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by andrey-p 12y ago
Worth checking out the rest of Yarin Gal (the PhD student whose work prompted this post)'s extrapolated works of art: http://extrapolated-art.com/ Some of these look so seamless it's staggering.
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Fair enough, I was thinking of situations where the conversation wouldn't be held in your own space. In which case, changing location is something you would've had to do anyway. I just really like the sheer surrealness of ending a
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Regarding the plot towards the end of the article, what does "efficiency" mean? Surely "vanishing" while the other person is still speaking is the fastest way to end a conversation for the least effort.
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by andrey-p 12y ago
I love the slightly anthropomorphized language used in this. > "git archive" learned to filter what gets archived with a pathspec. > "git mergetool" understands "--tool bc" now > The pretty-format spec
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by andrey-p 12y ago
That makes perfect sense, thanks!
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by andrey-p 12y ago
I'm curious, what's the rationale behind var and = require("101/and"), apply = require("101/apply"); versus something like var o = require("101"); o.apply(&#x
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by andrey-p 12y ago
I really enjoyed playing around with the winner ( http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demo/1903 ), but I'm somehow surprised Highway At Night didn't win. Is there something about the winner's implementation
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Likewise - I learned a lot of my English from classic adventure games. For me there was also the additional challenge of growing up in an ex-Eastern Bloc country where you could find dodgy pirated copies of games more easily than the real t
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Hey, I don't understand what the problem is. The premise is ambiguous enough to invite creativity. You'd probably stumble upon a lot more innovation and playfulness here than in, say, the Sherlock Holmes fanfic section, where peop
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of these. The kerning issue is due to an existing bug with PhantomJS on Linux [1]. Hyphenation is a feature I've been wanting to do for a while but haven't managed yet due to the lack of a decent hyphenation e
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by andrey-p 12y ago
I actually did end up building a similar tool[1] for my self-published book, creating a printable PDF booklet out of markdown. It's probably not good for serious publishing but I found it hell of a lot easier to work with than LaTeX an
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by andrey-p 12y ago
It's a bit finicky but it's possible. Text is vector so as long as you use print-quality images and shrink them down to screen size using the width and height properties, you can have something that looks pretty good on both print
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Why is someone selling ebooks on a dark market? Surely there's more straightforward ways to get it if you're going down the illegal route anyway.
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Excellent point, but it was tried and tested stuff that friends had enjoyed previously. I looked up the side effects in Erowid [1] afterwards and it mentioned one of the more rare side effects you get is "a profound sense of isolation
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by andrey-p 12y ago
I do have to say, I've also tried some other drugs in the past month or so (MDMA being one of them) and the effect I got was pretty horrific - the exact opposite of the effect most people get. Even despite my bad experience I'm st
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Had my first acid trip a few weeks ago at a friend's place. I had brought my netbook to do some work on the train. Midway through the trip I thought, "Wait a minute! My eyes are so open now. I can see patterns and bigger pictures
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Thanks! I'm not really sure if a photo blog would be the best use for this tool. What I had more in mind is trying to get a text written in markdown as a printable book - the HTML output would be simply an online representation of that
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Apocalism.js (or, How I Automated My Illustrated Short Story Build Process)(andrey-p.github.io)
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by andrey-p 12y ago
> I don't think my brain interprets letters individually, but my eyes mostly catch word by word, hence a picture. That's a normal thing. You read words based on their outline rather than individual letters, what with the bits t
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by andrey-p 12y ago
As a person who killed off his FB account a couple of years ago, my first reaction upon seeing this was "Stickers? Wow, Facebook seems to have gone downhill since I used it." Then I remembered I absolutely LOVED the stickers in Tr
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by andrey-p 12y ago
That actually sounds like a pretty good rationale behind the completely different approach for the later books. (I'm still not sure I'd still agree with that approach, of course.) > but it helped to read a piece discussing the
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Thirding The Culture series (I've only read Matter, but I loved the setting) and adding Embassytown by China Miéville.
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Dune was an amazing read. I'd recommend reading it if you haven't. The setting is unique and mindblowing in scale. However, if you're planning on going through the entire series I'd suggest stopping at God Emperor. The b
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by andrey-p 12y ago
I don't think the parent comment was saying there was a problem per se with her being an outspoken socialist. But it's easy to imagine media leaning towards the conservative will choose to completely ignore that fact.
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by andrey-p 12y ago
This is oddly relevant to me right now. I'm a freelancer, and a scare came up yesterday where one of my main income streams was about to dry out... just after going through a summery dry spell and just before the obligatory Christmas d
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by andrey-p 12y ago
And, if you want a very very thin wrapper around Phantom (essentially a phantom script manager), feel free to have a look at this instead: https://github.com/andrey-p/ectoplasm-js Pardon the shameless plug.
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by andrey-p 12y ago
> A fire is a self-perpetuating chemical reaction in which the high temperature encourages fuel to combine with oxygen in the air, further raising the temperature in the process. Kinda OT but this sentence finally cleared up for me how b
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by andrey-p 12y ago
When the project tanks, everyone will be the first to leave the sinking ship.
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Wow, I thought I was the only one who felt that exact way. Luckily I live in Yorkshire, UK, where there's beautiful windswept hills aplenty.
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by andrey-p 12y ago
Not a massive fan of the G+ Youtube comment merger but.. that would've been an excellent idea even when anonymous comments were a thing.

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