. Then April 1, 2004 came and nothing…
Tim Ferriss is responsible for a large amount of studies on the effect of psilocybin on depression. I think he invested something like $2M in research.
Switching to using stack and cluster has simplified my layouts tremendously.
I think that there really is a need for the general public to know what science IS. How it came about, how it works. Unfortunately, for that to happen at the level it needs, there needs to be a change in how Education…
The University of Medicine where I got my Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering is now teaching a course in Homeopathy. So, yeah.... there is also a need for "scientists" to know how science works.
The challenge of scientific thinking is becoming aware of the ways in which your mind might lead you to wrong conclusions. This is the Toyota way and what Chris Argyris calls productive reasoning. It is becoming aware…