rtens

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by rtens 10y ago
If I understand you correctly you're probably thinking about how more concise notation systems make things easier for experts but harder for novices, e.g. maths and music scores, and probably Haskell as well. So I suppose you mean &quo
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by rtens 10y ago
Nice to meet ya as well! Your material looks very exciting. I'll drop you an email once I've digested it all.
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by rtens 10y ago
That's one of my all-time favourite books so if I hadn't read it I'd be eternally thankful to you for pointing me to it =) It definitely blew my mind. It didn't make me feel that mathematics is somehow limited though. As
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by rtens 10y ago
Wow that's exactly how I feel. I couldn't even formulate it that well. But I'm very happy to know that other people feel this itch as well. Your sentiment of "aiming for the future we want" instead of "piling u
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by rtens 10y ago
Sorry that the style puts you off. I wanted to make a strong statement that people either strongly agree or disagree with or maybe find ridicoulous. But if it helps me finding peopoe who already agree with me I'd say mission accomplis
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by rtens 10y ago
I want to "increase the number of people who are able to write, modify, combine and share software by building a tool that makes writing software easy and fun, and accessible to everyone." I even have a slogan. I call it "Ena
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by rtens 10y ago
That's probably the biggest weakpoint of the manifesto but also kinda on purpose. While the thesis was all about "let's build something" the manifesto is a fresh start trying to answer the question "what is the prob
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by rtens 10y ago
I must admit that I have only very limited understanding of numeric and cryptography. But I do find these very interesting discussion points. The uncomputable real numbers are the irrational ones, no? But those you can compute to an arbitra
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by rtens 10y ago
Ah words. That might be the wrong one indeed. I guess I always assume the benevolence of the reader while I'm writing. But precision is important. What I meant was that in that virtual world they can be replicated. So the replication
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by rtens 10y ago
What do you think those reasons are? In case of HyperCard I think it's that there wasn't any inter-stack-linking let alone networking. What I'm crying about is that Smalltalk was not the future.
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by rtens 10y ago
Why are computers not trustworthy nor ever will be?
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by rtens 10y ago
That's great. What's your target group?
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by rtens 10y ago
They might not be as benign as you think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAeHuDcy_bY But I agree that this is not a software problem but a business model problem. The solution however, can be software.
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by rtens 10y ago
What should be the punishment for premature optimization?
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by rtens 10y ago
The thesis mentioned elsewhere contains some concrete examples but my goal with the manifesto was to get to the root of the problem I'm trying to solve which is quite abstract indeed. I do not have a document yet that visualizes what I
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by rtens 10y ago
https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4?t=93
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by rtens 10y ago
That's a nice example since nobody can explain how gravity works. It's the least understood force in the universe =) I agree that most people are not inquisitive but I don't think it's by nature since most children I m
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by rtens 10y ago
In the (proximate) words of Alan Kay: "Giving people what they want is marketing, given them what they need is education." I'm more interested in the latter. But I do very much agree that using a computer should not require a
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by rtens 10y ago
That's unfortunate since I put a lot of work in these paragraphs. I'd love to know what you think would make a better case for improving software literacy.
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by rtens 10y ago
- that's exactly what it is. And the way I see it, actors are an implementation of OOP (in it's original meaning) so I would stick with "everything in an object" - thanks =) - I had that same feeling while writing it, co
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by rtens 10y ago
Since you're 100% right I wouldn't call that cynical. It is indeed another approach to create a unified messaging standard. And yeah there are plenty and I haven't even looked at every single one in detail to be able to rejec
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by rtens 10y ago
I don't like the car analogy too much since a car is basically a tool while computers are a medium. I agree with you that programming languages on the other hand, definitely are tools.
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by rtens 10y ago
That's an awesome list, thanks. There seem to be two concept intermingled here though. First is decentralization which I'm a big fan of not only for social and humanitarian reason but also because I'm convinced that it'
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by rtens 10y ago
That's definitely an approach we should keep trying. But it hasn't worked out very well so far and I'm convinced that it's impossible to create an application that fits 100% of the needs of 100% of its users. I would def
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by rtens 10y ago
I thought long and hard about a apt analogy and decided on "literacy" because I'm hoping that using computers as a medium for formulating and exchanging ideas would have a similar effect as reading and writing had. I can very
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by rtens 10y ago
Wow that's depressing. I suddenly feel the impulse to give you a hug and tell you that it's gonna be alright. I wish I was more sure that it actually will be.
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by rtens 10y ago
One really nice thing about academia is that "unlimited resources" are indeed a valid premise while you are in design space. It's only when you start implementing your idea that you have to face a limited universe. But on the
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by rtens 10y ago
I remember a draft of the manifesto that had indeed way more classifiers in it. I guess removing almost all of them for better readability was maybe not the best idea. DecoPerson and noxToken are right about this being a general statement a
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by rtens 10y ago
Since this is my first submission on hacker news, I'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount and quality of the responses. I'll try to address critiques individually but in order to not have to repeat myself continuously I wanted to than
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What's wrong with Software nowadays and how we can fix it(github.com)
74 points by rtens 10y ago|140 comments

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