msutherl

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by msutherl 12y ago
I say this out of genuine concern for your project: you would do well to never say "my invention" again. See: reactions to Stephen Wolfram.
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by msutherl 12y ago
I, for one, maintain that those we call "cranks" serve a vital role.
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by msutherl 12y ago
Sell the house!
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by msutherl 12y ago
"an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something ..." Yes. "... esp. one that is short-lived and without basis in the object's qualities" No. I explained why. Also, Apple did not do it first. Google, for one,
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by msutherl 12y ago
Flat design is successful because it's a system that allows unskilled designers to produce acceptable results.
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by msutherl 12y ago
A few portfolios I like to refer back to as good examples of different approaches: - mason.js-style grid of experiments and projects, filterable: http://hakim.se/ – direct links to demos - short-description + screenshots:
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by msutherl 12y ago
If they are still interesting, they will be upvoted again. If they are not, it will be a little extra noise in the system.
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by msutherl 12y ago
I honestly don't see any evidence to suggest this.
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by msutherl 12y ago
I can't help thinking it's a bit tasteless, and at best arbitrary, to name your maps of New York, a territory brutally taken from the Lenape by the Dutch, after (unrelated) Native American populations. See: http://en.wi
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by msutherl 12y ago
https://twitter.com/msutherl art+tech, iconoclasts
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by msutherl 12y ago
Some of my friends / friends-of-friends: - http://instagram.com/msutherl (me) - http://instagram.com/wenjunliang - http://instagram.com/alex_steckly - http://instagram.com&#
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by msutherl 12y ago
Here's a collection of some favorite images from my Instagram feed over the last 9 months or so: http://x.are.na/SekSZPT . I'm not sure if you would find them un-subtle, but they are certainly on the whole neither
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by msutherl 12y ago
Indeed these photos and the techniques are gimmicky – basically amateur/advertising-level work, or a kind of soulless copy of mid-20th century minimalism. If you want to take good photographs, study actual fine artists, not blogs. Stay
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by msutherl 12y ago
Thousands of people working in enterprise are being banned from using Google Drive right now.
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by msutherl 12y ago
I find the Y-meter a bit gratuitous and not very readable. For a better solution that works right now, check out HN Colors: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-colors... . I also agree with gamerD
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by msutherl 12y ago
Python is syntactically more similar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript, and that's what most people know and use. Ruby is "weird".
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by msutherl 12y ago
There are some many different industries in which you can apply your technical skills, why not think inside the box? That said, an example of a programmer turned analytic philosopher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel
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Answers to your 10 top questions about Famo.us(us5.campaign-archive1.com)
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by msutherl 12y ago
<Lipstick> I dont think bagdahd is on the net =] <BOY> No arab countrys on the net..
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by msutherl 12y ago
"Freedom" has two different meanings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty
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by msutherl 12y ago
It would probably look better without the grey nodes on the ends anyway.
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by msutherl 12y ago
Indeed, Sherlock, Jay-Z, and Harry Potter are diluted brands.
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by msutherl 12y ago
There is nothing wrong with mixing tabs and spaces. It works great.
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by msutherl 12y ago
Not having heard of Descent, I was really hoping it was a game that consisted entirely of falling.
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by msutherl 12y ago
Like he said, dangerous thoughts. Think warring city-states. Think StarCraft.
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by msutherl 12y ago
I maintain a collection of links around this idea here: http://x.are.na/geHSysW
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by msutherl 12y ago
The Asus Xtion cameras have been out of production for some time. At the last place I worked, we bought like 30 of them as well as their successors that PrimeSense sold directly before Apple bought them.
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by msutherl 12y ago
I would love to see this analysis without filters. Who is the rapper with the largest vocabulary? What does the distribution look like at the top? Surely Antipop Consortium or MF DOOM have larger vocabularies than Aesop for instance.
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Electric Objects Wants to Display Beautiful Parts of the Internet on Your Wall(fastcompany.com)
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by msutherl 12y ago
You just won the Internet.

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