mickduprez

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by mickduprez 5mo ago
I think that Agile in principle is a good idea, keep iterations small and work on the issues together and deliver working products. The missing piece I think is that PDCA (Plan/Do/Check/Act) cycle isn't being done correc
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by mickduprez 10mo ago
I agree, very true when used for purposes as you noted. I guess my point was more about using them as a way solve the underlying problems a large OO system can develop. Microservices enforce you to package data sets for transport, it's
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by mickduprez 10mo ago
>> _Anecdotally, I've replaced OOP with plain data structures and functions._ I think this is why FP is becoming more popular these days but I'm not sure some people get why. The problem with OOP is you take a data set and s
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by mickduprez 11mo ago
"A radio built like this, with individual subsystems connected together, is much more understandable." Yes! this has been my experience too, building something from first principles and given some tools and direction to experiment
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by mickduprez 1y ago
I totally agree and recently wrote a piece about this and how I came to the same question: "what can we learn?" https://github.com/MickDuprez/Protocol-Driven-Development Even if you do use micro-services you
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by mickduprez 1y ago
A short, self-contained design article I wrote after rediscovering the original, 'actual' intent behind Smalltalk's message passing.
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Thinking in Hoses and Wires, Not Bolted Gears (Protocol-Driven Development)(github.com)
3 points by mickduprez 1y ago|1 comments
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by mickduprez 2y ago
The power of words! Nothing new here really, it's the old systems/process vs goal story but actually I felt that one word make a cognitive shift, for me at least :)
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by mickduprez 4y ago
Sveltekit I've only just begun the journey but I'm sold! After trying everything from Smalltalk/Lisp, PHP, ASP.Net and React et al and even bare bones web components, Svelte and Sveltekit has hit a sweet spot for me as a one
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by mickduprez 5y ago
You're correct in that carbon dioxide exhaled is a key factor and it's because it's the by-product of burning energy and rebuilding the body (mostly at night so get good sleep too!) What this means though is there's no e
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by mickduprez 5y ago
The book 'The Toyota Way' and a book by Shigeo Shingo (helped develop the TPS) - 'Kaizen and the art of creative thinking' changed the way I think about completing tasks or achieving goals. While they are more based on m
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by mickduprez 5y ago
It's not the smart phones, it's the social media app's on them. I don't remember anyone staring into their nokia 3110 every 5 minutes (except for a quick game of snake in the waiting line perhaps :) )
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by mickduprez 5y ago
"slow is smooth, smooth is fast" The trick is to keep moving (doing).
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by mickduprez 6y ago
Lua really is more of a 'scripting' language (like Python _used_ to be) designed to make API's/DSL's for your Game/Application so end users with minimal programming experience can 'automate' the appli
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by mickduprez 6y ago
Thanks for the great site, it's a great reference for new clients when setting up there new file servers etc. I'm currently doing a Zettlekasten (note/idea organisation) which uses a _similar_ principle, I think between this
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by mickduprez 6y ago
While sales figures are 'Financials' the actual figures are just reports. so something like: ## Marketing - ##.## Reports (as a timestamped pdf etc)
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by mickduprez 6y ago
I've read both of Christopher Alexander's (CA) books and Zen ATAO Motorcycle Maintenance (Zen). I think the way Zen talks about QWAN is a better description than CA's, I would call when things fit together and work together w
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by mickduprez 6y ago
There is plenty of good info in the other comments but the two things that help me are diet and meditation (I have Rheumatoid Arthritis and it also seems I have Gluten Intolerance/Celiac (cause/relationship??)). I think with any c
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by mickduprez 6y ago
Great read, I kind of do this but on just one page in a notebook. Splitting it up into 3 'areas' (for want of a better word) makes a lot of sense and makes those notes a lot more useful, thanks! I think a few commenters are missin
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by mickduprez 6y ago
>> "In situation X I will do behavior Y to achieve subgoal Z" I was pondering something very similar to this about 10 minutes before he talked about it only I was thinking about changing perspective for the given task, that
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by mickduprez 6y ago
great article, thanks! I've stop/started using TODO's many times mainly because of the common problems you highlight in the article, I'm going to give them another go as this simple system will work. I've often trie
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by mickduprez 6y ago
I love Smalltalk but apart from the commercial versions, the UI frameworks are very limited or immature and have very few examples or doc's. Yes, you can build your own 'morphs' etc but that doesn't scale well for anythi
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by mickduprez 6y ago
That's a shame, you hear this a lot about lisp code and I think the problem is that the people who really grok lisp and write 'genius' code can be a bit blase about documenting their code. Simple documentation for standard fu
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by mickduprez 6y ago
I really like Forth and if I ever get into IoT that's what I would use over C any day. Forth works best from a clean slate though I think (from my admittedly limited experience), working in with a host OS takes a bit of fun away I fo
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by mickduprez 6y ago
>> When everyone's their own shepherd, nobody is on the same page. I think that's more of a management problem than a language problem. cheers
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by mickduprez 6y ago
The comment about C was more to do with perceived speed issues with Lisp but for most situations, Lisps that compile to native code are more than fast enough for general application programming. The point of the article rings true, language
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by mickduprez 6y ago
>> I think the advantage to Lisp is that the programmer can generate and evaluate arbitrary expression trees at run time. That's the one! Code is data - data is code. While this can be done in other languages, it isn't don
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by mickduprez 6y ago
Be the shepherd, use Lisp :D Seriously though, what other languages other than Lisp (all the mainstream ones at least) give you the freedom to change the language and/or create DSL's with the same ease? And you can still do your &
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by mickduprez 6y ago
>> and Jobs ultimately found solace in Zen Buddhism. Both succumbed to cancer. In Jobs’ case, a faith in Western medicine would have certainly served him better.<< Just to be clear, Zen (or any other type of Buddhism) has nothin
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Smalltalk – could it replace web app's?(medium.com)
4 points by mickduprez 7y ago|0 comments

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