[HN Gopher] Telescope Rule (2008)
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       Telescope Rule (2008)
        
       Author : melling
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2022-07-28 15:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | dsr_ wrote:
       | In my experience, the gulf between not understanding programming
       | and any beginner language - say, Scratch - is much wider than the
       | gap between any two languages in the same family.
       | 
       | Java is a terrible language to teach early programming: the
       | features chosen to get to OOP get in the way of understanding
       | basic control. Perl is better. Python is miles better. A dialect
       | of Python with more explicit blocking instead of whitespace
       | sensitivity would be excellent.
       | 
       | --
       | 
       | As for constructing a toy system with the plan to throw it away
       | after you've learned from it -- isn't that what an MVP is?
        
       | hallway_monitor wrote:
       | "Thomson's Rule for First-Time Telescope Makers: "It is faster to
       | make a four-inch mirror then a six-inch mirror than to make a
       | six-inch mirror."" This seems to be true in my experience, and is
       | a great way to phrase the idea.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | the_gipsy wrote:
       | > This site uses features not available in older browsers.
       | 
       | This site can't even render a document.
        
       | thunderbong wrote:
       | This is a rant, hopefully not a strange one, though -
       | 
       | I have a strange objection to this wiki. After all, it's mostly
       | text, right? Why does it need Javascript to render it? Also, on
       | the desktop the article shows up as a thin column on the left
       | side occupying only about 20% of the width of the screen!
        
         | chriswarbo wrote:
         | The C2 wiki used to be bog-standard text. A few years ago it
         | was revamped with some grand ideas about becoming more
         | interactive and collaborative, giving the server less control
         | over the content, etc. Unfortunately this didn't seem to pan
         | out, but it's now stuck with a reliance on client-side scripts
         | :(
        
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