jruohonen

So sad.

"Own the Tests"

I would generalize this good point; take ownership in what you do, whether code, documentation, papers, or something else.

Again off-topic: but anyone know with which he did the plots?

A similar question asked previously, but it was easier, I suppose:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791

And asked because they seem pretty cool!

ND is important for those who do "authoritative writing" (for a lack of a better term); i.e., when you write with your real name, you do not want nonsense and disinformation associated with your name.

True enough; philosophically, I am still in the BY camp (a.k.a. BSD/MIT/etc.), and I do not particularly care about the NC part, but ND is increasingly important for non-code. But if they could do even the BY properly, it would be a step to the right direction (and, to some extent, I think they're doing that).

CC BY-NC-ND is what I'm also increasingly using (for non-code), though not always, and disheartenedly. (And as commented, the non-code context is different.)

Please do it for OA libraries, like Project Gutenberg.

Sometime ago I asked about the duplication detection at HN, and if I remember correctly, I was told that duplicates pass once enough time has passed. But certainly it does not apply here because:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578604

A good read. Though, I've sometimes thought about the positive things with procrastination; depending on what you do, it may sometimes even be a good thing?

Great; it would be good to have a precedent. (The one you picked, [6], is indeed a blazing case.) And good luck with your business; it is very much welcomed!

I thought arXiv had a policy for this stuff?

Multiple; see, e.g.,

https://eualternative.eu/

Great find!

And his actual book on the two cultures is worth reading too (and only 54 p.).

I am jealous. (Provided that they're provably accurate, which is not the case with many graphics and plots seen in media.)

Haters gonna hate style. Somewhere there, online.

Google "security despite encryption" etc. It is some good rhetorical manipulation a'la EU over again.

Thanks, and, yes, I don't write with LLMs, as seen above.

Does anyone know why Joel doesn't write anymore? He was great, in my opinion, and got a lot of bad rep unnecessarily.

Off-topic, but anyone with which he did the plots?

Rosa has been on my reading list but haven't managed to find time.

While not explicitly related to the topic any more: yes, things surely have changed, and I am not sure for the better. I suppose that was also what Cox was saying between the lines at least to some extent.

> part of the CS curriculum

Well, maybe in the old days, when computers were simple (and even then, it would've been a very tough take in a curriculum).

A good read. Except this weird remark:

"It used to be that if you could get a basic operating system coded and running, that was an indirect proof that you understood the basics of how operating systems worked."

How many -- and we are even supposedly talking about students -- have coded an operating system and got it running?

"Sometimes the papers are real. Sometimes a real paper is attached to a claim it does not support. Sometimes the title, authors, or venue are slightly wrong. And sometimes the entire reference was generated because a plausible citation completed the paragraph."

This is something I've been also saying many times; it is not sufficient to check whether the meta-data (bibliography) is correct. And the meta-data should nowadays come straight from Crossref anyway.

> My books; wouldn't really fit in there.

You could give it a try; there are some pretty wild stuff there too. But, anyway, my comment was really more about the long-term preservation, which interests me personally. With the heavy link rot we're seeing already, what will the situation be in 10, 25, ..., 100 years? And is everything even worth preserving in the slop era?

It was an otherwise interesting take but the GDPR stuff was very off; i.e., that a data repository (such as Zenodo or GitHub) could somehow be GDPR-compliant. It doesn't work that way.

> Anyways; what i am seeking as an alternative would also include sharing my books

If it is your books, literally, then Zenodo is among the best for long-term preservation.

An interesting read but for this forum, the following tidbit was perhaps particularly noteworthy:

"But for the brain to perceive these languages as a real language, they have to express meaning about the world, other people, and our own mental states. For this reason, programming languages do not – despite their clear rules and structure – activate the same brain areas."

It is not only about "coolness" but long-term preservation too; that was one of the main motives behind DOIs.