Re:A Reading List for JVM-based Developers
by grncdr on Saturday November 26, 2011 @04:06PM
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I wrote a post-mortem for a research spike at $work yesterday with a tl;dr at the top, the president loved it. (it's a very small company)
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Re:A Reading List for JVM-based Developers
by petercooper on Saturday November 26, 2011 @06:41PM
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Very nice! Though academic papers have had tl;drs for a long time now, they're called the abstract. (I wish technical blog posts would use them more.)
Re:A Reading List for JVM-based Developers
by guard-of-terra on Saturday November 26, 2011 @07:36PM
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Abstracts have two problems:
They are very short and the only way of getting a bit more details is to read the whole article. It should zoom smoothly. For some reason authors tend to withhold something important from the abstract. If they write what they did, they don't tell what they got; if they tell the result, no clues on how they figured it out.
Re:A Reading List for JVM-based Developers
by omaranto on Saturday November 26, 2011 @09:47PM
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I don't know about other fields, but math papers have an abstract, then a section called "Introduction" which has some background and motivation and ends with an overview of the rest of the paper, and then the remainder has the details.