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by dorian 2y ago
He literally says (at 39:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LdFA-_zfA&t=2388s ) "And it's because [the patterns are] only really fragmentary perceptions of this deeper structure that I'm describing [i.e.
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by dorian 2y ago
Thanks for bringing attention to this; I just released Chapter 8: Deep Interlock & Ambiguity. Gonna try to get Chapter 9 (Contrast) out on a reasonable schedule.
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by dorian 2y ago
Haven't visited any because the majority are private residences (although this one in Berkeley-ish has been on and off the market https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/700-Hillside-Ave-Albany-C... ). The only ones yo
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by dorian 2y ago
Yeah, it was about a thousand bucks the last time I checked and probably more now that he's passed. Why I ultimately didn't feel too bad about not reading it was because from what I understand, its contents are ostensibly mostly c
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by dorian 2y ago
If you're going to read the whole Alexander corpus (which I did minus the two hardest-to-find volumes—the Linz Café and the one about carpets), be prepared for it to take on the order of years. While there is for sure a lot of repetiti
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by dorian 3y ago
lol
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by dorian 5y ago
Yup, and the weird thing is it was just bursitis; the imaging otherwise came back clean. I've hurt myself way worse than that with fewer consequences. Must be getting old.
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by dorian 5y ago
So, I was looking for a drop-in replacement for swimming (~3-~4km per day, so ~60-90 minutes plus commute) that could be done: • outside • by myself • in the winter (~-10°C) • without needing access to any (locked down) facility • or signif
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by dorian 5y ago
I mean, the really glaringly puzzling thing is the lossy process of hand-transcribing the information from the authoritative (and necessarily structured) source to a muddy, ambiguous target. Obviously somebody cares enough to put the schedu
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by dorian 5y ago
ding ding ding
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by dorian 5y ago
https://dorian.substack.com/p/radical-interoperability-is-a-...
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by dorian 5y ago
oh yeah ps the specificity gradient ( https://youtu.be/dDE_y7Qri9w which I recorded much later) is stewart brand/frank duffy "shearing layers"/"pace layers" stuff; see https://doriant
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by dorian 5y ago
lol i suppose i should clarify that royce's paper is "generally credited as being the origin of waterfall despite actually advocating against it" or something to that effect. i know boehm refers to it but didn't know boe
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by dorian 12y ago
Are those mappings in the book you linked? Or something you just came up with?
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by dorian 12y ago
Notes on the Synthesis of Form is a lot more systems-theoretic. The algorithm is more or less recursive min-cut partitioning which is now well-researched. There is, however, a real logistical problem is getting the input requirements, massa
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by dorian 12y ago
The Web from its inception until about ~1996-97 was like this.
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by dorian 13y ago
This is something I've been working on for a while. A friend suggested I post it here. The basic idea is that while there have been developments in improving the product (UX) and improving the development process (Agile), I haven'
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Lowering the Risk of Web Development(doriantaylor.com)
7 points by dorian 13y ago|3 comments