smarks159

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by smarks159 11y ago
> An inverse parser treats each command as a sequence of words obeying a grammar -- in other words, a sentence. The sentence is composed by the user by adding words in sequence until the sentence is complete. This has an important benefi
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by smarks159 11y ago
I have been building the next version of my hobby project in newspeak and have really been enjoying it. There is no funding, so the platform itself is also a hobby project for everyone involved. But there are a lot of really interesting ide
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by smarks159 11y ago
I would highly recommend looking at the doug engelbart institute website[1]. There are a lot of very interesting ideas both about technology and about human behavior. I started a project[2] to try and understand these ideas and it has been
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by smarks159 11y ago
The reason polymer is slow on firefox and not on chrome is because firefox does not support html imports yet, so polymer uses a polyfill that relies on asynchronously loading the html which causes a delay in the initial load. Support for ht
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by smarks159 11y ago
3d printing in general is not just about different shapes, but different materials as well. 3d printing of organs and tissues is something that can't be done with traditional machinery and is showing lots of promise.
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by smarks159 11y ago
The legal issues with this technology have now been resolved and the first units are being sold in the open market[1]. A 10-20x cheaper energy storage solution than current battery technologies and it is available right now, and not years a
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by smarks159 11y ago
The most complete example of a structured editing system I know off is Doug Engelbart's NLS system from the mother of all demos (from 1968!) [0]. In the system text, drawings and code are all structured hyperdocument data. It is quite
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by smarks159 12y ago
I write a lot and have a lot of text files scattered all over my desktop with ideas, plans and notes. Everytime I start a programming project I also end up with a lot of text files with requirements, design decisions and implementation deta
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by smarks159 12y ago
For those of you that don't know Doug Engelbart was one of the pioneers behind modern day computing. He invented, among other things, most of the technologies behind the web and collaborative software among other things. If you go to y
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by smarks159 12y ago
There has been a lot of discussion around the announcement of Angular 2.0. Basically, everything that you have learned about Angular 1.x and all of your programs are obsolete. Meanwhile I am in the middle of rewritting my own application to
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DMS Software – A system for handling large legacy code bases (2010)(youtube.com)
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Show HN: Experimental Hyperdocument System Inspired by Doug Engelbart(github.com)
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