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  1. Jan 2019
    1. Heidegger posits that technology is made to be used, it is a resource, and that the utilitarian orientation people take to technology transfers inappropriately to other areas – for example, nature and people.

      Smalltalk-like System and Technology's Utilitarian Orientation Will a Smalltalk-like technology alleviate the tendency of the utilitarian orientation Heidegger implied? If so, how much?

    2. A user of a system like Facebook is constrained by the system much more so than a Smalltalk user, and they in turn reduce their aspirations and expectations of expression, and use, appropriately

      machine-logic, again.

    3. Smalltalk was one of the original Operating Systems developed by Xerox PARC for the Alto – when the design principles governing the relationship between user and computer were still being defined.

      Interesting!

    4. We see the impact of this in work showing that people who spend more time in online social worlds find in-person interactions less meaningful11Valentina Rotondi, Luca Stanca, Miriam Tomasuolo, Connecting alone: Smartphone use, quality of social interactions and well-being, Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 63, 2017, Pages 17-26, ISSN 0167-4870, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167487017302520 — they are habituated to the online experience.

      Holy shit that severe?

    1. A Python variable is created when a name is used for the first time on the left-hand side of an assignment statement.

      Simpler and thus more confusing than C.

    1. They view computers from a logical or user perspective

      This analogy is thought-provoking. The logical and the physical might not refer to the same thing after all, and they might be on the same level of abstraction. Neither is "under the hood" of the other.

    2. Abstraction allows us to view the problem and solution in such a way as to separate the so-called logical and physical perspectives.

      Is this separation really possible? Does the abstracted still refer to the original physical?

  2. Nov 2018
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    1. Presumably this function is going to be supplied with numbers as inputs because it makes no sense to multiply images or Boolean values or strings by 10.

      C further specifies the input type.

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  7. Dec 2016
    1. In that case, you need an empty placeholder list that you can append items to individually.

      这涉及到之后的关于automatioin的程序功能。programming最厉害的地方就在于automation。