jorjordandan

The Benjamin button short story by F. Scott Fitz was 64 pages story and a 166 minute movie, yielding 2.6 minutes of film per page.

reminded of the brilliant David Foster Wallace essay "Tense Present" which is THE BEST

http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html

My favourite part is the people who imitated the facial expression. Like they saw the site and thought, "Nothing says good web designer like mouth scrunched off to the side"

Well you gotta pinch your doctors nose while inserting a paper clip in his ear and wait thirty seconds. Factory reboot

Nice! Now if only we could finish reverse engineering the Tassimo barcodes..

https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3919/...

wut

How is glorious sandboxing different from regular sandboxing? Is there a 'glorious' certification?

Just kidding - looks pretty awesome!!

Again thanks! But using Facebook was still a poorly chosen example of what their apps won't do, since they aren't aiming for hosting large customer facing apps like a social network. Perhaps that is what contributed to my confusion in the first place. Now I have a better understanding of what it's for.

Ah, that makes much more sense now! I think they need to figure out a better way to spell out their value proposition.

Would a sandstorm app prevent you from using say, Google analytics or new relic without getting a users permission?

The web site says apps cant perform psych experiments, and links to the contentious facebook emotion split test. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to do split testing on these apps...

That small criticism aside, I'm very curious how developing for sandstorm would be different from from developing for a typical host. Anyone know the major differences?

A lot of people seem to think this is a story about programming. It's not. It's about perceptions. A good programmer knows that a certain portion of his work is managing perceptions. This is part of a skill-set known as 'soft skills' and will get you farther than a perfect understanding of monads.

I think you would be killed by the diamagnetic properties of water first...

If you can affect water with a small magnet like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FvWtEdY4sE

Then a magnetic field of sufficient power would probably kill you long before the effects described in the article. I'm amazed that someone other than me has thought about this!

I have also noticed that the content of blog articles varies slightly depending on who manufactures the ram that I'm using - related issue?

A lot of people here seem to be grasping at straws to defend the status quo. Doing things like presenting at conferences, teaching the governor to code, etc., at age 16 are amazing experiences that are only available to people who are willing to do things differently.

And the judgements against her parents are unfortunate. This is one family doing something different. We need more people willing to do interesting things with their educational choices, not less. This is not something a parent would do lightly, without taking great care to discuss with her what she wants. Her parents probably know her far better, and care far more for her well being then anyone here does!

As far as missing out on liberal arts/other subjects... 1) she is still going to take high school online, and 2) it's not like high school education is all that great. A person could do better off teaching themselves at khan academy, and listening to history podcasts, and reading books that interest them.

I'm amazed how critical people are being, who know nothing about the person or situation.

Somebody buy this guy a 3d printer.

'nother hamiltonian here. Hoping to start working at platform 302 a couple days a week, soon. emailable at jordan@jordandavis.ca

Obviously, the point of this essay is that it is supposed to be easy to disagree with. But I feel obligated to take the bait for some reason..

The idea of a single global culture is a pretty dark path, historically speaking. It is a utopian concept that assumes there is a path that can be followed in order to pursue a more perfect mankind. It stems from the belief that ambiguity and difference are negative forces, to be eliminated instead of embraced.

I think the argument is that the darker historical paths were 'simulation' where 'emulation' would be a better model. The difference (from what I could tell) being that the underlying mechanism of cultural change are copied, instead of just the effects. It could be argued that this is already taking place - the massive reach of the internet is expanding so that more people are being influenced by the same information streams. Internet culture makes the assumption, predictably, that internet culture is good/best. But what if that isn't true? What about those who don't fit into the 'internet' cultural norms?

The author talks of of making subjective judgements about the optimal performance of certain cultures. That's a bit problematic. What about the cultures that are not "optimal performers"? What is optimal? Those who work the most hours? Those who laugh the most? Those who have the least number of fistfights? Those with the greatest GDP?

He has announced that for his next challenge, he will store 4k video on betamax tapes. Impressive.

A tip for aspiring professional pencil sharpeners - On step 7, after correcting the collar, make sure to clean the tip with strokes TOWARDS the tip of the pencil. Your client will not be happy with the product if graphite residue has stained the wood. Don't learn the hard way like I did!!