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961.
by goto11 6y ago
But I am a programmer, and this code is going to be written and read by programmers. The experience from AppleScript shows IMO that a more English-like syntax does not actually make the language simpler to use, it just obscures the underl
962.
by goto11 6y ago
Seems cool in general. I like their point about "locality of behavior". Some of the syntax give me unfortunate flashbacks to AppleScript. Expressions like "the location of window" looks cool at first glance, but in reali
963.
by goto11 6y ago
> a single streamlined product. Problem is, the past will remain with us in every book, code example or stackoverflow answer. As a beginner you need to understand the difference between .net framework and .net core because any blog post
964.
by goto11 6y ago
I guess the whole .net core mess made sense in the beginning, it just got out of hand. As I understand it, core was conceived as an experimental alternative runtime which made it possible to run asp.net on non-windows platforms. It was not
965.
by goto11 6y ago
> But no, you don't have to learn any of those things, you can just start learning C#. The problem for a beginner (on any language or platform) is you have to know what you don't need to know. You get overwhelmed with terminolo
966.
by goto11 6y ago
Microsoft is just so bad at naming things. ".net framework" means versions of .net before version 5. Version 5 is of course also .net and it is a framework, but apparently it is not ".net framework", since this term refe
967.
by goto11 6y ago
Prolog is great, but I wonder if it would be more successful as a library than as a stand-alone language? It seems like a tool you would reach for for very specific tasks in an application, rather then something you would program a whole ap
968.
by goto11 6y ago
Ok, but that is kind of orthogonal to the point I was making. I was just stating that it follows from the math that the notes in a 7-note scale are not evenly spaced. The same is true for a pentatonic scale, for the same reason: The interva
969.
by goto11 6y ago
So what are some good examples of recent non-minimalist design?
970.
by goto11 6y ago
Yes, intervals are just ratios of numbers, corresponding to frequency ratios. 2:1 is an octave, 3:2 is a fifth, 4:3 a fourth and so on. I didn't even know this was controversial. Of course a lot of other stuff in music and music theory
971.
by goto11 6y ago
Not exactly, although I think I understand what you are getting at. What I meant was that the interval between a major third and fourth in a 12-tone chromatic scale has to be a semitone due to math, not due to some historical accident or
972.
by goto11 6y ago
Maybe I misunderstood you, but I thought you meant they should get other people to stop using black and white for humans in other contexts. I presumed Google themselves does not talk about black or white people in their developer documentat
973.
by goto11 6y ago
I think it is just due to C# being a play on C++ (the # could be seen as ++ just rearranged to overlap). No doubt the positive connotations of "sharp" also played a role. Cb or C-flat neither looks or sound cool! That said, MS did
974.
by goto11 6y ago
The spacings are not random, they are still based on ratios. They just include more intervals in (what we call) the octave. The linked article actually explains the math pretty well.
975.
by goto11 6y ago
I don't find it particularly noble. When it comes to human communication I believe in Postels law: Be strict in what you send, be lenient in what you accept. You suggest there is no point in changing your own communication if you cant
976.
by goto11 6y ago
This also tells us that Tim Berners-Lee was familiar with postscript and its power, but still decided to base the hypertext on a SGML-derived declarative document format without embedded rendering instructions. TBL knew what he was doing.
977.
by goto11 6y ago
True, but that does not mean you can just space notes in a scale randomly.
978.
by goto11 6y ago
But that is not for historical reasons, that is due to the universal mathematical properties of the intervals. The names of the notes and scales are due to historical reasons, but a major third and a fourth is one semitone apart due to ma
979.
by goto11 6y ago
> For historical reasons, there are no sharps or flats between the notes B/C, and E/F. Come on, that is not for "historical reasons", that is because those notes are only one semitone apart!
980.
by goto11 6y ago
> No, CSS is more complex than PostScript because it was designed by a bickering committee and competing companies over a long period of time, and nailed onto the side on HTML as an afterthought of a shotgun wedding. That is not really a
981.
by goto11 6y ago
Kays vision is like if we only had JavaScript drawing directly to the screen, and no HTML or any of the other web standards. In such a web we wouldn't have search engines, probably not even links. The object oriented paradigm (with d
982.
by goto11 6y ago
Alan Kay is opposed to the "principle of least power" and instead believes the web should consist of turing-complete "objects" which manage their own rendering. Basically he wants a web consisting purely of "black b
983.
by goto11 6y ago
Presumably because they don't want people reading their developer documentation to get distracted from what the documentation is trying to communicate? It is quite common to have company policy for communication. That does not mean you
984.
by goto11 6y ago
I hope you are trolling.
985.
by goto11 6y ago
That is my point. They can decide how they use language in their own documentation and communication, they can't decide how everyone else uses it. So they they can't change that people use black or white to refer to skin color, as
986.
by goto11 6y ago
How would Google make the rest of the English-speaking world change their use of these words?
987.
by goto11 6y ago
You should probably read the article, it is pretty good.
988.
by goto11 6y ago
PostScript is not flexible enough for the web. PostScript is like PDF, it assumes a canvas of fixed dimensions. This is fine if everyone has screens of the same dimensions or only prints to read on paper (and nobody have bad eyesight). But
989.
by goto11 6y ago
OK I get what you are saying, but if a manager is not able to communicate clearly enough that employee understands the directions given, then it is the fault of the manager. If the employee understand the task given but does not have the sk
990.
by goto11 6y ago
In management you can't really deflect responsibility downwards.

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