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Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:27PM (#46621424)
Re:Alan Kay: Doing with Images makes Symbols (1987 video)
on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @08:45PM (#38284956)
The full version is also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY
Re:Gil Strang's final lecture at MIT
on Friday May 12, 2023 @05:31PM (#35922685)
I had the privilege of taking one of Strang's classes a few years back. He is still incredibly sharp, and has a great sense of wit.
During one lecture, he was half way through solving a problem on the board when he jumped straight to the final answer. He then turned to us, and with a deadpan delivery said:
"We haven’t proved it, but that’s okay, we only live so long."
And then he moved on to the next problem.
I've quoted that line a lot since then.
Vercel Service Markup
Nerfstudio: A collaboration friendly studio for NeRFs
The rise of workplace surveillance [audio]
20 Years of Daring Fireball
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site
on Thursday April 07, 2022 @09:53AM (#30944434)
https://kennethfriedman.org
Handwritten HTML and CSS (no JS required). I've been working on my personal site in fits and starts since 2013, so it's by far the longest thing I've ever worked on.
I'm pretty happy with it (but would love feedback & suggestions!)
Re:MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon
on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @11:36PM (#29733653)
As the OP here, I could not agree more.
Re:MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon
on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @11:36PM (#29733647)
We should expect better, and you deserve better! Luckily, the issue has been fixed :)
Re:MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon
on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @11:35PM (#29733643)
Thanks for the heads up. I blame our site's Chief CSS Officer (me). It has been fixed!
MIT Scheme on Apple Silicon
Intel Goes (Justin) Long
The designer behind Paper (by FiftyThree) is calling for an end to minimalism
Re:Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [202...
on Monday February 15, 2021 @10:58PM (#26150763)
John Gruber at Daring Fireball has covered the meta-story of the publication of these articles extensively.
Here's his take on the most recent update:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/02/12/bloomberg-big-c...
Re:Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:27PM (#26082041)
typo, .com
Attorneys General Sue Facebook Alleging Illegal Power Grabs
Re:Software Design for Flexibility
on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:20PM (#25340346)
Here's Sussman giving a talk a few years ago on the same topic of "flexibility": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cblhgNUoX9M
The Need for Stable Foundations in Software Development
Notion Introduces Roam-Like Backlinks
Re:$200M seed valuation for Roam shows investor frenzy for note-taking...
on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:40PM (#24448497)
For anyone looking to understand Roam, I would suggest searching "roam cult" or "#roamcult" on Twitter.
I'm not one of them — but there is a hardcode, devoted fan base that are convinced it's the best thing since sliced bread. Whenever that occurs, it's worth trying to understand why.
I think the bad homepage is (somewhat) intentional: they only want people who are willing to look past the home screen and actually give it a try... and (I believe) they want to avoid the audience who is trying it just because of a flashy landing page.
Tristan Harris's Documentary Trailer: The Social Dilemma [video]
Re:How to Speak (2018) [video]
on Sunday April 12, 2020 @04:04PM (#22850676)
Unfortunately the grad class he taught was not recorded, because it was a seminar.
Although the readings & assignments are available on class website: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/index.html
Re:How to Speak (2018) [video]
on Sunday April 12, 2020 @03:00PM (#22850318)
You can see the impact that PHW had on his students and colleagues at his memorial website: http://memoriesofpatrickwinston.com/
Re:MIT 6.004: Computation Structures
on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:40AM (#22072679)
This is an undergrad course, "200 level" in the standard course numbering (which MIT does not follow). It's for people who know how to program, but relatively new to the field. It's mostly going to be getting people used to assembly and basic computational building blocks.
You might be interested in the new class: 6.812 Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning.
Anne Hunter Retires from MIT
Re:Show HN: A Demo IDE for Scheme
on Friday July 26, 2019 @11:41PM (#20540252)
OP here.
This IDE started as a final project in Gerry Sussman's LISP class at MIT.
When programming and debugging, you often want to know what your code is going to do without the possibility of unintended side effects (state change) by actually running the code.
Towards this goal, we added a concept we call "preview execution." That is: you can preview the output of code in our IDE simply by highlighting a section of code. The IDE will show the output of the highlighted section, but when you de-select the section, there are no side effects: no state is changed in the Scheme instance.
It's downloadable as a Mac app, but also open source. Would love to hear people's thoughts on it!