mtrimpe

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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Isn't a snippet basically just a chord that requires you to input the characters in sequence though?
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Exactly. Google is an Oracle: we pose it a question and it provides the "right" answer given it's near infinite amount of information. That perspective is built so deeply into Google that it's one of the few things it wi
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
What does KTH mean? I would love to get in touch with them to share some ideas which could be very interesting for the project...
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Which eye tracker are you using? And how big are your monitors? I bought the EyeTribe but it's getting dismal results. I also have another Tobii EyeX sitting in a box as it's a Windows only thing and wondering if it's worth g
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Having had RSI for a while I can't tell you how much I've wished for interfaces with point(/look) and speak UI. I literally haven't found a single case in which I couldn't quickly dream up a superior version of an e
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
FWIW When I, as a European, went to a US high school almost 20 years ago one of the big differences that struck me was that people tended to be either overweight at best or morbidly obese at worst or super skinny and super healthy.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Just tell them that then... no harm in being straightforward.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
The audience that is looking at these 'deleted Google listings' probably has very little overlap with the influential decision-makers in these peoples lives who Google his/her name before making said decision though.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Really? I'm pretty sure major media outlets will pretty soon run out of opportunities to name and shame a select few individuals... assuming this article itself will not also be stricken from Google search results of course. Additional
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
There are also no indefinite exponential curves in nature. The right way to think about it is trying to figure out what the bounding resource (its eventual limit) might be.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
OK. Good to know. But is the database itself still immutable then?
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Seems very closely related to what I've been talking about / working on lately. Cool! https://speakerdeck.com/mtrimpe/graphel-the-meaning-of-an-im...
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Concerning the inferential distance... Wouldn't describing Eve as Smalltalk but based on immutable data structures with built in derivation (so that intermediate results don't consume space) get you much closer (for the programmin
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Have you ever looked into how version control for Smalltalk worked? People who worked with that used to love it and I'm fairly certain that Eve's model would (be able to) work quite similarly.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
What they're building is much closer to Smalltalk than to Eclipse though....
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
I meant to refer to Eve and not LightTable. From what I understand something like Eve is begging for a hybrid product/consultancy approach... Putting personal preferences aside it would by far be the most logical path towards building
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
This is as good a place as any to ask, but why aren't you piggybacking on the work that's being done in the Clojure community on these issues? I'm working on something similar but much more constrained myself [1], but initiat
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
I'm not sure if it's an inspiration for Chris but it's definitely related since a key focus for Chris seems to be on building it on immutable data structures (and hence essentially temporal.)
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
What's also missing in this discussion is that you can get programmers to get their companies to pay tons of cash. Building a consultancy company around a technology product is probably on of IT's most classic business models.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Just like you can find plenty of people who toss heads more often than tails.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Just to be clear... I know what you're building and totally rooting for you! Just meant that the dream, or more precisely my dream, of LightTable is delayed/put aside by this new project. The curse of Lisp, to me, is being pulle
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
True, I meant to refer to the visual 'augmented' programming as demonstrated in the Larch project. Not classical 'visual programming.'
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
It's meant to be. It has the infrastructure to be. It just doesn't have the documentation and ecosystem to show how.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
LightTable will continue on, but it seems to no longer be the main focus of Chris. The curse I speak of is http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm Not that I'm implying Chris is bipolar at all but it'
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
I think people are still underestimating the complexity and raw hard work involved in making these visuals scale. I also think it's inevitable in the long run, but developing them properly still has similar complexity as building IDE p
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Language is incredibly fuzzy... and for good reason. Creating fixed structures that span across groups of people is incredibly hard. Just take a look at how much work/debate has gone into the taxonomy of life. Apart from that relations
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Then again... capturing things with hierarchical, permanent, non-context dependent hasa / isa relationships is very, very far removed from how we've used language for the past 50k years.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Right now it it's probably not worth it yet unless you're already using speech dictation for a disability (including RSI e.a.) Once we get eye tracking by default on both desktop and AR there will be nothing more natural than th
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
> Ultimately of course things are worth what a buyer will pay you for them An example of that would be finding someone (or more likely them finding you) who needs to build your product and can choose between starting an $XX.000 developme
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
If you're interested the book "The Truth About Trust" goes into that in great detail and even includes the trust relationship with your future self which is very relevant to the original article. I thoroughly enjoyed it... h

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