Re: [fonc] Software and Motivation

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

Re: [fonc] Alternative Web programming models?

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

Re: Terseness, precedence, deprogramming (was Re: [fonc] languages)

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

Re: [fonc] Alan Kay talk at HPI in Potsdam

"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

Re: [fonc] vpri.org software section hacked

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

Re: [fonc] One more year?!

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

Re: [fonc] Error trying to compile COLA

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

Re: [fonc] Apple and hardware (was: Error trying to compile COLA)

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

Re: [fonc] Naive question

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

Re: [fonc] Parallella

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

Re: [fonc] Send Science to the Landfill

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

Re: [fonc] Terminology: "Object Oriented" vs "Message Oriented"

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,

Re: [fonc] Design of web, POLs for rules. Fuzz testing nile

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

Re: [fonc] education experimental target

Or maybe this for $60 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11712 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU GPU: OpenGL ES2.0, OpenVG 1.1 Mali 400 core 1GB DRAM Onboard Storage: 2GB Flash, microSD card (TF) slot for up to 32GB Arduino-Style Peripheral Headers (Adapter Needed for Shield Form-Factor) HDMI Video Output Lin

Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report abandoned?

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