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by ibdknox 11y ago
It's all HTML at the moment.
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Huh, thanks for the link, I hadn't seen this talk of his. We take a ton of inspiration from the work done the 70's and 80's before we decided exactly what "computation" meant. There were so many great ideas that ele
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whoops, yes I did. Fixed in the gist. Thanks!
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haha that does more or less represent the past couple years of my life :) Btw, if you found those two lines interesting, I did an essay/talk about coming to that conclusion: http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/03&#x2
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by ibdknox 11y ago
Amusingly enough, I actually started thinking a bit about this just the other night after being told about a talk given at Dropbox about accessibility. To be up front, we know very little about it and the other night was the first time I&#x
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I thought this was a great article when he posted it and it's always really exciting to see people engage with us about the research we've done. He links to it at the bottom, but here's a link to my followup [1]. We've l
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I don't suggest playing with that version much as it's being completely replaced by experimental/cardwiki in the next month.
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Light Table 0.8.0-alpha(groups.google.com)
98 points by ibdknox 11y ago|41 comments
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I sincerely wish there had been a class like this when I was in school. The reading list here has some really fascinating stuff in it, several of which I'd never seen before, many of which are things that have inspired Eve. It's r
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> The capability of these generalized parallel ad hoc join algorithms where demonstrated on a supercomputer circa 2009. Is this external work? If so, do you have any pointers to it?
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by ibdknox 11y ago
Looks like one of the x-stream guys replied: https://github.com/ar104/sortingVsScanning/blob/master/Sorti... Related discussion on twitter: https://twitter.com/roy_amitabha/status&#x
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> Also I wonder if it goes too far from abstraction, the ability to name and manipulate something before specifying what it is, exactly, and how to define something iteratively as you become more familiar with what it has to be. We have
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Out of curiosity, what makes you "not as enthused" about our work? The focus on Bloom? Going more visual? I'm really excited to see what Jonathan is doing now that he's shifted his focus to end-user and building a releas
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We do! One neat thing about our architecture is that literally everything is just data and side-effects happen outside of the system itself. This means if you disconnect the "watchers" that do things like send email based on the p
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Check out my note on visual programming. [1] The short answer is we have lots of tools in mind that will help with this, but programming this way just creates a very different kind of system. We've built some complex things and they&#x
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by ibdknox 11y ago
The shift is primarily due to the fact that relatively few people seemed to want to build large applications, including ourselves. There are definitely some differences between building large apps and these more communication/analysis
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> But neither of them really found a satisfying answer, a way to say "hey, for making your web app or whatever, if you throw away your existing stuff and use this tool/process, now it's super-easy." Actually, we think
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by ibdknox 11y ago
They don't appear to be related. The previous discussion was about replicating an Escher style drawing in Julia. This is about a web framework for Julia that just happens to be named Escher :)
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This is very cool work. :) Great job Will! When Atom was first launched I mentioned that it might make sense to port the interesting parts of LT over to it since the core editor isn't what's important (and it's also a ton o
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Some really interesting work was presented last year: http://www.future-programming.org/2014/program.html I sincerely encourage anyone fiddling with new ideas in programming to submit a proposal. :)
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by ibdknox 11y ago
From what I know of his project, the best description is probably a vertically integrated haskell-like language, fully structured editor (think paredit without parens), and distributed framework. So yeah, Urbit is a better analogue than LT
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by ibdknox 12y ago
> If there's a better way to teach the same concepts without actually programming, that would be really useful. In a pragmatic sense, it's not helpful to the cause. These seem contradictory. We can either teach a narrow swatch
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The simplest possible distinction: coding is writing code in a programming language[1][2][3], modeling is breaking down systems without regard for computer or programming language and is not specific to any domain. When we say "coding&
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> I'm a little disappointed to see him attack this initiative to get more people into coding. That's because I'd rather people have the freedom to be mathematicians, nurses, lawyers, physicists, writers, and accountants wh
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> So, teach kids geography. Haha exactly! That's a really interesting example I hadn't heard before. There are lots of other fun ones: number permanence, volume conservation, etc.
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I actually mention the magic of LISP and Smalltalk environments - they do greatly add in the exploratory creation process. But my "coding as literacy" strawman is born out by the industry: http://code.org/ and ht
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> The real lesson of programming is to be able to to create models that stand up agains the cold asphalt of reality. I would argue that's just a matter of modeling enough to be good at it. I indirectly talk about this in a few place
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A16z Podcast: Coding as a Literacy(a16z.com)
3 points by ibdknox 12y ago|0 comments
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Come reimagine programming with us at Eve (YC S12)(incidentalcomplexity.com)
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Come reimagine programming with us at Eve (YC S12)(incidentalcomplexity.com)
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