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Comment on Kung fu coding by Si

Si — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:50:58 +0000

I didn’t realise you could nest replies – awesome! One up on Google+ there…

Anyway, I’m just lazily extrapolating from the cursor keys through the mouse and touchscreen interfaces.

Whatever works for you!

Comment on Kung fu coding by Pete Lewis

Pete Lewis — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:13:26 +0000

I fail to see how waving my arms in the air could ever be anywhere near as expressive as a keyboard… I think I’d end up trying to find the miniscule sweet spot on a virtual shower dial to get the right temperature.

Comment on Kung fu coding by Si

Si — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:57:39 +0000

I watch that video and I see a collapsible tree structure, spatially-separated and colour-coded functional entities, complex keyboard sequences and fairly regular typos.

If you are restricted to a keyboard and a colour terminal this is probably converging on an ideal development environment. My argument is that new HCI models allow us to present the same structure much more flexibly with more natural interaction.

Comment on Kung fu coding by Pete Lewis

Pete Lewis — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:32:02 +0000

Noooo…. I totally agree that code is “built”, but it’s also expressed in language. Sure we could build some complex diagrammatic language, but I’m a big fan of keeping it simple with plain text representations.

What we need is better tools to automate the “text building” around the structures that exist in the chosen language, e.g. flexible extensible snippet templates and editors that understand the syntax. See this for some early examples of this:

Comment on #thatlondon by Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:45:11 +0000

I think you mean Watford Junction! otherwise your train got quite lost.

Have fun in the big smoke! I’ll hopefully be down quite regularly so we shall meet.

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Comment on my bionic ears by Jonathan Melhuish

Jonathan Melhuish — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:09:21 +0000

Definitely an interesting avenue to explore from a HCI perspective. I’m surprised we’ve not heard more activity in this space considering how ubiquitous, cheap and socially acceptable the hardware is.

Comment on Freecycle update by Ben

Ben — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:18:36 +0000

A note to commented David (if I may)…
Hi, this is Ben from GoodNewsForPolarBears.org, its interesting to hear you say about mods having franchises removed, I’d be very interested to chat more about this. Any chance you’d be happy to speak with me, I’m naturally very interested in the whole Freecycle franchise model, powers, restrictions, etc, and I’m wondering if mods don’t want a little more autonomy. Any chance of a chat.
Cheers
Ben
bigbear[at]GoodNewsForPolarBears.org

Comment on Freecycle update by Ben

Ben — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:13:05 +0000

Hi Simon

Thanks for the mention of http://www.GoodNewsForPolarBears.org.

If you wanted to see a comparison of the differences between Freecycle and GNFPB there is some stuff I put on our blog (http://goodnewsforpolarbears.wordpress.com/).

Plus if you’d like any more info on GNFPB, why we started it, what we’re aiming to achieve, etc, say for a more in depth piece or whatever, I’d be happy to chat. By all means please drop me a line.

Best regards, and thanks for a great read
Ben

Comment on Freecycle update by si

si — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:28:29 +0000

Thanks for the moderator’s perspective, David.

I understand that you guys have to work within the rules set by The Freecycle Network which includes protection for user privacy and observance of Yahoo ToS.

Phone numbers are easy enough to strip out and I think the Yahoo issue is not so great in practice given Yahoo’s approval of OpenFreecycle and the specific reference to ‘commercial’ services in the ToS (item 10 of http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/info/terms.html ).

However, this may all be moot as it seems The Freecycle Network also plans to move over to a web-based model with their new site http://www.freecycle.org/faq/manual/faq&topic=newsite. Maybe I should be developing freelist2web as a migration tool? I really don’t have any ego about this and will happily code wherever it has the best effect.