At what point do we start talking about a minimum expected level automation in industries? To what extent are there industries that still lack basic automation?
miniblog.
A code completion tool built on n-grams could be very effective. Many special cases for types arise naturally from this.
`foo.` is probably a void method, whereas `await foo.` is an async method. `return foo.` and `x = foo.` probably have different properties too.
Ideological diversity producing better articles for Wikipedia articles about both politics and science:
https://m.nautil.us/issue/70/variables/wikipedia-and-the-wisdom-of-polarized-crowds
Reinventing, rethinking and playing with UI that is just fine already:
https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950
A nice example of creativity in software design, and the value of building things that already exist!
An interactive site that asks to press random buttons, and predicts your next key press:
https://www.expunctis.com/2019/03/07/Not-so-random.html
It's now possible to edit results buffers inside deadgrep! This has been a much requested feature. https://github.com/Wilfred/deadgrep/issues/12
I'd love to hear any feedback you have on the design. #emacs
A fun project for generating random Stack Overflow questions with a neural net: https://stackroboflow.com/about/index.html
It's also fascinating to read that the author was unable to predict question popularity, even by manual examination.
Why data science often doesn't suit specialisation by team members:
Contrasting consequences of bazaar and cathedral style development, and the role that fun plays:
It's funny how common round UI elements have become. Round avatars are widespread, and Android is moving to round app icons.
It's especially odd when so many UIs are built on a grid. You necessarily waste space with circles.
Are they more ergonomic for fingers, somehow?
I'm excited to learn that there are good tiling window manager options for macOS! https://koekeishiya.github.io/chunkwm/
The impact of manufacturing costs and price sensitivity on book sizes:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/cmap-5-why-books-are-the-lengt.html
Many of these constraints disappear for ebooks!
An interesting discussion of different ways of funding volunteer-run FOSS projects, and which boring tasks more amenable to charging: https://blog.tidelift.com/open-source-has-a-working-for-free-problem
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