Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC

I've seen an early alpha version of GP during the Scratch conference of 2016 (the 2017 conference is wrapping up tomorrow), and it worked awesomely, like a supercharged version of Scratch. A fun thing about it is that it features a very small VM, and the rest of the interface and blocks are written in GP itself, and can be readily inspected and modified.

Re: Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC

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Post by sushisource » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 9:23 PM UTC

Not a comment on the content of the article, but I find it pretty obnoxious when an author uses a word like "hereodox" which has a much more commonly known nearly-exact synonym "unorthodox". It's hard to imagine any reason for that beyond "look at how clever of a writer I am".

Re: Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC

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Post by dcre » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 9:46 PM UTC

sushisource wrote: post #6

Not a comment on the content of the article, but I find it pretty obnoxious when an author uses a word like "hereodox" which has a much more commonly known nearly-exact synonym "unorthodox". It's hard to imagine any reason for that beyond "look at how clever of a writer I am".

I find it obnoxious when a commenter whines about a single word in the first line of a long article. It's hard to imagine any reason for that beyond "look at how good of a complainer I am".

Re: Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC

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Post by probablycorey » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 10:10 PM UTC

dcre wrote: post #7

sushisource wrote: post #6

Not a comment on the content of the article, but I find it pretty obnoxious when an author uses a word like "hereodox" which has a much more commonly known nearly-exact synonym "unorthodox". It's hard to imagine any reason for that beyond "look at how clever of a writer I am".

I find it obnoxious when a commenter whines about a single word in the first line of a long article. It's hard to imagine any reason for that beyond "look at how good of a complainer I am".

I agree with both of you.

Re: Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC

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Post by mapcars » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 10:11 PM UTC

It's good to see that development of such projects with innovative ideas exists and can transform our whole life experience into something completely different like technologies from the 70s did.

Re: Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC

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Post by isnotchicago » Thu, Jul 20, 2017, 10:13 PM UTC

This is the first I had heard of Limn, and it looks like a really interesting magazine. What other great non-mainstream tech/design magazines are out there?