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by westoncb 7y ago
So I wrote a projectional/structure editor[1] that does this sort of nested tiles representation. The reason for it wasn't to teach syntax though, it was to provide users with bigger, easier to interact with UI elements (reasons b
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by westoncb 7y ago
Ha! Hadn't considered that... I could see a VR version being pretty cool though actually. Maybe if it was set up sort of like a standing chalkboard where you can move freely in the room but walk up to it and manipulate things... Plus d
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by westoncb 7y ago
Thanks! I came across this kind of app for the first time in January (GrandPerspective, WinDirStat, DiasyDisk, TreeSize, etc.), and I've spent a lot of time thinking about/working on making interactive/visual trees in the pas
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by westoncb 7y ago
Whenever I get free time I work on my 'abstract visual debugger' project. I've been doing that since late 2014 though, so recently I'm trying a new tack to free up some time for myself: I've been building a little d
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by westoncb 7y ago
With a background in games and computer graphics, I've recently been working on developer tools, CAD software, data visualization, mobile and web development. I've gotten to like building stuff with web technologies and have been
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by westoncb 7y ago
Hey, that makes me feel a bit better about some of my software projects too! ;)
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by westoncb 7y ago
> ... but rather in response to "disequilibria" That's a nice way of putting it—matches my view perfectly. > Do you think that the presence/lack of this intellectual need is the highest-order bit? I do (with an imp
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by westoncb 7y ago
> It’s very true that you will absorb nothing from a book which you do not read. That's not quite what I mean by motivation. To be more specific I should say 'intrinsic motivation'. I'm assuming the book is actually r
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by westoncb 7y ago
The article does an effective thing by creating a strong interest in knowing how the author will justify himself for some of the claims he's made—and it doesn't disappoint: if you give it a chance, it gives answers to the controve
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by westoncb 7y ago
AFAICT, it's a confusingly aggrandizing term that does offer some new things, but should at most be considered a new subtype of programming language (rather than something different from programming languages altogether[0]—and I'd
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by westoncb 7y ago
Again I’m out atm and can’t reply on full, but I think if you read my post in more detail it already has the response to much of what you’re describing. I agree it’s not the bottleneck to programming languages overall, but it is the bottlen
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by westoncb 7y ago
I can’t give a full reply atm, but briefly I’d say: yes, it’s more complex than character sequences but that complexity (which isn’t much) could be shifted to a lib once for any number of languages, as opposed to needing to parse every lang
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by westoncb 7y ago
There's something I think could be game-changing on the front-end of programming languages: Just (as in 'only') change the (internal) representation of source code from character sequences to something that doesn't nee
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by westoncb 7y ago
Location: Tucson, AZ Remote: ideal Willing to relocate: possibly Technologies: Various. I've been using mostly web-based tech recently. I'm gonna say 'three.js' here in case someone searches the page for it. See résumé f
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by westoncb 7y ago
C3-PO: "Sir the probability of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!" Han Solo: "Never tell me the odds!" -------- C3-Po has the habit Munger recommends. Han is probably an incorrigible o
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by westoncb 7y ago
There's a David Foster Wallace short story on this subject. It's called "Mister Squishy". Here's an especially relevant excerpt from an overview/interpretation of it that I wrote[1]: Now it seems that the purp
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by westoncb 7y ago
Do you know who his intended audience is? Just because his article got posted here doesn't mean he was writing it for the general HN audience. Most likely he's writing it for an audience that knows very well the difference between
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by westoncb 7y ago
> ... recognizing that there exists inequality doesn't cast value judgement on that inequality. You just asserted your attribution of cause right there: inequality. There are multiple possible causes for differing demographic repres
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by westoncb 7y ago
> Often these errors stem from systematic biases in our society ... Depending on the what the appropriate quantification of 'often' is, that might make sense. Do we have enough reason to believe it would take on a high enough v
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by westoncb 7y ago
> Except that's exactly what it is. Using the term 'bias' has certain political motivations behind it. It's not about the term being technically untrue as it is about the term being non-neutral. For instance, here are
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by westoncb 7y ago
I think this is pretty insightful. It's easy to hate on OO because of something along the lines of it not being a neat mathematical formalism, which can facilely be argued as strictly a deficiency: if you don't look too closely, i
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by westoncb 7y ago
getArea() { return this.width * this.height; } getIcon() { // if icon hasn't been loaded, load it return this.icon; }
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by westoncb 7y ago
Getting some interesting syntax ideas from the headline "rust version 3.2 released": ---------------------------------- "For example, let's say a function is like this in C++. - a function that has a string of type (valu
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by westoncb 8y ago
Those are interesting ideas. I'm actually not a Vim user either, but it at least has been at the back of my mind for years to to get around to learning. So there's a chance that may work. I've also been thinking for a couple
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by westoncb 8y ago
Ah, thanks! That actually is better than what I inferred from the video.
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by westoncb 8y ago
Perfect—thanks! Yeah, my current, main ideas txt file is something called "movies to watch.txt" —which does start with a list of movies, but then I added some random extended thoughts there temporarily and it has grown massively s
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by westoncb 8y ago
I often see things about org-mode showing up on here, and I get the basic idea but I'd like to see a more in depth explanation of why it's so great. Anyone have a recommendation for an article or video or something on the subject?
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by westoncb 8y ago
Having read the book, kaycebasques' original description is one of the more accurate summaries I've come across. There is this contingent of people who instead offer an interpretation of the book that it's somehow about provi
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by westoncb 8y ago
Hmm, yep, tools and graphics are what I'd be most interested in as well. 3rd and 3rd here :)
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by westoncb 8y ago
Not really unfortunately :/ We were basically winging it without really digging into the research or anything, except for computational geometry algorithms.

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