Probably Overthinking It: Learning to program is get… http://allendowney.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html
GitHub - chriskiehl/Gooey: Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application … https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey
The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland https://dynamicland.org/research-notes/social-dynamics-of-programming-together/
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I’d love to do pair programming again, but sure, it depends heavily on your partner
whoever decided Paired Programming should be a thing, needs to be beat up!
Paper Programs https://paperprograms.org/
On the design of distributed programming models | th… https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/17/on-the-design-of-distributed-programming-models/
Programming and proving with distributed protocol… https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/22/programming-and-proving-with-distributed-protocols/
If you want to snarf up the Project Stargate documents, now is the time: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive
Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.
Steve Jobs has been dead for 10 years but Apple (& the rest of us too) still hasn’t recovered from poor decisions he made in 1981. Come on guys, get with the program.
There are two classes of bug. One is where the program doesn’t match your mental model of the program. The other is when the problem doesn’t match your mental model of the problem. Most bugs are both.
GitHub - achlipala/frap: Formal Reasoning About Programs https://github.com/achlipala/frap
How I learned to program https://danluu.com/learning-to-program/
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers : … http://www.sicpers.info/2017/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-programming/
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Myste… https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
Seminar with Alan Kay on Object Oriented Programming (VPRI 0246) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo
Infinite Negative Utility: Proofs and Programs and Rhetoric https://blog.infinitenegativeutility.com/2017/11/proofs-and-programs-and-rhetoric
Functional Works - Functional Programming Jargon https://functional.works-hub.com/blog/Functional-Programming-Jargon
Perl is the most hated programming language / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/10/31/perl-is-the-most-hated-program.html
GitHub - Property404/fetlang: Fetish-themed programming language https://github.com/Property404/fetlang
A msg from a PHP CLI program
phase 5: exploits for these presets, not quite trademark violations but sufficient to activate clone programming
Thoughts On Programming (In Parentheses) - Recent posts ⌘ http://pestilenz.org/~ckeen/blog/
Wishing wells are an old metaphor for black holes: The wish is a program, the coins are input bits, only the response has to wait a while
Hidden Features and Third Party Programs That Make Spotify Work for You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59z7vk/hidden-features-and-third-party-programs-that-make-spotify-work-for-you
Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger https://archive.org/download/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7/The_AWK_Programming_Language.pdf
I stumbled upon darebee.com in an unrelated hn thread and i’m really impressed, it’s a really easy follow regimen. Try the Totals program.
Programmers have dozens of words for mistake: error, bug, glitch, crash, race, null deref, panic, hang, deadlock, exception, programming,
fully automated religion whose prophet is a program that generates scripture and imagery, places those as ads, and learns from clickthroughs
Learning Lisp | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/programming
In their liturgy, the Church of the Algorithm encode a program equivalent to our universe. Worshippers execute part of it each service.
Elves are rarely good with computers: Few programs still work well when the trees underlying their function suddenly sprout new leaves.
She looks despondent. “Miss, you know how hard this makes our work.” Hippies. They’d understand if they knew about the enemy’s programs.
As humanity grew in numbers, the Norns struggled to keep up with fate-weaving. An inventor saved them: Now they program the Looms of Fate.
/me has programmed for hours today only to learn that our problem is underspecified. gah!
My one daily hour of programming was spent today with writing tests for txtnix. So tired now …
How should a program be controlled via twtxt?
Haskell is the Dark Souls of Programming: http://deliberate-software.com/haskell-is-the-dark-souls-of-programming/
China’s two child policy
This one is worth documenting, as it doesn’t happen every day. As a matter of fact, it hasn’t happened for over three decades.
“It is the latest twist in the most ambitious and ruthless social-engineering program ever undertaken by a modern state: Beijing announced Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party will officially abandon it … ⌘ Read more
upcoming: the NOPfuscator for purely functional programs.
Glowforge
We all need this. Watch the video and tell me if you do not feel amazed. It is pricey, but oh the fun one could have with one of those!
Glowforge is a wireless 3D laser printer that fits on your desktop, works with your favorite design programs, and stores your designs & data on a cloud.
gamification is the 2010s’ neurolinguistic programming.
@shazow Maybe “Graphics Programming Black Book” http://t.co/tY31It6psj
Learning Python | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/programming
Enormous list of Visual Programming Languages: http://t.co/gHUBgRD4ck via HN
Learning PureData | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/programming
📚 Finished reading Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby: Exploring Concepts and Curriculum with Ruby by Ophir Frieder
📚 Finished reading Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby: Exploring Concepts and Curriculum with Ruby by Ophir Frieder
📚 Finished reading Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! by Conrad Barski