Great quote on Figure in the piece, saying it “champions the idea that systems which function under a chaotic set of ambiguous possibilities are essential for creating truly unique compositions.” Wish more programs did the same.
Interesting story happened today - what are the responsibilities of white hats vs. grey, etc. IMO Github and Homakov did the right thing, if your concerns are being ignored and you think they’re still valid, you escalate them.
Someday, guys, I promise to make an art-deco operating system. Once I finish playing BioShock.
Just for a second.
Been out for a bit, back to bring you evidence that I’m apparently twelve. You laugh, but as computers get more and more user-friendly, Siri gets more sassy, and things like twss.js become more accurate, it’s going to be somebody’s job to program something that’ll check every string a computer outputs to make sure it sounds serious.
All I have for you are links, because I am supposed to be studying for exams and not doodling. Sigh. At least I can offer you this great rant, check out this gem quote:
“And then there are security questions. Please tell me, what is the difference between this:
password: freedom
favorite color: red
And this:
password: freedom red
Answer: the first case gives an attacker a big hint on what the answer might be! Awesome, that’s exactly what i want for my password.”
A must-read - passion for a subject breeds knowledge about it. I’ll only barely learn what I don’t give a shit about.
Yesterday, I shared an anecdote involving a school I once attended with a list. This anecdote eventually became the basis for a blog post. Traffic was fairly normal for the first few hours until it found its way onto hackernews.
Then it exploded.
The comments on both the original blog post…
All I have today are links, apparently. Paul Graham shows something cool with a startup he’s funded - Stypi, a text editor that can play back what you type, including all the mistakes you made along the way. The really cool part about it is what you can get when you see how people (including yourself) type or write - in that way it’s a bit of a cool feature, maybe not quite an entire product on its own. If it could be built as a plugin to LibreStarOpenOffice, gedit (or whatever the hell you use for coding) or something else, I’d totally buy/download it. The fun comes where you look at how people type - apparently, in stuttering starts. It’s probably a consequence of the fact that [shift + home + backspace] (or its programming cousin, [Shift + D], or [dd] if you’re on vim) is a fairly familiar key combination to most people, so it’s easy to clear and start out. In fact, most of the sentences that are re-typed are style/grammar variations on the original - what’s the betting that if moving the cursor around to actually delete the part that you don’t care about was more easily used than deleting the whole line and typing things out in the first place, we’d have a different style of writing?
PS - Maybe it’s best you don’t watch the video. Now I can’t stop noticing how I type things out…
