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Having worked with people whose commit messages are along the lines of "update function", my experience has been that when you're trying to find where a bug was introduced, it's qu…

A design detail I appreciate about this website is that it's server is solar powered and displays a two-tone overlay representing the server's battery life. It's nice that they ext…

For any who haven't seen it, I also recommend Charles & Ray Eaemes' "Powers of Ten" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

>> Healing as a society would mean inventing a new community beyond the identity and border politics with which we have produced sovereignty until now, but also beyond the reductio…

Hi Apple. Throw in a 3.5mm stereo jack and you've got my attention.

While I agree that paying people for their work is good, and that it would be cool if NYC Mesh grew into something that could provide workers with a good living, I see no need for …

I think the main problem with the article is that its modest scientific content about the benefits of DHA is buried in a pile of overblown conclusions, assertions that consuming me…

This article appears to have a clear agenda and does a poor job of hiding it. The conclusions, which might be summarized "animal fats are good and plant fats are bad" also seem pre…

Snark aside, I really believe this is terrible advice for an artist. I'd argue that most worthwhile art does not have a message, and if it does, the work is not a "reduction of tha…

Hold up. This guy's advice on making art is: "Reduce your message to its simplest, clearest, easiest-to-understand form"? I guess this is a road map to making great art such as uhh…

@TuringNYC I agree that the role real estate investment is playing in driving rent increases is important to address - through regulation - and I’m all for bringing good jobs to th…

That's a fair criticism, and I regret my tone and making the discussion personal. But as a life-long New Yorker, I do feel a personal stake in all this. I believe OP is right that …

What New York City do you live in? I have never been offered, nor do I know anybody who's been offered a month's free rent on signing a lease. Places that do this are overcharging …

I think the reason is that many of the problems JQuery was designed to solve (DOM manipulation, cross-browser compatibility issues, AJAX, cool effects) have now been implemented as…

Much of the discussion here revolves around whether or not the artist deserves credit for creating a work if it was fabricated by other people, which I think somewhat misses the po…

Max/MSP has implemented some of the visual programming ideas he refers to in the talk https://cycling74.com/products/max It is domain-specific and their current promotional materia…