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by mattbierner 8y ago
For various reasons I don’t know my full genetic background, yet I have always known my family: it’s the people who raised me. I would never consider a genetically related stranger to be family, nor would I be interested in getting to know
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‘Halloween’ at 40: Their ‘Horrible Idea’ Became a Horror Classic(nytimes.com)
1 points by mattbierner 8y ago|0 comments
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The Story of the Mammoth Cheese(urbanmarket.com)
1 points by mattbierner 8y ago|0 comments
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Some additional information about PERKI: http://web.archive.org/web/20060401172542/http://www.geociti... (also, "HFR till end of the world confirmed" is amazing. Must add that sort of thing to
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by mattbierner 8y ago
This piece was excellently executed but shredding may not have been the best way to make that point (even if it is a good laugh). A few quick thoughts on how this idea could be modified if the goal is to poke at the art market: - Destroy th
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by mattbierner 8y ago
A traditional set, say a studio kitchen for a food product shoot, is a first level reproduction: the set is a reproduction of a real kitchen; the food shown is a reproduction of real food; and that actor is a reproduction of a real chef. Th
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Try “Vincenzo Salvia”, “Andy Fox”, and “Evanton”. Each represents their own sub genre of italo-disco synthwave.
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I'm quite hesitant to mention this for fear that my reason for bringing it up will be grossly misunderstood, but the setup this article describes bears an uncanny resemblance to locations used by the adult entertainment industry. Both
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A Penthouse Made for Instagram(nytimes.com)
78 points by mattbierner 8y ago|38 comments
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I found this article worthless, pretentiously worthless at that (WMDs? Really?). Stories augment the human experience of reality, as do social constructs, as does language, but I am too dumb to understand why that's news. What is the p
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Modern TypeScript aims to add typings to JavaScript, so eliminating a core language primitive—even a rather appendiceal one like null—is probably out of that scope, especially because some js libraries do differentiate between null and unde
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Your vision is well thought out and fairly realistic. I hate it though. Absolutely hate it. The potential applications you describe around dating or knowledge display literally make the wearer see the world as a set of data points, which—wh
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by mattbierner 8y ago
For examples of labor of love software projects with rather quixotic goals and long development timelines, GNU Hurd and Project Xanadu come to mind. Other examples? (Bonus points if it’s a project you were personally involved in)
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What Happens When a Single Art Project Becomes a Decades-Long Obsession?(nytimes.com)
3 points by mattbierner 8y ago|2 comments
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by mattbierner 8y ago
This could be completely off-base but: - Clarity and establishing convention. Boost coroutine2 uses a lot of boostyness to make using coroutines in c++ less painful, but they still require boilerplate and can be quite difficult to write. Un
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Masque – Wearable that manipulates a user’s perception of their own respiration(media.mit.edu)
78 points by mattbierner 8y ago|19 comments
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Markup Overlap: A Review and a Horse (2004)(conferences.idealliance.org)
1 points by mattbierner 8y ago|0 comments
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by mattbierner 8y ago
The base phone price is now $999. The announcement and marketing effectively position the XS as the default model (with the messaging around the XR casting it as a downgrade, more like the iPhone 5C). They also eliminated the regular Plus s
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by mattbierner 8y ago
A few years back I wrote a Js library inspired by the Dada Engine: https://github.com/mattbierner/apep The original C implementation is really interesting and some of the generator grammars for it are works of art.
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The Dada Engine Manual(dev.null.org)
22 points by mattbierner 8y ago|2 comments
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Say a perfect recommendation system existed. Should it give me what it knows I'll like or challenge me? Should it give me what I ask for even if it's wrong? Should it aggregate information for me to judge or analyze the content an
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Meet the busser who’s worked at the same pancake house for 54 years(chicagotribune.com)
51 points by mattbierner 8y ago|55 comments
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Rather specific question: does anyone have experience working with a college student who organically promoted service or product on their physical campus? If so, how did you find them initially and how successful was the effort? This is abo
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Any developers actively creating (and sharing) interesting stuff for the device? The examples on their website feel like stuff I’ve seen before. I’d be interested in hearing about the good things and the challenges of developing for their p
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I've been playing tourist in Switzerland and northern Italy recently and had a few thoughts related to this article. - Knowing the tourist stereotype and not wanting to be that makes me self-conscious. I've intentionally avoided s
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Wikipedia has an ok starting list of artists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italo_disco_artists_... YouTube is the best for finding their work. Spotify mostly has remixes and compilations For an example of th
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by mattbierner 8y ago
One of Italo’s many charms is that you can often tell what the singer meant to say in English but the actual meaning is quite different or often just odd. Unlike the Swedish song writers mentioned here, I suspect many Italo artists knew onl
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Gazing Back at the Surveillance Cameras That Watch Us(nytimes.com)
76 points by mattbierner 8y ago|67 comments
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by mattbierner 8y ago
The technical part is the easy part. What’s interesting to me is how tinder, which unlike twitter or Instagram for example requires a certain mass of active users in the same physical area, established themeselves in the first place. My onl
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Interesting. My sense of touch has gotten messed up for week or so a few times and those experience really made me appreciate how the brain integrates the senses to create the feeling of "normal" existence. You don't even rea

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