ivanmilles

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by ivanmilles 4y ago
Netflix’s Sacred Games. It was their first domestic production and is a straight faced noir cop drama. It’s my favorite crime series of all time - I think it blends The crime boss mythology of The Usual Suspects with the multi-decade story
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by ivanmilles 6y ago
A recommendation to the Dutch "precursor" to Paradise Lost: Vondel's "Lucifer" is a tight five-act play along the same lines. It's about a century older than Paradise Lost, with a contemporary energy that'
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by ivanmilles 6y ago
Your [1] could be Walther J. Ong's Orality and Literacy? It goes into differences between cultures rooted in written/oral language, and has several examples where words that are "missing" from or present in a language re
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by ivanmilles 7y ago
Sliding offtopic, but do you have any more memories around this specific collaboration? I'm deeply familiar with the theory, but anecdotes on such an ambitious project would be useful to a text I'm working on. Thanks.
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by ivanmilles 7y ago
Thanks for digging out the links on Doreen, pocketed both. But am I reading GP wrong that it wasn't constructionist education proper that failed, but a "let's do things with laptops" being retconned onto constructivism?
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by ivanmilles 7y ago
Excellent. Appreciate the answers.
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by ivanmilles 7y ago
>every kid could be an autodidact just like them once they had the magic laptop So, if I understand you correctly, OLPC went in with a constructionist perspective and it didn't work out? This is hyper-relevant to what I'm worki
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by ivanmilles 7y ago
Can you say more about the autodidacts and the conflict with professional staff? I'm interested in specific areas that were problematic, and if you have any learnings from mitigating it.
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by ivanmilles 7y ago
Playdead spat out a series of incredible GDC talks after their game INSIDE. They did a full presentation on the ending of the game [0] as a collab between engineering, rendering and art. It’s fascinating just to see the creativity, but also
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by ivanmilles 10y ago
No-one claims that gamedevs see lock-in as something positive; only that very few AAA gamedev shops care about lock-in - especially for a relatively small part of the production pipeline as a graphics API. What you see as locked-in API, oth
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by ivanmilles 10y ago
Chernobyl is still open for tours, afaik. You won't get very close to any of the running reactors (and not the closed one, of course) but the tours generally go through the complex' main road and through the Pripyat ghost town.
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by ivanmilles 11y ago
On the contrary. If you look at the projected search area, it's a huge swath of deep ocean. A plane is very small. Once it breaks up against the waves it's really, really small. The debris sinks into silt at the bottom of a deep o
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by ivanmilles 11y ago
This echoes the tribulations of the original Starcraft devs. [1] > ...based on my experiences the biggest problems in StarCraft related to the use of doubly-linked linked lists. Linked lists were used extensively in the engine to track u
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by ivanmilles 12y ago
No, you're right. The use case for Grunt/Gulp is in the name: task runners, to automate the running of tasks, to stabilise and formalise the build process to the point of repeatability across a team. It's a bit strange to ha
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by ivanmilles 14y ago
Agricultural produce is a strongly limiting factor on how good human life can be - the most important process we run. To give kids a rudimentary insight into the mechanics and economy of it is - to me - clearly a more important lesson than
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by ivanmilles 14y ago
>That's basically the 'hello world' of farming This is an extremely fascinating perspective. I need to go... build something. Wow.
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by ivanmilles 14y ago
...if they work more /as evaluated by men/.
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by ivanmilles 14y ago
>how do we know it's not justified? Presumably the pay reflects the work done. Again, do you think studies haven't been done? That's the core of the discussion: pay does not reflect the work done, and it is sometimes even inverted.
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by ivanmilles 14y ago
An excellent example of structural discrimination - one group both organizes and controls the perception of value in a field. It becomes hard to unless you support the structure - hence women who are forced to act on male terms. "Karen's al
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by ivanmilles 14y ago
I get advertisements for the S3 inbetween pages. Nice touch.
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by ivanmilles 14y ago
There's also the very basic disappointment that a piece of good software won't grow to maturity. I finally found a mail client that restored my faith in SMTP as a communications medium; a mail client that had me managing email exclusively o
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by ivanmilles 14y ago
It's very hard to prove that high-entropy random data isn't encrypted.
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by ivanmilles 14y ago
So, now Random actually /is/ Resistance? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE6RtzwVdHI
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by ivanmilles 14y ago
I'll print this and hang it on the wall above my machine. Brilliant.