I find 54 particularly interesting, a site with detailed overviews of different stacks, along with instructions, or links to instructions on how to get started would be very valuable.
Ideas for Computing
21–30 of 101 posts
Re: Ideas for Computing
#22This reminds of this: http://www.squidi.net/three/ which attempts to define a large number of computer game gameplay mechanics.
Maybe we need more forwarding-reaching fiction in our world. More essays on computing futurology, grand envisioning of what we can achieve with software. Even ambitious prototypes of a new way to do something (like Lighttable)
A lot of what I see are tooling details, lot of boring effort duplication on mostly-identical languages and lot of nitpicking/bikeshedding comments like: well, you may have a good idea for solving world cancer, but your article does not work in my weird mobile browser, so your credibility is shot.
Where's our version of "The Mother of all Demos" ?
Re: Ideas for Computing
#23This reminds of this: http://www.squidi.net/three/ which attempts to define a large number of computer game gameplay mechanics. Maybe we need more forwarding-reaching fiction in our world. More essays on computing futurology, grand envisioning of what we can achieve with software. Even ambitious prototypes of a new way to do something (like Lighttable) A lot of what I see are tooling details, lot of boring effort dup…
Thanks for that link!
Re: Ideas for Computing
#24Well, number 9 already exists in some form on OS X. You can't drag because it drags the window, but if you click on the file name in the title you get a dialog with some file options (rename, move, duplicate, ...).
You can't drag the title, but you can drag the icon.
Just tried it, cool.
Re: Ideas for Computing
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, but it would be great if it went a little further: "... and/or provides a documentation panel for that argument". Having a one-liner to explain what ls's `--dired` does without having to drop down to a new line and look it up would be great, displaying the first sentence of the relevant section of the man page could be enough?
Doesn't zsh do something like this? At the very least, it seems to be extensible enough that you could provide completion+manpage documentation if you wanted to.
Zsh certainly does something like this.
Here's what my autocompletion looks like: http://leukensis.org/files/zsh-autocomplete.png
The program has to provide its autocomplete files, but it's very powerful. My 'kill' autocompletes with a ps-like output, for example.
Re: Ideas for Computing
#26some of these are really interesting ideas. I have one to add to the mix: go implement them! As technologists we all have unprecedented power to create change at our fingertips and I'd love it if you could come back with a list of great ideas, _with some of them implemented already_.
[note] the biggest one for me is the "life engine" - I would happily pay you £50/month for this!
Re: Ideas for Computing
#27#54 sounds cool. How about doing something similar for comparing Enterprise Systems/Applications?
Anyone to join hands with me?
Re: Ideas for Computing
#28I've thought of some of these independently. (It's good to see somebody else did too.) We could probably make more progress if we all kept a list like this publicly. Or even privately, with snippets shared where appropriate. I know if I went through some old journals I could scrounge up a decent list myself. One I had: Bash scripting in the style of hypercard. Hypercard was described to me as a system that had a set…
> A utility that allows you to create a GUI window from the command line.
Defunct now, but it lets you easily create windows without all that event-basedness that is annoying and unfit for scripts: http://easygui.sourceforge.net/
Re: Ideas for Computing
#29Number 22 is more or less how Windows PowerShell works.
Re: Ideas for Computing
#30This a well of useful and thought-provoking ideas. I would like to point out a general theme though. A lot of these ideas seem most relevant to technical savvy people and I think why a lot of them (especially UI stuff) have not been implemented is because interfaces must cater to everybody. Perhaps what we need more of is a dev mode switch (s/w or h/w) like the Chromebook has which enables a lot of these ideas so tha…
I'm with you, but users must be educated and they will adapt, take as an example the touch revolution. Even old people adapted to this change.