The Setup: Joe Armstrong

http://joe.armstrong.usesthis.com/

by lispython • 13 years ago

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coldtea• 13 years ago

Joe Armstrong is great, but come on: of course he took drugs!

I mean, how else could he write such an innovative language while pedaling his bike to the moon -- much less blow his trumpet at the same time?

lazyjones• 13 years ago

> I mean, how else could he write such an innovative language

He used Prolog and was inspired by it... Prolog is far out.

rawland• 13 years ago

"Evernote for a web clipbook, and chandler to organise jobs."

What is chandler? Is it this one: http://chandlerproject.org ?

Seems interesting but also pretty abandoned.

cnu• 13 years ago

We tried using it in the previous startup I worked with.

It was pretty hard to make everyone use it and soon we ended up installing redmine for issue tracking.

jboynyc• 13 years ago

Yes, that's the one. It's the project the book Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg (2008) is based on. It's a shame the project folded right around the time of its 1.0 release -- it looks really promising, but definitely not there yet. So I was surprised to see Joe Armstrong uses it.

pessimizer• 13 years ago

I remember being obsessed with it for an afternoon. The design of it looks awesome, but I think it's a victim of being built on a particularly annoying stack.

Redone as a webapp w/an easily setup server, even with no other UX changes, and I'd absolutely use it. I'm going to put researching that on my substandard todo list:)

draven• 13 years ago

It looks like the project has some kind of web thingie: http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/CosmoHome

marcc• 13 years ago

Yeah, that's it. Joe talked about it during a lecture last week. He says he's working to rebuild it.

keithpeter2• 13 years ago

Excellent news. I followed this project briefly some years ago but reverted to Outlook and Evolution.

keithpeter2• 13 years ago

From OA under Dream Setup

"If the machine broke I would like to go to any other machine and resume work within a few seconds without losing any data."

cf Rob Pike

"I don't install a lot of extra stuff on those Macs, mostly to reduce maintenance. I like the freedom to wipe and reinstall without losing my world... "

These older developers know how to get things done and not waste time. As an end user, I've arrived at a similar place albeit using kludgy dropbox and rsync scripts.

jzelinskie2• 13 years ago

Find anybody who has used Windows on a regular basis and you'll find they do the same thing. I expect to have to reformat Windows multiple times a year. I've carried this mentality everywhere. I've used Arch Linux and configured every little bit of my OS and found that having a portable config and being used to system defaults is much more valuable than finding an obscure way to make yourself more productive. I can basically pick up any unix-like OS, clone my dotfiles, and I'm good to go.

michaelwww• 13 years ago

Why do you have to reformat Windows multiple times a year? I could understand this if you are using versions other than XP and 7 (too soon to tell with 8) but if you're doing it several times a year on those versions then you have some other problem.

krmboya• 13 years ago

> Emacs bash and make for all programming

It seems if you pick your tools well you can accomplish a lot with a little

douglee650• 13 years ago

"I would like to access all my data, securely forever ..." ----

serious issue. people are beginning to understand the very real chance that their grandchildren will never see a photo of their parents exists.

xal• 13 years ago

Living mostly on a Chromebook and programming through action.io, I'm probably closer to where Joe wants to be then he thinks is possible.

ciupicri• 13 years ago

> What would be your dream setup?

> Software that’s not broken.

As someone who has just reported yet another bug [1], I couldn't agree more.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929329

cgrubb2• 13 years ago

Which implementation of Prolog does Joe use I wonder?

nisse72• 13 years ago

I'd guess SICStus: http://sicstus.sics.se/

cgrubb2• 13 years ago

I went ahead and asked him and here is what he said:

@clarkgrubb I use the #erlang Prolog system github.com/rvirding/erlog from @rvirding and swipl.

The Setup: Joe Armstrong

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