Alexander Chichigin 2021-10-11 09:47:40 Srini Kadamati 2021-10-11 12:27:10 Timothy Johnson 2021-10-11 17:30:01 I see Philip Guo is one of the authors - I've been a fan of his for years after finding his PythonTutor.
Srini Kadamati 2021-10-11 17:45:58 yeah Philip is great, I just Zoom’d with him last week (and some of his students)
Kartik Agaram 2021-10-12 01:59:54 Maikel van de Lisdonk 2021-10-12 06:07:15 Yeah.. the commodore 64 .. that brings back good memories.. for me my first steps into programming (basic and assembly). This year I have been playing with webassembly and I am convinced that learning assembly on the c64 all those years ago really helped me with that
Diego Moya 2021-10-13 06:54:06 I started programming on a ZX Spectrum, and yes, that feeling of immediate programming and having results was something I missed when I started learning "how coding is really done by professionals".
IMHO, programming notebooks bring a lot of that experience back, and they don't rely on cumbersome BASIC line numbers to keep your sentences in the correct order.
In contrast, the fact that they rely on a running server makes their installation and the configuration of the working environment quite a bit more complex. It would be nice to have more stand-alone programming environments that behave like notebooks.
2021-10-13 21:08:41 This person's website and research just makes me want to quit my job and become a PhD student... darn it
Shubhadeep Roychowdhury 2021-10-14 05:31:18 Sophie Smithburg 2021-10-15 18:26:56
🐦 sophs' fucking done with respectability: SRE/PLT/systems ish folks (or any techies interested in working around those areas): how many of y’all would be interested in doing your work as part of a worker/platform cooperative? why? why not?
plz RT for reach
Andrew F 2021-10-15 22:37:25 I've been interested in the concept, but AFAICT whether I would want to join in real life would depend very strongly on the details/execution. I didn't put a ton of time into researching it, but my impression was there's not a lot you can actually conclude about an organization just from it calling itself a "coop".
Mattia Fregola 2021-10-16 06:45:49
🐦 Ozzie: The file system 🤝 your annotations
Chris Knott 2021-10-16 10:37:30 I love this. I read Omar Rizwan's article the other day about "Skew" (https://omar.website/posts/skew/) - how lots of complexity in computer systems is a response to performance characteristics that don't necessarily apply any longer. The biggest one these as far as I can see, that never really gets talked about for how revolutionary it is, is the random-access performance of a SSD vs a HDD. Just store everything as human readable plain text files, parsed at the point of use, and only bring in databases etc if that isn't working.
