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Best practices for pocket research and development labs in informatics. Integrates agile industrial practices with ethnomethodology, interaction design, sense-making and more.
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LaTeXWhy use LaTeX instead of a word processing program? For the same reason we encourage you to use a Wikiwyg editor in our wiki instead of a Wysiwyg editor. Because, when I write, I want to be able to choose whether I am focusing on content (what it is I am trying to say), conveyance (how I am saying it), style (appearance/voice/etc.), or some combination of the above. Word processors conflate those roles to the detriment of our ability to communicate, whereas a typesetting program such as LaTeX (or an agile API such as the DOM) is designed to facilitate just such differentiation of tasks. Allin Cottrell analyses the differences and, more importantly, the effects of those differences on our ability to communicate effectively, in textual communication in Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient. Getting LaTeX:
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