Benoît Fleury

@benfle

Software Designer - Previously , , .

Tallahassee, FL
Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2007.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    19. kol 2019.

    "It’s got to be all about the verbs, because the verbs are where you get the conceptual efficiency of an architecture or design framework … by selecting a small number of powerful verbs that apply to everything, you reduce complexity and you organize your ability to think."

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  2. 30. sij

    Software is similar to science from this perspective. Our programs are theories about the world. Sure, some (all?) abstractions are leaky but we need them anyway to make progress.

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  3. 30. sij

    On leaky abstractions. "Sure, but scientific progress is made by finding where the connections are weak enough to allow separate theories." McCarthy: Universality: or why there are separate sciences

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    22. sij

    Farewell, Terry Jones. The great foot has come down to stamp on you. My god what pleasure you gave, what untrammelled joy and delight. What a wonderful talent, heart and mind

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  5. 16. sij

    Preparing to be an engineer in France I had to take literature classes in college. My professor, Frank Lanot, made me realize that science & engineering without the humanities is worthless. That’s when I started reading books too.

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    14. sij

    "We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing ...

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    13. sij

    I'm very excited that "A History of Clojure" has been accepted at HOPL-IV. I hope to see some of you in London at the conference!

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    7. sij

    Duplicated concepts like these are everywhere you look in software, once you start to notice them. We are missing the forest for the trees in so many ways. Been driving me crazy for decades. It's like being in a Philip K Dick story, where the only sane person is the crazy one.

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    17. pro 2019.

    Artificial intimacy is a contradiction in terms.

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    15. stu 2019.
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    Ja, : Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
 … Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

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  11. 16. pro 2019.

    I just donated to the Internet Archive, the world's largest digital library and home of the Wayback Machine. Right now there's a 2-to-1 match. Join me and chip in what you can!

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    Google’s first employee, Craig Silverstein, on the code from & Sanjay Ghemawat that made Google what it is today: (credit: )

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  13. 6. pro 2019.
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  14. 6. pro 2019.

    Latest oil painting. My dog, Trixie, from picture.

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  15. 6. pro 2019.

    "John Nolan gave his developers a challenge: write OO code with no getters."

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  16. 6. pro 2019.

    Bob Barton's "High priests of a low cult" (via Alan Kay). The older I get and the less patience I have for these priests. Today we call them thought leaders :)

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    I made a small comic out of some slides in this talk(and an extra screenshot), paired with some quotes from an interesting email I found from Alan Kay in the VPRI Mail Archives:

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  18. 4. pro 2019.
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    2. pro 2019.

    And now the sequel to the "Mother of All Demos" turns 50! Presented by and team a year later, with more evolved use cases for intelligence amplification. Check it out!

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    In my speech I mentioned that if and tech CEOs allow a foreign power to interfere in our election (again) or facilitate another genocide (like Myanmar), perhaps they should be sent to jail. My full speech here:

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    An excerpt from “We’ve Been Sneaking Into Your Brains” Head of Education, 's talk to 800 middle and high school students in Braintree, Massachusetts.

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