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by schrijver 14y ago
I just don’t understand how anyone can be reactionary about our contemporary world, without also seeing how much possibility all of this offers to re-imagine visual communication, how little of the potential of open source technology and me
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by schrijver 14y ago
There’s always ever a hand full of designers that manage to put themselves in a position where they are having fun appropriating technological change and shaping the visual language of our culture. Most designers just have to follow trends.
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Programmatically change typefaces (with Python e.a)(i.liketightpants.net)
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by schrijver 15y ago
So actually, due to disagreements with GEMA, many Youtube videos are already blocked in Germany, even if uploaded by the video clips copyright holders. I was in Stuttgart and couldn’t open a video by SBTRKT that was posted by their own labe
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Why Would Europe’s Largest OSS Convention Identify With a Shrivelled Brain?(i.liketightpants.net)
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Unix for Art Students part 3(i.liketightpants.net)
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by schrijver 15y ago
or birth control edt: i meant this to appear underneath the comments with other pretty meaningful inventions that caused huge social change
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by schrijver 15y ago
I would say what’s positive is that more projects are finding ways to move away from a centralised database into a distributed, replicable system such as Git. Github provides an easy-to-use interface to Git, but this way of working is not n
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Absolute beginners: Unix for art students(i.liketightpants.net)
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by schrijver 15y ago
Caterina Fake, working hard is overrated http://caterina.net/archive/001196.html > Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patt
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by schrijver 15y ago
Interesting use of the words ‘us’ / ‘we’ here: ‘We can create crappy articles about not notable subjects ourselves, thank you.’ Who are the ‘we’ you speak of? It seems you speak of the group of people that is already used to writing wikiped
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by schrijver 15y ago
I can’t find the link now, but I remember something about BeautifulSoup being deprecated—it didn’t support HTML5 last time I checked. LXML is great. http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ is also a nice parser for HTML5 documents. Edit: pyque
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by schrijver 15y ago
added eric at ericschrijver.nl , curious!
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by schrijver 15y ago
It’s kind of odd that the article doesn’t look at the social aspects. Different social groups have different patterns in and attitudes towards drug consumption. These patterns change over time. Note, research is based on findings from 1970.
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by schrijver 15y ago
+ don’t forget the rise of the programmers in spandex http://vimeo.com/15617301
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by schrijver 15y ago
Coming at this as a designer who learned to code in both senses of the word, I have to disagree with the sentiment that HTML/CSS is easy. Sure, the principle is rather straightforward, but writing CSS is tedious and error-prone and the HTML
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by schrijver 15y ago
The comparison with printing technology is insightful. The metaphor I like to use: most graphic design students, at one point in their education, come across a printing press that works with movable type. They might spend a day setting a si
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by schrijver 15y ago
I’ve read some findings that saw depressive patients perform better on risk assessment tests than people who were not depressed. It doesn’t surprise me. Because having an accurate perception of reality is problematic. One actually needs an
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by schrijver 16y ago
So true! The prerequisite for executing something, is the idea that you have an idea. Otherwise you will never go through the hassle of making something in the first place :) Before you write something it feels like you already know what yo