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The composer is Kenji Kawai, check out this live performance: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z64HCi2rQkE

Edit: oops just realised you were referencing the music in the post video, which I don't know the origin. But that live performance is still really good :)

Edit #2: The track is 'Plastiglomerate & Co' https://soundcloud.com/b-e-b-e-t-u-n-e/plastiglomerate-co

I've just been googling to remind myself of themes in the other movies and films and realised that with the dogs that Batou feeds they also pulled the Basset Hound from the GITS: Innocence movie

The 'no' surprised me so much I laughed

But as a positive note, I love that science fiction has become mainstream. When I was a teenager I used to be embarrassed to say I read/watched science fiction and it felt like any given year you'd be lucky to have more than 1-2 science fiction films, but look at the line up for releases this year: http://screenrant.com/our-most-anticipated-sci-fi-movies-of-...

A theatre in New York was showing the 1995 film, so I watched it for first time on big screen on Wednesday, then saw the live action on Friday (first time I can remember going to a film on opening day in New York and having an almost empty audience).

I was prepared for a new interpretation of the material, and that never bothered me because between the films and TV series it's always been a bit confusing to me if there ever has been a cannon story, but have always really loved the match of philosophical ideas of mind and the visual atmosphere (and the spider tanks are just great fun).

Opening sequence of this film I was really excited because it was visually stunning, but 5 mins later I was questioning if I should stay or leave because the dialog was really really bad.

I stayed because I really wanted to like this adaption but I felt like it was 2 hours of my life wasted, I wouldn't recommend any of my friends to watch this, even later when it's released digitally.

I've enjoyed 5 of his other books: Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora (Aurora I enjoyed so much I've read it twice).

But I'm struggling with 2140 (just checked and I'm 41% of the way through). Despite living in New York and having a lot of fun with the description of a venetian New York it's just not grabbing my interest yet. I'm going to keep plodding through it but at this stage I'd rather just start re-reading Red Mars again.

The old (pre ~2005) New Zealand 50cent coin was a match for 5 franc coin in Switzerland (~5USD). I knew postgrads that would always stock up to use in vending machines, after finding that out I've always been curious to know how much research a mint does to prevent this from being possible.

First time hearing this story, and also just discovered `units` which I really love :)

There's been an empty store on exchange place in NYC financial district (near Tiffany's) that for a couple weeks has had a huge Snapchat logo taking up the entire window. I wonder if they're also gonna explore retail along with hardware.

I've read Anathem 4 times (just finished 4th read a couple weeks ago actually) and I find it satisfying with every single read. Funny thing is that I struggle with all his other books I've tried reading.

I've intentionally not read this teaser, but from he blurb I feel like I'm going to like Seveneves

Awesome! I'll update our beacons and try that out :)

I guess that direction, velocity etc would be cool, but since they need to be communicating with an app on a smartphone anyway it might be overkill.

On the other hand, if beacons/stickers could somehow transmit that info independently of a smartphone app (e.g. through a hub device with internet connection) that could be pretty amazing!

$99 for 10 stickers http://estimote.com/#jump-to-products

Doesn't the original beacon include temperature and motion sensors (I think I remember reading that in a hardware teardown) - will there be a software update to allow the original beacons also transmit this info?

I'm also interested in the resolution of the motion sensor. I'm assuming that since it's just an accelerometer that it will be a simple "I'm stationary" vs. "I'm moving" broadcast - can anyone from estimate clarify that?

But cool update whatever the answer :)

you're right, in my example arc4random_uniform works perfectly and unlike rand() you don't have to seed.

delay = NSTimeInterval(arc4random_uniform(900)+100) / 1000

Not sure why I didn't do that in the first place...

Yeah, you're right.

The main goal was try and introduce these APIs to designers, since there seems to be a current of interest around designers getting excited about learning Swift.

Thanks for submission!

I've had some feedback that I've made a bit of a mess with casting when trying to calculate a random number - would appreciate any best practices or thoughts on that...

https://gist.github.com/mathewsanders/82311409978066b02932

Android is on the way!

please read Anathem http://www.amazon.com/Anathem-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0061694940/... (if you've not already) I think you will enjoy it :)

[edit: removed wikipedia link... too many spoilers :(]

Personally i would suggest neither.

At it's heart, photoshop is a bitmap editor it's original purpose was for manipulating photos various tools have been added with new versions that make it more useful for web design.

Illustrator is a vector-based app for creating free-drawn illustrations. Again newer versions have added things like pixel snapping to make it okay for web design (but its better suited for logos, visualization etc).

My preference is Fireworks. It's got great exporting tools and I find it a lot faster than working in Photoshop (for web/mobile work).

Remember also that design involves a lot of iteration. If you're concerned with efficiency, please get comfortable expressing your ideas with pen and paper - it's the fastest option :)

I've been using angular for around the same time-period as you.

As a designer, the initial data-binding and directives felt like I was performing magic, although there was a steep-ish learning curve as soon as I left trivial examples.

I feel like there is a lot of momentum building behind Angular, and is a great model to start thinking about now for when browsers support web components (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/...) (what will that be HTML6?)

For someone coming to Angular fresh (with only some basic jQuery knowledge) I also found it easier to learn/work in coffeescript.

How about Vimeo? http://vimeo.com/12793996

I can't offer any useful tips on motivating yourself for a personal project, but I have to say that your attention to detail on visual design is amazing!

I hadn't bothered watching the video until I read these comments. I only made it 2 minutes in and thought it was pretty hilarious, but my attention span didn't hold any longer .

I feel the heart of this article is here:

For many designers, the process often feels like an effort to design an engine, wheel or windshield without really knowing in what kind of car these parts will need to be integrated.

If people are designing in sprints without a clear idea of what they are building then something has gone horribly wrong. I think Agile works best when you have a clear understanding of what you're trying to do. If a design strategy hasn't discovered this in Sprint 0 then I think there will be ongoing problems.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel that the whole nature of Agile is that at the end of a sprint you've got some self-contained feature working. I don't think their is anything in the agile philosophy saying that what you have in sprint n will continue to exist in spring n+10. Like code you may refactor as more information comes in. As designers we need to accept that when designing in Agile that what we do 2 weeks ago may not exist tomorrow.

I think as designers that's a hard thing to do because we don't like 'waste', we want to avoid re-work and we also like to design the best solution with ALL the information we can get, but doing so requires a lot of upfront thinking and is just taking us back to waterfall.

That was what caught my attention - I thought it was running locally in the clients browser or something. Peer-to-peer browser-based apps?!

This is cool! I'm sure that their is a huge business opportunity here too (I don't watch sports but sure that their must be entire channels dedicated to snooker/pool etc) you could make games a lot more exciting to watch with VR replays of interesting shots etc (check similar companies for virtual sportscasting for America's cup and off-road racing :)

Daniel Crooks is an Australian artist who does similar work, but with video as well as still images. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUwud5r5Ug

Some of his work is projected onto huge displays which is am amazing immersive experience!

Same here with my ATM PIN - I could probably make a guess and tell you what the numbers are but not the order without actually using an ATM pad.

A few weeks ago it was late, I'd just come from the gym and not eaten anything and I couldn't figure out why my PIN wasn't working. Turned out I was trying to use a code that I stopped using a couple years ago.

Is anyone else having problems with this? I've tried loading in Chrome, Safari and Firefox and each time a js is not loading and my BMI as '0'

+1 it drives me crazy too. Calories are a unit of stored energy. Wood has plenty of calories (great for fires) but if you eat a bunch of bark you're not going to store that weight, you're just going to make yourself sick.