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Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Rui Oliveira · Feb 22, 2012 · 54m 20s
What this video covers
Bret Victor's talk at CUSEC 2012 in which he argues that creators need immediate feedback and should organize their work around a guiding principle. He demonstrates live-coding and animation tools that show results as you type, and describes his own principle that creators must see what they are making.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
It is HN's go-to recommendation for the case that programming environments should give instant feedback, and it appears in nearly every thread on live coding, visual programming or developer tools.
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Recommendation context
Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
“My mind was blown when I saw this video 2 years ago”
“it doesn't get much better than this”
“Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk[1] is one of the best I've seen.”