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gwillen ([personal profile] gwillen) wrote2011-10-11 03:34 pm
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I know I never post, but this is far too beautiful not to link to, and you should read it.

http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/

(I like it totally independent of the random dig at the practicality of type theory, near the end. But I did laugh.)
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[identity profile] oniugnip.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
That's so huge. We need generalizations of this sort of tool.

Maybe Processing is a good step in that direction, or StarLogo...
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[identity profile] oniugnip.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow, or the rest of the software on his site!

*inspired!*
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[personal profile] lindseykuper 2011-10-12 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Or the writing, or the pictures, or everything.

At Mozilla, there's someone who showed people this page as an argument for why they should come work for Mozilla.
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[identity profile] oniugnip.livejournal.com 2011-10-12 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I like Scratch a lot!

... but I don't think it's great for this sort of task, playing with algorithms at different levels of abstraction -- making a program with Scratch is a pretty concrete exercise?

(kids, once they get into it, can make some pretty crazy stuff...)
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