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Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle

Colin Reckons · Youtube · 7 HN points · 4 HN comments
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Extra information and links to references can be found here:
http://worrydream.com/dbx/

Bret Victor's talk from Dropbox's DBX conference. Many important computer pioneers and successful people of all sorts have a singular passion. This passion doesn't have to be a beautiful thing you want to bring into the world; it can be and often is an injustice to be stamped out.

Victor's own vision is of a world where ideas can be manifested at the speed of thought. Indeed, unless this world is created, thoughts will continue to be lost and wasted before they can find persistent form in the world.
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A lot of the thought process here seems to move into Bret Victor's talk on 'Inventing on Principle'[0]

[0] https://youtu.be/EGqwXt90ZqA

hunterx
mostly just a glimpse of that talk, perhaps better suited is the one about programming he gave at Dropbox. In my opinion quite more in-line with what's being said.
panstromek
This was en excellent talk, exactly in the direction was talking about. Thanks for the link.
Dan Abramov 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs

But there was one earlier presentation I cannot find it, guy was showing live debugging of the video game. Not sure is it TED or one of conferences ...

Edit:

This is it:

Bred Victor: https://youtu.be/EGqwXt90ZqA?t=1006

2013 Future of programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4

mkl
*Bret Victor: http://worrydream.com/

Many past threads on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=worrydream

That landing page looks right out of Bret Victor's time travel demos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGqwXt90ZqA, or http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/). Communicates the value instantly. Incredibly well done!

IMO the most time consuming issue in triaging bug reports is reproducing them. Replay definitively solves the "can't repro this" problem.

jonbell
Replay’s designer here.

Bingo! We’ve been iterating on our story for a year, and the “let’s refer to Learnable Programming” angle felt like a huge breakthrough.

So glad it resonated with you, thanks for letting us know!

jasonlaster11
Thanks! Bret Victor has been my inspiration. Ever since I watch inventing on principle ten years ago, I knew this was what I wanted to build. In fact many folks on the team have a similar story. That's the crazy part about IoP for me. It's created a movement!
Mar 11, 2019 · 7 points, 2 comments · submitted by peter_d_sherman
peter_d_sherman
Note to future self: This video contains some super-important concepts, re-watch...
Ozzie_osman
Thanks for resurfacing. I watched this a couple years ago but it's always a great reminder.
Bret Victor's talks are a counter example to this. His live programming in this[1] talk is nothing short of mind blowing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGqwXt90ZqA

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