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541.
by scroot 9y ago
It's possible to develop a personal computer whose hardware has been designed to run a programming environment as its operating system. In fact, these existed before. Lisp machines did it, and Smalltalk was developed precisely as this
542.
by scroot 9y ago
All I meant by bringing up the web browser is that for a personal computer to be usable in reality by a lot of people they'll need a web browser. But just that user application alone gets them really far: email, office productivity, et
543.
by scroot 9y ago
The way things stand now, the only required piece of application software that a new personal computer needs in order to be viable is a web browser. But once you have that, and the system of your machine is sufficiently compelling, it would
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by scroot 9y ago
Ok I found what I was talking about: http://elevr.com/portfolio/future-programming-interfaces/
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by scroot 9y ago
The eleVR people have some interesting demos in this regard, where you program from inside the VR system. That might be the best way to try things out and conduct the "foundational work"
546.
by scroot 9y ago
The STEPS project was able to get an experimental system up and running with 20k lines. He's not talking out of his ass. When he has the dough he produces
547.
by scroot 9y ago
This is totally bizarre. It must be a joke, right?
548.
by scroot 9y ago
For anyone interesting in trying out, here are the open source Smalltalk implementations available: Pharo [1] Squeak [2] Cuis [3] Note that these implementations have FFI and which you can modify / build shared libraries for. The creat
549.
by scroot 9y ago
Are you guys working on (or have you considered) WASM text format as a target language?
550.
by scroot 9y ago
In order to completely reimagine everything, you have to start at hardware, environments, and operating systems. For the past couple of decades we've been trapped in a more or less "one size fits all" when it comes to all of
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by scroot 9y ago
Spec [1] is one way. You can also find a list of books on the Pharo website [2]. [1] http://files.pharo.org/books/spec-tutorial/ [2] http://books.pharo.org
552.
by scroot 9y ago
There's Shampoo [1] but I'll be damned if I've ever been able to get it to work. [1] http://dmitrymatveev.co.uk/shampoo/
553.
by scroot 9y ago
FYI for anyone reading / interested: Amber is apparently still under active development, but they moved from Github to a self hosted platform [1]. Last code update was 3 days ago. [1] https://lolg.it/amber/amber
554.
by scroot 9y ago
Yes, a Smalltalk computer. Very nice. Are you working with SiliconSqueak? I can never tell what the status of that project is. I would definitely pick one up / build one.
555.
by scroot 9y ago
Where can we get one?
556.
by scroot 9y ago
I don't even think you need a VM, really. Just have this particular computer equipped with some soft-core that handles IP from the outside. The memory mapping, since it's just IPv6, can determine whether you are dealing with infor
557.
by scroot 9y ago
Hardware architecture is the horizon of my knowledge. But one thing I've always wondered is this: why not just have memory addresses inside a computer map to local IPv6 addresses, then have some other "chip" that can distingu
558.
by scroot 9y ago
A few year ago when I was doing some historical research about DNS, I came across quite a few interesting papers that all discussed "agents" in a way that seemed based on some shared knowledge/assumptions people had at the ti
559.
by scroot 9y ago
The thing about DNS and naming is that there were a lot of ideas flying around, some of them in the big standards committees. X.400 and X.500 were the OSI standards for messaging and directory services that were going to handle finding enti
560.
by scroot 9y ago
Dude's got a research lab where they're building things. What counts as trousers?
561.
by scroot 9y ago
Bingo
562.
by scroot 9y ago
> My understanding is we underwent a reorientation in the 1980s, because it was realized that there was too little attention paid to the benefits that a relatively autonomous economy can produce, killing off bad ideas, where what's
563.
by scroot 9y ago
> The main assumption here is my thoughts are organized as graphs Herbert Simon talks a lot about this in Sciences of the Artificial. It turns out most of human thinking is just lists. I'm not sure if that still stands in the field
564.
by scroot 9y ago
And the story we tell ourselves today is, frankly, a dismal one. It's that all of computing should be invented and put into the service of "the economy" rather than people. Instead of a culture of "computational literacy
565.
by scroot 9y ago
Not the point. "What would information technology be like today if ARPA/IPTO style funding still existed?" would be the more relevant question. I'd call those dudes "great artists". That's the community Ka
566.
by scroot 9y ago
See: [1] [1] http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/
567.
by scroot 9y ago
Among the shallowest of cheapjack Silicon Valley slogans. But certainly revealing of its ethos. In such a climate one could be forgiven for imagining that not everything has to be a commercial product to be used, appreciated, or valuable. W
568.
by scroot 9y ago
The topic is Apple because the interviewer is a journalist who was writing a book about the iPhone. Plenty of other resources online show him praising work he likes (Bret Victor, for example) and systems that he thinks are in the right dire
569.
by scroot 9y ago
> "I don't buy it that everyone would be a digital creative if they just had the right tools." That is not Kay's argument. Not everyone who scribbles notes or draws something on a piece of paper is a "creative&qu
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by scroot 9y ago
Unlike CS programs in high schools and universities. They're stuck in the 50s rehashing sorting algorithms for their students. Meanwhile an entire community of "programmers" was trained and let loose in the wild to endlessly

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