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by scroot 7y ago
> Nowadays there’s no other realistic economic choice than to do your thing on top of the best open source stuff you can find, even if it’s not quite appropriate What is your take on free software / open source in this regard? I&#x2
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by scroot 7y ago
> For what it's worth, possibly that won't be just one thing, but a wide array of tools? We need to think hard about what reading and writing really are. These are the only technologies of their kind and they have had a complet
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by scroot 7y ago
Marathon Infinity was the absolute jam. It came with its own software for making levels/scenarios, and there were all these community-made Marathon games online. No one ever talks about it!
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by scroot 7y ago
Maybe play realMyst to get through it. But Riven is the real masterpiece, because the brothers took all of the lessons they learned and made something really amazing
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by scroot 7y ago
My first website was a Geopages Myst fan site. I spent weeks trying to "debug" why I couldn't get a picture of Atrus to be the tiled background on my page using the eponymous tag. 12 year old me realized -- eventually -- that
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by scroot 7y ago
Since you were at Apple during what is arguably it's most interesting period software wise, what is your take on the present state of computing? How do you feel about the way Unix has overtaken everything and hasn't budged? What d
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by scroot 7y ago
A healthy exercise, I think, is to replace "developer" with "scribe" whenever we have these conversations. It becomes clear that in large part it is the overall culture that is missing the point -- which should be a kind
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by scroot 7y ago
Cyan's upcoming latest game is a VR title called Firmament: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1252280491/firmament
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by scroot 7y ago
This is such a cool demo
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by scroot 7y ago
Unfortunately there is an entire generation or two now of mainstream developers who never had the opportunity to experience things like Hypercard firsthand. It is always difficult to describe the full extent of the power of systems like it
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by scroot 7y ago
> This comes from our capitalist economic model. Definitely, as culture is in hefty ways influenced by (and itself influences -- dialectic!) political economy. > To change this "culture", you have to change our economic mode
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by scroot 7y ago
> More and more non-CS people are learning to program every day. We (the computing people) make this much harder for them than it needs to be. Instead of giving them malleable computing systems like Oberon, or Hypercard, Smalltalk, or re
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by scroot 7y ago
> Part of it is the increased complexity of app development. Part of it is the walled gardens of our suppliers. And our current culture contributes to both of these issues. We got the kind of computing that fits that culture, which is on
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by scroot 7y ago
The Oberon boon -- especially the 2013 update -- is something that is, unfortunately, uncommon in the field: a total description of a computing system, top to bottom. If you or anyone reading this has access to that book in epub or similar
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by scroot 7y ago
> H-P looks upon their Smalltalk-80 effort as an evaluation of the system as a personal computing environment for _non_-accomplished programmers. He also mentioned that they view Smalltalk-80 as a product usable by non-hackers. This visi
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by scroot 7y ago
I wrote to the maintainer in late 2018 and he informed me that the project is no longer under development. He mentioned that CoreObject (coreobject.org) would still be active, but that was over two years ago and I can't say for sure.
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by scroot 7y ago
> not only it is as dynamic as Python, at any given moment can the image change its contents, and via messages like becomes: an object completely changes its internal structure. Another thing: in Smalltalk the idea of a "stack frame
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by scroot 7y ago
> commercial software companies are predisposed to support the latter while the free software movement should have focused on the former. There is a related issue at play here when it comes to how systems are developed. It takes an enorm
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by scroot 7y ago
I asked about this on the mailing list a while back. Apparently it requires changes in the VM, and as you can imagine there are fewer people working on the VM side. This must also be a problem for Squeak, too, but they work around it by hav
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by scroot 7y ago
> I do wish there was more development in alternative operating systems. This should also go hand in hand with development in alternative computing systems, environments, and architectures as well. Just as the dominance of Unix occurred
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by scroot 7y ago
> So why do professional programmers still exist? Because most people don't want to do even that level of software development. Either they find it beneath them, find it boring, get frustrated when they want to do something that str
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by scroot 7y ago
Yup. This article is reporting bad news, not good news.
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by scroot 7y ago
> I've seen this type of book before, a liberal arts major's take on Silicon Valley. Which particular undergraduate field of study do you prefer when it comes to authorship? Maybe we should also get her high school Chemistry fi
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by scroot 7y ago
> It's an active environment controlled by a dynamic language, it simply isn't done as well, and it isn't done entirely consistently across web browser implementations One of the worst parts is that you don't do web d
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by scroot 7y ago
What are the improvements? Who is providing them and how?
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by scroot 7y ago
Read Piketty
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by scroot 7y ago
> What’s inherently bad with differences between poor and rich people? This is not the argument. Concern rests on the size of the gap, rather than the fact of differences. Greater inequality is associated with many negative properties, s
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by scroot 7y ago
Since you are someone who seems to have been in on this in the heyday, I'll share my story with you (I think it is, in a way, telling). In short: I was a Hypercard kid. It's strange to look back on it this way, but the early/
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by scroot 7y ago
I was able to find this userguide [1], which is from 1994. It's very interesting. Since the project seems to have gone on until 1997 I imagine this doesn't represent the later versions, but perhaps they weren't documented lik
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by scroot 7y ago
Is there some version of SK8 floating around the net that one could boot up in Sheepshaver or similar? I'd really like to experience this for myself

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