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Ok, that's cool! I've been using Jumpcut since 2008 when I switched to macos, and I'm pretty prone to app inertia, but that might actually make me switch. thanks.

I still remember and miss http://bluemars.org/ I discovered so much beautiful ambient music back in the early/mid 2000s.

Much of that baseline test actually comes from Nabokov's "Pale Fire" - which is also the book Joi picks up when she says "do you want to read to me".

Here's his actual keynote speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo As always, John is a master of communication and clear thought.

It reminds me of the thread about the Quake 3 bots, who left alone for several years, figured out that the best approach was to not kill each other. https://i.imgur.com/dx7sVXj.jpg…

A station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway...

In Ubik by Philip K Dick, the door of his apartment won't open unless he pays it five cents each time. Life imitates art. “The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” …

I still hold that the scene where Grant and Sattler first see the Brachiosaur is one of the best acted (and I suppose directed) scenes ever. That subtle feeling of vindication when…

hah, reminds me of http://www.csszengarden.com but simpler.

I take it to mean that they're composed well: there's a balanced and sensible spacing/padding, the lines are a good weight, they are easy on the eye, there's a consistent look and …

Thanks for ZZT Tim. That game changed my life when I was starting high school in the mid 90s; it was one of the ways I learnt to really have fun with computers as well as to progra…

...it doesn't just open up the Options menu?

My wife started buying Who Gives A Crap for our household a few months a go and we love it. We went the "mid-tier" quality (although we experimented with the the lower - 1ply tier …

Great project! there's definitely some interesting things to explore here. I had an issue though, I clicked the top link on: https://sideprojects.net/posts/7YZPLbcugbCyf94GY/non-vo…

It kind of sickens me that we only have this because some smart person dumpster dived behind the building of a bankrupt game company... Who threw this stuff out?! How much other ir…

I agree, although it was a different episode. Duncan trussel's Tesla episode was masterfully done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOR91oentQ the other few episodes I bothered wit…

yep, these are the kinds of posts on HN that I really appreciate, not the contrarian "well akshually" kind that usually appear.

yeah but.... actually, crap you're right. tech is better than ever. pity that it's being wasted on today's trivialities.

He was such a visionary that I can pretty much take whatever news headline from the last 10 years and link it directly to his work... It hasn't been updated in a few years, but thi…

oh gee, i just LOVE websites that have about 300 pixels of readable space. get rid of the huge fixed headers and fixed footers garbage. PLEASE. fuck this stupid trend.

This guy is a genius and also freakin hilarious, I knew I recognised his voice from somewhere; watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGI-GqAK9c

I'm in the same boat as you my friend. Mid thirties guy, hit adolescence right as the net was blowing up mid 90s. I still remember the first mp3 I found on a computer in the librar…

personally, i order my co founders off amazon prime

John Carmack is an absolutely brilliant speaker. Conversational, captivating and effortlessly natural. I could listen to him talk all day about the most arcane bits of graphics dev…

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