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> This Zen parable is faulty wisdom (like so much of Mahayana and Vajrayana fanfiction) Please don't promote sectarian strife here.

> When shading, the artist will just have to be very conscious of the angle of incidence from the light source. The artist should be doing this already!

As it happens, I'm working on something like this right now... My current best solution is to use mouse/pen movement as cspline sample points, even when not drawing. The motion as …

Try the Droid Sans Mono variant with slashed zero. http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/10/27/a-slashed-zero-droid-sans-...

Your mention of Kanji is particularly salient, as the blog post catches these skeuomorphic icons in the act of evolving from pictograms to ideograms...

You say idiom, I say chronic lack of imagination.

> In a perfect world having a list where 25% of the names are potential trouble-makers [...] ... would be pointless, as a perfect world would have no concept of "trouble".

> down to Costa Rica and overland to Ecuador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_Gap

Should it be improved this way? A hard real-time system can fail by running a piece of code too soon as well as too late. OTOH, a soft real-time program like a video game or voice …

So the box was more fun without the game cartridge...

Because of their life experience, I wouldn't be so quick to reject either of these fellows' advice out of hand.

You can prototype with the null-GC until you run out of memory...

> I think it's disingenuous to just throw out "take that energy and try to build a company" as an alternative. As someone who's just read your comment, I'd like to say: calm down, …

... but if it does all three, put a ring on it!

Interesting. The OP got me thinking along the lines of manually tagging salient features of each model (as well as ranking models by salience, either manually or automatically base…

Maybe a solver for classic Nintendo games? http://jeremykun.com/2012/03/22/nintendo-np-hard/ (Caveat: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/The_Limits_of_Quantum_Com... )

His attempt to restore a culture of listening to users is not a non-contribution; it could have saved GNOME.

GNOME needs a gadfly like him. Or rather, needed. If GNOME's developers have truly become indifferent or outright hostile to the needs of actual users, then the project is doomed t…

Ah, ok. I somehow got the impression from your comments that you were the Olav mentioned in the blog post.

It reveals the culture behind the infamous "No.", so it's topical. (And presumably the ban is still in effect.)

I can sympathize. Just don't burn out... let yourself code for fun every now and then. :)

> FWIW, I totally agree that just a "No." is bad, entirely understand what it resulted in. However, going after a developer in a bugreport is not tolerable behaviour as well. So wh…

> Bottom line: These people, [whether] they are arrogant, impolite or unsympathetic to users does not refute the fact that they are giving their time to the project. > GNOME has be…

Have you considered that your day job is a revenue stream that lets you work on the personal projects you want? If that's the case, then just give yourself permission to make what …

Not quite. http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=3454 When the humanist hand was invented, the prevailing hand for illuminated manuscripts was blackletter. While eith…