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by gdubs 6y ago
This is one of my all time favorite books. It’s actually had a significant influence on a wide variety of fields. I’ve heard it said that Object Oriented Programming was inspired by Alexander’s book. He gave a talk in ‘96 on what he thought
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by gdubs 6y ago
I'm largely self-taught in programming, so it wasn't until much later in my career that I really groked the value of foundational Computer Science. One day, I stumbled across this book: http://elementsofprogramming.com
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by gdubs 6y ago
Indeed; reference counting was one of the most important aspects of Objective-C. Probably the most difficult aspect of it was that while most of the time method names have hints as to what increased a reference count, it wasn’t always obvio
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by gdubs 6y ago
It's been a while since I've used it, but before I made native apps I had a little web development business going, and used Ruby on Rails extensively. I couldn't articulate the similarities at the time with ObjC, but looking
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by gdubs 6y ago
This is a wonderful bit of history, really grateful to have it. I remember reading an interview with Steve Jobs in Wired magazine in the 90s where he talked about the future being all about Objects – "The Next Insanely Great Thing&quot
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by gdubs 6y ago
There’s a really wonderful book called, “The Inner Game of Tennis”, and both your story and commoncog’s essays on pattern matching remind me of it.
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How Poland Uses Clams to Control Its Water Supply(boredpanda.com)
1 points by gdubs 6y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 6y ago
We're mostly talking about the same thing. Simply put, I'm primarily talking about the distinction between choosing something because it looks cool – and sometimes what looks cool is a very important constraint – vs having intenti
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by gdubs 6y ago
Our points are not at odds. Something 'brutalist' might be very fitting in certain contexts. In most scenarios, creating something that's 'easy on the eyes' is a very important constraint of the design. My main poin
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by gdubs 6y ago
No, that's not what I mean at all. What I'm saying is that beauty in design doesn't come from slapping a facade onto something. It comes from a harmonious relationship between all the elements, adding up to something that sol
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by gdubs 6y ago
When I was first starting out it was, "can we make it edgier ?" The IDEO philosophy – which has really influenced a lot of Silicon Valley's best teams – is all about what you're saying. Design Thinking is really about m
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by gdubs 6y ago
Yes, great point! Even the best design principles can fall into 'trend' territory if they're not applied intentionally, to solve an actual problem. Exceptions definitely make the rule, and a site might find that extreme infor
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by gdubs 6y ago
If I could give one piece of advice for technical developers it’s that design isn’t all about the way it looks, it’s about the way it works. To expand on that, it’s how the pieces fit together within your set of constraints. There’s a LOT i
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’m having trouble understanding your comment and how it relates to the content of the post.
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by gdubs 6y ago
There was a lot of science denialism in those protests, conspiracy theories, and (based anecdotally on photos which are the best we have to go on) mask usage seemed a lot lower.
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by gdubs 6y ago
Relatedly: anyone in the Bay Area know a mechanic who could perform an electric conversion on a similar Puch Maxi?
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Moped Electric Conversion, Puch Maxi “Electropuch”(blakesmith.me)
1 points by gdubs 6y ago|1 comments
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by gdubs 6y ago
Sadly, you don't even need to go very far out of some major metro areas in the United States to find ZERO options besides either, as you say, 'unlimited' cellular data with intermittent service, or capped satellite with laten
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by gdubs 6y ago
To pull from fiction, my idealized vision of the perfect police force would be a “Starfleet”. Someone like Picard who is more than capable of defending themselves and others if it comes to it, but who goes in with phasers on stun, and a pri
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by gdubs 6y ago
Not so much a partnership as AT&T bought Warner Media which includes HBO.
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by gdubs 6y ago
It’s a lot harder for cars stuck on a bridge to move out of the way than it is for a crowd of people though, right?
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Paramilitary Policing from Seattle to Occupy Wall Street (2011)(thenation.com)
3 points by gdubs 6y ago|0 comments
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by gdubs 6y ago
I remember being in Grand Central Station, NYC, not long after 9/11, and noticed a student sitting on a step — right next to their head was the barrel of a casually dangled rifle, hanging off the shoulder of a cop who happened to be st
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by gdubs 6y ago
Totally. Seeing the rocket successfully land is still stirring. I remember the first time I saw SpaceX land those two rockets together, I felt like I was living through history. With all the insanity plaguing the world right now, it’s amazi
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by gdubs 6y ago
Interesting article worthy of a discussion. But I also have a selfish motive – I've been really intrigued by some of the teasers and I'm wondering if people have done any of the courses and have an opinion on whether or not it was
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MasterClass is seizing its moment(nytimes.com)
185 points by gdubs 6y ago|173 comments
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by gdubs 6y ago
The bottleneck is typically CPU <-> GPU transfer. If your UI is processing data on the CPU, that information has to be shuttled over the GPU. On a platform like iOS (or MacOS) the core text rendering frameworks are built on the CPU. T
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by gdubs 6y ago
Can someone breakdown what the most exciting CPU developments have been recently? I stopped paying attention a long time ago, but find myself interested having recently gotten back into 3D animation. I know GPU renderers are gaining steam,
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by gdubs 6y ago
Even if this were true in the past, this would certainly be changed with the more level playing field of more and more people working remotely.
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Superspreader Events Offer a Clue on Curbing Coronavirus(wsj.com)
1 points by gdubs 6y ago|0 comments

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