tomek_zemla

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Review of children’s book pretending it’s about the network utility ‘Ping’(thepoke.co.uk)
5 points by tomek_zemla 11y ago|1 comments
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by tomek_zemla 11y ago
Two experiments in computational design. I call them data paintings. Digital technologies already disrupted many fields - it is the time they disrupt graphic arts and painting. More on the way... http://www.pixelbox.com/circ
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by tomek_zemla 11y ago
Electric Objects is another one trying to get people to convert from physical to digital art on the wall. I believe them and Framed are priced at around $499... https://www.electricobjects.com/
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by tomek_zemla 11y ago
Basically, once we are done covering Earth in garbage we will make sure we do the same to the sky... How human!
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Texas Student Is Under Police Investigation for Building a Clock(nytimes.com)
269 points by tomek_zemla 11y ago|1 comments
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by tomek_zemla 11y ago
Zero to be precise. That was the only one missing.
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by tomek_zemla 11y ago
Beautiful...
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
I would question your assumption that you are the dumbest person in the room. Your analysis points in quite the opposite direction. The rather toxic atmosphere you are describing, driven by egos with bitter attitudes indicates these people
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
I would be interested to know if the care he received changed his own perception of his actions. And I mean not what he would answer publicly to this question, but if he wondered while recovering in the hospital bed the paradox of the situa
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
I live in Canada and in modern English spoken here 'guys' can refer to people of any gender. You often hear a group of young women (only) using phrases like "let's go guys" instead of "let's go girls"
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Ex Machina Is Catfishing Guys on Tinder at SXSW(vulture.com)
2 points by tomek_zemla 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Non-Sexist Behaviour Guidelines?
40 points by tomek_zemla 12y ago|80 comments
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
It's an interesting question that has already been playing out for a while in visual arts. Artists who create images by writing computer programs (computational/generative arts and design) are often looked down upon in comparison
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Did a Human or a Computer Write This?(nytimes.com)
172 points by tomek_zemla 12y ago|69 comments
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
Here are some resources I found useful (on top of Tufte): 1. Work of Alberto Cairo: http://www.thefunctionalart.com . 2. Searching Pintrest for UI/UX, dashboard, information design related keywords. 3. Work of Ben Fry and Fa
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
Yes, it always baffled me, too! Especially because I have been studying from his books and they are exceptional both in terms of visual design and content!
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
Exactly. It would be interesting to hear from some Google employees here, both men and women, about their good or bad sexism related experiences at the company.
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
Here is an idea for workaround. Have two passwords. One normal, the other one wipes out the phone. Back up your device to the cloud before you travel. Hand it in with a good smile and bad password...
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
Actually majority of people searched going through borders turn out to be perfectly innocent... Which means that if the law does allow officers to search everybody's personal information on their electronic devices they can browse at w
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
Right... Maybe the guy has dark skin?
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
Another option would be to have more options to display addition development related information in side columns. Code statistics, terminal window, program source code visualization, live browser output for Web coding and such...
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Top secret no more: a satirical look at Hillary Clinton’s email inbox(theguardian.com)
2 points by tomek_zemla 12y ago|0 comments
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
Absolutely! I would gladly contribute to a Kickstarter fund to pay for your efforts. I am sure I am not the only one...
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
This is awesome. Congratulations! It should be thrown in the face of the textbook publishing industry that still charges $100+ dollars for yearly reprints of paper bricks. This is what the textbooks should be in the 21st century! Outstandin
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
I feel the same... Forcing me to de facto advertise the product before I had a chance to even read the sample puts into question the quality the content I would find inside the book. My steps were the following. I bookmarked the book. I lea
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
From HN Submission Guidelines: 'Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectua
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
Actually the number does not surprise me, but the source would be great. My informal observations show that great number of knowledge workers freelance on the side of their day jobs, so I suspect that the number of full-time freelancers and
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The first space selfie, during the Gemini 12 mission in 1966(mobile.twitter.com)
83 points by tomek_zemla 12y ago|6 comments
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by tomek_zemla 12y ago
Learnt recently that origins of the word 'technologist' are from Greek 'tekhne' which is art/craft...
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An Engineer Creates for Fun After a Lifetime of Workaday Rules(nytimes.com)
104 points by tomek_zemla 12y ago|19 comments

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