Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018

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Recommends enkiv2 · 2018-04 · on “Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?”

Ted Nelson's Computers for Cynics probably doesn't contain technical information that's new to any of you, but Ted has a knack for reframing things in ways that make the arbitrariness of certain historical decisions clear: [LINK] On the subject of hypertext, The Web That Wasn't gives a nice history of the idea (for anybody who thinks it starts with TBL -- surprisingly many people!): [LINK] Another reframing-oriented talk is Clay Shirky's "It's not information overload, it's filter failure", which ultimately leads to Shirky suggesting the kinds of user-oriented filtering features that Mastodon has implemented: [LINK] At the intersection of neurology and information science, Peter Watts always

Recommends smilesnd · 2018-12 · on “Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?”

I love any talk with Joe Armstrong or Alan Kay in it. Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018 [this video]

Recommends namelosw · 2019-04 · on “Joe Armstrong has died”

This is so sad. RIP Joe. I'll miss him so much. Erlang is one of the most Perlis languages for me. I'm always a little bit cynical and think Erlang deserve more attention. Several months ago Joe post this tweet about a game company refused to tell other people they are using Erlang. [LINK] I just watched his great talk last year not long ago - The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science: [this video]

Recommends jeffreygoesto · 2022-11 · on “Why I program in Erlang (2012)”

Definitely! I also like "How we program multicores" [0], it made "iff you want the same guarantees Erlang gives you, you'll be in the same performance ballpark in any language, yes, C++ also" click for me. Joe could explain the basic ideas and where they came from so concise and humble [1], you can probably just binge watch this whole list, one other gem being "The forgotten ideas in computer science" [2]... [0] [LINK] [1] [LINK] [2] [this video]

Cites alexashka · 2018-04 · on “Programming Bottom-Up (1993)”

It seems like what Paul is describing, is the niche filled by libraries/frameworks. When you have a website to build, you reach for an existing web framework, because it has already done the bottom-up steps for you. The same could be said of choosing a language, OS, hardware, etc. Existing technologies allow for increased productivity, at the cost of it becoming increasingly difficult to understand the bigger picture. The 'bottom-up' part at this point, is choosing which Ruby/Java/Python/etc libraries to use. The productivity bar has been set high, leaving little time for bottom-up decision making or education. Hence MongoDB and the never-ending tales of mediocre solutions gaining adoption d

Cites ignoramous · 2019-04 · on “Joe Armstrong has died”

Devastating. I'd like to point out a recent tweet @joeerl shared [0][1] that contained things he felt were good wisdom but lost over time: -- Ideas that we forgot: 1. Flow based programming. 2. Pipes. 3. Linda Tuple Spaces. 4. Hypertext (=/= HTML). Computer Science 101: 1. Observational equivalence. 2. Isolation. 3. Composition. 4. Causality. 5. Physics. Two papers to read: 1. The Emperor's Old Clothes - ACM. 2. A Plea for Lean Software - Nikalus Wirth. Two videos to watch: 1. The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet - Alan Kay. 2. Computers for Cynics - Ted Nelson. Four old tools to learn: Emacs, Bash, Make, Shell. Three books to read: 1. Algorithms + Data Structure = Programs. 2. The My

Cites cryo · 2020-03 · on “The Call of the Ocean: Hypertext, Universal and Open (1988)”

"[Read] everything from Ted Nelson" – Joe Armstrong Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018: [this video]