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by picklesman 7y ago
My response: Maybe, but so what? This was rambling and smelled of bitterness. I especially didn’t like his suggestion that he “could have been” Jef Raskin because their viewpoints were “essentially the same” or whatever. Really?
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by picklesman 7y ago
Hopefully now Tim and Eric can secure their funding! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lInBaMusmO4 (A video of Tim prank calling Apple tech support circa 2006 trying to get Apple to fund their podcast. The faux biz speak is g
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by picklesman 8y ago
I totally agree. I feel like the audio editor is having fun for their own sake, and it takes away from the show for me. It makes the listening experience super irritating, despite the fact that I often find the content interesting.
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by picklesman 8y ago
Notational Velocity (Mac only, open source) http://notational.net It allows you to very quickly do a full text search, it saves the files as plain text, it supports external editors (I use MacVim) and it syncs with simplenote.co
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by picklesman 8y ago
Seconded. I especially recommend his teardown of the Juicero, in which he displays his insights into design for manufacture, plastics, metallurgy, electrical engineering, etc, peppered with hilarious and insightful jabs at VC culture. For m
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by picklesman 8y ago
I first heard Yanny and now I can only hear Laurel. This one is even more interesting for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pRY3wlKwm8 If I think "Brainstorm" I hear that, but if I think "Green Needle&q
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by picklesman 8y ago
I’ve taken 3 college level courses on linear algebra and only really got an intuition for eigenvectors/eigenvalues when watching his video series. Super great!
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by picklesman 10y ago
How is he a tool? I didn't get that impression based on his demos and interviews I've heard
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by picklesman 10y ago
About 4 years ago I was scanning my twitter timeline and I noticed someone posted a picture from a Leonard Cohen concert that night in Montreal. What?!? I hadn't heard anything about it and my heart sank. After a frantic search I found
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by picklesman 10y ago
LogoWriter was my entry into programming. I started with the turtle in elementary school, and in early high school my mind was blown when I leaned about the "flip side", where you could use functions and script things. In grade 7
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by picklesman 10y ago
Yes this. I was also uncomfortably aware of the transparent appeals to the engineer's sensibility ("open source", modularity, geeking out on youtube, using adverbs like "exquisitely", "lego-blocks" etc). I
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by picklesman 10y ago
Well, I've seen some cases of developers keeping things complex for their own self-interest, e.g. "Job Security". You could make a similar analogy here...
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by picklesman 11y ago
Great list. Stars of the Lid makes some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard. It's ambient, made with strings and heavily processed guitar. The songs develop into these breathing like rhythms that just push some sort of but
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by picklesman 11y ago
I'm reminded of this piece from a year ago. Called "Everything is problematic" it's written from the perspective of someone heavily involved with the radical left/queer scene and how they increasingly noticed a cert
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by picklesman 11y ago
I think I now understand why the last line is repeated twice. Seems so obvious in retrospect... (once literally, once metaphorically for his life)