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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Have you thought about using the hammond distance, instead of the array?
It should give you the same answer in 3 CPU instructions on registers instead of 2 array lookups and arithmetic in ram. XOR, hammond weight/bitcount and and equality check.
Comment · 11 years ago
This is the mentioned indiegogo campaign
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/revolutionary-treatment-f...
sadly it looks like they are still quite far away from their goal.
Comment · 11 years ago
A lot of people = some idiots on twitter, that have no clue about the current state of technology
Comment · 11 years ago
http://www.selflanguage.org
You should watch the videos on the introduction page and play a bit with the system, it's interesting to see how much interactivity and liveliness was already achieved in the 80s/90s,
Comment · 11 years ago
The fie is huge because it seems that animations were converted to multiple PDF pages.
So page count is not a useful metric for presentation progression and information amount.
Comment · 11 years ago
> It never said it was the "the uber clojure IDE", not even used any words to this effect.
In the beginning it was clearly marketed as a clojure ide, and if you look at the comments on HN at the time it's clear that it was perceived as such.
http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table---a-new-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3836978
>"Catering too much to other languages"? What does that even mean? Did anybody signed to the parent that it would only be for his favorite language (the "uber clojure IDE" he dreamt?)? It was due to huge community demand that LT promised to support Javascript and Python too.
This is what broke it's back though. By trying to go with all languages at once they failed to focus on getting one right first. They should have added new ones later on.
>Nobody stopped the parent or anyone else from using something existing "that actually works" or creating something even better.
I've heard it many times over the years in the clojure world, "I'd start on an editor, but it looks like LT is going to be exactly what I want so I'll just wait." Only after its failure was apparent things like Gorilla-Repl popped up.
> including having concretely inspired the Swift playground features (as the Swift designer admitted).
I'd like a source for that. LT is directly inspired by the work of Bred Victor who _worked for apple_ and Swift has at least one of the Factor devs, which is a highly dynamic language with a live coding environment.
> As if it was all a scheme to make $300K off of kickstarter. He made a lot more than that on Kickstarter, and has some Venture capital as well iirc.
Chris has a history of half finished unmaintained projects, so especially with his past I'd be suspicious.
Eve is the same, it promises to make programming mainstream but storing your UI in a Datalog DB is a huge mess. DL is great, but the stuff he does with it is just horrid.
Comment · 11 years ago
They didn't contain much of the live programming story?
Comment · 11 years ago
Yes, I also dug into its codebase.
Have you actually used Self for example?
Comment · 11 years ago
LT didn't bring any new inventions, emacs, self, morphic, CL, they've all done some aspect of it 30 years earlier.
LT has shown however that you can make a load of money of kickstarter without delivering a product, but people will still throw money at you for building the next big unfinished thing (see their new pet project with a broken architecture called EVE).
Comment · 11 years ago
It's good that LT is finally acknowledged to have failed as "the uber clojure IDE". It's architecture is horrible, and its catering too much to other languages.
Once it's dead the space it frees up can be filled again by something that actually works.
Comment · 11 years ago
If you install nightly builds on a production system you deserve to get bitten.
Comment · 11 years ago
>modern ... XMPP ...
lolnope
Comment · 11 years ago
You said it better than me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin–Karp_algorithm
Rabin karp with rolling hashes is actually (not exactly but almost) what tools like rsync, or bittorent use to find chunks and differences in files. So it scales really well.
The algorithms you cite come from a time when computers looked rather different in their architectures.
Linearly scanning the entire genome from ram for example, could be significantly better than performing multiple index lookups from disk.
Many problems of bioinformatics (the text processing) aren't that hard or special anymore, a genome is tiny compared to the amount of data we have lying around elsewhere.