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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Philip Monk

      72/ 100% agreed. Curtis thought that docs written "his way" were best, and disagreed vehemently when folks tried to write docs that explained urbit concepts using existing terms for very very very similar concepts. This, I assert, was incompetent / badhttps://twitter.com/pcmonk/status/1502352677371478019 …

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      Philip Monk @pcmonk
      Can't speak for those people, but lots of people have quit for various reasons, including creative differences (on both docs and code). The problem was not that Curtis didn't want docs to be accessible; they disagreed about what made them accessible. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1502348341446914049 …
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted D.J. Schreffler

      73/ To be clear, I do not claim that CURTIS thinks gatekeeping is good. Curtis wants Urbit to be accessible to everyone, and has said [ in docs, I think ] that Urbit and Hoon are so simple that gradeschoolers can / should learn to program, using his pedagogic approach.https://twitter.com/DJSchreffler/status/1502353510456872962 …

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      D.J. Schreffler @DJSchreffler
      Replying to @MorlockP
      And going back to the beginning, Curtis/Tlon thinks that this cognitive gatekeeping is a good thing. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1502348077075767298 …
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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      74/ I have heard two insiders - neither of them Curtis - say that high walls are good because they keep out normies. Curtis, in fairness, wants everyone to use Urbit / Hoon. ...and that's cool! Proper evangelical spirit !

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      75/ And, again, my frustration w Hoon is not evidence that I think it's boring or bad or that I don't care - it's that I think it's good and interesting, but the community / company have unnecessary and bad self-sabotaging habits.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Philip Monk

      76/ There is a third option: explaining concepts in a method other than cyclical definitions, keeping concept explanations and implementation details distinct, avoiding self indulgent side rants, using English keywords...https://twitter.com/pcmonk/status/1502354415079989250 …

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      Philip Monk @pcmonk
      FWIW I agree that Curtis is bad at writing docs. But "write docs like a normal software project" is also bad, and more dangerous for being harder to see. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1502353254398758927 …
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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      77/ Curtis is like the Confederacy: he can achieve secession, and all he has to do is keep his nature in check. ...but the Scots Irish needed a glorious attack on Fort Sumter, and Curtis needed to write docs like a slam poet.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted potion seller, as seen in WIRED

      78/ YES!!!!!!! EXACTLY THIS!!!!!!!! Hoon is very very similar to lisp, just with absolutely terrible keywords, an absolutely terrible formatting (two distinct format types, actually!), absolutely terrible variable norms (two, actually!).https://twitter.com/kingdweeb_/status/1502354895147454467 …

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      potion seller, as seen in WIRED @kingdweeb_
      Replying to @MorlockP
      When I did a brief deep dive into Urbit I noticed how similar Hoon was to Lisp deep down (as a functional language built around closures), I feel like if it were just a Lisp dialect or if there were a Lisp->Hoon transpiler it'd be 1,000x more legible and enjoyable
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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      79/ so, here are some parts of Urbit that I think are good or at least interesting: * the virtual machine * the address system (galaxies, stars, etc.) * the cryptographic network between them

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      80/ The terrible parts are all in Hoon: * runes * 'tall' and 'wide' code formatting * 'lapidary' (1 letter) var and 'normal' (4 letter) var names * malicious / incompetent documentation

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    10. Moon Parameter‏ @ParamMoon Mar 12
      Replying to @MorlockP

      Fantastic thread. I agree with basically everything! To be fair, lisp has tall and wide formatting too 😅

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 12
      Replying to @ParamMoon

      TY !

      12:07 PM - 12 Mar 2022
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