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Re:Ask HN: What style guides are there for technical documentation? on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:04PM (#23351660)

I think one should ask who the audience of the technical documentation is.

Is it the practitioners who will use the technology in the wild? Or do you want to sell your technology to the CTOs and technology scouts? A whole different format and content might be chosen in case you would like to receive a thorough feedback and review of your technology (RFC).

Re:Ask HN: How do you search for revolutionary ideas? on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:58AM (#23351549)

Thanks a lot for the tip. I will check the series out. It's always great to discover those hidden program gems the BBC has produced in the past.

I believe it is important to view the revolutions through the eyes of the contemporaries. Then, we might find a more fitting lessons for our current search.

Ask HN: How do you search for revolutionary ideas?

Posted by pytel on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:45AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I feel like a lot of the new products and research interests are just re-hashes, new implementations and domain applications of existing ideas. This is many times brought up in the computer science world as well, e.g. Slack (IRC was popular way before), Docker (containarization was a concept way before).I play with the idea that such improvements keep us from truly advancing. In my book, a...

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