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   by joelg 11y ago

   I've been experimenting with working away from an Internet connection, and it's been working really well for most things. It has two great features: - it forces me to focus only on code when I'm coding, since 9gag/Reddit
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   by joelg 11y ago

   Interesting! Reminds me of Jerry's Brain, which has 190,000 thoughts and over 300,000 links between them. http://jerrysbrain.com/
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   Ask HN: When are you fluent in a language?

   2 points by joelg 11y ago|0 comments
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   by joelg 11y ago

   If I remember correctly, Autodesk still uses a Lisp in some of their products.
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   by joelg 11y ago

   What problems were a Turing machine designed to "address"? Sometimes the things that have the most value are the things that we can't wrap our minds around yet. Think forward.
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   by joelg 11y ago

   Is there any evidence of discrimination in this story? While it's certainly tragic, I think it's very hard to separate what is sexist (or, aside from the one comment, racist) from what is just people being generally terrible. It s
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   by joelg 11y ago

   Code Monkey https://open.spotify.com/track/1rIFZk9tTUtHP3vULR5wXe
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   by joelg 11y ago

   Which always surprises me that this is a habit of mine : I was born in '96. Not to make you feel old or anything.
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   by joelg 11y ago

   Feature request: through force of habit, I obsessively mash Ctrl+S whenever I'm in a text editor - browser or not. Most web editors override this to prevent the giant "Save page as..." dialog from jumping up all the time. I k
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    by joelg 11y ago

    I watched the first three episodes with a friend and absolutely hated it, but am considering giving it another shot. What did you like about it?
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    by joelg 11y ago

    Reminds me a lot of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad ), which had a similar interface and an iterative constraint solver.
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    by joelg 11y ago

    I only have 3rd-degree connections to Gladwell, so this may be completely wrong, but I've heard he knows everyone in the communications field and synthesizes trends and topics from traveling and talking with a lot of researchers. His
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    Marvin Minsky dies at 88(nytimes.com)

    1259 points by joelg 11y ago|178 comments
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    by joelg 11y ago

    Source, readme, and ideological rant here: https://github.com/joeltg/grasp
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    Show HN: Visualize Lisp in 3D(joeltg.github.io)

    7 points by joelg 11y ago|1 comments
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    by joelg 11y ago

    For the record, the title was taken from the title of AKay's 1997 OOPSLA keynote, which is well worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
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    Show HN: Visualize Lisp in 3D in the browser(github.com)

    5 points by joelg 11y ago|0 comments
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    by joelg 11y ago

    These two comments are ironically accurate self-descriptors.
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    by joelg 11y ago

    Please add me as well joelg [at] mit [edu]
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    by joelg 11y ago

    We have surprisingly identical ambitions. BVic's "Future of Programming" is particularly relevent to several of your points and really puts how terrible our current system is in context.... https://vimeo.com/7
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    by joelg 11y ago

    This is already a big thing that has potential! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing
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    by joelg 11y ago

    You can remap or disable keyboard shortcuts in chrome://extensions, I believe! (you might have to enable developer mode first) Edit - also, dismissing the view with esc. or clicking anywhere is something I should have done from t
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    by joelg 11y ago

    As far as I know, there's nothing else out there, unfortunately. But porting Chrome extensions to Firefox add-ons is pretty easy, so hopefully we (or anyone else!) will get around to that soon. Edit: I stand corrected
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    by joelg 11y ago

    We're planning on it! We'll both have some free time in January to work on this some more, and Safari is a high priority.
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    by joelg 11y ago

    Thank you! Let us know if you find any bugs or have any suggestions. On a side note, we were really torn on whether to use favicons or tab screenshots as the node images. If anyone has design opinions on this, we'd love to hear them!
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    by joelg 11y ago

    You could have said the same thing about the black plague and the printing press in the 14th century...
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    by joelg 11y ago

    For those unfamiliar with Xanadu or Ted Nelson, http://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ is a great read. People who criticize it for being the "largest piece of vaporware in history" are technically co