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by msutherl 15y ago
This is an interesting project to develop external devices that allow new forms of input to existing capacitive touch screens: http://www.spike5000.com/
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by msutherl 15y ago
Wise words of Bruce Sterling in "Shaping Things" (MIT Press): "We need to understand technology with a depth of maturity that mankind has never shown before. We need to stop fussing over mere decade-long "Ages" and realize that there are on
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by msutherl 15y ago
I had the misfortune of spending some time in a program like this and switched to fine art promptly. I think it's a copout to say that math is just "too hard". The problem is that engineering and math programs are poorly constructed and tau
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by msutherl 15y ago
My experience was that of going from having to spend a bit of time memorizing useless material to having to spend a great deal of time memorizing useless material. For me the only "culture shock" was the realization that I no longer had tim
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by msutherl 15y ago
Pardon, here's a link that works: http://clojuratica.weebly.com/
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by msutherl 15y ago
For Clojure, there's also Clojuratica: < http://clojuratica.weebly.com/> , which lets you trade data between Clojure and Mathematica seamlessly.
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by msutherl 15y ago
CNMAT's o.dot library for Max has a similar notion. As messages pass through the systems and affect new results, the resulting message preserves its entire history.
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by msutherl 15y ago
I totally don't understand this perspective. I use automated checkout at every opportunity – despite the fact that it sucks – because the sooner people never have to suffer the indignity of being a cashier again, the better! Repetitive, deh
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by msutherl 15y ago
Hey Erik ;) Strictly Max/MSP/Jitter is a much more encompassing environment than SuperCollider and ChucK, which focus on audio. The advantage of Max is that it combines a great control language with audio programming, a great video matrix l
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by msutherl 15y ago
Yes. I was just talking to my prof./boss today who worked at Stanford, PARC and later Interval about moving some things to Dropbox, arguing that it's a better long-term solution since it's just <i>the file-system</i> and the
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by msutherl 15y ago
I was going to write that I don't use Vico because it lacks the interface polish of other Mac editors like TextMate, but I just downloaded the latest demo and I'm happy to see that the interface is improved dramatically! The only remaining
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by msutherl 15y ago
Other posters have emphasized the apparent declining value of college. I agree with their positions, but I would like to emphasize that college isn't so much about becoming a better programmer as it is about gaining deep knowledge in an _ac
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by msutherl 15y ago
Nicely done. I'm looking forward to seeing more web-stores that just link to other websites for the checkout process. Does this have a name? Product curating? Question: do you make money from affiliations and if not, do you plan to?
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um, no, that's not proof
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lol, I love the guy who commented: "Awesome post. Now do monads please?"
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Could be explained if the photos leaving the source look like this: :::::..... and arrive like this: :::::.::, where the 'tip' folds back on itself to become visible, still before the original bulk of the photon cluster.
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by msutherl 15y ago
One of my co-workers did this in the early 00's, but for the opposite reason: to pay off $50k off capital gains task. Worked quite well for him.
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I'm more interested in the Leonardo with the 32u4 chip myself. Much smaller than the Arduino, simpler circuit, built-in USB for higher data transfer bandwidth and comes with lots of A/D's. The 32u4 has been _the_ chip for low-cost projects
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by msutherl 15y ago
The reason that the government should take care of the poor and the sick is not because it is the most efficient and moral way to do so. Indeed, given appropriate conditions, I concede that "the market" and the goodwill of "the people" woul
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I can't help but feeling like this doesn't really matter. Music has been for me, as a listener and as a musician who sometimes uses samples, effectively free and without copyright for years now. It's already nearly impossible to make money
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I love this guy.
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by msutherl 15y ago
My friends at Supertouch (also in NYC) who have been doing work with 'interactive mirrors' for years won't be happy about this article: http://www.supertou.ch/
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by msutherl 15y ago
I'm not familiar with Ruby projects and there are no install instructions. How do I get this running on OS X?
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How do you know the they were rioting for the sake of looting and causing damage and not as protest?
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I'm of the opinion that it's hard to say that a good deed done in a dire situation is ethically superior to a good deed done in a less dire situation. Rather than address the problems of less fortunate people elsewhere in the world, I work
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by msutherl 15y ago
This would make me _so_ happy. There used to be an InputManager hack that could give you Vim bindings in all Cocoa apps, but alas that no longer works. Sometimes I wished I'd learned EMACS instead so that I could reasonable expect key-bindi
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I'm on a 2007 MBP and have no such problems.
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For a very astute explication of this idea, I highly recommend "Architect or Bee" by Mike Cooley. It explains well why the replacement of 'analog' engineering methods with computer-aided processes is detrimental to workers and often results
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As somebody who tried to read it _after_ having read some other philosophy, I found it entirely boring and put it down before 100 pages.
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Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite(lesswrong.com)
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