Symphony of Science bonus track: The Cosmic Dance (Mindwalk Remix)
I’m going to make a framework called Homeopathy where you’re required to dissolve tiny amounts of code into hundreds of lines of comments because it makes it more realtime.—via tilgovi
Insane jump (jump ahead to about 1m30s)
John Tyler was the 10th President of the United States. He was born in 1790 and took office in 1841. His son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853, when Tyler was 63 years old1. Lyon had six children with two different wives2, two of whom were Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. (born 1924 when Lyon Sr. was 71) and Harrison Ruffin Tyler (born 1928 when Lyon Sr. was 75). They are reportedly both still living in their 80s.—President John Tyler’s grandsons are still alive!!
Still Life by Scott Garner. ”Still” isn’t really the right word.
I built a similar system once as a text editor plugin which let you execute selected Python code. The only way to pass arguments was to type or paste them. Pike’s interface provides a way to pass one argument via selection. You could allow an arbitrary number of selection-based arguments by having the user select the command then each of the arguments in turn. I haven’t tried it, but it doesn’t seem like it would be more cumbersome than typing arguments, and for one argument it would only involve reversing the order of actions in Pike’s system.
An important difference between the two systems was that mine operated in a single window, and commands returned information by modifying the selected text (either by appending to it or replacing it, at the choice of the user). One interesting way to use my extension to make programmatic edits was to open the file to be edited, go to the place where the edits need to happen, write a function that took some text and performed the edits on that text, and apply it to the text to be edited, wrapped in triple quotes. For code reuse, there was an automatically imported module (and of course you could just write ‘import whatever’, then select and execute it).
Flash-based art game about, you guessed it, ancient Greek punishment.
