Jon Pretty

i think it's kinda that 'features' are not additive or linear, like if you add or remove a 'feature', it can totally change the value of all the other 'features' in the software

although i'm not completely sure what you mean by the question!

Maybe one way to formulate it with philosophical jargon is that all accidental properties turn out to be essential properties...

I’m also always wondering about ontologies where a program is something deeper and different than its current manifestation. For example considering the entire branching repository of a program to be “the program”

yeah, I think there are some really interesting possibilities here. like some of us were talking about that kind of expanded context as a better way to understand programs last year:https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1080112825673175042 …

something i've been thinking about lately is 'metarefactoring', by which i mean tool-aided refolding and editorializing the edit history of program to create targeted narratives designed to precisely expose some aspect of that program

cc @propensive who has some really cool ideas on presenting and storing versioned docs separately from code

I would love to stop time for a couple of weeks and work on it!