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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 6d

An uncommonly pretty little model railway: youtube.com/shorts/vcrPo...

Nゲージレイアウト立体交差分割式#鉄道模型 #nゲージ

YouTube video by タカナカ鉄道

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 6d

TSP being narrative-heavy is ironic given that it’s a condemnation of “story-based” gaming.

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 7d

Is that why car bodies started turning to marshmallow from about the late '90s, too?

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 7d

Like poisioned water downstream of a corpse, much stupidity is actually downstream of mendacity.

Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 12d

Where “Song 2” and “Kernkraft 400” are still fighting it out in the top 10. youtu.be/gbcG2TI4GBk

Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (Original Version)

YouTube video by Salito

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 12d

Well, quick to anger.

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 14d

@shadowtodd.bsky.social Sorry if it's on the list already, but "Becoming Pigs" by Neru, at 0:55: "Don't stop, [music stops] keep moving, [music stops]"

youtu.be/Z9DXOZUbmJ4?...

Neru - 豚になってyeah yeah (Becoming Pigs Yeah Yeah) feat. Kagamine Len

YouTube video by Neru OFFICIAL

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 16d

You wouldn't even have to take away Internet access altogether: you could instead provide a Web browser w. disabled JS, a blacklist, comprehensive logging & rate limiting. That wldn't be sure to catch the most determined attempts at steganography but shld hopefully make it harder than just studying.

Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 22d

But is it any good? Don't worry, there is a full review online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=coh_...

Keyboard Waffle Iron keyboard review

YouTube video by Chyrosran22

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · 25d

Empty list is fairly close though.

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 27

Hydrologist George Bugliarello en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_... was also a fan: ouci.dntb.gov.ua/en/works/4Ov... , scholar.google.com/scholar?cite... .

George Bugliarello - Wikipedia

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 27

Two more citations of "Some observations concerning large programming efforts": in "Systems Management Applied to Large Computer Programs in BUIC III; Review of Experience" from Systems Development Corporation, June 1969 apps.dtic.mil/sti/citation... (BUIC being en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-Up...) ...

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

The Institute for Defense Analyses www.ida.org en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu... seems like a bit of a RANDesque revolving door.

Institute for Defense Analyses - Wikipedia

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

(I assume that some of the other people at the "Command and Control" session at the 1964 SJCC had a general, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_M.... etc., had at least a general idea of what the score was, too.)

Ruth M. Davis - Wikipedia

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

AGILE IS AN NSA OP, got it. Seriously though, quite likely Daniels didn't happen to leave before 1953, and quite likely at least some of the software work which he drew from his experience of was in fact rather secret.

Institute for Defense Analyses | IDA

Home page for Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) website describes IDA and provides photos and links to recent research, publications, and the IDA-at-a-glance infographic.

www.ida.org

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

@martinfowler.com, were any of the Snowbird people etc. familiar with Almon Daniels and the "Some observations concerning large programming efforts" paper, so far as you know? bsky.app/profile/hill...

Hillel is taking a break @hillelwayne.com · Sep 22

I was doing some software history research and stumbled on this absolutely FASCINATING letter from 1964: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"

Some observations concerning large programming efforts | Proceedings of the April 21-23, 1964, spring joint computer conference

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

(He also seems to have had an undergraduate maths scholarship at UIUC in 1937: uihistories.library.illinois.edu/REPOSITORYCA... Someone named "Almon E. Daniels" also appears to have done US genealogy work: I don't know if it's a different person or not.)

uihistories.library.illinois.edu

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

A US FOI request might help: see 🧵: bsky.app/profile/leoc...

Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

FWIW (& you may know these already), a few other bits and pieces about the "Some observations concerning large
programming efforts" paper. It did get some attention: it's listed in William E. Riddle's 103-page 1972 "Annotated Bibliography of Software Architecture" slac.stanford.edu/vault/collva... …

slac.stanford.edu

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

Is Almon E. Daniels something close to the Clifford Cocks of Agile, I wonder?!

(He's also mentioned in one other place, apparently: "US Wargaming Grows Up" by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi @sharonhelsel.bsky.social scholar.google.com/scholar?clus... )

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

That's document A68814 in the NSA's (William F.) "Friedman Documents" collection www.nsa.gov/Helpful-Link... , Panel, Committe and Board Reports section: www.nsa.gov/Helpful-Link.... This suggests that a new FOI request might release some more information about Daniels' software-engineering work.

www.nsa.gov

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

… well, it appears that in 1949, at least, he was a member of an NSA precursor organisation: no. 2 in the Methods & Prod. Section of the Operations Division. www.nsa.gov/portals/75/d...

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

As to why the author, Almon E. Daniels, doesn't have more publically-visible publications www.hillelwayne.com/post/algdt-h... ...

A Very Early History of Algebraic Data Types

Been quiet around here! I’ve been putting almost all of my writing time into Logic for Programmers and my whole brain is book-shaped. Trust me, you do not want to read my 2000-word rant on Sphinx post...

www.hillelwayne.com

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

It also got a mention in /Datamation/'s writeup of the 1964 Spring Joint Computer Conference, in the "Command and Control" session highlights (/Datamation/ April 1964, pp. 76-77 www.bitsavers.org/magazines/Da... ).

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

which was CGTM (Stanford Computation Research Group Technical Memo ahro.slac.stanford.edu/resources/di... ) no. 138. (Riddle was championing the name 'software architecture' over 'software engineering'.)

Stanford Computation Research Group Technical Memos (CGTMs), 1965-1992 | SLAC Archives, History & Records Office

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Leo R. Comerford @leocomerford.bsky.social · Sep 26

FWIW (& you may know these already), a few other bits and pieces about the "Some observations concerning large
programming efforts" paper. It did get some attention: it's listed in William E. Riddle's 103-page 1972 "Annotated Bibliography of Software Architecture" slac.stanford.edu/vault/collva... …

slac.stanford.edu

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