@sperbsen@discuss.systemsThe deadline for FProper (SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional Programming for Productivity and Performance) full-paper abstracts has been extended to June 14th. (Which is also when the papers themselves are due.)
Send us your paper!
https://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-s
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@castarco@hachyderm.iotechno-political rant
Say what you want about using the right tool for each problem, but there are tools that suck no matter what.
I'm tired of people portraying legit technical criticism as "biased" and "religious", while at the same time they present themselves as tolerant and open-minded (spoiler: for the most part, they aren't).
Almost every day of my life I have to deal with the nasty consequences of ultra-dumb decisions made by the very same people who are obsessed with productivity and criticise all day long whoever pushes for any design that shows any minim amount of care and/or deep thought (mostly via strawmen arguments).
And, of course, unironically: this has a lot to do with capitalism, as many of our other social and economic problems.
They arrive, have a strike of super-productivity for a few weeks/months and then use that as a trampoline to raise through the ranks or abandon ship before having to face the consequences of their technical crimes.
Then others arrive and are obviously slower at that same job... so the uneducated observers start believing that these newcomers aren't as good as the class traitors who wrote the initial nasty code.
To make things worse, if any of these newcomers dare to speak openly about introducing good practices... this ends up creating a new mental association (in the minds of uneducated observers) between "good engineering" and "lack of productivity".
The ones trying to fix the mess are indeed slower, not because they try to do things the right way though, but because they have to waste vasts amounts of time fixing what is objectively broken besides doing the "visible" work.
Most of today's established "super-productive" ones, if they were starting today, would be probably "vibe coders", certainly not what we commonly understand as a programmer. Not because AI-coding is the future, but because they never cared about the trade at all. They were here only for the grift.
@michaels@mstdn.nursing.unibas.chInteresting #macroeconomics view: “Consequently, predicted TFP (aka productivity) gains over the next 10 years are even more modest and are predicted to be less than 0.55%.…even when #AI improves the productivity of low-skill workers in certain tasks (without creating new tasks for…
@poppastring@dotnet.social"Debug Like a Pro: Improve Your Efficiency with Visual Studio & Copilot" is worth watching.
#visualstudio #build
@AdamCoffman@mathstodon.xyzA change in reporting and evaluating faculty productivity... the increased workload will fall to... faculty...?
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/02/indiana-budget-bill-curbs-univer…
@lornajane@indieweb.socialIf you use a read later or bookmarking tool, are you noticing an increasing number of sites that don’t work with them or intentionally don’t allow content to be fetched?
I use wallabag as both productivity and accessibility helper and I’m definitely finding more content that isn’t available… is it just me?
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pageAcademic Research Output Derivatives: Structuring Futures and Options on Research Output Index
Amarendra Sharma
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@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaThanks to Thunderbird for being a Gold Sponsor of SCALE 22x https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/sponsor/thunderbird
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@kidehen@mastodon.socialThis week’s edition of my @… newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today.
We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again.
Naturally, there are some live demo nuggets in the post to help bring it all to life:
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@davidshq@hachyderm.ioOne of the most important lessons I've learned in life / continue to learn / managed to forget is the importance of "stopping." It is so easy for life to become overwhelming with all the things I must do. Work, family, friends, volunteering, community, finances, chores, taking care of my health, the list goes on...
"Life is a very simple thing. We make it more complex." - Anonymous
"When we are making our life more complex, that is precisely the time when we are totally incapable of seeing what we are doing. The more complex our lives are, the more we need to be present to them and, surprisingly, this is exactly the time when we are most distracted. When we are distracted, we tend to have poor judgment and make more mistakes . . . usually adding to the confusion . . . and so it goes."
"....We usually respond by trying to become even more controlling and, eventually (or immediately!), this just makes things worse."
"It's time to stop, take stock, take some deep breaths, rest, listen to others, and regroup...We may miss something. We may even miss something we think is important. That's okay. We're more important."
"Taking time to stop may be just what I need to move ahead."
-- Anne Wilson Schaef, Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much, Ballantine Books, 1996, entry for May 6th.
#life #quotes #health #productivity
