Recursively Curious @rcrsvlycurious

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Recursively Curious @rcrsvlycurious

5 years ago

Civility. And complete sentences. In politics. In 2020. Imagine that.

Mitt Romney @MittRomney

5 years ago

Civility. And complete sentences. In politics. In 2020. Imagine that.

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Recursively Curious @rcrsvlycurious

5 years ago

Just two weeks until the #election. If you have not voted, or know anyone who has not, please share the following with them - not in favor or opposed to any candidate or issue, just thoughts on #voting itself. Essay recursivelycurious.github.io/essays/2020/th… and Video youtube.com/watch?v=NO3gUT…

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5 years ago

No one who knows me or Patia will be surprised to learn that I have started writing about my #dog. recursivelycurious.github.io/essays/2020091…

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5 years ago

Though arbitrary, beginnings are useful. Revisions? Less arbitrary. recursivelycurious.github.io/essays/0/0.html

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5 years ago

Flake8 just broke my pipeline... To pin or not to pin, that is the question. Whether tis nobler to use head and suffer the slings and arrows of change sets, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by pip freeze them.

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6 years ago

"Conversely, they said, if it was valid to think of the nervous system in #engineering terms, then it was just as valid to think of #machines in #biological terms." ... "Through feedback, said Wiener, Bigelow, and Rosenblueth, a mechanism could embody *purpose*." Waldrop (2001)

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6 years ago

"That's one big reason software vendors have to spend so much time debugging their products:the is no universal testing program that can guarantee another program's correctness." Waldrop (2001) #coding

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6 years ago

"He would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don't like having choices made for you, you should start making your own." Stephenson (1999) #coding

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6 years ago

"I think the message is very clear here: somewhere outside of and beyond our universe is an operating system, coded up over incalculable spans of time by some kind of #hacker-demiurge." Stephenson (1999) #coding

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6 years ago

"It used to be fashionable for a writer to keep a human skull on his desk as a reminder that he was mortal, that all about him was vanity. The tty screen reminds me that the same thing is true of slick user interfaces." Stephenson (1999) #coding

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6 years ago

"Editor, compiler, and linker are to #hackers what ponies, stirrups, and archery sets were to the Mongols." Stephenson (1999) #Coding

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6 years ago

"#Linux per se is not a specific set of ones and zeros, but a self organizing Net subculture." Stephenson (1999) #coding

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6 years ago

"Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and #Linux would not exist." Stephenson (1999) #coding

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6 years ago

"In other words, the first thing that Apple's hackers had done when they'd got the #MacOS up and running--probably even before they'd gotten it up and running--was to re-create the #Unix interface, so that they would be able to get some useful work done. " Stephenson '99 #coding

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6 years ago

"By using GUIs all the time we have insensibly bought into a premise that few people would have accepted if it were presented to them bluntly: namely, that hard things can be made easy, and complicated things simple, by putting the right interface on them." Stephenson '99 #coding

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6 years ago

"So we are now asking the GUI to do a lot more than serve as a glorified typewriter. Now we want to become a generalized tool for dealing with reality." Stephenson (1999) #coding

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6 years ago

"When we document something in the real world, we make fixed, permanent, immutable records of it. But computer documents are volatile, ephemeral constellations of data." Stephenson (1999) #Coding