Notes"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system."Unfurl
NotesNow this is the sort of thing for which I used to read Dave's blog: "So here's a free idea. Everything that produces output should be available in HTTP server form."Unfurl
Notes"Initially I dismissed knobs as too complicated for everyday programming. However Future People discovered a glorious solution: cheat shirts that illustrate which way to turn the knob. Genius."Unfurl
Notes"What's interesting is the open-source movement is kind of our first proof that code in fact is not an asset. What is your companys asset is the experience and knowledge that the people who have built your code have gathered during the construction of thaUnfurl
Notes"In this work, Dr. Engelbart describes the groundwork for such concepts as augmenting human intellect, improvement infrastructure, co-evolution of artifacts with social-cultural language-practices, and bootstrapping."Unfurl
Notes"Let's suppose that eventually some approach results in a practical, even cheap, way to package time machines to make negative time delay elements --which output signals that predict what their inputs will receive some fixed time later."Unfurl
Notes"To me, this rabid fixation on short-term profits is a bigger threat than outsourcing -- it is killing our ability to make astonishing things."Unfurl
Notes"By understanding patterns the architect is not doomed to repeat them; she will recombine and transcend them, and in the process create new patterns for those who come next"Unfurl
Notes"This site is a companion to the influential computer-science text Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman."Unfurl
Notes"Following the great Perl Cookbook (by Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, published by O'Reilly) which presents a suite of common programming problems solved in the Perl language, this project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement tUnfurl
Notes"And people don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know."Unfurl
Notes"The tech meltdown ... caused a decline in computer science enrollments at colleges and universities across the country. This wouldn't happen if people understood the real goals of computer science."Unfurl
Notes"On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS,Unfurl
NotesI love this book. I remember when I didn't have any storage devices for my C=64, keying these programs in over and over again, playing around with tweaking them.Unfurl
Notes"We believed that we could spend a couple of days watching trained lawyers perform a highly-skilled job, talk briefly to them, and then make their jobs completely obsolete."Unfurl