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where wave meets particle No Simpler than this:
Friday, January 25, 2002
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Quotes I like: ""I try to make everyone's life a little more surreal." - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes""
From Dave's Picks's Qutes Page. I like reading his weblog. found the 555 info there | ||
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GraphicActs: "Ever noticed that people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? -- Bill Hicks " | ||
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555 Timer IC Tutorial: "The 555 timer IC was first introduced arround 1971 by the Signetics Corporation as the SE555/NE555 and was called "The IC Time Machine" "
i hope this brilliant timer never dies. | ||
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i'm not positive, but these template headers appear to require fewer page-refreshes for me..
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1"> | ||
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i'm multilingual and these are just two of the domains i'm fluent in. | ||
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986 | ||
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Jake's in his 30's, I'm in my 40's. I think of Jake as a kid. Last night he told me that "the kids these days" have a saying -- TMI, dude. (Too Much Information.) The kids these days are smart.  [Scripting News]
maybe they are just a little more resilient. i can see how they got that way and how without training in realizing the obvious they will eventually wind up worse. science realizes a lot about the nature of thought and experience. it has met mysticism.. and both ends are trying to sort out how to leverage that in order to defend against the plague. that work has to happen inside the individual. and it is. the kids just pick it up on the tribal level :) | ||
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In addition to computer doing the suck dance yesterday and the tan foam under my oil cap when I got my oil change days ago, this morning my dad's back was hurting him bad and my car's trunk stopped latching. Also, there were two (unrelated) cars stopped on DuPont Parkway with their hazard lights on..
sorry for 'picking on you' (name zonked) , but in scanning news yesterday and today i found that not just you are having tweaky days - and since i was just writing about turing and meta-knowledge i wanted to mention that some people use the stellar/newtonian 'clock' built-in to the solar system to align themselves with the apparent motion and relations of abstract forces outside of themselves.. the stellar clock suggests that now is not a good time to be outwardly received, nor for technology to be bent into new shapes and uses. cook, think, ponder yourself and your motivations.. that sort of thing is what that clock is saying. its called astrology. its a spiffy old clock when you can read it. (not mark) Pascal's test requires that the mind respect its limitations and role inside the human system. people self-flagellate mentally until they get that thoughts arise from larger energy streams. take it easy mark, the obvious it not as it seems. | ||
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John Robb: "Many, if not all companies have knowledge workers. Some, are composed entirely of knowledge workers. These people are domain experts. They keep up to-date (or should) with the evolution of knowledge within their chosen domain. They have thinking skills that have been developed to process data within that domain. Everything they think about within the envelope of that domain has value. Unfortunately, most companies don't capture, package, and distribute that insight. "
this seems like John's setting up a straw argument to pounce on with his pub/sub solution, but its true nonetheless. i want to add... 'nor do they let it filter up.' meta knowledge comes in many guises, 'best practices' is one, 'common sense' another, 'symbolic abstractions' a third. all systems are subject to turing's law.. no matter how hard computers will try to pretend that they are humans in online interactions.. they will not break out of their own system. that's why they work for us. with knowledge workers it is vastly more important to enhance their understanding of themselves, their ability to recognize the workings of internal sub-systems, their blindspots, inner tendencies and such - than it is to attempt to reduce know-how to faq's. - i value faq's greatly and the pub-sub model, coupled with 'spherical contexting' will surely enhance the ability of experts in any given field to cooperate and by so doing affect and transform the insides of the workers as a by-product. directly enhancing one's ability to 'upstream' through education about the use of the inner systems of the worker which by rights should lead to breakthrough value on the top of an enhanced peer communication model. turing _demands_ that we enlist the help of peers and friends to gain insights into the meta knowledge utilized by knowledge workers. | ||
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ok *you*, you can have a peek at my other experiment now. | ||
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Bjarne, Todd, John --- I look forward to the 13th! | ||
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DanB, RobM, this one's for you. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
Ann and I, we soared by staying in the 9..10 range on his scale of 12 and its damn painful to see you operate so cluelessly still after loosing more money than i've ever seen. Shut down soon and spend some time reading. Your people need real jobs, to be emplyed 'gainfully' was the term they used before the bubble, yes? | ||
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[Joel on Software] more joel.. he's not into the art/creativity/life-enhancing thing that computer science opens up to those of us past the pascal, pain, overload and burnout experiences.. its actually not _that insightful, but i want to keep it here because the argument is equally true for metaphysics and working with subtle energies.. for anything cutting edge, really. components do exist, you know.. and so do grunts. he goes on to recognize that in the next post. the grunts anyway:
Doc says, "When the software industry is mature, it will look a lot like the construction industry." This is a common theme. A lot of people complain about how the creation of software suffers from all kinds of problems that mature professions (construction, civil engineering, etc) don't. The key problem is always that the software coding process doesn't seem to be reproducible and predictable. Programmers think things will take 10 weeks and then they take 20 weeks, and they have weird bugs that you would never tolerate from a bridge built by a civic engineer. Implicit in the claim that the software industry is "immature" is the belief that this is just because we haven't learned all the tricks yet to getting reproducible results. But this idea rests on a falsehood. The unique thing about software is that it is infinitely clonable. Once you've written a subroutine, you can call it as often as you want. This means that almost everything we do as software developers is something that has never been done before. This is very different than what construction workers do. Herman the Handyman, who just installed a tile floor for me, has probably installed hundreds of tile floors. He has to keep installing tile floors again and again as long as new tile floors are needed. We in the software industry would have long since written a Tile Floor Template Library (TFTL) and generating new tile floors would be trivial. (OK, maybe there would be six versions of the library, one for Delphi, one for perl, etc. And some sick puppy programmers like me would rewrite it. But only once, and I would use it everywhere I needed a tile floor, and I would try to convince my clients that their back lawn would look really nice with tile instead of grass.) In software, the boring problems are solved. Everything you do is on the cutting edge by definition. So by definition it is unpredictable. That's why software has more of a science nature than a construction nature. | ||
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[Joel on Software] got a new hero. (someone who manages to write down and get me to find something i have passionately spoken about - in a form that works and is generally understandable. wow. 20 years of coding and lighyears away from prose.)
Rub-a-dub-dub One reason people are tempted to rewrite their entire code base from scratch is that the original code base wasn't designed for what it's doing. It was designed as a prototype, an experiment, a learning exercise, a way to go from zero to IPO in nine months, or a one-off demo. And now it has grown into a big mess that's fragile and impossible to add code to, and everybody's whiny, and the old programmers quit in despair and the new ones that are brought in can't make head or tail of the code so they somehow convince management to give up and start over while Microsoft takes over their business. Today let me tell you a story about what they could have done instead. i think that scraping, aggregating and weblogging rather than whatever i was doing before this are... well.. here (in my life) to stay. so cool! | ||