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d3gt.com 4mo ago

Learn Graph Theory Interactively with D3 Animations

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masters.scroll.pub 1y ago

ScrollMasters: A Class on Scroll Techologies

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breckyunits.com 1y ago

Strong Startup Advice

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sdk.scroll.pub 1y ago

Parsers: A Language for Making Languages

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hub.scroll.pub 1y ago

Show HN: Scroll Forms

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Book or Tutorial to Design Protocols?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Books to learn scheme so that I can hack scribble?

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Boox eInk 15.6 Tablet (April first)

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Text to wireframe tools that you can recommend?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Is there a declarative animation language?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What is the sqlite of graph databases?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Software that treats a folder as the input to a queue?

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github.com 7y ago

Links: functional programming language designed to make web programming easier

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Language to write interactive command line tutorials?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Language to write interactive command line tutorials?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Strong typed language for data analysis?

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www.joelonsoftware.com 10y ago

Can Your Programming Language Do This?(2006)

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: open source ticket / helpdesk system?

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www.slugsite.com 14y ago

Best camera hack ever (turning a camera into a explosion detector)

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pivotallabs.com 14y ago

Talk on Online Billing Challenges. (Recurly and Pivotal Labs)

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: Friendly Introduction to State Machines?

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask HN: Do you guys use speed reading techniques?

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That is why Iverson invented APL. As a notation to get rid of all those inconsistencies in math notation. And for years he taught math classes with APL on the blackboard without computers.

whether he succeeded, is debatable. But APL is definitely powerful, succinct and "regular".

In APL you don't infer the operation from the types at all. × is elementwise, +.× is inner product /always/, on scalars, vectors, matrices, whatever. The glyph tells you what happens. Nothing is bold, nothing is inferred, nothing depends on what your professor assumed you'd absorbed.

I've been trying to get into Iversonian languages myself with the book: Calculous on J

One of the clearest thinkers I had the privilege of knowing was Dr. Eli Goldratt author of Theory of Constraints.

Fortunately for us he defined as his life's mission to teach the world to think clearly.

So I suggest you start with three of his books: The Goal, Is not luck and The Choice. After trat read "The thinking Processes".

Apart from the theory of Constraints literature you can study system dynamics. And if you like programming then "Introduction to NetLogo" is great at both.

If you don't like programming then Zenge's the "Fifth Discipline" is a great intro to system dynamics.

In Eiffel we have multiple inheritance. It's such a powerful tool. And a natural way to model the world. For example if you think of your typical OOP book You have Vehicles with engines * cars that move on roads * planes that move on air * and boats that move on water.

But then comes an aqua-plane and it breaks your inheritance tree!

But with multiple inheritance is the most natural thing to have a plane that is also a boat and a car.

In Eiffel we favor the appropriate tool that better represents the world.

Code is not only code.

It's like saying physics it's just math. If we read:

F = m*a

There is ton of knowledge encoded in that formula.

We cannot evaluate the formula alone. We need the knowledge behind it to see if it matches reality.

With llms we know for a fact that if the code matches reality, or expectations, it's a happy accident.

Mmhhh how about a youtube version that looks like a usenet forum of my channel subscriptions. Where each video is a topic. The summary is part of the topics. Ideally the same software I use to read news groups should work for youtube.

The Goal and It's not luck by Goldratt.

Showed a better way to manage anything in particular ourselves.

Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl even in the darkest of times we kind find Meaning.

A Guide to the good life. The stoics found a way to handle our human experience 2500 years ago.

The mythical man month by Brooks. Everything we struggle with in software development we have been fighting since the 70s.

XMLUI 1 year ago

I applaud the idea of bringing back the Visual Basic model to the web. Again I don't expect people under 45 to remember how easy it was to develop a user interface that reacted to user actions.

I just don't see the need to create a new language to do it.

Firefox had XUL. And macromedia had Flex.

Flex was amazing it had an XML version and an OOP one.. that where two views of exactly the same language.

[dead] 1 year ago

The Elon fan boys, are always under that impression. Plus the PR machine is always trying to create that impression. Take a look at the wikipedia page for Tesla, there has been an edit war for several years trying to create the impression that Elon created Tesla Motors.

I like dreamweaver. But I could still code html by hand with HotDogPro.

The one that I really miss is Macromedia Fireworks.

The perfect mix between vector editor + html editor + OOP.

And to think that it did all of that in the metadata of a binary format (png).

Nothing has come close.

Agile Is Dead 2 years ago

Bertrand Meyer wrote a very good book called Agile: the good, the bad and the ugly.

Which really, gives a good balanced view of the practices and the hype.

Reading, is what removed the veil in my eyes.

Ever since I discovered Scroll notation (called particle notation at the time). I have thought that this technology looks very interesting to define DSLs.

Butthe amount of technologies related to Scroll is overwhelming.

It seems I'm not the only one, because now @breck7 is teaching a class on Scroll technologies.