msutherl

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by msutherl 8y ago
This reads like a rhetorical question – 'what could possibly be the application for something this deliberately bad?' I won't speak for what "blockchain" can or will become, but you might see the hype more clearly
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by msutherl 9y ago
Skim, read comments, and for things I want to remember, add them to an appropriate Are.na channel. For longer articles I want to read eventually but know I won't get to for a long time, I use the "Save this page" feature of I
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This Is What a Designer-Led Social Network Looks Like(fastcodesign.com)
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by msutherl 9y ago
Speaking strictly about the "look and feel," I must say I love it. It's one of the most well-designed apps I've ever seen. Per-UX, I've found Skype very difficult to use since the last major redesign a few(?) years
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by msutherl 9y ago
Miles better than everything else: https://www.inoreader.com/
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by msutherl 9y ago
And given a suitable vector representation of the street layout, the stretch-and-compress could be given constraints so as not to warp (i.e. curve streets on) the map
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by msutherl 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz#Places
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by msutherl 9y ago
I spent a lot of time trying different systems and finding I couldn't stick with one. Now I embrace the chaos of multiple systems. I keep a bullet journal, which is mainly for journaling and long-term planning. Some days I write a list
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by msutherl 9y ago
I'm having trouble finding information about what GNUnet is on the website. Is there an overview somewhere?
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by msutherl 9y ago
re: most other software: "Wow. It's just a relational database."
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by msutherl 9y ago
And now you find the same thing at http://apollo.rip or http://redacted.ch , almost exactly as it was.
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by msutherl 9y ago
On chef and cucumber: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13209760 On Knuth, C, and Haskell: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12741430 On npm and In Praise of Idleness: https://news.ycombina
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by msutherl 9y ago
Just Messenger, Events when I'm invited to them, occasionally being tagged in a post, and a couple of groups.
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by msutherl 9y ago
I did this a few years ago and haven't looked back. I had the issue where I was suddenly following everyone again on one occasion (years ago), but since I've unfollowed everyone again, I haven't had any issues.
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by msutherl 9y ago
Some free associations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgGU8Vy3xoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLIi_ZMBfQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d38xbAFnCSQ https://www.youtube.co
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by msutherl 9y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification! Turns out I could have discovered that if I had Googled: https://www.juce.com/history-and-development – so much for speculation.
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by msutherl 9y ago
This is speculative, but Max/MSP 5 – which was a very dated piece of software at the time – was re-written using JUCE for the UI, and IIRC JUCE wasn't music-focused at the time. Quite likely the current music focus has everything
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by msutherl 9y ago
https://numi.io/ , http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/
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by msutherl 9y ago
Any clarity re: this comment[1], which seems to suggest that things are not as they seem? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13942989 > In June 2015, the FCC reclassified the ISP's as common carriers. Tada, th
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by msutherl 9y ago
If you believe this guy, most linguists who speak of the "S-W Hypothesis" have no idea what Sapir or Whorf said: http://hilgart.org/enformy/dma-Chap7.htm . — 'I push his head back' and 'I drop
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by msutherl 10y ago
Since Numi < https://numi.io/> has become slow to launch – and I find Soulver < http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/> overkill for quick calculations – I've been looking for a replacement. H
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by msutherl 10y ago
Makes more sense when it's for and by an actual community of people, in which case it's a bit more like a party with your friends where you all give talks and take part in semi-structured activities
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by msutherl 10y ago
So glad "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" is here – one of my favorite books and the reason I became an artist ... and then stopped being an artist. One of my most referenced parts of the book describes an enti
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by msutherl 10y ago
This doesn't work for everyone, but my approach this is to ask: what is the intersection of my unique strengths and the most important problems to address in the world? In answering this, you quickly discover you need a philosophy , a
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by msutherl 10y ago
The people working in R&D at these companies (i.e. Apple) are to varying extents aware of this history. Indeed there are different "brands" for a set of concepts that have be evolving since the 70s, IoT being the most popular
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by msutherl 10y ago
Hi Alan, I'd like to go deeper into your notion of "pop cultures" vs. "progress", in the context of innovation, but also the arts. Can you recommend some readings that might fill out those concepts?
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by msutherl 10y ago
Also feels like worse-is-better vs. the right thing. How much engineering effort and additional maintenance would be required to develop and support such a time-model? A lot. Alas, let us re-create software systems to be radically simpler s
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by msutherl 10y ago
Au contraire, I'm happy that the last-seen-state is preserved and I'm given the option to refresh to see the current state should I chose to.
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by msutherl 10y ago
I think you meant "aesthetically pleasing", but I'm looking forward now to using the phrase "ascetically pleasing" in earnest :)
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by msutherl 10y ago
US cities that aren't car centric: Portland, Seattle, New York, Boston. Nearby: Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto. Afar: London, Paris, Berlin. Arguably San Francisco is the most car-centric of the bunch with its comparatively non-functiona

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