mattbierner

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A book listing every operation from two seconds of Super Mario Bros. 3 gameplay(blog.mattbierner.com)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Have any companies in the market been successful going the premium route? A service that costs a lot but is designed for the best user experience and outcomes? Maybe they interview potential members in person and work to ensure the “marketp
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Royals start wars; commoners fight them and bear their hardships (A point exemplified by World War One)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Timequake is also a great one if you've enjoyed his other work I taught how to be sociable with ink on paper. I told my students that when they were writing they should be good dates on blind dates, should show strangers good
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Google Fusion Tables to be shut down on December 3, 2019(gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com)
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It’s Africa’s Quiet Killer. This Entrepreneur Says He Has a Low-Cost Fix(nytimes.com)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I work on VS Code. You can disable VS Code telemetry and even disable all built-in online services if you like. This is documented on the website [1] However VS Code cannot block the extensions that you install from collecting their own tel
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Safeguarding – Culture Is a Process, Not a Single Change(arlobelshee.com)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Everyone's a content creator these days. Even your uncle is posting pictures of his meals and writing about how #blessed he is. And you know, while that's not my cup of tea, there's nothing inherently wrong about that. It&#x2
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NoMoreAolCds.com (2001)(web.archive.org)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I’d really like to use git repos for fiction; use commits and forks and merges to tell a story that is far larger than any snapshot of the repo’s content. This could be as simple as creating a fictional creative process for some work, or as
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Over the past five years, I've sort of reinvented myself though side projects all while staying quite professionally productive. I wrote a little about my project process almost a year ago and thought I'd repost it here in case an
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I maintain a few open source projects that many developers use (along with many more projects that no one uses) and I get like one PR a month. It seems like some developer’s entire workflows depend on some of the tools and libs I maintain,
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by mattbierner 8y ago
What do you recommend as an alternative? I prefer the phrasing, “what matters to you” or “what are you currently excited about”, but it’s the same basic thing. I like being asked such questions because they let me guide the conversation and
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I’ve written tooling to support lit-html and styled-components in editors. Template strings are sort of nice to write but complete pain to support in editors. They are just like a macro language, so you end up with stuff like: `<${tag}&g
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The Experience Machine [pdf](rintintin.colorado.edu)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
This generalization is very misleading. Many national parks are massive, with vast tracts that can only be reached by days of hiking or an off road vehicle or an aircraft. This is true even of extremely popular parks like the Grand Canyon,
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by mattbierner 8y ago
This is from last day of GEnie’s Science Fiction RoundTable. The service was shut down in 1999: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie I had no connection to the community but found reading this oddly fascinating. An on
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Last night of the SFRTs(web.archive.org)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Twitter is like 12 years old and has somewhere over 300 million users. It has been public for five years. Whatever it may be, it is not pets.com
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Very good points. Just to add a few more details on the LSP and VS Code side of things: - VS Code implements syntax-aware code folding using the LSP. This means that folding is super flexible but it is also makes computing folds fairly expe
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I’m sorry that I commented on this article. Knew it was a trap. I’ve been writing functional-style for a long time and just wanted to share a bit of what I’ve learned. Use whatever tools work for you, but also don’t disparage or dismiss oth
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Documentation and/or a type checker. Jsdocs are both documentation for programmers and can be enforced using tooling like the closure compiler or typescript JavaScript is no different from most other dynamic languages this way
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by mattbierner 8y ago
No it doesn't. This may not be a popular opinion for those coming from C or Java, but runtime type checks in JavaScript are usually an anti-pattern. If my function defines a contract that the caller violates by passing in null or undef
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Panorama: The Mescaline Experiment (2005)(web.archive.org)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I’m using an old paper tape punch machine to print out (5% of) the human genome. The punches are from the early 80s, and it’s really neat to be able to physically see each bit of data. The plan is to fill up a room with the punched tape, so
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by mattbierner 8y ago
When I took a typography and poster design class in Switzerland this past August, the advice about justification was the opposite: always use justification as a reasonable default that machines can handle and only use ragged right if you ha
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Orange Milk has been publishing some of the most interesting music of the past few years. Oneohtrix Point Never is much more well known and uses some similar sampling and sound techniques, but Giant Claw and others under Orange Milk Records
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Giant Claw enters the Dark Web – Internet culture and layers of reality (2014)(factmag.com)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Instead of trying to prevent data collection, what if we made simple tools that let anyone make their data less useful: data pollution or telemetry vandalism if you will. Either generate a bunch of noise or try exploiting analysis such that

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