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by msutherl 13y ago
Prototype it in a couple of days with FTM[1] for Max[2]. Video[3]. [1] http://ftm.ircam.fr/index.php/Gesture_Follower [2] http://cycling74.com/products/max/ [3] https://www.youtube
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Listen to this guy. I've know about FBP for awhile, but haven't delved into it beyond hanging out on the list briefly[1]. Seems like there are many great concepts there that go beyond the stuff I use and I bet there are many more
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In my casual experience with such systems, they are extremely limited compared to something like Max, which is in turn extremely limited and badly designed. Max is not just 'click and drag' – you can do quite complex configuration
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I've used (and continue to use) them exclusively for one-off interactive installations and research prototypes (I don't work in the 'commercial' sector), but I believe a number of people have apps made with Max in the Ap
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There's something I've ignored here, which is that most of these systems are at a higher level of abstraction than text-based languages. Modules (called "objects") in Max, for instance, are written in C. Max is more anal
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No, I wasn't quoting anybody, I was paraphrasing John Cage. Here is the quote: “If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is
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Those are just some of the big ones! The list goes on: Polycode, Field, Overtone, ChucK, LuaAV, Plask, Lubyk, and many more.
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I've been using multi-media 'coordination languages' like Max/MSP/Jitter, Pure Data, SuperCollider, Touch Designer, and vvvv for years after I got hooked on the model from my first synthesizer (the Nord Micro Modula
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Hang out at Ribbonfarm and you'll come across occasional links to other blogs in a similar vein. Venkat is top notch though.
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Unlike the others, I completely agree. Art that does not "express, explore, or otherwise stimulate the human mind"[1] is the definition of boring. I would however claim that the vast majority of art does stimulate the mind, though
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The fact that you know its name ruins your credibility.
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I think it's a combination of signaling superiority with body language, being friendly, greeting people with care and confidence, developing personal relationships, being proactive in meetings and in general, and most importantly just
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by msutherl 13y ago
Well, what is power? In this case it's the ability of somebody to say what you can and cannot do. But there are complexities in a non-hierarchical organization which lacks management structure. Those in power may not think they have po
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Almost all of the jobs I've had have been with small "non-hierarchical" groups. In all of them, the founders have insisted that there was no hierarchy where clearly there was. When I've tried to explain this to them, the
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Reading on the right side of the screen is really uncomfortable. Goes to show we still haven't figured out this app-design thing.
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Bring a book? I get a lot of reading done on my 1-hour commute.
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Douglas C. Engelbart, Computer Visionary, Dies at 88.
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You should definitely never rely on others to change, but you can engage in a dialogue with the public through writing and speaking, which has the potential to change others.
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That kind of innovation (a) is difficult and (b) requires precisely configured conditions. Unfortunately the lesson that corporations learned from the golden age of these labs was that though they produced amazing things, they didn't p
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Likewise, I stopped pledging freshman year of high school with no significant consequences. At some point the school stopped doing the pledge. On the other hand, a friend of mine was nearly suspended for wearing a military jacket with an up
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by msutherl 13y ago
If I could ask for one thing: no thick header obscuring my reading experience. 75 pixels already go to the Chrome header. Let the text fill my screen.
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#YOLEO
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by msutherl 13y ago
I have the same experience as the author and so do many of my friends. My solution is to simply unfollow every single friend I have on Facebook. Effectively disable the Timeline. Highly recommended.
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by msutherl 13y ago
Yeah, the problem with Medium is that it's beautiful and well designed – almost perfect, really – but the community is so Silicon Valley. I wouldn't want my writing associated with that trash.
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Without windows under office-quality fluorescent lights is bleak and awful. Sure, it's 'safe', but it drains the soul.
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This sounds awful and I hope never to find myself in a situation where I am thankful for ugly living conditions, for that would mean I had become insensitive to the world.
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by msutherl 13y ago
Save some money, travel for a few months in Europe, Asia, or South America. Meet as many people as possible. Reconnect with the essence of life. See everything from a new perspective.
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Gattaca, and computer assisted knowledge work. Let's use humans for what humans are good at and computers for what computers are good at. Let's also work on the interface between those two systems.
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> the sort of stuff that's generally passed off as art I'm not sure what you're referring to here, but it's surely not relevant. 99% of everything is shit. The only things that matter are the things that matter. That you don't know abou
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Yeah, I find automatic email / notifications for things like weather help you acquire an ambient, almost sub-conscious awareness of things you wouldn't be able to glean from the environment. Not IFTT, but I like PM software like Trello for

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