hendekagon's comments

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: Farewell, Marvin Minsky

he could have left himself out of it, just once, out of respect

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: Number of legal Go positions computed

Tromp's website is a treasure-trove of really cool things

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which people and groups are researching new approaches to programming?

This is what I'd like to see too. Let's get away from tiny motions and sitting in a chair and make tools more like traditional wood/metalworking tools for programming: benches with robotic appendages that we can manipulate ASTs with. Let's use our kinesthetic and touch senses more.

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: The Same User Interface Mistakes Over and Over

Focus-stealing annoys me the most. Applications should never steal focus & should always open in the background.

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: Electrostatic Vibration – enhancing touch interfaces with tactile sensations

The sooner this comes to market the better

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street

I never liked Big Bird. What a twat.

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: Van Eck Phreaking

Unrelated, but at the bottom of http://celeriac.net/sx/public/ is a sonification of Van Eck's sequence

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: What Holds Me Back from ClojureScript

what aspects of the text made the code hard to read for you ? Was it the parens ? If LISP was displayed in the editor without parens (but still had them behind-the-scenes), so that the code was formatted much like Python, then would it be acceptable ?

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: For Inventor of Eudora, Great Fame, No Fortune (1997)

Loved Eudora back in the day

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: There is no language instinct (2014)

"I wouldn't be surprised if a few kilobytes would suffice to describe the components from which any grammar can be built - much smaller than the full grammar itself."

yes - e.g. BNF

hendekagon | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Experimental “Text-To-Color” engine I wrote for fun

"the complement of red" - red

hendekagon | 12 years ago | on: FlyKly Smart Wheel

Unsprung mass

hendekagon | 12 years ago | on: The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages

Totally amazing...it is itself a fractal of information, I want to go into a recursion of link-following!

Can't resist posting my Clojure implementation of the chaos game: https://github.com/Hendekagon/card

hendekagon | 12 years ago | on: Cursive Clojure: A Clojure IntelliJ plugin

Just installed it...very happy to see structural editing! Aaand immediately I want more features! Can we have a feature to allow any function (that follows some specification) to be bound to a key so that it can be applied to the selected expression ? This would allow for functional editing or even editing based on core.logic and core.match. Also can we have function application graphs (which functions use which other functions) ? BTW I will gladly pay/donate for/to your work - nice one!