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by scroot 5y ago
> In fact, I'd be very interested to know what Wirth thinks about Smalltalk; I haven't read a statement from him about it anywhere, or heard anything from him about it in the many interviews I'd be interested to know as we
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by scroot 5y ago
Squeak is still pretty good! The new 6.0 release is forthcoming.
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by scroot 5y ago
Is there are recording somewhere of the talk you mentioned?
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by scroot 5y ago
More power (and funding) should go to libraries. In the US case, the Library of Congress and perhaps NARA are natural places for expanded tech infrastructure and projects.
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by scroot 5y ago
Do you have some instructions, screenshots, or video about the lobster project?
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by scroot 5y ago
Just looked in the current Squeak trunk image as an example. The max depth of a Class from Object (rather than from the metaclasses like Behavior, ProtoObject, etc -- these to me are irrelevant to the count) is 8. There are very few 8, 7, o
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by scroot 5y ago
The concern is faster warming and an out of control positive feedback loop.
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by scroot 5y ago
I booted up MPW in an emulator last year to check it out. Definitely a unique experience. Very cool.
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by scroot 5y ago
Which I believe is built with annotatorjs [1]. I have used that library on a couple of projects and it's been around for quite a while. [1] https://github.com/openannotation/annotator/
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by scroot 5y ago
Ten years ago, Errol Morris conducted a "study" in the NYTimes about which typeface is the most believable [1]. Turns out it's Baskerville. [1] https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/h
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by scroot 5y ago
All these electric car companies putting everything into touchscreens is the height of stupidity. What's the first thing you're supposed to avoid when driving? Not everything needs to have the sheen of being hi-tech. Sometimes a k
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by scroot 5y ago
> So, what's to stop someone today from making a modern hypercard clone? One issue is the HyperCard fit holistically with Macs of the 80s and early 90s. A straight clone doesn't quite make sense today -- perhaps we need slightl
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by scroot 5y ago
He was busy eating, which is apparently what he does most of the time. Relaxing to watch.
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by scroot 5y ago
I met Jonathan in 2016. AMA.
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by scroot 5y ago
> C array access is (not totally accurate) replaceable with pointer arithmetic and dereferencing. So array[-1] is the same as *(array - 1). Thanks, that part is clear. I guess in the Piumarta paper, he's assuming all of these object
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by scroot 5y ago
I love this paper! One thing I've never understood (because my C is poor) is what is means to access something at array[-1]. What does that even mean? Wouldn't it be a garbage value, if anything?
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by scroot 5y ago
The central question for Dynamicland is one of "media for thought," and therefore the specifics of this or that programming language (or "code") can't be that important. What is important, however, is taking a more
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by scroot 5y ago
Yeah please do some kind of write-up!
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by scroot 5y ago
Is your position that the adopting of a Marxist analytical framework necessarily leads to phenomena like the Cultural Revolution?
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by scroot 5y ago
What does "bang for the buck" in education mean specifically? If we are thinking in terms of democratic societies here, then certainly the (utilitarian) point of education should be to raise the bar especially for the "averag
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by scroot 5y ago
> Just because they don't do computing like _you_ do, using a laptop, doesn't mean they don't have access to the Internet for what they need. True enough. But can we seriously call such activity "digital literacy&quot
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by scroot 5y ago
Ames' concept of the "technically precocious boy" is her entire thesis in a nutshell: that the creators of the OLPC projected their values, experiences, and assumptions onto the whole project. I have conducted hours of interv
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by scroot 5y ago
One interesting aspect of the OLPC project is what it didn't attempt to do: to apply the theory of its design to first world countries that also have broad public education problems (I'm thinking specifically of the U.S.) I chalk
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by scroot 5y ago
I read the book last year. While it is definitely a critique -- and while Ames provides a debatable framing of her overall thesis -- the accounting of the actual, on-the-ground uses of OLPC laptops is invaluable. Assessment is not the same
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by scroot 5y ago
This is great! I would love to be able to combine something like this with Guix so that I can also install any FFI/external dependencies with my images.
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by scroot 5y ago
Yeah, just don't save the image. Whenever you restart the program use a fresh image. This is pretty much indistinguishable from a "normal" program's state when it is running.
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by scroot 5y ago
There have been several different version control systems available for most Smalltalks for a while now. In the big open source Smalltalks (Squeak, Pharo, etc) there is even Git integration.
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by scroot 5y ago
Anyone know of "solar system simulation" software that allows one to explore all celestial bodies, probes, and satellites currently (and historically) in the solar system -- like a 3D program? I know NASA has Eyes but that's
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by scroot 5y ago
A question that people in the computing field need to consider: is computing more like plumbing or more like reading and writing? It's an important distinction for many reasons. I would pay someone to do most of my plumbing. I wouldn&#
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by scroot 5y ago
Google should have been run by libraries, perhaps even the Library of Congress.

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