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by disqard 5y ago
Thank you for sharing that link!
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by disqard 5y ago
This is really cool! I worked on this very same idea (a programming language without text) during my grad school years, and it's online here, if anyone is curious: https://www.blockstud.io Here's an example of one crea
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by disqard 5y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of Dynamic Land: https://dynamicland.org/
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by disqard 5y ago
I love and use gruvbox too! Do you have a pointer to the base16 version of it, or did you hand-tweak/make it yourself?
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by disqard 5y ago
Seconding this recommendation heartily! "Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking" It's surprisingly relevant to what folks like us go through, and how we relate to our creations, intangible thoug
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by disqard 5y ago
Yes! This is what experience has taught me too. We tend to underappreciate the importance of time in everything. A button click can instantiate something powerful (and useful (and easy-to-use...)), but it will degrade over time, and eve
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by disqard 5y ago
It's time to link this amazing short film by Keiichi Matsuda again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
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by disqard 5y ago
If you're willing to put in some time learning a slightly different approach to programming, you could check out BlockStudio [1] It's an authoring environment that allows text-free coding (using Programming By Demonstration) of in
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by disqard 5y ago
Thank you for that succinct statement "make something people want" vs. "hope that people will want what you make" -- pithy, and actionably useful.
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by disqard 5y ago
At least one major researcher studying programming (and how people learn to program) would agree with you! Check out Alan Blackwell's "What is programming" paper from 2002. In it, he argues that we should not be asking "
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by disqard 5y ago
I wanted to reply here to support what you wrote above, but my way of articulating it would be: "just because it's cool and can be done, doesn't mean that it needs to be done". Especially when it comes to things built+us
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by disqard 5y ago
Here's another vote for The Atlantic. They are also the only online website (AFAIK) where, once you pay for a subscription, you actually get an ad-free experience .
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by disqard 5y ago
This is a fantastic observation! Having done research into UI/interaction design, I can confirm that all research in this area prioritizes things that (a) can be measured quickly and (b) with a high degree of confidence. Good luck runn
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by disqard 5y ago
Like you, I seriously considered that idea (buying while it's low), but I decided not to, because that'd be like supporting that company in some way -- as if I were helping bankroll (admittedly, t a very tiny extent) its perverse
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by disqard 5y ago
Did you happen to read this today, or did you just come up with that purely by coincidence? https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/16506/facebookmeta-exec...
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by disqard 5y ago
You're right, and that is an important dimension to consider -- thanks for pointing it out! I was coming from a perspective of ownership erosion, precipitated through the continuous encroachment of corporate rent-seeking behavior (beca
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by disqard 5y ago
I'm like you with music, but I feel obliged to point out that folks like us are outliers today. So the GP is correct in the sense that the majority of things are moving from ownership -> renting (though there'll always exist so
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by disqard 5y ago
A non-technology solution? In this forum? How dare you, good sir? Seriously, I've been going as back-to-basics with my newer purchases as possible -- I recently purchased a used sewing machine that has gears made of metal, has no LCD&#
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Tell HN: Wyze cam forcing upgrade to keep storing recordings locally
43 points by disqard 5y ago|25 comments
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by disqard 5y ago
You deserve an answer, and I apologize if my tone was overly harsh. There is always a human at the other end of everything... So, your article reads like an "X is great" piece that fails to mention all of the previous times the sa
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by disqard 5y ago
For the past ~6 years, I've been building and maintaining a website for a text-free visual programming language called BlockStudio at: https://www.blockstud.io The site has < 10 monthly active users on average, but they&
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by disqard 5y ago
You might technically be correct, but that doesn't change the fact that "the Godfather of MOOCs" called it "a lousy product": > “We were on the front pages of newspapers and magazines, and at the same time, I was
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by disqard 5y ago
The breathless fanboyism in this piece really hurts it, and made me unable to read through to the end. If this were written 10 years ago, when MOOCs were the poster child for "technology will solve everything including thoroughly non-t
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by disqard 5y ago
Hah, I've seen that so many times now... are you a regular NYT crossword solver, too?
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First, You Decide That Kids Belong in School(theatlantic.com)
3 points by disqard 5y ago|0 comments
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by disqard 5y ago
I recently purchased VHA -- thank you so much for making this!
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by disqard 5y ago
Read Todd Oppenheimer's "The Flickering Mind" and you'll find this false mantra (new technology alone will magically solve a deeply human problem) being repeated throughout the history of education technology.
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by disqard 5y ago
s/technical/marketing/g
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It's ok if you started programming at 8 or at 38. You can still get out. Run(twitter.com)
17 points by disqard 5y ago|12 comments
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by disqard 5y ago
Thank you for creating this! It's perfect for my current needs :) Do you use sqlite under the hood? Also, what's the largest collection / folder size that you know videohub can handle? Also, I just bought it anyway -- I am im

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