71. When I say they went off the rails, really means they took a strategy that I didn't agree was a good one / was aesthetically opposed to.
But they weren't on my track
I was living in India at the time, lurking on their list serv, building prototypes of @RoamResearch
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82. Good Programming Languages are DEFINITELY NOT about "Thinking Like a Machine"https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1206413740888903681 …
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83. Ivan Sutherland's "SketchPad" is what we should have Ability to do direct manipulation to get to general area you want to go, and then ability to adjust code to normalize and get pixel perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB3saviItTI …https://twitter.com/ndyfschr/status/1206415136463806467?s=20 …
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84. If a project not having recent commits on github makes you immediately think you cant use it, there is something fundamentally wrong in your language community. Code shouldn't rot.
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85. I haven't actually figured out how to use generative testing (test.check in Clojure, QuickCheck in haskell) But when I do... and it generates millions of test cases my functions... I know in my soul it will be truly glorioushttps://twitter.com/pentateu/status/1206459605481443328?s=19 …
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I'm so tempted to finish this out with Good Book / Bad Book opinions on learning various programming languages and be done, but I think I might pull a Venkat here and just wait till later in the week.
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Ok, some hot takes on programming language learning materialhttps://twitter.com/ArtirKel/status/1206492488468484102 …
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86. Yes, you can stitch together a huge amount of free online learning material to teach yourself a new language... BUT It will cost a huge amount of time and energy, and once there is a thing you KNOW you want to learn, it is often good to buy a coursehttps://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1203914479500529665 …
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87. If you are on the bleeding edge of a new technology, or in an emergent language community, there will likely not be any courses available to hold your hand This is the best guide on the web for teaching yourself rigorous academic subjectshttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/37sHjeisS9uJufi4u/scholarship-how-to-do-it-efficiently …
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88. It is ok for a big chunk of your personal budget to go toward your own education -- and far far more cost and time effective to work outside of academia (DON'T GO TO GRAD SCHOOL) There were months when I was in research mode where I spent about as much on books as on food.pic.twitter.com/Oy8NJj7eNu
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89. Textbooks are awesome. O'Reilly books are amazing. The Joy of Clojure I remember as particularly good -- but I at least skimmed probably every Clojure book I could find once I really got into it. Check "The Best Textbooks on Every Subject", buy onehttps://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-textbooks-on-every-subject …
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90. The Elements of Clojure is a incredible resource even for non-Clojure devs Most important idea -- How to NAME THINGS Naming things well is one of the hardest parts of programming, huge gains for code legibility if you do well Great to have a guidehttps://leanpub.com/elementsofclojure …
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91. If you are poor -- or you are living off of your nest egg to do research and worried about your burn rate -- it is 100% OK for you to pirate textbooks, O'Reilly Books, and scholarly articles. Textbooks: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ Journals Articles: https://sci-hub.se/
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92. If you are rich - pay the publishers, fund the kickstarters, chip in for the Patreons. If you run a Startup with funding or are profitably bootstrapped - everyone on your team should have an unlimited expense account for books and online courses.
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93. Open source is about increasing the information commons -- putting out free things that give other people power and agency. There are many ways to contribute Write tutorials, record screencasts, expand the docs, open source your example projects. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#respect3 …
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94. If you really want to level up in a language - find a great example project and deeply study the code. I spent hours and hours going through the
@ZetawarGame code base with pen and paper to reverse engineer every decision http://dev.zetawar.com/ https://github.com/Zetawar/zetawarPrikaži ovu nit -
95. Everyone interested in programming languages (or writing software to do powerful things) should read Paul Graham Especially his earliest essays like http://paulgraham.com/progbot.html http://paulgraham.com/popular.html and most especially **Beating the Averages** http://paulgraham.com/avg.html
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96. When you read those, and the quote below has sunk in, and you start to have dreams like the xkcd author Then consider this https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1176276601048199168 …pic.twitter.com/hRrQQBtYE3
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97. The WAT talk is hilarious, but when you learn a new language - don't spend ALL your time looking at it's flaws I trolled OO hard in this thread, there are still beautiful ideas there Explore new lands for treasures you can bring back home. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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98. Programming languages have a culture. Go to the conferences and meetups, join the list servs, hang out on the slack channels. If the language community isn't filled with the kind of people you want to be around -- enjoy the books, but take the ideas with you somewhere else.
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99. It's much easier to do (98) if your language has Macros though!! And the Clojure community is exceptionally friendly to beginners and folks who don't fit the stereotypical profile. Incredibly curious, incredibly pragmatic. So really, my opinion is you should learn Clojure.
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100. Form your own opinions on programming languages, and share them freely. When someone contradicts them, it is a great signal to get curious - not defensive. You may learn something But use the block feature widely for anyone who turns disagreement into a personal attack.
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These are just my opinions. They may not be true, but I hope they have been interesting.
It is more important that they be interesting than true anyway.https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1077395379253960704 …Prikaži ovu nit
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