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by hypertexthero 10y ago
Location: NYC Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Pen, pencil, paper, Illustrator, Photoshop, HTML, CSS, JS, Python, Unix, Git/GitHub Résumé/CV: https://www.simongriffee.com/resume.pdf Email: simong
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Yes. Something like: 1. Download and install a wiki application to each computer we use, including pocket ones. 2. Editing the wiki on each computer saves to offline local storage. 3. An option to define a personal central server is availab
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* Pencil (usually a small, well-used stub that fits in a shirt pocket) and paper (various notebooks, from Target pocket-size spiral-bounds to Moleskin to whatever is at hand) * Camera - https://www.simongriffee.com/photograp
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Good description of event loops in games: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/game-loop.html
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A world of wall-builders would be poorer and more dangerous(economist.com)
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“If you get a C or lower, I’ll buy you a present”(nytimes.com)
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> Our mental powers, it is argued, must outstrip those of any computer, since a computer is just a logical system running on hardware, and our minds can arrive at truths that are beyond the reach of a logical system.
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I used Jekyll to run my website for a few years, and recently changed to Hugo because: 1. Speed. Hugo generates my site in seconds instead of minutes. 2. Less dependency issues with Ruby. I plan to clean up and package the code into a theme
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Brain training games use too much of the left, 'linear', analytical side of the brain. Meditation brings the right, 'rich', creative side to bear on a problem. I recommend drawing as a meditative activity. The following
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by hypertexthero 10y ago
The first time I visited Google.com was at a startup called European Artisans in Rome, Italy, using a Flower Power iMac G3. I was reading a book called The Cluetrain Manifesto at the time and remember thinking that Google 'got' wh
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by hypertexthero 10y ago
There's still great space art, though more is always better! Check out the JPL's [Visions of the Future][1], play some [Elite][2] [Dangerous][3] and see the new [Cosmos][4]. [1]: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-
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A Theory of Film Music(youtube.com)
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The World Wide Web Consortium is being followed by protests(defectivebydesign.org)
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The recommendation to get a camera is a very good one. A camera used for an extended period of time is a very good teacher, and not only of seeing. To go even further, learn to draw. Use your hands and other senses instead of only thinking.
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by hypertexthero 10y ago
I love Pandoc! Thank you, [John MacFarlane]( http://johnmacfarlane.net/ )!
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by hypertexthero 10y ago
Location: NYC · New York Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: For the right company, sure, but prefer to stay here until 2017. Technologies: Broad knowledge of web technologies including HTML, CSS, JS, Python, Django, Hugo, UX, Graphic Design,
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Show HN: HTML Form to File.txt(simongriffee.com)
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A book that helped me in my life when I had similar questions is [Think on These Things by Jiddu Krishnamurti][1], warmly recommended. From the first chapter, The Function of Education: > I WONDER IF we have ever asked ourselves what edu
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by hypertexthero 10y ago
Thank you! I'll look at the guidelines.
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HTML Form to File.txt(simongriffee.com)
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I [attended][1] a great lecture by [Alex Martelli][2] back in EuroPython 2013 titled "'Good Enough' is Good Enough!" From the [summary][3]: > Our culture’s default assumption is that everybody should always be strivin
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Reminds me of [Quest][1] by sailor-philosopher and self-declared citizen of the world [George Dibbern][2], who renounced his German passport in 1940 and created his own with the following declaration: > I, George Dibbern, through long ye
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by hypertexthero 10y ago
Agreed. Although I had never worked with the Unicode Consortium, I [submitted a proposal][1] for an international symbol for an observer and it was eventually accepted. [1]: http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2015/01
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My first LAN gaming experience was during the last 30 minutes of a double-period computer class on Fridays in São Paulo when our teacher let us play Doom in the school's computer lab. This was in 1994 or 1995. I also used those machine
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I'm delighted this is moving forward and that the pilot program will be in Oakland! I lived in a cooperative house there years ago and experienced the sharp contrasts in wealth. See also: The One-Minute Case for a Basic Income - http:
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You can only work for people that you like. — https://www.miltonglaser.com/files/Essays-10things-8400.pdf
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https://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental... > If I have learned anything from the Internet, it is this: be very, very careful when you put a number next to someone's name. Because people will do
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by hypertexthero 10y ago
A book on a similar theme from before the internet is [Ways of Seeing][1] by John Berger. The typography, set in bold throughout, doesn't do the text any favors, but the writing and information is good. [1]: https://en.wikip
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by hypertexthero 10y ago
Remind's me of Paul Buchheit's [I am nothing][1] and Jiddu Krishnamurti's [The observer is the observed][2]. An application by Buchheit (and others!) that improved my life: Gmail. Two books by Krishnamurti that improved my li
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Mine, too! I recommend Geoff Dyer's book about the film, [Zona][1], as well as the [computer game][2] loosely inspired by the [book][3] that inspired the film. [1]: http://geoffdyer.com/2012/02/06/zona&#x

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