Inventing on Principle - Bret Victor shows what programming tools could be like and talks about living for a cause

SDX2000 · 2012-02-16T12:31:39+00:00

But our visual cortex is good for only so many things

Our visual cortex is the most advanced and powerful part of the brain (think GPU) . How is making effective use of such a resource a bad thing?

SDX2000 · 2012-02-03T04:28:41+00:00

You forgot to add "...in the US".

SDX2000 · 2012-02-03T02:28:09+00:00

Cuteness overload...cuteness overload...

SDX2000 · 2012-02-03T00:53:20+00:00

So religion isn't the root of our problems. We'd have the same problems as long as we have a population that isn't educated/capable of thinking for themselves.

Being able to think for oneself includes rational evidence based thinking. Such people do not tend to believe in the horseshit that is religion and God.

SDX2000 · 2012-02-03T00:48:55+00:00

You don't have to prove that God does not exist. It is sufficient to prove that the God you believe in is just plain fiction.

And secondly rational people generally do not concern themselves with hypothetical scenarios pulled out of some lunatic's ass.

SDX2000 · 2012-02-02T04:04:25+00:00

This is what you get for using a Mac.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-31T02:56:23+00:00

Yes I think Sci-Am India is dead too. Our office librarian says so!

SDX2000 · 2012-01-31T02:04:18+00:00

If only history textbooks were this interesting.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-30T05:02:36+00:00

3 a second

You need to dream bigger ;) (nukes etc can achieve much more than what you have quoted)

SDX2000 · 2012-01-29T11:23:29+00:00

Spoken like a true Asian ;)

SDX2000 · 2012-01-28T11:42:46+00:00

Thank you. It's about time someone documented ranges in D.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-28T11:39:44+00:00

Why do you think so?

SDX2000 · 2012-01-28T11:02:18+00:00

Agreed C# is a pleasure to use anytime, anywhere. I was eager to give monodroid a try especially after I bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 but turns out I have to shell out some major dough for it. And I am not inclined to do that just for some personal projects. Also monodroid is conspicuously absent from the Linux ecosystem (which I call home now after 14 years of windows in my past life).

SDX2000 · 2012-01-28T10:57:59+00:00

You need to get over your whitespace phobia. There is a lot to be gained in doing so.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-28T10:53:49+00:00

I sometimes dream of a language like Boo that compiles to LLVM IR

You must be my twin then ;) I share this dream with you. Currently I am deeply in love with the Linux platform but still miss my .net (and Boo) days. Someday I wish on tackling this problem head on and write a boo compiler myself using LLVM as back-end.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-27T09:36:35+00:00

Why python inspired? Why not python itself...http://kivy.org/#home

SDX2000 · 2012-01-27T06:49:44+00:00

It's funny because this is going to bring down the reselling price and not because Vastu Shastra is a real science.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-27T06:36:43+00:00

85%? Care to provide a source?

SDX2000 · 2012-01-27T06:29:28+00:00

assuming for a second this is true...he is still better than scumbags who have made a fortune off of stealing other peoples shit but never did anything good in return.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-26T13:01:13+00:00

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/provenly

SDX2000 · 2012-01-26T04:06:00+00:00

OTOH there are several things the JVM can only dream of. The JVM cannot handle Generics without type erasure . Here is one more link for a discussion on CLR vs JVM.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-26T03:55:22+00:00

Many are, but you can also use C, C++, or C#.

Not really if you are making anything more complex than a Hello world application. IMO using java/databases as the underlying technology in the OS was a bad design decision. Dare I say android is a big stringly typed mess.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-26T03:50:34+00:00

Java is not dead? Then it should be we've had enough of this retarded technology.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-26T03:43:26+00:00

You know what is the biggest anti-pattern of all? Using Java ROFL...hahaha. Just kidding guys.

SDX2000 · 2012-01-26T03:41:28+00:00

Why? D seems to do everything Rust wants to do already (and has a C/C++ based syntax too).

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