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Re:GNU TeXmacs: a scientific editing platform (2006) [pdf] on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @07:40AM (#11109429)
The keyboard shortcuts for math input are so nice! I have tried Lyx and Mathtype, and still found GNU TeXmacs better.
Re:Watson for President on Saturday February 06, 2016 @07:56AM (#11047580)
It's pleasing to see the following in the "donate" section:

"If you are interested in the intersection between technology and politics we invite you to donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( https://supporters.eff.org/donate ). For 25 years the EFF has been a champion for civil liberties, privacy, and education on politics around emerging technologies. With your support they will continue to aid in technological progression with humanity in mind."

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. This famous book emphasized controlling complexity and how to build a structure that is easy to extend.
Re:Announcing Apache Spark 1.4 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @07:20PM (#9703067)
The release notes: https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-4-0.html

Another major change is that it supports Python 3 now. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4897

Re:Climbing the wrong hill (2009) on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @12:35AM (#8849057)
There is an important difference between the algorithm and personal career: climbing the other hill has nothing to do with climbing the highest hill, but that's not the case regarding career development. Startups are creating new things and jobs, so how do you know that current jobs would not provide valuable assets in the future?
Similar thoughts were seen in the SICP book.

"In this book we don't use many comments; we try to make our programs self-documenting by using descriptive names."

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html...

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