In the free software scene “we support feature X” – “hooray, we successfully reproduced one of the X’s usage scenarios!”, and in the commercial (non-free as in non-free beer) software scene “we support feature X” – “we will preserve compatibility of feature X in accordance to the specifications during this and\or next release cycle”.
Seems like i like the second definition more…
Seems like on Haiti facebook now is the primary way of communication, since phones are all dead.
http://ivan-ghandhi.livejournal.com/1204955.html
I’m now at 100 km from the Haiti border. Electricity works sometimes, cell phones does not work at all, but the internet access is available.
http://ivan-ghandhi.livejournal.com/1204955.html?thread=10638555#t10638555
If you draw it on paper, it looks natural.
If you make it out from the matches and jar – it looks natural, too.
And the text is somewhat cumbersome. Trees show beautifully (JSON, s-expressions and others). Lists – even simpler. But what about graphs?
Yes, you can use names and references (most of programming languages, YAML, etc).
Is there any other methods?
Ingenious ‘cyberpunk manifesto’ on one neat diagram
(That’s mostly the “high tech, low life” part of it)
[RU] http://dlinyj.livejournal.com/467800.html from the advanced user standpoint
[RU] http://www.fclab.ru/2009/10/20/770/ bird’s eye industry overview (beware of trolls in the comments btw)
I want to underline that the low prevalence of the software for geeks is normal. When the market share is less than 20% – it’s called niche product. And that is good, because mass product means very different requirements, for example, favor of unification over the ability of fine-tuning. Linux won’t die, it has enough users, but unlikely to become the main OS, which (as a brand) is known to billions of *end* users
We don’t have a leading* browser today. And nobody complains. Moreover, people started to think about standards and compatibility. Just don’t try to push the software outside its applicability area. It’s the main point, i think.
*leading = more than 60% of users
at nights i’m happy and euphorical, because the self-sufficient TRIZ wakes up, which combines loads of encountered thoughts and objects in arbitrary ways, and the resulting ideas spit out at an enormous rate, literally dozens a day.
and with the daylight, depression and annoyment comes, because i find myself in the noizy, distracting environment, night ideas became forgotten, and i can’t really do any tasks or materialize ideas, because of distractions
that’s how the latest 5 or so years of my life had passed…
They’re different, too small to write posts for each one, too large to just close them and forget.
Posts:
(but they are unquestionably cool guys, yes) Interesting blogs:
In college computer science classes, we learn all about b*trees and linked lists and sorting algorithms and a ton of crap that I honestly have never, ever used, in 25 years of professional programming. (Except hash tables. Learn those. You’ll use them!)
What I do write – every day, every hour – are heuristics that try to understand and intuit what the user is telling me, without her having to learn my language.
The field of computer interaction is still in its infancy. Computers are too hard to use, they require us to waste our brains learning too many things that aren’t REAL knowledge, they’re just stupid computer conventions.
Wil Shipley ( http://wilshipley.com/blog/2009/08/pimp-my-code-part-16-heuristics-and.html )
Programming is the great job (or a hobby). It’s especially great because it requires only a brain and a computer (and for some tasks you may not need a computer at all). But most people who start programming very soon find that they have only the computer.
