Bret Victor Inventing on Principle

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an inspiring talk on immediate feedback and on living by a principle.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Luna Programming Language Tutorials

Topic

immediate feedback in tools

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• >Brett Victor - Inventing on principle: [VIDEO] This gave me a sharp moment of clarity, thank you so much for this! I'll work on the wording over time, but here's a rough sketch of my principle: My principle is that no person should ever be …

• Is there some pet peeve you have about the world, which you wish to change? If there is, and you can put your finger on it, making it happen could be a very fulfilling thing to do. I just figured out my pet peeve, the …

• >> They continuously run every time you make any change to them. >Which is very much unlike what a program does. You're saying "Program that run continuously every time you make any change are very much unlike what a program does?" That doesn't make any …