abathur

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by abathur 12y ago
The reason my interest is in "what they find interesting" is because so much of poetry is surprise. We rarely praise a poem that uses the words we expect right where we expect them, and ended up right where we thought it would. (a
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by abathur 12y ago
When it comes to actually quantifying value things are still pretty crude as far as I've seen. I can't recall seeing much that is this aspirational yet. There's an interesting site/paper from 2013 ( http://poet
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by abathur 12y ago
I'm a little skeptical about whether poetry science/technology will take , largely because the literature community is going to be suspicious of the last half of your terms, and the tech/science communities will be suspiciou
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by abathur 12y ago
Sorry--you probably won't see this now (much like I didn't notice for a bit!), but you took the time to reply, so I figured I should, as well. I was (a bit tartly) hoping to get you to unpack why, in a very deep sense, you can&#x2
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by abathur 12y ago
As an aside, cheers to @pdrummond for taking some frank feedback in stride.
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Right. Precisely. Gender polarization isn't a strong enough effect to pull significantly on an economy; sputr is trying to use a spurious correlation with little value in actually predicting whether a country will have a high or low st
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by abathur 12y ago
A hypothesis about why people end up in the jobs they do fails to account for whatever non-causative correlation someone can cook up? Astonishing! Why doesn't every country with a highly gender-segregated economy have a high standard
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by abathur 12y ago
Why can't you help feel but feel this?
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by abathur 12y ago
The reason you're getting blowback has to do with the tone it sounds like you're taking on the issue of gender and prestige with some selective examples. In regard to your final question: http://www.harrisinteractive.co
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by abathur 12y ago
Arguments about what exactly art "is" will probably never cease--but I'll still proffer a definition that helps with your question: Art is something--a sort of significance--we experience, and not really something we make. Wh
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Write an article for Imaginary Realities(reddit.com)
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by abathur 12y ago
I'll admit now that most of this is just an epiphany I had while seeking sound metaphors to address your problem. Please don't revere me as someone who has risen above the struggle you feel mired in. One of our great motivators, b
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by abathur 12y ago
My thought (predating your post) is that there are two ways you can stay on the edge of your comfort zone; one of these is by expanding laterally into things you don't already know much about, and one is by expanding vertically into th
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by abathur 12y ago
I think it's useful to point out that, much like with any other written language, there are two collaborative processes at play here--reading for understanding, and proofreading/editing. As someone who has a lot of 'detail&#x
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by abathur 12y ago
I wish the dominant metaphors weren't so business-y--they end up framing the discussion in a way that we're stuck talking about what other business-y metaphors would be better. Explaining that doing things "bad" creates
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by abathur 12y ago
As a followup, after reading much of this and skimming the rest, the command-line side of things doesn't get much focus beyond the principles, after which the book turns to GUIs for unix. Neither TAOUP and TAOUU give much coverage to o
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by abathur 12y ago
Good to know; userstyles.org doesn't mention it Safari on the page linked, at least.
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Having now read most of this and skimmed the rest, it was less useful than I initially hoped; the principles themselves were useful but the book itself is focused on GUI design for Unix.
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by abathur 12y ago
I'll note that you can also go to http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/taouu.html for the full book at once, which makes it more feasible to add these styles via console without going nuts and without
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by abathur 12y ago
The best resource thus far may be "The Art of Unix Usability" by Eric S Raymond which can be found at http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/html/ and was coincidentally posted by user diggan
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by abathur 12y ago
Holy cosmic coincidence, Batman. I posted an Ask HN about an hour after you first posted this seeking suggestions for discussions of information design for command-line programs. Even more funny, valaruca1 suggested that "The Art of Un
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by abathur 12y ago
It will be hard to say until I take a look; thanks in any case for the recommendation. It's hard to speak specifically, because I'm interested in a broad array of design decisions per how you present information to the user. Examp
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Ask HN: What are the principles of information design for CLI output?
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Tdver: dreaming about test-driven versioning(github.com)
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by abathur 12y ago
Location: Houston Remote: y Willing to relocate: y (pref: west coast, austin, dc, denver) Technologies: python, php, sql, js, html/js (detail: #cv) Résumé/CV: http://t-ravis.com/#cv Email: travis.a.e