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Comment by BubRoss | Hacker News Reader

This article (starting with its nonsense title and domain) gets bogged down in pretentious philosophy instead of focusing on what this actually does.

"magic notebook" "thinking with code" "visionary software artist"

It's a javascript notebook by the way

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I was looking for a list of the Maynard's laws mentioned in the article. Turns out the author is called Maynard and he just made them up on the spot.

When you have a resume like this https://www.software-artist.com/me/ you can make up any laws you want as far as I am concerned.

He worked for Engelbart! Worked on ARPANet! Was sending email in 1975! And is still coding! What an inspiration. Very cool blog.

I too read his bio and thought the same thing. As I read it, it reminded me of “The Music Scholar” routine by Scharpling and Wurster [0], where a radio caller personally witnessed like the entire history of ‘70’s rock.

Engelbart, Xerox Parc, EA, Silicon Graphics, and Google Maps? Yeah, he can call out his own laws.

0: https://youtu.be/Z75qsaak9Po

Just stop being an ass, life isn't about it. No matter how old are you, and what did you make, you can still have an urge to learn. On the other hand, there will always be those who will complain and kill joy... :)

Here are few quotes from his blog posts I like:

This lovely showcase current times. :)

> The complexity of the systems involved has almost kept pace. In 1982 my entire development environment was 250 KB (three floppies). Today my Darworms project directory alone is about 100 MB or 400 time larger.

https://www.software-artist.com/software-artist-1982-vs-toda...

Here you can know why?:

> For fun but, alas, probably not for profit. I enjoy coding. I retired in 2017. I want to learn front-end development, JavaScript (ES6), modern frontend development practices, HTML 5 and canvas graphics.

https://www.software-artist.com/darworms/

Whats wrong with the domain. Do you not believe software could be considered a form of art ?

Can it be used to call numpy, pytorch etc? If not, it's useless

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