Coding on Paper
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1 day ago
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| wickstrom.tech
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lordleft
3 minutes ago
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I had no idea Boox made these. I have two of their tablets and one of their e-readers. I can't wait to see e-ink progress as a technology.
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pjmlp
13 hours ago
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I thought it was actually paper coding, as many of us learned to do before coding right away into a keyboard.
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TacticalCoder
42 minutes ago
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And paper debugging!

Fond memories of printing programs on continuous printer paper (paper with holes on the side, that many dot-matrix printers used) so that I could take my time to read them to figure out where the bugs where.

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PyWoody
25 minutes ago
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I've always dreamed of doing that.

Whenever I proofread papers in college, I would always print them out. There's something about being able to physically hold the paper that makes keeping the whole idea in your head easier that just isn't possible on a screen, for me at least.

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zx8080
2 hours ago
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It's not the paper (and pen), it's some "paper screen" marketing.

Thank you so much for misleading me to click your link.

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jolmg
53 minutes ago
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> it's some "paper screen" marketing.

Maybe you haven't heard of it before? E-paper (including e-ink) displays are much less rare than actually coding on pen and paper.

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throwaway27448
11 minutes ago
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Really? Coding with pen and paper is very normal from my perspective. How else to you brainstorm with a colleague?
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evgpbfhnr
2 hours ago
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I'd definitely love to see more screens like this sold (and getting better & more affordable with time)!

The mira pro color is marked as sold out and I can't even figure how to check non-color version on their site, so this doesn't look like something they sell a lot of though...

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t1234s
2 hours ago
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While bored in class in the mid 90's I would literally code pascal on paper.
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jbuzbee
1 hour ago
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My first job out of college in the early 80's was working on diagnostics for an old NASA computer. "What language do I use?" I asked my boss. "We don't have a compiler". OK, I thought, assembly language. "No" said my boss "We don't have an assembler". "OK" I guess I'll write machine language. "What's the development environment?" "We don't have one. There's no editor. There's no network. There's no keyboard or monitor" I had to write my diagnostics in 96 bit hex using pencil and paper and then enter my program into the computer using toggle switches on the front panel. Kids today have no idea :-) And get off my lawn!
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allenu
1 hour ago
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Similarly, I'd write code in BASIC in notebooks before I had a computer. Later on I remember writing up assembly code in my high school library on loose leaf sheets when I had a neat idea and my friends were busy studying. Nothing like solving a problem the old fashioned way.
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maxdo
1 hour ago
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i seriously thought it is https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip about this :) it's the complete opposite lol
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