joshmillard

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by joshmillard 4y ago
Full disclosure: I used to run the site. This is, at this point, just my personal take; I handed it off to other folks in the community whose work I believe in entirely and I am glad they are working on this now. So, MetaFilter already had
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by joshmillard 8y ago
I got to use the studio's supply, so I haven't had to really sort out glass buying myself. And yeah, I was lucky to benefit from access to a really great collection of glass. But there are some commercial firms (Spectrum does ver
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by joshmillard 8y ago
Totally feasible! You could probably put a whole one-person workspace into about fifty square feet without getting cramped, less with some squeezing and multitasking, and I'd guess basic toolset would run you less than $500 retail. Th
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by joshmillard 8y ago
Yeah, this isometric rendering has nice hints of Necker Cube illusions to it.
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by joshmillard 8y ago
I was surprised and please how much I took to it, honestly; I went in cold and was prepared to not really get a knack for it. But easy-looking is also a product of writing it up after the fact, and learning under good instruction; it was st
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by joshmillard 8y ago
I'll agree that "a near impossibility" feels like a real big overstatement; curves are very doable and common in hand-cut glass. That's true even in my first piece, under discussion, which is chock full of curves. I ta
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by joshmillard 8y ago
Also, if you like my mathy design instincts with this stained glass piece, you may enjoy looking through the painting work (mostly oils) I've done over the last couple years: http://art.joshmillard.com/
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by joshmillard 8y ago
It's a shockingly approachable medium! I was really surprised at how much it wasn't a series of frustrating technical or fiddly bits.
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by joshmillard 8y ago
Well, hey, that's me! Howdy folks.
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by joshmillard 9y ago
This is remarkable for the terse confidence with which it is misapprehends the actual structure and content of the site.
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by joshmillard 9y ago
I'm still a member! For the record, we resist implementing threading or commenting by reference because it's makes for an unreadable discursive shitshow when trying to follow busy, active discussions. Staying relatively on topic
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by joshmillard 10y ago
Or to take it from another angle, Reddit couldn't be as large. Which is sort of at the heart of what Matt was talking about with scaling community -- it's not that large is bad or that profit is bad, per se, but if your goal is to
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by joshmillard 10y ago
It's a mix of things; Deck, AdSense (for all the trouble they're still a major and these days fairly steady source of revenue), mostly-passive Amazon affiliate, and direct support from the MetaFilter community. We've looked a
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by joshmillard 10y ago
The warning was quoted from the source, so your beef is with The Guardian. MetaFilter has no shortage of strong language and it's not against any kind of community guideline if it's not being used in an intentionally shitty way; a
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by joshmillard 10y ago
> 2. The smart thing financially would have been to let the community die but, he didn't and paid the price So, I'm a skosh biased, as the person currently running MetaFilter, with a moderation staff that's managed to grow
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by joshmillard 11y ago
Heh. Hello there! This is a thing I made.
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by joshmillard 11y ago
Your wager is good, on both counts; the current corpus is based on the first 14 months of strips, which comes out to about 10K total words for Calvin (who has more lines than the rest of the cast combined, in that chunk of strips). That&#x
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by joshmillard 11y ago
That's one of the fun little oddities Gary Larson talks about in "The Prehistory of the Far Side", where syndication captioning errors led to a couple of swaps of Far Side and Dennis the Menace cartoons, with weird results.
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by joshmillard 11y ago
Heya, that's me! I also wrote up some details on the how and why of the whole thing, if you're interested: http://www.joshmillard.com/2015/07/06/calvin-and-markov/
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by joshmillard 12y ago
In the interest of truly returning to the days of Nintendo Power hijinks, I have added a high score table that is powered by people sending me screenshots of their high scores.
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by joshmillard 12y ago
Early days yet; I'm looking forward to folks getting all kinds of stuff either installed or written from scratch.
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by joshmillard 12y ago
Though I did spend about fifteen minutes working on a pure command-line turn-based version called Roguey Bird a few months ago before realizing I didn't actually feel like spending more than fifteen minutes on it at the time.
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by joshmillard 12y ago
Decided we needed an arcade page for all the sweet games: http://www.tilde.club/~cortex/games.html
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by joshmillard 12y ago
No point in making an easy one, I reckon!
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by joshmillard 12y ago
It's been a wonderful weird little thing so far, with folks having a mix of nostalgia for and first exposure to shell account stuff, playing around with oldschool webbery, hacking little things together across user accounts, and just g
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by joshmillard 12y ago
Man, I am sympathetic if you got an obnoxious answer like that, but for what it's worth as one of the folks who moderates it that as stated is a comment I'd delete from an Ask Metafilter thread in a heartbeat and would expect othe
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by joshmillard 12y ago
It's definitely a matter of taste, and it's fine that different folks prefer different stuff. The flat model works well enough for Metafilter -- we're constantly seeing thoughtful, responsive conversations on all kinds of to
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by joshmillard 12y ago
That is our existing paypal account, yes. We aren't formally doing any fundraising at this point -- that's an account we've had set up for ever mostly for the once-a-month "hey, here's five bucks, buy yourself a bee
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by joshmillard 12y ago
Sure. For what it's worth, though, we've continued to see steady signups for years and years; the concern over the ossification of a conservative site design is a reasonable one and one we chew on plenty, trust me, but as far as
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by joshmillard 12y ago
What teraflop said. cortex here, one of the mefi moderators. I totally understand where arguments along the lines of "automate and eliminate human costs" come from and there is absolutely value in finding ways to simplify/st

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