THE VIDEO SHELF · programming tools and live feedback
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Bret Victor's talk from Dropbox's DBX conference about living by a guiding principle, in his case that creators need an immediate connection to what they are making. He shows live-coding and time-manipulation demos that let ideas take form at the speed of thought.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite it as the best demonstration of why instant feedback matters in programming tools.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Colin McDonnell
- Topic
- programming tools and live feedback
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Bret Victor's talks are a counter example to this. His live programming in this[1] talk is nothing short of mind blowing. [1] [VIDEO]
jdiez17 on Hacker News · 2015-11
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