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ivotronon Redesigning the Scientific Paper

shameless plug for the Popper Convention and CLI tool http://github.com/systemslab/popper . Our goal is to make writing papers as close as possible to writing software (DevOpsify academia) but in a domain-agnostic way.

ivotronon Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code

are you aware of datapackages [1]? do you plan on opensourcing the backend components?

[1]: https://github.com/frictionlessdata

ivotronon GitHub.com font changed

and there I was trying to fix my Firefox (clearing caches, cookiest, etc.) ... XD

ivotronon Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email

Additionally, with Inbox one can flag stuff as lower priority or delay delivery of a bundle

ivotronon Spack: Package manager for multiple versions, confs, platforms, and compilers

Associated paper from SC '15 http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/sc/2015/3723/00/280...

ivotronon It takes more than practice to excel

From Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow": practice AND feedback. Without feedback, you don't know how well/bad you're doing

ivotronon Irmin: Git-like distributed, branchable storage

this is very similar to how Bayou reconciles conflicts

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=7377...

BTW, would be much appreciated if you could point to related work on the subject (papers, other projects, blogs, etc).