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by idle_processor 15y ago
Theo Jansen also did a TED talk[0] that featured some of his kinetic sculptures. More videos of his sculptures are available on his site[1]. I find them entrancing. [0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b694exl_oZo [1] http://www.strandbees
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by idle_processor 15y ago
This seems a bit unfair as github is kind of "the" place for Rubyists (especially those working with Rails) to publicly host code. Different communities seemingly embrace different tools. It's quite likely that the JAVA and C++ communities
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by idle_processor 15y ago
My first guess would be that both companies stack incentives via artificial barriers like that. In the real world, I suspect/fear businesses just sit on legacy systems until something critical breaks. I imagine it's easier to get a business
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by idle_processor 15y ago
Interesting how Microsoft's browser drops support for MS's legacy OS, while third-party browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.) don't.
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by idle_processor 15y ago
"Complexity vs production" is a false dichotomy. Abstraction, which is fundamental to programming, is a means of managing complexity. The complexity isn't eliminated; irrelevant parts of the problem are just swept under the rug. Mount's gri
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by idle_processor 15y ago
It's a fallacy, rather than a special case, because causality isn't commutative. 1. "If my code is secure, then I can't break it. (P → Q) 2. "If I can't break my code, then it is secure." (Q → P) Concluding 2 from premise 1 falsely assumes
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by idle_processor 16y ago
It's the name of the linked article's author.
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by idle_processor 16y ago
Aesthetic changes like this seem better suited to being Stylish[1] layouts or Greasemonkey[2] scripts, rather than full-blown extensions. A quick userscripts.org search for Hacker News reinforces this: http://userscripts.org/search?cref=ht