Here is a very interesting 'cartoon' of what, in general, motivates people -
certainly applicable to what you are talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
David
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Casey Ransberger
wrote:
> I've been thinking a lot about why I like to code, and how
Didn't this debate happen with windowing systems (eg X vs NeWS, dumb vs
smart windows-server).
David
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
> Hi Cornelius
>
> There are lots of egregiously wrong things in the web design. Perhaps one
> of the simplest is that the browser folks have
Alan-
I expect you lost a few readers there. I have fond memories of APL on an
IBM 360/145 with APL microcode support and Selectric terminals.
David
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
> Hi David
>
> I've always been very fond of APL also -- and a slightly better and more
> reada
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana, who, in his Reason in Common Sense, The Life of Reason,
Vol.1
This certainly rings true in computer science. Great things were done in
the 60s and 70s which we seem to ignore. The Burroughs machines B5000 ...,
S
The 'main' page is similarly hacked, and the changes page shows a lot of
decidedly off-topic changes.
David
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Sachin Desai wrote:
>
> It looks like the Software section for vpri.org has been edited/hacked.
> Could someone please revert it to it's previous versio
Thanks! Better late, then never!
David
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Ian Piumarta wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2012, at 07:23 , David Girle wrote:
>
> > Two people have posted that the Maru code at the end of the 2011
> > report does not run on the publicly available Maru engine?
>
> I have been sen
Alan ---
I appreciate both you explanation and what you are doing. Of course
jealousy comes into it, because you guys appear to be having a lot of fun
mixed in with your hard work, and I would love to part of that. I know
where I would be breaking down the doors if I was starting a masters or
do
I just discovered that Wolfram|Alpha is available for the iPhone and iPad,
as well as the Android and Nook, which use their Cloud computing.
http://products.wolframalpha.com/mobile/
David
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
> ...
I noticed that neither Matlab nor Mathem
Hi All--
Just wanted to say that there is some cross-over here to electronic bus
systems, and the related Producer-Consumer paradigm (PC). Some bus systems
broadcast all messages to all connected nodes, ie they are unaddressed. In
particular Bosch's CAN bus, used in cars, trucks, industry, and s
I backed .. but I thought they wouldn't make it... hope it comes to
fruition!
David
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:38:09AM -0700, GrrrWaaa wrote:
> > What do people here think of this? Like RPi meets multicore:
> >
> >
> http://www.kickstarte
What are you on about? How is this related to FONC?
David
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:10 PM, John Pratt wrote:
>
>
> What sickness science brings to everyday people! They cannot even believe
> in mysterious things, such as the divine, without first thinking it has to
> show up on a laboratory
This sounds suspiciously like Unit Testing, which is basically "When I say
this, you should answer that."Thos are precomputed answers, but could
be computed I suppose -- so a bit like your Postscript example ... you send
the Testing-Agent down the pipe.
David
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:26 AM,
Alan --
Yes, we seem to slowly getting back the the NeWS (Network extensible
Windowing System) paradigm which used a modified Display Postscript to
allow the intelligence, including user input, to live in the terminal (as
opposed to the X-Windows model). But I am sure I am teaching my
grandmother
Or maybe this for $60 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11712
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I would say that 'life' as we know, and understand, it has 'chosen'
robustness and redundancy instead of efficiency. It doesn't matter how
efficient you *were* if one glitch kills you. I used quotes are because I
am anthromorphizing evolution. It seems to me that some of the ideas here
are appro
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