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beyondcompute··on Nidium – A new browser engine
It looks like a promising first step towards the great thing we clearly need: an alternative to web. Get rid of HTTP, CSS, and HTML (well, HTML can be useful when we deal with actual _hypertext_). It would be nice to support some languages that are friendlier than JS (i.e., almost any one) though.
beyondcompute··on DoS exploit crashes iOS/OSX devices using WebKit
> Since Apple doesn't show any reaction for about half a year.

Why is this happening?

beyondcompute··on Leaked transcript of censored Bret Victor talk
The person speaks about design. When system (our programming tool) is visible (read Donald Norman's "Design of Everyday Things"), provides immediate feedback, shows clearly defined constraints than the system is usable. When "you need the Category theory to use the system" (the theory is magnificent, it's a marvel of human mind, etc. Nobody spoke anything bad about the theory itself) than it's an embarrassingly awkward attempt to conceal one's failure at designing usable programming tool.
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