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by romaniv 9y ago
If I was to bet, I would bet that in 2050 the web will be mostly replaced by some kind of VR network with a lot of sound, 3D videos and interactive objects. The web as it is already decays due to tons legacy cruft, insane complexity of doi
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It's one of the biggest problems in fronted development right now and it's something conceivably can be addressed by the... well, let's call it "guiding structural paradigm" for the lack of a less pretentious ter
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It's true that I don't know for sure, but I haven't seen any citations, or verbal references, or any similarities in the APIs that would indicate familiarity with the relevant research I had in mind. Also, a lot of research i
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UI-level tests are the only kind that reliably test the full stack of your application. No amount of unis testing will catch a missing button or a wrong config setting. And while recorders present some challenges, manually coding UI-level t
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by romaniv 9y ago
We started to adapt Selenium IDE to allow people who don't have extensive coding backgrounds to automate manual testing they're already doing. It provided massive time savings when used properly. This news will likely completely k
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by romaniv 9y ago
> there are alternatives in development that are targetting a similar niche Which tools are out there (open source and as easy to use as Selenium IDE)?
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Components with extensibility through inheritance written in a prototype-based language. Having worked with around a dozen component-based systems over the years I'm not particularly enthusiastic. I think it would be much better for th
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by romaniv 9y ago
I wish I've heard/seen some of the Alan Kay talks/articles earlier in my career. The more I work in IT, the more I see the wisdom in how he sees the industry. (And I don't just mean these pop culture comments.)
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That's good to hear. Apparently I jumped all the important parts when skimming the article. Appreciate the clarification here.
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There is a serious problem when every new generations of a technology fixates on some problem of its choice and ignores all the others. The issue of binary blobs didn't go away. What changed is that a lot of developers today don't
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It's worth learning about the roots of OO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8X-yvDWClc The ideas were great, but it all went horribly wrong with C++ and never fully recovered. Modern OOP has few benefits of the origina
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If you find this kind of stuff interesting/challenging, you might want to read some stuff from Seymour Papert who dedicated large portion of his life to figuring exactly this: how to teach kids to program. His definition of "progr
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What I don't understand is why there aren't open online magazines/blogs for this kind of stuff. I.e. a blog with well-defined subject where there is some minor editorial oversight to filter out garbage, but where anyone can s
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by romaniv 9y ago
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, I highly recommend reading or watching something about Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyoT_Ha_bA
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Programming with Agents(alumni.media.mit.edu)
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I think it would help a lot if we brought random forests and SVMs to the same level of performance as DNNs. Demonstrating that more "mechanical" algorithms can be as efficient would dispel some of the anthropomorphism and allow fo
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by romaniv 9y ago
The official tournament page says it was only the second game. Why does the article suggest it was the third? https://events.google.com/alphago2017/
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Different versions of Go have different rules for scoring.
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Would that mean that a slight change in board evaluation rules would require Alpha Go to retrain all of its strategies?
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Plug for a somewhat different take on "attribute-driven" development: https://github.com/QuickenLoans/Behaviors.js No centralized framework. Everything is decomposed into "behaviors" that have no di
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Something that works well for a desktop with a large monitor, keyboard and mouse doesn't necessarily work well for a tablet with a relatively small touchscreen and vise versa.
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I had really bad experience with Surface Pro 3 (lots of hardware and software issues), but I have to say this: Microsoft is trying to do the right thing here. There is no reason tablets should be dumb-down media consumption devices when the
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by romaniv 9y ago
I've been wondering the same thing. It is why I don't like the fact that we need increasingly specialized types of computers to do ML. This is also why I am very interested in research that is not based on deep neural networks, wh
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Alan Kay: How to Invent the Future [video](youtube.com)
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You mean this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDM33CMJvp8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIR6Rmhm3To (I'm trying to watch all of his recent talks. Despite [or because of?] being critical of the i
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by romaniv 9y ago
I think you would be surprised by how many things they imagined and even prototyped in some form. The Society of Mind videos have some very interesting historic tidbits (and more): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pb3z2w9gDg
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My thought exactly. Here is a 1971 video of a robot arm stacking cubes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1oJzUSlTeY Obviously, it's not entirely equivalent to what's described in the article, but the point still s
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Interface design is very, very important at this stage of evolution of computing, and I am disappointed in the overall direction taken by the industry in this regard. What we (desperately) need is work similar to the one that was done by Do
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Alan Kay talking about agent-oriented computing in 1990: https://youtu.be/275FQ9koAw8?t=7647 Very interesting view, especially considering how long ago that was and how relevant they still are.
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I completely agree. In fact, I think running a debugger should never be the first option. My process: 1. Read the code and think about what it's really doing. 2. If that leads nowhere, write (more?) unit/integration tests. 3. On

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