Jupyter Notebooks considered harmful? @jsinger_compsci making the case at @EPCCed today.pic.twitter.com/mXsEuQzkx0
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Yup. At the cloud event yesterday one individual pointed out correctly that the problem is that when you give someone a tool they think it's the right tool for everything.
He also explained that public cloud is the right tool for everything. 
I mean, my only other more general comment about the notebook concept (not just Jupyter) is that there were a number of tools in the 90s with a similar interface called "the worksheet" and this interface was completely abandoned for pretty much the reasons I describe.
Yes, it's flimsy and hype-driven.
I think this is wildly unfair... jup met and meets many of my needs for interactive data analysis that were unmet in the 90s, when I was also doing research ;). Most alternatives were closed, none were web based, etc etc. I’m sure there are better things possible, of course.
And when you combine with the ecosystem level stuff, including JupyterHub and Binder, I don’t see alternatives... the expansion to JupyterLab (and other alternative frontends) shows that this is a platform approach that works.
Sorry, I don't know if we will agree on this, but I actually think I agree with you as well as with the harsh stuff I said.
And I use jupyter pretty much all the time.
It's definitely a tool that has its uses. I think it is often misused though. I'm quite keen when I get a chance to play with the Jupyter Notebook <-> Visual Studio Code stuff. You know, in my infinite time!
Nice post! I wanted to point out a few changes in Jupyte-land that address some of your concerns. (2) is addressed by https://github.com/jupyter/nbdime (3) a/b are addressed by much more secure defaults we have now re: tokens
So uh... about that token authentication:https://twitter.com/owainkenway/status/1072123661019172864 …
Would appreciate an email to security@ipython.org if you could get past the token authentication.
Sent. (sorry I was in really dull meetings)
(and yes, there's a limited window where it is possible to get the single use token from another user's process and use it)
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