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While things like security and freedom of information warrant technical innovation to ensure human rights its gonna be a hard sell to convince smart people to make more ads.
"Why don't we just innovate and make unexploitable software that does exactly what we want with no unintended consequences" : )
Its gonna be interesting to see how a unique typographic identity develops on the web but its more of a technical problem than one of design. Technical innovation, not design heavy long form journalism will blaze that trail.
edit: Radical Freedom in my programs intensifies
Shout out to any one working for/with the forest service. keep it up!
welcome to the hell of post-digital living
I'm guessing most people didn't read it through, everything was well written, cited and not vulgar. Ultimately it touches that we need to adjust our values as a society and move away from just raw wealth to more intangible things that are not currently modeled effectively in economics. Things like family, community, feelings of respect and dignity for your self and others.
The title might be off putting but the content of the essay is solid
Why did they unnecessarily mention diversity in the context of the reorganization of github? Because that is the corporate BS that is popular to spout when you are redefining power within your company. Make no mistake github is doing restructuring to position themselves for large corporate contracts, NOT to be a more diverse workplace.
Using injustice to whitewash your redefined power structure is disingenuous.
sad to see github losing its way = (
One Corporation, under God!
Pull your weight and support the people around you but don't grovel to your company! You're a free-thinking human being with value creating skills!
Masking how you feel and trying to work the system will only lead to regret. Find out who you are and what your principles are and stand by them, only then will you be able to live with yourself when you get old.
Also work can happen outside of the bounds of a company. Your post makes you sound really burned out, I hope you're doing ok = )
It shows lack of perspective to try describe existence and life in terms of a game. Read some god damn existentialist or absurdist literature you half-baked philosophical caveman.
I welcome any repartee from the filthy plutocrat lapdogs!
I agree the worse floating point precision of GPUs puts them at a disadvantage but they still do better for massively parallel problems like fractal renders. (http://www.bealto.com/mp-mandelbrot_benchmarks.html)
I would even go far to say that with current GPU hardware rendering fractals is "solved" in terms of realtime capability. see: https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=fractal
I think fractals are still awesome despite being pretty simple these days. They are an excellent gateway into doing programing on the GPU. I think they are exactly the type awe inspiring programs that younger students should be shown.
It also feels like the separation between education institutions and "mainstream" culture is a false dichotomy. Especially when 40%+ of the US population now holds a degree from one of these institutions. While in Nietzsche's day university was a rare privilege today it is not. Claiming that something as prolific is separate from mainstream seems wrong.
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate: yes, but only to the DC area
Technologies: javascript, go, python, C, glsl, three.js, d3.js, react.js, webpack, AWS, Docker, SASS, git, sketch, and debian
Email: joseph van drunen at gmail dot com
I'm a fullstack developer. I have spent the past six months doing frontend work and building API's with golang. I build stuff with three.js, glsl, and webgl in my freetime.
Are the startup penalties for importing a package really that significant? Are there ways of reducing them?
your graphs are just plain useless on all counts