gisborne

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by gisborne 1y ago
Flutter builds pretty decent desktop apps these days.
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by gisborne 1y ago
Relevant analysis: https://guyren.me/2025/04/16/programming-in-the-age-of-abund...
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by gisborne 2y ago
I would develop a production-ready Datalog database system. I am convinced a better alternative to the execrable SQL would significantly raise developer productivity. http://frest.substack.com
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by gisborne 2y ago
If you are asking for the most general-purpose technology around right now, I would say Dart/Flutter. Dart is a half-decent language, able to be used without excessive pain for mobile, desktop, web and backend development. It compiles
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by gisborne 2y ago
At some point, I need to dig into how good a general UI environment I get with Godot. There appears to be something at least usable there.
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by gisborne 2y ago
I significantly prefer the Mac user experience over Windows (it’s bad, but Windows is abominable). Still, I use Electron apps that UI-wise are fine. Well-known examples include Discord and Slack. They’re big and a bit slow, but they’re fine
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by gisborne 2y ago
If you really are doing this for yourself, Flutter has the best development efficiency and you can use animations and such pretty easily to make a slick product. But no-one hires Flutter developers at least in the US and Canada. It’s pretty
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by gisborne 3y ago
https://frest.substack.com I am working on better APIs driven by a better user interface experience. The better APIs are REST but relational. The better UIs are driven by an embeddable component-based view of the API and its dat
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by gisborne 3y ago
No. There is a particular logic (“Classical Logic”) that people are usually thinking of when they mention logic. Many folks don’t know that there are many, many logics that have been invented by mathematicians and philosophers, and an infin
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by gisborne 4y ago
Computer programs needn’t be Turing Complete. There are plenty of useful languages that are not, the Relational Algebra being example 1, which is equivalent to First Order Logic, and is in a pretty strong sense about as good as you can do w
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by gisborne 4y ago
I’m puzzled why you equate “default state” with “nothing active”. If the default should be that thing the button says is on, then have the button default to being in the active state. The language even for discussing this is tiring to read…
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by gisborne 4y ago
Programmable APIs. A HTTP request is a function call with named arguments. What if the server had some endpoints that provide basic fp (map, fold, curry, …), and you let your users create their own endpoints by currying together other endpo
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70 Years of Computing(twitter.com)
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by gisborne 5y ago
I would be very interested. How can I get in touch?
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by gisborne 5y ago
This is probably completely wrong. It is looking like fusion power will arrive sooner than most people realize. This will make energy virtually free, which will change _everything_. Think heating the open air downtowns of cities, for exampl
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by gisborne 5y ago
This is true, but it’s not the only truth that matters. Public goods can be _very_ efficient, even if inefficient in their delivery. I would have trouble believing that an educated citizenry is not a good thing, for example. So although tax
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by gisborne 5y ago
I reject this. I’ve given my two kids, now older teens, pretty much free reign to watch what they want and use the Internet as they want. I was certainly gifted with nice and precocious kids, but still: they both really like watching educat
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by gisborne 5y ago
You obviously haven’t read Dune.
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by gisborne 5y ago
Location: San Diego CA Remote: preferred Relocate: no Technologies: SQL particularly Postgres; logic/ontology; Ruby/Rails; writing/speaking/teaching Resume: linkedin.com/in/guyren Email: guyren@relevantlogic.co
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by gisborne 6y ago
Computing tools for non—programmers. In the early days of computing, we quickly came up with the spreadsheet and the user-friendly relational database (Access, FileMaker). Then we just sort of stopped. The no-code thing today is a step in t
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by gisborne 6y ago
Spivak’s Calculus is the best-written textbook I’ve ever encountered and one of the more beautiful examples of book design also.
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by gisborne 6y ago
Most of the problems described in other posts concern trying to convert text programming paradigms into a visual representation. Let me suggest two ways visual programming might be a big part of the future: 1. New paradigms, such as constra
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by gisborne 8y ago
Dune (and the sequels through God Emperor). I’ve never found a writer who could discuss humanity writ large — both in masses, and over enormous spans of time — like Herbert. Dune is the easy to read, fast moving approachable yarn that gets
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by gisborne 11y ago
Twitter. I was in an Austin Ruby meetup when these guys came in who had a music startup (this was when everyone and his dog had a music startup). They were hiring for the startup, and they presented this side project they had. They describe
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by gisborne 16y ago
Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, is now a critic of many of their policies. Stewart Brand is another critic. Much of what they do is good, but it's clearly not driven by a cold and careful evaluation of the actual consequen
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by gisborne 17y ago
Far too many people are confusing problems with SQL with problems with the relational model. SQL != relational database
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by gisborne 18y ago
I smell sock puppet.
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by gisborne 18y ago
http://subtextual.org