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    He always has interesting ideas, but … tl;dw would be helpful. 30 seconds in and we’re talking about Francesco’s cooking.

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      I would like a TL;DW for all videos lol. A text transcript would nearly always be better for my purposes. Hopefully it won’t be too long till we have autotranscripting tools.

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        This tangent is interesting given I found an empirical study last night about whether it’s best to teach with text or video. I haven’t done more than look at abstract, though, so I’ll submit it this week once I see what’s in the content. I always prefer text, too, since I can read more good ideas faster with bad ones wasting less time.

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        He said a better use of your time would be to study https://tiddlywiki.com

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          Seriously. If anyone here watches this whole thing and thinks any of it is valuable, could you please post a short list? Bonus points for citing actual published papers.

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            Skip approximately the first half of the video. He spends 20 minutes doing introductory stuff, but once he actually gets on topic he stays on topic.

            TL;DW version, though:

            1. read Wirth and Hoare and all the classics
            2. remember the lessons of the Forth community – that stuff can still be small
            3. learn prolog and erlang
            4. make sure you understand how Xanadu’s model of hypertext differs from the Web, and why (or else you’ll just reproduce the mistakes of the web)
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          The single best advice I got from this talk is that I should watch this talk:

          Matt Might - Winning the War on Error Solving the Halting Problem and Curing Cancer

          Which was worth it, actually.