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by atduskgreg 3y ago
AI Bubble Tracker++
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by atduskgreg 3y ago
People who make addictive social media apps and bureaucratic enterprise software love to glorify their work by lumping it in with vaccines, clean drinking water, and global food distribution in order to claim some of the halo of those obvio
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by atduskgreg 3y ago
Can’t wait for the AI-generated “botshit” (to borrow Cory Doctorow’s term) to start killing of social media sites. You can see from the decline of Twitter (and Facebook amongst anyone under the age of 40) how weak some of their hold on thei
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by atduskgreg 3y ago
Another obvious cause I don’t see anyone mentioning: tech simply created a lot less value in the last decade than in any previous decade. Pretty much every one of the big hyped up technologies that was going to be the future of everything t
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by atduskgreg 3y ago
This post doesn’t go remotely far enough. The genius of the web was its focus on documents: GET, POST, UPDATE, DELETE. Authoring and sharing text and images and video is essential to human knowledge and the web’s big contribution to the wor
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by atduskgreg 3y ago
“Second screen content” is one of the biggest buzzwords right now amongst streaming execs.
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by atduskgreg 3y ago
The write off is based on the cost of creating the show. I think the article is wrong/sloppily phrased in its line about the value of the company. If they remove a show then it will never generate any future revenue so they can write t
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by atduskgreg 3y ago
I think the article phrased it sloppily. I think what’s happening is that the studios write off the cost of the production as a loss and they can only do that if they don’t have them available to stream where they could in theory generate r
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by atduskgreg 3y ago
They explain that the benefit to the companies is the tax write off. The part they don’t explain is how little money shows like these generate that they’re worth less than the potential write off. The big semi-open secret in streaming right
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by atduskgreg 4y ago
Game companies that do “boxed product” releases (eg. giant games that come out on a date announced up to years in advanced that make their money from up front purchases) certainly can be. My company makes Games as a Service games which make
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by atduskgreg 4y ago
I switched from software development consulting to being a game designer at a large studio. I still use my programming skills part of the time to prototype and build content but there’s a lot more variety day-to-day especially as I’ve gotte
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by atduskgreg 13y ago
Bitcoin is not especially anonymous. Researchers have demonstrated techniques for de-anonymizing users through transactions: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/596.pdf
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by atduskgreg 15y ago
The project is under active development on Github: https://github.com/atduskgreg/rad
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Things I've Learned While Writing a Technical Book for O'Reilly(urbanhonking.com)
4 points by atduskgreg 15y ago|0 comments
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What Makes a Programming Language Good: Thoughts on the Extrinsic Factors(urbanhonking.com)
6 points by atduskgreg 16y ago|0 comments
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Towards a Notation System for Foosball(urbanhonking.com)
2 points by atduskgreg 16y ago|0 comments
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
Dead on. Also, the main point when you're getting started with physical computing is not the processor, but the actual hardware you can plug into it, the LEDs, buttons, motors, thermistors, etc. One of the Arduino's really big advantages fo
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
Oops, you're right it is a PIC not an AVR. Just a typo/brain-o on my part (I've corrected it in my above comment, thanks). Obviously there are steps up from the Arduino in terms of power. Just like there were "real" Unix-caliber mainframe s
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
Ladyada, I think the reason that people compare it to Arduino is not so much because it's in the same category (which it's obviously not), but because it seems to be bringing the "Arduino philosophy" to the low-level ARM/embedded Linux sphe
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
Those are all cool boards, but they are dramatically more expensive 3-10x and harder to get started with. I've used BASIC Stamp as well and so am not "making this up either". When I was first getting started with physical computing stuff, I
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
Maybe above 10,000 if you aggregate over the entire multi-decade period that the Basic Stamp has been around. Maybe. Also, BASIC the programming language may be simpler than Ruby, it may even be simpler that C/C++ that you program the Ardui
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
You got it exactly. I'm not arguing that the Arduino is going to be sitting on office desks or pants pockets everywhere, but that whoever invents the thing that is will have cut their teeth and learned what works on an Arduino.
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
I definitely agree that the BeagleBoard is really interesting as well. I've got some friends working on a building an incredibly simple OS that would be used for education and tinkering. However, if you don't think the barrier to entry of h
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
You sound exactly like the people criticizing the Altair when it first arose. How many elementary school kids or design students or Ruby programmers ever hacked the Basic Stamp? Whether it be historical coincidence or simply passing some mi
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The New Altair: Why the Arduino Matters(urbanhonking.com)
52 points by atduskgreg 17y ago|32 comments
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A Tour of the Arduino Internals: How does Hello World Actually Work?(urbanhonking.com)
5 points by atduskgreg 17y ago|0 comments
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
Oh and freQvibez, it would be totally awesome if you wrote up a post explaining in more detail the options for sound creation and configuration. At this point, I've pretty much been mainly copying existing sounds and tweaking them. As far a
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
Hey! Sorry about the delay on moderating your comment. For some reason MT didn't notify me about it being there. I've approved it now so it's up on the actual post. And thanks for the awesome tunes and your work on Bloops!
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by atduskgreg 17y ago
Hackety Hack was demoed at Art and Code as promised. Supposedly, _why's just cleaning up bugs and what not to get it presentable before throwing it out there. I had a friend who helped out with the Art and Code demo and he said it's functio
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Early 8-bit Sounds from _why's Bloopsaphone(urbanhonking.com)
14 points by atduskgreg 17y ago|10 comments

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