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by Glench 10y ago
More from Alan Kay: http://alan-kay.wikia.com/wiki/Alan_Kay_Wiki
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The Alan Kay Wiki(alan-kay.wikia.com)
13 points by Glench 10y ago|2 comments
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by Glench 10y ago
I totally agree. I'm working on something better for my research. But it was amazing, given how bad the UI was, how well it seemed to work for people.
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by Glench 10y ago
Yahoo pipes
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by Glench 10y ago
I fly back to Boston every year to participate with a team of friends. It's so great! And some of the puzzles are incredible.
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by Glench 11y ago
I really think YC Research, given its mission of funding long-term fragile research, should think hard about reworking the fundamental institutions that we live in now. For example, what would a school for children look like if it was re-im
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by Glench 11y ago
I'll throw my hat in the ring here and mention a project I did in 2014, redesigning a history documentary about civil rights in the 50s and 60s in the US called Eyes on the Prize: http://glench.com/EyesOnThePrize/
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by Glench 11y ago
Here's a link to an early-release PDF of the study: https://psilosybiini.info/paperit/Psychedelic%20medicine,%20...
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by Glench 11y ago
Holacracy actually has way more structure than a hierarchy. Just look at the constitution ( http://www.holacracy.org/constitution ), or read about the rigid way they conduct meetings.
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by Glench 11y ago
To the many people who say "this will never work": luckily, we don't have to theorize abstractly about "human nature" and can just go look at successful non-hierarchical organizations. Frederic Laloux describes the
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by Glench 11y ago
Jon said in his first few youtube talks that he doesn't want this to be a "big idea" language, but one that is basically proven to work already for him.
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Ohm, a library and language for parsing and pattern matching(github.com)
4 points by Glench 11y ago|0 comments
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by Glench 12y ago
It seems to work better in firefox than chrome for me.
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by Glench 12y ago
Done! Thanks for the tip.
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by Glench 12y ago
A couple other references. My own work in this area: http://glench.com/EyesOnThePrize/ My friend RMO has been working on alternate representations of video for years. One of his many experiments: http://tele
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A New Way to Look at Networking (2006)(youtube.com)
2 points by Glench 12y ago|0 comments
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by Glench 12y ago
I've also played it semi-recently, and it's really, really intuitive – just like playing another game where you don't quite understand the rules. Things slowly start making sense. Marc (the creator) is an extremely talented d
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by Glench 12y ago
Edit: link to comic: http://xkcd.com/1412/ Author here. Some fun things to do with this tool: Extend the syllable pattern in the comic: http://glench.com/tmnt/#super_duper_pooper_scooper Mess with
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Xkcd #1412 Ninja Turtles logo generator(glench.com)
6 points by Glench 12y ago|2 comments
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by Glench 12y ago
Weird Life - The Search for Life That is Very, Very Different from Our Own An easy introductory survey of the different types of life there are and may be.
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by Glench 12y ago
Any moderators want to change this to "Ken" Perlin?
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by Glench 12y ago
Another perspective, of course not statistical, but interesting: https://vimeo.com/77084110
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by Glench 12y ago
Here's a better one, with a github for corrections: http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
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by Glench 12y ago
It seems your response says a lot more about your thinking than it does about Bret's. Perhaps you might try taking the view that Bret has really good reasons for doing what he's doing and try to figure out what they are, rather th
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by Glench 12y ago
Have you tried asking yourself why Bret would not want to open source his demos? Can you think of any other reasons that don't pre-suppose he is "arrogant"?
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Legible Mathematics, sketches of a new arithmetic for programming(glench.com)
6 points by Glench 12y ago|0 comments
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by Glench 13y ago
Mindstorms by Seymour Papert How Children Fail by John Holt These books literally changed what I was doing with my life. Both are about how children (and thus people) learn.
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by Glench 13y ago
Don't you see? Just by giving these talks he is building a community. Releasing the products makes everyone focus on the specific things he's made and not the things these products represent. The ideas are much more important, and
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by Glench 13y ago
I'm saying in order to come up with new types of programming, you need to already know about how programming works currently, which limits your thinking.
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by Glench 13y ago
There is a catch-22 here in that in order to come up with new ideas, you need to be fairly well-versed in what kinds of things computers can do but can't have been indoctrinated into assuming programming has to work a certain way.

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