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by chipsy 12y ago
It never worked that well in the online world, IME. People used their away status message for the equivalent of Weird Twitter; there was little incentive to proclaim yourself "available." Likewise, there's always the person w
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by chipsy 12y ago
Your premise requires an invalidation of modes of interactivity as meaningful. To transpose Twine works into a book is actually a considerable adaptation in many cases, because the form of discovery in Twine requires clicking hyperlinks and
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With pixel data, we have low enough resolutions that our thinking is biased towards the display device the majority of the time; we can author "pixel art" that expects the results to look square, or very close to square. And when
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Every art form has processes and techniques. Not every process is named or enumerated. Many artists treat their original processes like trade secrets, or only make any effort to share them with their immediate circle of friends. The "W
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by chipsy 12y ago
The reason why you often hear about these kinds of stories is because you are actually being advertised to. The business is in selling advice or tools, and not the actual thing being described. The success stories used to sell it to you can
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by chipsy 12y ago
There are three levels to consider: 1. Readability for modification 2. Readability for the "what" 3. Readability for the "why" All human-readable description in code is there to make the difference between having a piece
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by chipsy 12y ago
I remember playing with the JS "Cat" interpreter[0] in college to get my feet wet. but for myself, the fun is in writing a toy concatenative language. The parsing difficulty borders on non-existent, making it easy to skip to think
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by chipsy 12y ago
The most substantiative arguments I've heard against the idea come from the angle of the tax being a regressive "punish the poor" item by being narrowly focused on the cheap added-sugar beverages, while exempting fruit juice
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I've studied "fbp" in more depth than "frp" but my conclusions were that they do achieve very similar things with vastly different semantics and terminology. One of the interesting aspects of FBP and many dataflow s
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by chipsy 12y ago
Blow wants to optimize for (developer) speed and simplicity over memory safety - roughly, "Go's simplicity, minus garbage collection" instead of what he calls "big idea" languages. Which I would never go for myself,
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by chipsy 12y ago
There is no free speech without accountability. In both the cases of censorship and unmoderated speech, silencing of opinion takes place. In the former the silencing is through authority fiat; in the latter, by "shouting down", mi
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by chipsy 12y ago
When code is bulky, you can excuse your ego because your visibility is limited in a literal sense. But when it's dense like this you actively know, as you try and fail to skim it, that you can only usefully focus on a small segment at
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by chipsy 12y ago
I am playing with condensed style more regularly. Data abstraction is a good gateway for it because the short names encourage you to "chunk" your usage of the abstraction into idioms(think of Lisp's CAR/CDR mnemonics). H
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by chipsy 12y ago
I've been gravitating towards the stance lately(independently of reading about K and the APL family style) of aiming towards "total-factor symbol reduction" - i.e. a program coded with fewer symbols, and fewer unique symbols,
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by chipsy 12y ago
In general, people experience an emotion first, take action based on the emotion, and then their brain covers up self-harmful reflections on the action by building a rationale for their action being appropriate. We can do this astonishingly
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by chipsy 12y ago
It's political theatre, to some extent. The traditional "SysV init" mechanism is there to do things that are slightly above kernel space, but too global to be considered part of userspace; so things like user settings for pow
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by chipsy 12y ago
The market for this kicked off in the past year or two. Amazon is already on the cloud rendering bandwagon in some fashion[0], and Google joined them recently[1], so it's coming - it won't really be here, of course, until another
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by chipsy 12y ago
OP's premise wasn't that "hierarchy exists", but that it's "the correct organization of data." Now you are just glibly pointing out that everything can be structured as a hierarchy. That does not make the
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by chipsy 12y ago
Are sub-components and sub-sheets an argument for _hierarchy_, or for reuse of symbols? I think it's the latter.
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Why is hierarchical organization correct?
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by chipsy 12y ago
FYI, former BART Director Robert S. Allen made Internet comments railing against transit-oriented development. [0] One of the underlying attitudes that drives today's transit situation is this notion of segregation via restricted trans
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by chipsy 12y ago
If HSR completes, we'll have faster Caltrain, which is probably Good Enough.
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by chipsy 12y ago
I don't know of a defined syllabus but here is what I did: 1. Write some basic synthesis code(naive oscillator and volume envelope) and some way of sequencing it. Write little toy trackers and some procedural audio with this technique.
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by chipsy 12y ago
The marketing of the game gives me honest concern. It is the quintessential "list of features" that is indicative of technology made without acknowledging a critical, artistic perspective - that's even true of the title &quot
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by chipsy 12y ago
I think there are a number of attitudes engendered by the nature of doing game programming, especially low-level engine programming, for a long time. Game programmers aren't unaware of the rest of the programming universe, but the risk
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by chipsy 12y ago
I don't think it's wrong to discuss protocols, in particular, in the context of a social problem. If we assume the concept of our world as an info-centric one - bodies as libraries, food as signals, etc. - then digital networks ac
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by chipsy 12y ago
I think the biggest immediate benefit of a product like Soylent is that people can pick it up in order to try _eliminating_ other foods. There are numerous symptoms that correlate to a food intolerance, but aren't immediately life thre
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OP provided evidence from personal experience: "In these communities, I observed this." You speculated about both qualities of feminist communities and qualities of user group size and composition, and then used that to drive the
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I agree with the idea that the abstractions provided are "inevitable." I disagree with the idea that the way we're using them is optimal. I've just spent time in my code reducing polymorphic classes into simpler type ide
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by chipsy 12y ago
These symptoms resemble people's experiences when they go dairy-free. Soylent isn't designed to be hypoallergenic, IIRC, but it does eliminate some commonplaces that are in standard American diets.

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