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by cesare 17y ago
Not at all. I mean, we love technology (aren't we hackers?), but probably we feel (albeit indirectly and just partly) responsible for such things: a man has died for a lost phone/gadget. One of those we buy, use and work with. So my questio
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by cesare 17y ago
> He died to keep the next generation of that phone from your prying eyes. This is a reason so mundane and trivial that the mind reels. Wouldn't it be beautiful if we (as a society) could satisfy all our needs and our desires without fe
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by cesare 17y ago
Spam. Also, it will probably crash your browser.
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Scientists discover why we never forget how to ride a bicycle(abdn.ac.uk)
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by cesare 17y ago
[Edited to add more substance. Was: Constructivism FTW! :-)] Isn't this another proof of the success of constructivist learning? Learning by doing using tools specifically designed to encourage this approach?
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by cesare 17y ago
I agree that anyone can be creative. But I believe that most think that it "doesn't do it for them" just because they haven't discovered yet how and why it can be positive for them.
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by cesare 17y ago
Wow! Psychology at its finest. Especially the last paragraph. Have they ever studied what happens if they just start treating people with dignity?
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by cesare 17y ago
These are really valuable advices. What is left out, in my opinion, is how specialization (even in the things you do just for yourself) inherently leads to stress and lack of happiness. And being a generalist makes earning a living in our s
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by cesare 17y ago
Even just trying to rationalize things like this shows how disconnected we've become. This is sad from whichever angle one looks at it.
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by cesare 17y ago
I am a musician and I've used generative/aleatoric techniques many times. Carefully crafting sounds, defining my own generative rules and keeping adjusting each subtle parameter until I've achieved the desired results is the farthest I've b
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by cesare 17y ago
I mean for personal use. You will type your Word document at the office and you will bring just the smartphone with you when leaving to check email, read the news and stay connected in general.
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by cesare 17y ago
If somebody who has an interest makes a statement, this should warn you. But it doesn't automatically mean that it's false.
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by cesare 17y ago
Good analysis. When I first read Vic Gundotra (engineering v.p. at Google) statements he convinced me. But I'm not so sure anymore that browser delivered apps will win against custom applications. Most users don't even know what a browser i
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by cesare 17y ago
Great post!
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by cesare 17y ago
>Update: I should add that the two biggest deciding points for me are development enjoyment and speed of development. This is subjective. Try both of them for a while. If you need to decide first to buy the hardware keep in mind that th
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by cesare 17y ago
For me it's mostly an aesthetic thing. It's difficult to explain. I just find simple things more elegant than and Scheme is terser and all the implementations (that I know of) are lighter than CL. It' s also very easy to embed in C code. I'
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by cesare 17y ago
Lisp nowadays comes in two main flavours (dialects, technically): scheme and Common Lisp. I prefer the former and my favorite implementation at the moment is plt-scheme ( http://www.plt-scheme.org/ ). From the website above you can download
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by cesare 17y ago
Thanks!
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by cesare 17y ago
http://www.rgba.org/ -> prods
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by cesare 17y ago
The 'elevated' 4k demo by RGBA group is almost unbelievable. Of course the DirectX libraries needed to run it wouldn't fit on a floppy :-).
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by cesare 17y ago
In case somebody missed it (Richard Dawkins on postmodernism): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=645178 Edit: here's the direct link to the article: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html
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by cesare 17y ago
I've read "Zen Mind, Beginners' Mind" sixteen years ago and it really affected my way of thinking (or, better, it reinforced my temperament). On the other hand, I believe that living by these teachings can lead to a certain kind of passivit
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by cesare 17y ago
1 IP != 1 user. Even if it is always the same for the same user it could be that they're behind a NAT or just simply sharing a PC. Being behind a NAT myself I have a lot of problems with websites discriminating by IPs.
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by cesare 17y ago
I agree that it's small and I am not convinced by the circular projection either. I was posting that myself. But what do you mean for "no scale"? Each slice is scaled according to the number of listeners and the color gives another dimensio
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by cesare 17y ago
The wikipedia page about astroturfing lacks a screenshot. Just saying.
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by cesare 17y ago
Sadly, the website is registered to Microsoft (and Copyright Microsoft Staffing Marketing)it is a Wordpress blog running on Apache! Edit: I don't mean to offend people in this community working for Microsoft. But this is one of the best exa
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by cesare 17y ago
Just check the copyright at the bottom of the page.
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by cesare 17y ago
This is a quite common misunderstanding among iPhone developers. For instance, I'm starting to use TinyScheme embedded in my code. Pretty sweet.
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by cesare 17y ago
How true. I would like to do more things with physical computing, for instance. But I always end up concentrating on software only projects.
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by cesare 17y ago
The big difference between programmers and non-programmers is that the latter seem to fail to grasp that computers are universal machines/tools. That you can make them do almost anything you want and simulate entire universes inside them. O

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