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Comment Re:Something fishy here... (Score 1) 140

Unless of course his parents force fed him source code since he was an infant; which is probably the case if he is a real person.

Well, he is the son of this guy, who has been known to write some seriously gnarly code:

The source code is notoriously complex, a mark of the seriously ingenious Paul Kulchenko who created SOAP:Lite. As a result baffles most inexperienced Perl programmers, and indeed sends many of them running in shear terror. I myself am given the highest respect in my office for signing up to maintain the module for this fact alone - I work with some of the brightest and most experienced Perl programmers in the industry and they all look at SOAP::Lite in awe. And not the "good" kind of awe, the kind of awe that gives people a healthy, but fearful respect.

Comment Magic Ink by Bret Victor (Score 1) 338

Check out http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into "Human-Computer Interaction." In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on "interaction" may be misguided. For a majority subset of software, called "information software," I argue that interactivity is actually a curse for users and a crutch for designers, and users' goals can be better satisfied through other means.

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