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by goblin89 11y ago
Empathy looks like the key to making better design decisions, since defining behavior is basically communicating. (This is why incidental design leaves bad taste—it’s noise.) Singling out software as being made of decisions is not entirely
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The Future of Work(blog.colony.io)
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Colony: Future of work online, blockchain-based(colony.io)
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Remedy Plan: Cancer Containment Therapy(indiegogo.com)
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by goblin89 11y ago
> I'm happy to hear suggestions on how to make sure a band making tons of money doesn't end up on the smallest plan I can’t help thinking that coarsely segregating customers into plans and overly streamlining the sign-up proces
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by goblin89 11y ago
> I want to try to get into Software Consultancy. > Most potential clients I've talked to want me to create a somewhat simple website for them in 2-3 weeks… In my understanding, software consultancy is when you work with your cli
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by goblin89 11y ago
Anyone interested in grid layouts on the web should probably take a look at the native CSS Grid Layout feature[0]. Unlike existing solutions it doesn’t require rigid HTML structure or extensive class usage of questionable semanticity. It mi
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by goblin89 11y ago
Great initiative, but beware relying on automatically generated documentation. Keep units documented in the code, and have your higher-level docs handwritten and hand-structured elsewhere, is the policy I’ve arrived at lately. (It doesn’t m
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by goblin89 11y ago
Arguably, what makes a worthy creative different from someone just spewing out content is their ability to filter output by applying their taste. There’s the never-ending loop where you create and evaluate and necessarily throw away. A pers
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by goblin89 11y ago
‘Prey balls’ with cat detection and evasion capabilities seem like a potential development of the idea, if it weren’t so technically challenging.
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by goblin89 11y ago
Thanks for clarifying. Upon rereading I think I realize where you see provoking claim. Authors start by reasoning that our perception is necessarily wrong (maximizing for fitness is counter to maximizing for truth, etc.), and object permane
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by goblin89 11y ago
If perception of space-time emerges as simplified interface to the dynamics of interacting conscious agents[0], then such ‘time glitches’ can be explained as abnormal states in the combination of conscious agents that comprise one’s mind. (
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by goblin89 11y ago
I admit that the DNA/natural selection point is somewhat over my head still. However, with my limited understanding of the research, I’d somewhat disagree with this: > …author's claim that objects aren't really there turns
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by goblin89 11y ago
> The huge problem with any replacement (aside from federation) is the network effect. Indeed, it’s the main catch. If at certain point ago critical fraction of people (‘everyone’) all were using X for what we currently use email for, be
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by goblin89 11y ago
Very interesting and thought-provoking read, about halfway into it. I started disagreeing with authors at the point where they define conscious experience: I can’t see why it’s contingent on subject’s ability to interact with the outside wo
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by goblin89 11y ago
To me this seems so different from email that it rather invites a comparison with RSS feeds or Slack-like services. What if it was a no-brainer to publish to and subscribe to feeds, there was some kind of feed exchange and access control bu
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by goblin89 11y ago
Yep! Also when I don’t want colored output (e.g. when working on familiar codebases or often in the shell), I turn on the Grayscale option in addition to inverted colors. That gives the screen cool retro-futuristic feel, and IMO makes it mo
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by goblin89 11y ago
I’m just inverting the screen (built-in accessibility feature in OS X, there probably are alternatives on other platforms). Vim and the terminal are set to a light scheme, one of the standard ones. When I switch to terminal screen and it’s
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by goblin89 11y ago
> Intercepted echolocation data could generate objects that are experienced in more nearly the same way by different individuals than ever occurs in communal human experiences when we are passive observers of the same external environmen
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by goblin89 11y ago
Document the codebase, in my experience it helps. In case of JavaScript you’d probably use something like JSDoc. Describe your units and make the tool automatically create beautiful HTML out of that. You don’t have to document everything at
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Open-source social-collaborative Twitter-based text adventure(kesiev.com)
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IMHO complexity created by limited isolation facilities of virtualenv and the likes isn’t worth the resources you save by not just having a VM for each app you work on. The complexity arises from differing system-wide dependencies that are
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How to design a metaphor(aeon.co)
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by goblin89 11y ago
Compared to Google Authenticator app, YubiKey (a) makes hardware-based OTPs as opposed to time-based OTPs (does that offer stronger security?) and (b) can be used as smart card in GnuPG solutions. It being a separate piece of plastic might
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by goblin89 11y ago
This talk introduced me personally to various ‘alternate’ color palettes and why they might be useful (though the talk is more specific to data visualization domain): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjJr8D4Bxjw , Subtleties
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by goblin89 11y ago
I don’t quite understand Frizbee’s promise of freedom, on the other hand. They say they’re a “social news site”; do they ban non-news content then? how they determine whether something is news or not? Hub’s set of rules basically defines it
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Lufthansa subsidiary passenger flight crashed by co-pilot(en.wikipedia.org)
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by goblin89 12y ago
In Chiang Mai near Chang Phueak Gate a sizeable paved area in front of a few mini-stores and a Ford dealership every day after 6 PM turns from parking space into busy street food market. Struck me as efficient use of space.
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by goblin89 12y ago
Recently was surprised to discover that the official uTorrent distribution, downloaded straight from utorrent.com, has some Spigot stuff in it. Was I tricked somehow or pre-hijacked already into downloading a non-authentic installer, or do
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by goblin89 12y ago
> 75% of my work relates to child exploitation material, and an enormous amount of child abuse material disappeared from easy access when mega-upload went down. However, this apparently did not serve as the grounds for punishment, and is

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