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> I wouldn't give a newcomer emacs (or vi) but I would give them the concept of paredit.

This is exactly what I was suggesting

Keep fleshing it out - indeed use your experience with paredit to guide you - the benefit would be that people who don't necessarily know emacs etc can suddenly write lisp the way it was supposed to be written. Imagine if you were new to programming and something like that was the tool you were given?

Well, it just means you only have one V and one C for all the Ms in the universe.

Also, "tree editor".

I've long felt that a proper structured editor would work somewhat like a tree editor[1]. Code is trees, right?

[1] https://pcmonk.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/why-dont-we-have-a-g...

If you had a really good, intuitive tree editor, I would imagine it would be easily adaptable to all kinds of interfaces and scenarios. Mobile, web, VR...

> personal cloud

You're talking about Urbit, right

Devil's advocate: I feel like TDD for iOS is a bit of a wasteland, and don't usually bother with it personally, unless there's some especially dense mission-critical business logic that I need to be 100% confident in.

This is amazing, I wish programming was more like this.

Shameless repost since my earlier post sank like a stone.

There's also a promo site[1] that explains a little more about CALX if anybody's interested, also by all means please let me know if you'd like a promo code :)

[1] http://protonome.com/apps/calx/

Welcome to Ribbonfarm.

I'd just like to say that 10am is still too early for me. After lunch is more like where I'm at.

I mainly resent standups because most employers I've ever had scheduled them at 9am, and I'm not really ready to talk to other humans yet at that hour.

I had never considered that we might actually be ahead of the Great Filter. From what I'd read about it I've always thought of it as something we are yet to run into.

Kinda earthy, rather than carroty. Distinct beetrooty flavour.

I'm sure convenience also played a part - just for the heck of it, I cooked a meal with purple carrots in it recently and they stained the fuck out of my kitchen bench, hands, and the vegetable soup they were in. It was like working with beetroot.

I have to wonder if anywhere, in the history of the universe, a sentient being has ever fallen into a black hole.

Not to denigrate ISRO's efforts, but is there a reason the pictures look so... VHS-y?

> But were the design changes intentional? To answer this question, the researchers worked the measurements from hundreds of Cremonese-era violins into an evolutionary model, and found that any change in design could reasonably be explained by natural mutation — or, in this case, craftsmanship error.

I want to see them build and run that evolutionary model and generate some mutant future instruments.

I agree - I don't think it's possible to put a sound visual representation over the top of git, it's too abstract. A coherent command line interface should be possible, though.

This article begs the question - what might a sane/consistent UI on top of git look like?

I would disagree - the economy is anti-inductive[1] (in that it resists attempts to understand it). As soon as you implement the results of your sufficiently-sophisticated model, the economy will start to be influenced by that.

Any viable model of the economy would therefore have to recursively contain a model of the model of the economy and so on.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/

Imagine where we'd be today if this had taken off instead of x86...

I always thought that a something like this was how the computers on Star Trek worked.

"Computer! Run a level five diagnostic of the starboard nacelles!" bloop bloop bloop...

The foley artists did a pretty terrific job of using sound to differentiate between heavy computation, success, and failure etc. Makes me kinda wish my computer could play a minor third instead of just plopping up a dialog box when things go wrong.

damn, that's gangster

> Σοβαροφάνεια

That's a cool word.

I hate CoffeeScript for a simple reason - you can't copy and paste it into your browser's console.

Do you have any examples of what "non-lapidary" Hoon might look like?

Nice!

Looks cool, is there going to be a CocoaPod?

Mitchell and Webb also did a bit on working from home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk [NSFW: Unsavoury topics]