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Ken Isaacs “How to Build Your Own Living Structures” (1974) [pdf](archive.org)
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by marttt 6y ago
I have had a strange intellectual interest in the "human-language-likeness" of programming languages for a long time. (In a way, I suppose it is the core of my original question.) Which existing languages seem to be closest to tha
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by marttt 6y ago
This is anecdotal, can't find the reference, but I think Hofstadter himself later considered "I Am a Strange Loop" (2007, a mere 412 pages) a better explanation of the ideas he had laid out in GEB.
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by marttt 6y ago
I think I'm most interested in works with a clearly mathematical, complex, multi-layered structure or language usage. Like the experiments of Georges Perec [1], for example. I wonder how would reading this kind of stuff actually stimul
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Ask HN: Works of fiction that have inspired you to solve programming problems?
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by marttt 6y ago
Not sure if this is what you're after, but there's also blind by the suckless.org community: https://tools.suckless.org/blind/
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Introduction to Thoughtful Programming and the Forth Philosophy (2002)(patorjk.com)
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by marttt 6y ago
This is a tale told by S.N. Goenka in the Vipassana meditation discourses. The whole story: ---- "Once a young professor had made a long journey by sailing. He got an excellent degree, but he had no real experience. Also, there was an
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by marttt 6y ago
The site where this article stems from seems like an awesome rabbit hole, a definite flagship for Good Old, Dense and Messy Web: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/ Same counts for Aaron Sloman
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Creative Productivity: A Predictive Model of Career Landmarks (1997) [pdf](pdfs.semanticscholar.org)
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by marttt 6y ago
I think this is the offline version: http://rainbowforth.sourceforge.net/
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by marttt 6y ago
There's another page by crc that links to the latest snapshot, documentation and, IMO most importantly, a directory with retroforth examples: http://forth.works/
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by marttt 6y ago
Relevant article from the Plan 9 wiki: https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/mouse_vs._keyboard/ And a quote from there: "The basic summary is cursoring around required a higher level of mental planning to organize t
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by marttt 6y ago
Haven't used it for a while, and it is for RTF files, but I quite liked Ted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_(word_processor) I loved the simple UI, and it seems like a great example of One Thing Well.
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by marttt 6y ago
A few years ago I got a mint condition Dell Mini 9 for €20. 1.6 GHz Atom, fanless, equipped with a 16GB SSD by default. I still think of turning this into my main, probably framebuffer-based workstation (I have really moderate needs if I di
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by marttt 6y ago
Having owned a X60s -- how do people cope with neck pain resulting from using a 12" laptop for longer sessions? I absolutely loved that machine, but eventually sold it because of this and a mild issue of pinky finger numbness. I have s
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by marttt 6y ago
How about learning a trade? I have never worked in IT, but I transitioned to forestry after a similar burnout. Currently it is more of a side gig for mental balance, but I vividly remember the period I worked as a full time brush cutter and
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by marttt 6y ago
I know nothing about our body's long-term adaption (maybe you just need another 9 years mostly indoors to re-adapt? :), so this is very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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by marttt 6y ago
I'm actually more of a cold turkey experimenter. I started running barefoot more consistently only this September (discovered it accidentally on my own a few years ago). But I can state that it has done good to my ruined knees and I&#x
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by marttt 6y ago
Maybe this is too extreme, but starting barefoot running and/or taking cold showers will greatly increase one's cold tolerance.
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by marttt 6y ago
... “Destroy after {reasonable future date}” ... A whole book on this is "Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age" by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (2011). A longer piece with the author in The Guardian: https:/&#x2
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by marttt 6y ago
Here's a computer scientist with an impressive amount of hand-tailored tools for living without X11 (scroll down to the "Framebuffer" / "I no longer use X11" section): http://litcave.rudi.ir/
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by marttt 6y ago
Daniil Kharms, early Soviet-era absurdist, avant-garde writer and poet. When I was in my early 20s, he had a huge influence on me. A random piece (yes, many, or even most, are like that): --- Blue Notebook #10 Once there lived a red-haired
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by marttt 6y ago
I might be mistaken, but is Oasis also somehow related to the suckless [1] community? (Edit: yes, the maintainer seems to be part of it.) Another static distro by the suckless people is stali (static linux) [2]. 1: http://suckles
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by marttt 6y ago
Thanks for that! I found a link there to BigPicture, an "infinite notepad" with zooming. Here's a demo; this definitely looks cool: https://bigpictu.re/demo
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by marttt 6y ago
Reminds me of MicroViche, the most strangely compelling writing environment I've come across as a text editor uber-nerd. It's an (old?) plugin for Vim that allows one to "pan and zoom through text": https://ww
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Towards an Ecology of Mind(oikos.org)
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by marttt 6y ago
Estonian here. * Worst song ever in the history of space (they were hoping to go to the Eurovision with this, and iirc almost succeeded; later they were actually invited to the Paris Fashion Week to perform this on stage): https:/&#x2
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Truckloads of Hard Disks (2009)(lowtechmagazine.com)
1 points by marttt 6y ago|0 comments
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Program Development in Limbo for Inferno OS(seh.dev)
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