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by scroot 8y ago
St Helena airport is open and technically operational. It's certainly one of the most remote airports on the planet (this happened post 2015)
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by scroot 8y ago
They should be using their insane amounts of cash and market power to completely re-invent personal computing.
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by scroot 8y ago
Robert Lustig argues that the rate is precisely what's important: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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by scroot 8y ago
> Visualizations are great for shared intuition, but it should only be used at the end of a long personal struggle which should involve hours upon hours of undistracted effort, preferably involving something tactile like a pen and pencil
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by scroot 8y ago
What if we expand what we mean by "programming" and who we call "programmers"? Decades ago Hypercard enabled regular users to create the kind of interactive media you've described, and to do so easily. There are sev
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by scroot 8y ago
The second essay in David Graeber's book "The Utopia of Rules," which I think is called something like "On Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit," has an interesting discussion on why the future you described
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by scroot 8y ago
Someone is eventually going to make one of the systems you describe, regardless of what Apple does. Modern consumer OSes are overly complex. Worse, there's nothing "personal" about personal computing. Something like a Small
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by scroot 8y ago
A good start might be to just implement the Platinum UI in Pharo and work from there.
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by scroot 8y ago
Remember: Smalltalk was invented at PARC where, among other things, they had a broad goal to create systems that didn't exist. GUIs for personal computing prior to this were purely terminal based, with standard monotype faces. These gu
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by scroot 8y ago
Here's a link to the thing running in a browser: https://bertfreudenberg.github.io/Smalltalk78/
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by scroot 8y ago
Yes, and he has expanded it into a full book. It comes out later this month.
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by scroot 8y ago
That's true, but these were iterations on materials and systems that already existed — things that came from the research community. Much of what we call personal computing today wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the ARPA resea
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by scroot 8y ago
> But it wasn't changes in government policy that made this possible. It was the rise of microcomputers and networks that made this possible The history of computing is precisely one of government policy, namely the ARPA funding fro
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by scroot 8y ago
I feel you man. There is a guy working on his own "open source" laptop, and his eventual goal is to have it run lisp all the way down: http://mntmn.com/reform/
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by scroot 9y ago
> But people discounting coding GUIs left and right, just because they haven't seen a good example of it yet, only discourages others to explore it further. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, to some degree And there are good exa
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by scroot 9y ago
There is a reason VisiCalc was such a big deal when it first came out. This is a UI that is both intuitive to regular people and also incredibly powerful -- and one that takes little effort to learn. It's a sign of the kinds of things
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by scroot 9y ago
Why is working with spreadsheets not considered programming?
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by scroot 9y ago
Shout out to Clark's in BK
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by scroot 9y ago
This is great and I hope the project gains momentum
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by scroot 9y ago
There is actually a book co-authored by Robin Dunbar [1] that examines the implications of social media etc. It was published a few years ago as the results of the decade long Lucy Project. I highly recommend the book if you're interes
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by scroot 9y ago
Just this afternoon I finished reading David Harland's 1988 book "Rekursiv: Object-Oriented Computer Architecture". It describes a completely different way of designing machines at the low level that can support better progra
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by scroot 9y ago
Seconding the recommendation of Herbert Simon, especially Sciences of the Artificial.
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by scroot 9y ago
Once we get usable and affordable e-ink monitors designers will have to revisit this territory seriously.
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by scroot 9y ago
Given what they'll probably teach, I bet it's actually backward-thinking
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by scroot 9y ago
I wish lively.next could get some more funding or otherwise take off. It would really change how people make complex web applications
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by scroot 9y ago
I'll try one of those -- might be good to have something separate. I use Emacs as my main editor and there's already a lot added onto it. Thanks for the links.
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by scroot 9y ago
Every time I've tried to follow the setup tutorial in that book I've not been able to get something basic to work, like the REPL or the flycheck parser. It's prevented me from really diving in to be honest.
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by scroot 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdJKjBHCh18
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by scroot 9y ago
I work in React daily and, unfortunately, it's nothing like what I'm describing and what Hypercard hinted at. React is for developers in 2018. Hypercard-like things are for personal computer users of all variety.
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by scroot 9y ago
I saw a talk with Bill Atkinson in which a surprising number of members of the audience claimed to still maintain old hardware just for running Hypercard. Two of the members said they used it to this day to keep their own financial records

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