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corbins | 4 years ago | on: “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Story Conference Transcript (1978)

Lucas seems like the well-spring of ideas here. He goes on long rambles, almost free-associating, and then Kasdan or Spielberg will have a one sentence reply. And then another rant. It's like they're providing minor course corrections while he generates ideas and ideas and ideas...

Anyone familiar with writing rooms or the like, is this asymmetrical pattern common?

corbins | 4 years ago | on: Improving Responsiveness in Text Inputs

1ms is significant if you're a heavy user: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4.

corbins | 5 years ago | on: I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there

Your list takes a while to populate on page load. I would add some placeholder rows and a loading indicator.

corbins | 5 years ago | on: Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions

It's reassuring to find someone who shares this sentiment. I hope people are starting to see the high cost that convenient services inevitably incur. Now we simply need the tools for individuals and small groups to cheaply create this alt-software.

corbins | 5 years ago | on: I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35

Beware of gamification. There is a great talk[1] discussing intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation as it applies to video games, with the key insight being that extrinsic rewards decrease intrinsic motivation. The speaker references a lot of research that seems worth digging into too.

[1] https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012290/Achievements-Considere...

corbins | 5 years ago | on: Code only says what it does

The counterexample here is the declarative style of programming. Most ideally this looks like an executable spec and is documentation itself.

corbins | 5 years ago | on: Demo of an OpenAI language model applied to code generation [video]

Mirror: https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAYWPRrWKb