msutherl

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by msutherl 10y ago
Wittgenstein only really published two works: The Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations, in which he completely revises his approach. Read the latter.
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by msutherl 10y ago
Most successful artists in my generation are media-agnostic and work fluidly between sculpture, installation, image-making, digital, video, and sound as media.
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by msutherl 10y ago
Happy to finally have a viable alternative to Facebook Groups, not particularly bothered about overlapping functionality with G+ (which nobody I know uses).
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by msutherl 10y ago
Purple is 'not a color': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple#The_optics_of_purple ;)
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by msutherl 10y ago
I think you meant "Yep, I brew this as 'future annoyance'"?
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by msutherl 11y ago
There's a lot of room for expansion to the South as well – I pay $1,300 in Bayview.
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by msutherl 11y ago
Perhaps if you are an engineer this perspective entirely makes sense, but if you're an investor, entrepreneur, or in any other occupation where 'the ecosystem' matters, you'll find that nothing compares to the Bay Area.
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by msutherl 11y ago
There are a number of ways to think about this, but one of them comes from "design thinking", which advocates processes like brainstorming in order to generate and sort ideas before starting a project. This is in contrast to what
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by msutherl 11y ago
Wavelab is so good – it's a shame it's not more commonly used.
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by msutherl 11y ago
Amazing – didn't think of that – thank you!
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by msutherl 11y ago
Before realizing that this was a Chesterton website, I took the word "Quotemeister" to indicate that this was a website called "The Quotemeister", wherein, I guessed, popular quotes were analyzed to get at their true mea
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by msutherl 11y ago
As someone who has composed aleatoric music and had many discussions with people who have devoted their lives to generative music, I have to say it's debatable whether what you described can strictly be called a "melody" unle
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by msutherl 11y ago
I believe it's more of a semantic thing. A melody is inherently non-random. "Random melody" is nearly oxymoronic.
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by msutherl 11y ago
Related, and perhaps a more poetic treatment of the issue: http://hyperallergic.com/106071/3d-print-your-own-museum/ http://oliverlaric.com/ https://vimeo.com/51614085
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by msutherl 11y ago
God bless this way of thinking has come to its end place in the greatest work of American writing ever made: https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/ .
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by msutherl 11y ago
Unfortunately only adding stuff I like, and I'm not a big fan of any of the client-apps / HN makeover extensions I've seen. I do use these two Chrome extensions though: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/
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by msutherl 11y ago
Just to clarify, Alan is only 'running CDG' insofar as he is supporting and representing it as a sister lab to VPRI. The various research groups there are completely autonomous and as far as I can tell not publicly identified.
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by msutherl 11y ago
Hah – I took my own photos of this bookshelf while visiting. Perhaps there are missing gems ;P https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g2dlzq39f8x3wf7/AABWlnT5NvPEZ0ycp... Thanks so much everyone for compiling a list! I like t
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by msutherl 11y ago
A couple of years after everyone's dropped Photoshop for Sketch. It could be the case that designers, like front-end developers, will have to get used to the idea that all of their tooling will change every ~3 years. Personally very ex
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by msutherl 11y ago
Not a criticism – I enjoyed the piece! Indeed, since you were not asked for a specific example, and after all it is your own blog, you are free to share a generalization without violating anyone's expectations.
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by msutherl 11y ago
Did no one else catch the irony that the entire post is itself a generalization based on a specific experience?
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by msutherl 11y ago
I don't entirely disagree with you, but how do you explain that the former director of the NSA is seemingly fully engaged in explaining and justifying their activities? It would appear that they do have at least some incentive, no? ht
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by msutherl 11y ago
What's the downside? I think it's great. More modularity + distributed responsibility = better.
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by msutherl 11y ago
This post will attract those of conservative/libertarian mentality who like to stand for our right to use language that may offend people, but I just want to add another vote for changing the name. I am not particularly sensitive to th
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by msutherl 11y ago
> Allow me to randomly speculate that in your mental world, reading some Intellectually Fascinating Article has an extremely high priority, whereas eating dinner is just some stupid thing your body demands, and so because of this configu
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by msutherl 11y ago
VPRI and CDG operate in parallel, with Alan in LA and Bret Victor + others in San Francisco.
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by msutherl 11y ago
"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." Wayne Gretzky
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by msutherl 11y ago
I have a list of favorite startups here: https://www.are.na/morgan-sutherland/good-startups Highlights: http://are.na (private and collaborative research platform) http://un1verse.co (mobile car
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by msutherl 11y ago
I think implicit in "learning JavaScript" is learning patterns. This is not picked up through books (except perhaps one of the patterns books), but through experience, reading good code, and talking with other developers.
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by msutherl 11y ago
If that's your answer, then we also need to answer "why does it change the population?" What I suspect is that it affects the population via emotional response, which in turn affects you, so you have a kind of second-order re

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