mcslee

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by mcslee 19d ago
I think you've picked the wrong target here. Worth reading Dustin's personal account of his Burning Man experience: https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/radical-inclusion-vs-radical-self... (bear in mind this was writt
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by mcslee 3y ago
Thank you for that. As mentioned in some other comments, I've given up continuing to use Processing as an underlying application UI framework. It's unclear how long the OpenGL dependency is going to survive on macOS, or that Proce
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by mcslee 3y ago
The majority of the source code is publicly available, though no longer under a traditional open source license. Over time I came to realize I was not really cool with it being used commercially or rebranded without me having some say in th
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by mcslee 3y ago
Mark here, creator of LX - thanks for posting! Apologies for the not-so-great state of that website and lack of documentation. I'm working on a proper repackaging and release of the application, rebranded as Chromatik, which should be
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by mcslee 15y ago
If your goal is to have people doing creative, innovative work, then I would strongly disagree that there is any advantage whatsoever to be derived from making people feel "locked in." In practice, I have only seen this achieve the opposite
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by mcslee 16y ago
What a fantastic explosion of buzzwords and slightly bizarre assertions. I know you interned at Facebook and are familiar with the site architecture, but the majority of the things you've mentioned here had absolutely nothing to do with the
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by mcslee 16y ago
I'm consistently surprised by how supportive or neutral a position the tech community (or Silicon Valley tech media) takes towards the Winklevoss brothers when they provide an avenue to attack Facebook or Zuckerberg. These guys seem to be t
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by mcslee 17y ago
Your point is well taken that it's easy to treat fortune differently in different situations. Hard workers that don't make it are "just unfortunate." Lazy people that win the lottery are "just fortunate." Hard workers that make it "earned i
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by mcslee 17y ago
This is an astute and important point. I have always found it flawed that a middle-class American family making around $100K in income will pay more taxes than someone with $10M+ portfolio of municipal bonds. With that said, I agree with Ma
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by mcslee 17y ago
Tufte makes many good insights, but I always struggle to get over the incredible ego in his presentations. He has a tendency to make sweeping aesthetic judgments based upon what, in my opinion, are simply his personal tastes, which he then
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by mcslee 17y ago
I'm curious why you consider that embarrassing to admit? It's completely natural for human groups to seek gender balance. Very few engineering schools let themselves get to such an extreme gender imbalance, but if you really were picking be
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by mcslee 17y ago
Interesting, but I think this argument is flawed. The author notes that different professions tend to have different distributions of male personality types. Programmers tend towards meek and introverted, lawyers and businessmen more alpha,
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by mcslee 17y ago
Playing Devil's Advocate: if these simulations are truly modeled after humans, why are you so sure that they won't buy into many of the same religious ideas and reaffirm what many humans naturally think and do? Would a simulation like this
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by mcslee 17y ago
Interesting article. Can't help but think about how it's no coincidence that so many technology companies have come to exist in such close physical proximity in Silicon Valley. This article speaks to managing a team, but the power of the Po
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by mcslee 17y ago
I'm surprised the general response here is so negative. Besides the fact that it's obvious, research does in fact confirm that happier people smile more. And the average high school student is probably not focused on being cynical and grump
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by mcslee 17y ago
What a revelation: students who only study an hour per week are heavy Facebook users. ...and YouTube. ...and CollegeHumor. ...and probably a thousand other sites. This article is a joke. It's 2009. What do we expect to find kids with poor s
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by mcslee 18y ago
One issue with data-driven design is that it can be incredibly inefficient for developing new behaviors. If you're changing hues, sure, it works. When it comes to building a novel interaction that might really push the needle, users typical
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by mcslee 18y ago
> I would be sincerely interested in this topic, if you would like to go there. :) Sure, do you blame consumers for buying clothing products that were manufactured using sweatshop labor? No, because the consumer had no intent. You blame
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by mcslee 18y ago
The vast majority of people who buy and use drugs are also usually not involved in large organized crime units. This argument doesn't hold water. Many illegal drugs are not addictive, or significantly less addictive than nicotine or alcohol
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by mcslee 18y ago
Jimmy Carter made an excellent quote about the penalties for drug use. "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual that the use of the drug itself." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter
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by mcslee 18y ago
You're arguing for the other side now. You just (correctly, IMO) attributed the violence of the drug trade to the fact that it is illegal. There's no violence in the tobacco or alcohol trades, largely because they are legal and regulated.
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by mcslee 18y ago
You state: "But if you honestly believe that there is nothing morally wrong with intentionally and actively enabling people into addiction, I doubt that the gap between our views on morality can be bridged." Do you believe that liquor store
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by mcslee 18y ago
Sort of a tangent, but are you sure your opinion of Ecstasy isn't just a result of propaganda from "the man?" I'm not saying it's safe, and the subject certainly warrants more scientific study. However, UK scientists did a risk-based analys
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by mcslee 18y ago
I guess I just don't see the end goal of what you're proposing. What is the merit of having a drug-free society if it comes at the cost of damaging or destroying productive, happy human lives? Do you think the world you are describing would
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by mcslee 18y ago
This would probably work for about 1 month. After everyone finished reeling in horror from the senseless murders of many of their families and loved ones, some subset of the people would quickly realize that all the competition had just bee
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by mcslee 18y ago
Your argument seems a bit inconsistent. While I generally understand the spirit of what you're saying, claiming that "over 50% of the US population has tried it to little effect" doesn't seem any less anecdotal than your example of the frie
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by mcslee 18y ago
Why are you so eager to jump to their defense, but so reluctant to ask that they treat me with courtesy, dignity, and respect? I do, however, agree with you. As I mentioned in the note, I did spend a lot of time responding courteously to a
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by mcslee 18y ago
I've re-posted the note so that anyone can access it: http://eff-yeah.com/fb_note.html I admit that my responses were mildly snarky, and I acknowledged in the note the blurry distinction between my behavior as an individual vs. employee o
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by mcslee 18y ago
Here's the note in question. I wrote it, and I think your comment mischaracterizes its true nature. http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=27551539159&id=... The purpose of both my note and my personal replies to the hate-mail I rec