paperkettle's comments

dont forget algorithms ! http://nonhumans.net

cancers come in all shapes and sizes

p5.js (https://p5js.org/) meets the mark of "canvas but more accessible" for me quite often. A different agenda than d3 tho

fwiw: twice now, I've successfully gotten a pip package linked with CUDA 8 & built Tensorflow from source — once for Python 2 and another for Python 3. Both on an Ubuntu 14.04 system

Major supporter of this thinking, and did several sketches in this direction a few years ago: http://www.illucia.com/

Made of: 1) a suite of interconnectable videogames & apps and 2) physical patchbays to connect them

Came from thinking about software like modules in a modular synth. Playgrounds of interconnectable control structures. Was patching games into samplers, slaving text editors to drum machines, etc.

related writeups: http://www.illucia.com/faq/ another from 2010 or so when I was just starting coding (so a lot of it feels silly now.. but still some related nuggets): http://www.paperkettle.com/codebending/

Hey! Thanks so much for the kind words! Your work was an inspiration for the course and everpresent in our conversations!!

Also relevant but not really talked about on HN much: http://www.crowdpilot.me/

"UPDATE, Monday, April 15, 6:08 p.m.: Wireless carriers say reports that authorities had shut down cellphone service in the Boston area are untrue."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/04/15/boston_ma...

http://madronalabs.com/ makes something called the Soundplane - it feels like a present someone sent me from the future.

So nice to touch. A high resolution / super responsive controller.. of wood! Maybe I'm just not enough of a cyborg but the wood surface made the Haken Continuum (wetsuit material) far less compelling. I worry the same thing of the Seaboard.

!! Sim City DRM is just part of a really deep ARG. Maybe they hired the ilovebees people?

I agree but why take particular issue with this bit of marketing speak? Wouldn't you say that almost all self-deployed marketing adjectives are disposable?

"the importance of creativity will trump systems thinking..."

Systems ARE art. Freud was a systems designer. Religious metaphors are introspective systems.

These are systems as metaphors of the human condition.

Do they describe the human condition? No - bigger - they create it. Freud invented a lost continent that allowed us to pronounce ourselves.

As computers and consciousness continue to intersect.. great artists will be expressive, critical, abstract engineers.

Some stuff in that direction http://www.createjs.com/#!/EaselJS http://www.createjs.com/#!/TweenJS http://www.createjs.com/#!/SoundJS

sad that flash has so many issues (security, performance, etc) because there are some really nice compositional tools for creators in that ecosystem.

I was so excited to read this..!

I often hear people in the startup community valorize "critical thinking." Most often though, they're talking about creative talents applied to tech (software & business) problem solving.

That kind of critical thinking (which I consider as cleverness with a specific category of puzzles) is readily available though - there are plenty of great hackers in the world.

There is another kind of critical thinking that I find broadly neglected - the kind in this post. The startup/software community needs more of this.

Can you imagine what the world might be like if the resourcefulness of hackers become more strongly intertwined with institutional&cultural critical thinking? What if "disruption" wasn't 98% motivated by $$$, but originated from studied/steeped desire to move power, class, race, politics, representation, and art?

I left college at 20 and then went back at 26. Both are on my "top 5 best decisions in life" list.

Having some time to get older and know myself (or, perhaps, reflect on the nature of selfness) led me to make great use of the incredible resources and space a university offers.

Everyone's path is different, so yours might vary, but you never know! I don't know if you still carry any fear or shame about the college experience (I did), but you're clearly driven and capable of great success. Don't let any of that other stuff get in the way should you ever find yourself with a passion and the desire for university as a space to focus and invest in yourself. In any case, congrats on success!

I think the goal is general awareness about sexism & harassment present in the industry.

Even she doesn't make the specific offender more accountable by speaking up, she raises awareness and hopefully makes everyone less tolerant of this kind of outrageous stupidity.

What a strange rhetorical style. Terse certainty, unimaginative characterization of the human possibility field (via maneuvers to things like "human nature"), short summations of complex historical turns... plus the loud graphic design/quotes. I feel like you've got some points in there but the piece betrayed their communication and a richer exploration.

I do believe a lot of (most?) startup culture applies powerful minds to small problems... which is in support of your headline...

However - why not think of capitalism (and the apps it rides in on) as a medium, or a technology? In this way, it can be used to transform culture. This may not change "human nature," whatever supposed boundaries that has (fwiw, I think it will)... but capitalism&tech applied as such can absolutely save lives, if not the world.

Whatabout an app that uses our network culture to problem solve something like the spread of disease? That counts as "saving the world" in my book.

Of course, "saving the world" usually comes with a shadow of imperialism, but that is another story for another day..