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by pshc 14y ago
This is really nice. I'm working on a non-plaintext programming language that just needs a structural editor like this. I'll drop you a line.
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by pshc 14y ago
I put it up at https://github.com/pshc/archipelago .
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by pshc 14y ago
Well, there isn't really a body of code to version control yet, as the AST forms still aren't quite finished, and so all the ASTs will have to be generated from text code (yes, Python) until the language is properly bootstrapped. So the ver
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by pshc 14y ago
Well, huge work in progress: https://github.com/pshc/archipelago . But until I write the editor for it, there's really nothing to look at. Editor is coming Real Soon Now.
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by pshc 14y ago
Normalizing source code, storing it as annotated ASTs. Designing a structure editor that is actually usable for real code. Applying precise version control to those ASTs' nodes. Some features: - Optional GC with per-type granularity - Tryin
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by pshc 14y ago
Been working on a programming language for four years and counting. I intend to release it someday hopefully soon, but it will never truly be finished.
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Building a Sensor for Low Latency VR(kickstarter.com)
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by pshc 14y ago
This had me grinning like a maniac the whole way through. Delightful. And the PHP at the end is a masterstroke.
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by pshc 14y ago
I'd like to see someone try re-inventing a minimalist userspace. Create an OS running on the Linux kernel without coreutils, binutils etc., and see how far you can go. If you strip out loadable module support and such, is it possible to boo
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by pshc 14y ago
This is great news for my photo archives. I dump the raw images into S3, and run a script to generate thumbnails and html indexes (in reduced redundancy). Now I can have the raws flush to Glacier after a month or so, once I've probably lost
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by pshc 14y ago
I think this is largely a myth perpetuated by benchmarks that were faster GC'd than with some system-default badly-tuned malloc. There are gains to be made by copying, generational collectors, and it's impossible to generalize to all worklo
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by pshc 14y ago
The structured model will win. It only needs a real high-quality editor. Not a hokey drag-and-drop toy, but a tool that scales to real-world problems and addresses the way code evolves through time.
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by pshc 14y ago
Nice work. Props on normalizing human names and use/mention distinction. Are you going to stick to analysis, or support code transformations? If you're going to transform code, how will you avoid IDE refactor tool hell? I was struck with th
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by pshc 14y ago
Also curious about this. I'm writing something with a DAG storage scheme similar to git, currently using SHA-256 to hash blobs. Been thinking about switching to SHA-512, but there's no rush as I can easily switch hash functions anytime befo
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by pshc 14y ago
The NBL requires a Next Generation Editor. We can't escape from this local maxima of code expressiveness, readability, amenability to change, richness of types, etc. without a truly better programming environment. Working on it...
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by pshc 14y ago
My project is accomplishing this lofty and almost insanely ambitious goal through the (A) normative, language-neutral, cross-language definitions of, and (B) subsequent standardization of, several distinct parts of the toolchain: (I) compi
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by pshc 14y ago
I was just in Hong Kong and the Big Mac there is noticeably cheaper than every other meal at McDonald's. I was wondering if it might be to manipulate the index?
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by pshc 14y ago
Everyone's just going to do the same thing they did with the iPhone 4. You keep the raws for your photos right?
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by pshc 14y ago
That page is spazzing out at me in Mobile Safari. Some kind of responsive style script conflicting with Safari's auto-formatter?
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by pshc 15y ago
Adding a leading semicolon just in case seems like overly defensive programming to me. You ought to pick trustworthy tools. If your script concatenator doesn't work right, I think it's better to fail fast rather than let things quietly be h
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by pshc 15y ago
Crime ends as a result of “cyclical forces operating on situational and contingent things rather than from finding deeply motivated essential linkages.” [...] Curbing crime does not depend on reversing social pathologies or alleviating soc
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by pshc 15y ago
Note: When I added this comment, the title had the suffix "by ESTHER DYSON". It's been fixed since.
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by pshc 15y ago
What's with the headline that looks like was scraped automatically from the article? Your account may be new but your submission history so far doesn't look particularly automated.
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by pshc 15y ago
Tangental: reservation of judgement can be taken too far, becoming extreme relativism/pacifism/social signalling. http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/
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by pshc 15y ago
It is a huge UI problem. For example, it's tempting to start adding flashy chrome to a structure editor just because you can. Pretty Lisp's rounded rectangles are obviously not going to scale to real programs; they generate a lot of noise.
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by pshc 15y ago
EastWest is one that comes to mind. I aim to write one, but that's a long time coming.
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by pshc 15y ago
Looking sweet. The future is in structural editors. The client-server separation is a nice bonus. Unfortunately this is running up against the UI problem. How do you make this intuitive and powerful? A lot of hard work on usability is neede
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by pshc 15y ago
Not saying this is what they're selling, but: Real-time overlays are still impractical, right? My intuition is--without a really high speed camera and high fidelity environmental cues--the overlay will have a lag and high uncertainty wrt wh
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by pshc 15y ago
Here's hoping the endgame of programmers putting themselves out of work is the nerd rapture (friendly A.I., post-scarcity, etc.). But from what I can tell in history, the future tends to turn out much weirder than the human imagination can
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by pshc 15y ago
Regarding your first complaint, I find that 90% of the time the suggestion for a different spelling is in fact the search I wanted. The 10% of cases where I was searching for something obscure do stick out in my mind more, but I'm OK with

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