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by angleofrepose 5mo ago
This is cool. I enjoy seeing these kinds of projects, thanks for sharing it and thanks for making it. There has been so much innovation over the years around transpilers/compilers to JS, it makes me wonder what a programming paradigm o
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by angleofrepose 1y ago
I hear that, it seems a common observation. Maybe a fundamental truth of enterprise. > until you have the full factory going you won't be able to fully estimate your actual numbers, much less come up with all the sequential small im
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by angleofrepose 1y ago
Right! Good points for optimism here, and acknowledging broken mental models. We have silicon solar modules in the 1950s, Moore's law in the 1960s. Another take on the question then: today we use Moore's law to describe progress i
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by angleofrepose 1y ago
Indeed. You widen the conversation here, and remind me of the idea that moneyed influence is underrepresented in analysis and understanding of the world. Maybe the most appropriate way to understand big questions is who is funding the vario
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by angleofrepose 1y ago
Sure, that makes sense. This is where I'm coming from with my interest in history: I heard an interesting argument somewhere that solar cells are an ideal manufactured good. Whether you are building a module for a calculator or a GW sc
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by angleofrepose 1y ago
Thank you and other commenters for the great rundowns here. I'm interested in a related question and I wonder if you or others could point me in the right direction: why was the mainstream consensus around solar power (and/or batt
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by angleofrepose 2y ago
Could you expand on what you see as exciting developments? I’ll have to check out the op post link as well as yours and others in the thread. It’s been a few years since I seriously looked at options for my personal use, but I remember bein
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by angleofrepose 2y ago
A great resource that I should have found on my own. Thank you. I’ll look through this later. Giving it a quick glance now I see some of the same language I see other places; here that macros are “too far.” I don’t know why macros are appro
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by angleofrepose 2y ago
Off topic, but I’m wondering if anyone attracted to this topic could help me understand why JavaScript doesn’t have macros. I’m aware of much conversation around dismissing macros, often in the context of bad dev experience — but this sound
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by angleofrepose 3y ago
I picked this up at a used bookstore a while back for a dollar or two, and enjoy flipping through it from time to time. There’s something deeply satisfying about the quantity and density of the graphics in the book, and the visual simplicit
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by angleofrepose 5y ago
The future of coding link in the parent has a large list of similarly spirited projects. I have scattered lists of similar projects but none handy or packaged well. I'll point you to the Ink&Switch article on end user programming.
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by angleofrepose 5y ago
This is a great project in a space that I've been playing around for a little while, fun to see it here! I'm interested in hearing what you think are some of the more difficult problems or bugs you've come across during devel
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Do you see any other solutions in the same domain as Stopify? Another method that might provide a way to keep UI unblocked but still have user executable code?
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
> ctrl-C functionality OS implementations dont solve the halting problem. I agree with the sibling comment.
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Yeah! The general case of this is the halting problem... The best solution I know of is stopify, which the other comments have talked about. I just wonder if there's another take on the situation, something akin to OS task management.
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Looks interesting, I'll do some digging around. Thank you for sharing.
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
This is what I use. Seems to be the only option, and it works.
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Hi, yes! I like your project. I chatted about similar things on your launch post here. You also address this explicitly on your product which I appreciate. What I'm getting at is that these browser notebooks try to get at the desire an
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Yes, as the other comments get at the "hack" I'm referring to is a loop transform that adds a timer check to the condition.
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
I am aware of multiple hacky solutions, such as loop detection and adding timeouts. This fails in most non-trivial creative coding applications due to long running code. I'm interested what it would take to come up with a general escap
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Do you, or the broader community, have any ideas about solving infinite loops? I'm on mobile so I can't test this at the moment, but I imagine that while(1) crashes the tab. What would an MVP operating system like ctrl-C functiona
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
I think the other two comments make good points. There is every chance that everyone will learn to use a small set of fundamentally composable digital tools in the future. That's programming. I think "intellectually challenging&q
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Good point! I might give it another listen. I remember it being an interesting respectful conversation with no ground given on either side. Hence the title, I suppose.
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
This Idea Must Die is an interesting take on that concept.
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Ah I didn't even realize the list I sent wasn't from his account. Thanks for the correction!
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
I'll second the computers for cynics. I don't think one of that series is about blockchain but he does have other videos about blockchain. For those who don't know computers for cynics is his series about questioning the orig
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
It's been a little while since I've heard this one, but if there's one thing that I remember hitting me is that the same language used by the interviewer is used today about privacy, end user programming and any other more po
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
A good read, mdn is far and away the best resource I have found for web technologies. I'm excitedly looking into some p2p tech and the webrtc articles are useful. From the article: > "Run to completion"... > A downside
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
Very good points. Makes me think about a persistent web, what if every javascript code visible on your page could be edited and persisted between loads or visits or you could send a blog post link to a friend with your edits/comments&#
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by angleofrepose 6y ago
> Generally working with events in JS is easier than central run loops. That's an interesting perspective I hadn't thought of before, I'll see if that can inspire some design pattern. Thanks for another good prompt!

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