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by westoncb 9y ago
It's still numerically controlled. 'Hand-held' just refers to its size, not how it's operated.
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by westoncb 9y ago
I tried looking for a video of someone using the app so I could get a more clear idea of the sorts of things it would teach. This is the first thing I came across: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsA2bGdrkaQ I found it inte
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by westoncb 9y ago
This is intriguing, though personally I never connected much with Fowler's writing in the past (though I have gotten into his ideas ). Anyone know of any other good books about high-level design/architecture for javascript? Actua
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by westoncb 9y ago
Makes sense. And so did your explanation for liking Rudin above (or wherever it's positioned now).
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by westoncb 9y ago
Haha—that's great! But wait, you weren't in Berkeley, CA in 2013 were you?
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by westoncb 9y ago
I've wondered that too. My conclusion is that it's mostly coming from folks who aren't distinguishing between something like elegance as a mathematical work and effective pedagogy. The first person I met singing its praises w
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by westoncb 9y ago
The main factor I've noticed having an impact on the enjoyability of learning is: do I feel I have to learn the thing, or am I just choosing to? It seems like the unpleasantness emerges from anxiety about potential failure to learn t
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by westoncb 9y ago
I'm working on a higher level, more visual debugger (video here): http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd It's cool because programmers should be able to easily watch their algorithms transforming the data they op
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by westoncb 9y ago
There are potential negative effects, but the above is... Well, yeah, here is some more legit info on the subject: https://www.nhs.uk/news/lifestyle-and-exercise/does-meditati...
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by westoncb 9y ago
I made one in 2013 that broke documents into tiles along grammatical boundaries that could be dragged around like app icons on smart phone home screens: https://youtu.be/tztmgCcZaM4?t=1m25s
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Ask HN: Can you recommend resources for learning JavaScript app architecture?
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by westoncb 9y ago
This seems pretty much like exactly what I was looking for—thanks!
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My main interest is just that it seems like an interesting system—and it's cool that it can be put into correspondence with sounds.
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by westoncb 9y ago
Anyone know a nice source for learning some basic music theory? To be more specific, something that would teach whatever would be required to understand the musical concepts in this article (for example). The ideal would be something direct
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by westoncb 9y ago
If you want to experiment some more, I made this little webgl app [0] that makes it easy to mess with Conway's GoL while it's executing (you hold shift, which pauses the simulation, and click on cells to toggle them on or off). It
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by westoncb 9y ago
This may be a more general form of what you're describing: look for small parts of programs (which re-appear often in many programs) which are proven to never terminate; if any of those simple non-executing subprograms are found, the l
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by westoncb 9y ago
I was hoping this was a class in the object-oriented language sense, and that somehow you'd use this class to instantiate a C++ in your program. Oh well—one can always dream.
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by westoncb 9y ago
It has definitely helped. I'm thinking less about useless stuff and feel significantly more calm and 'out of my head'. That said, I still think about things that interest me and meditation is one, so I've got some though
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by westoncb 9y ago
Sorry to hear you had to go through it. I feel like I'm getting damn close to finally escaping something very similar now, after several years of it dominating my life. It's was largely a psychosomatic thing for me. It started wit
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by westoncb 9y ago
Along similar lines, writing a simple emulator (e.g. Chip-8) or a 3D model loader/renderer/animator (e.g. for md2 or md3 files, which have an open spec and lots of models available) would be similarly good I think, depending on yo
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by westoncb 9y ago
> That’s the definition, much like information theoretic death is death Information theoretic 'death' implies actual death (assuming I understand your 'death' metaphor in 'information theoretic death' ), b
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by westoncb 9y ago
> Information theoretically speaking, the inside of a black hole’s event horizon does not exist There's your metaphor. If you didn't need to qualify it that way, you could perhaps get away with saying otherwise—but with the qua
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by westoncb 9y ago
I think this is something that deserves much greater general awareness. I think by default we're pretty unaware of the kind of analogizing/metaphoring that takes place when we conceptualize anything—but it's completely pervas
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by westoncb 9y ago
That's interesting—I'll definitely give Patchwork a try. I'm curious to see which 'Pubs' have been created in my city. That said, the focus seems pretty distinct from my own interest, which is basically to create a
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by westoncb 9y ago
It makes sense to me that junior programmers would not jump to state machines for something like, e.g., handling complex UI state. I see the reasons as twofold: 1) How would you describe the reason for using state machines over handling the
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by westoncb 9y ago
Hmm, this seems like a kind of understandable attitude if I'm reading it correctly. Hearing that it's a (standard) graph algorithm means it's a solved problem so you don't need to worry about it: pick up a text book or G
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by westoncb 9y ago
I've been thinking about extending this data structure visualizer I've been working on to also deal with state machines. Part of my thinking is that it could be integrated (done through something like logging calls) into various p
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by westoncb 9y ago
I think there's a '3' here: Science and evidence-based thinking are (relatively) orthogonal to the emergence of social chaos and conflict. If I'm not mistaken this is implied in Marxist thinking, so it is an idea that is
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by westoncb 9y ago
Fragment shaders (which this is) are quite resolution dependent: they are programs which execute at each pixel, so the input size to the algorithm contained in the shader is essentially equal to the resolution (it's not strictly, since
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by westoncb 9y ago
Also, check out this video of the lambda terms involved in computing factorial three evolving through beta reductions—to jazz music! It feels oddly fitting somehow...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt11BsAZMq8 I'd be

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