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Shame that it is (basically) a Windows exclusive application.

I take it you have not been to Amsterdam or Berlin. I live in the latter and, while there certainly are homeless people, it is absolutely nowhere even close to SF per capita.

> “Importance” is subjective No, not really. "Importance" is a rough proxy for legacy and influence. This is why one can say without any trace of subjectivism that Shakespeare is t…

An easy solution to this is to give point-based weights to achievements and cap the max total "points" any given game can have, allowing a developer to have many small achievements…

In Search of Lost Time (Proust) -- the definitive portrait of life, memory and experience Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty) -- groundbreaking analysis of "the thickness o…

His work is often read as an archaic, pre-verbal poetics of the classical world: https://www.bastian-gallery.com/ausstellungen/cy-twombly-a-m... The scribblings draw from the walls…

Google WW2, the Berlin Wall, Crystal Pepsi, Walmart, Donald Trump and then you may understand why Warhol reflects the contemporary zeitgeist and academic neoclassical art does not.…

Unpopular opinion: “singularity” is empty marketing hype masquerading as eschatological theology. The stark reality is that AI technology is inextricably tied up with market dynami…

The author clearly has not tapped the goldmine of world cinema (or American film history for that matter) if Superbad is their paradigmatic case of a challenging film.

Hubert Dreyfus's critiques of AI systems (particularly, their all but total inability to bodily engage with a social world) still remain relevant.

Why is Pong a lesser work of art than Journey? I think games like Pong, Tetris, Asteroids etc are more ideal for making a case for games as a unique medium, because instead of defe…

SCSS isn't a methodology, it's a tool for reducing repetition and capturing syntactic complexity in CSS.

(Responding to now defunct comment claiming that conservatism is correlated to age because of life experience blah blah) Age here is a proxy for wealth, of course.

Have to disagree - personally found those films to be too heavy-handed with their "message". Koyaanisqatsi maintains a certain ambiguity throughout, conveying both awe and fear at …

At my job we use Quip strictly for collaborative design docs (i.e. architectural design, project scope, tutorials etc). Personally I don't think it can be a true wiki platform sinc…

The main intent of Builder isn't performance, but to avoid a combinatorial explosion of constructors for every possible set of parameters.

For mainstream labels, sure, but independent labels still serve an important curatorial role.

Probably because most are doing glorified CRUD, but with an absurd barrier to entry (the interview process).

Arguably a social engineer.

Try ambient and drone music.

This is a terrible logo by any objective visual design standards -- the shape, proportion, weight are all decidedly unappealing. Honestly, three simple circles would have been bett…

It is no hyperbole to say that Eno is probably the most influential producer of the latter half of the twentieth century. You may know him indirectly via his collaborations with Ta…

This doesn't conform with any of my experiences in non-trivial JS codebases. Migrating to TS tends to reveal previously overlooked implicit typing issues. Also, I find the "upfront…

Funny enough, this is another obvious feature that they get completely wrong -- lists are publicly editable, with no (apparent) way of restricting adds to the original creator. So …

I find Kotlin more readable than Java in most cases -- less noise to drown out the actual logic. Could you provide an example of a language feature which requires you to "hold cont…