07 JUL 2011 by ideonexus

 Babies Look to Mothers for Cues on How to React to the World

Other experiments also show that one-year-olds have a radically new understanding of people. What happens when you show a baby something new, something a little strange, maybe wonderful, maybe dangerous—say, a walking toy robot? The baby looks over at Mom quizzically and checks her out. What does she think? Is there a reassuring smile or an expression of shocked horror? One-year-olds will modify their own reactions accordingly. If there's a smile, they'll crawl forward to investigate; if th...
Folksonomies: babies learning development
Folksonomies: babies learning development
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When presented with an unknown, the infant will look to the mother's expression to understand how it should react and if it should engage.

21 APR 2011 by ideonexus

 Bernie Cosell on Java

Java didn't feel right. My old reflexes hit me. Java struck me as too authoritarian. Thats one of the reasons why I mentioned that Perl felt so good, because it's got the safety and the checks but it is so damn multidimensioned that the artist part of me has a lot of free board to express things early and to think about the right way do things. I have some freedom. When I first messed with Java—^this was /vhen it was little baby language, of course—I said, "Oh, this is just another one...
Folksonomies: programming coding
Folksonomies: programming coding
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Describing his first impressions of it as authoritarian and designed for not-so-good programmers.