tomek_zemla

That would be nice, but the sad reality is that most likely a lot of people would die during this 'catching up on nature' time...

You might find work, books and presentations of Edward Tufte helpful. This would be primarily addressing visual aspects of presentations. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte

OK, but starting at what age?

OP here... Exactly. My concern is that 11, 12, 13 year olds need a lot of editorial guidance, mentoring and teachers who are truly fluent with technology to do more useful activities and less useless or downright harmful on their devices.

18 year old can (usually) figure out how to use Internet and technology in general to improve themselves and advance their education. Small kids not so much...

You might find some interesting leads in previous HN discussions around systems for note taking and organizing personal knowledge. For example search for 'personal knowledge' keywords lists this project as top hit: http://www.acuriousmix.com/2014/09/03/designing-a-personal-k...

Please post your findings here if you discover interesting answers.

For somebody coming from graphic design background https://processing.org would be and excellent place to learn about programming. It was designed with creative types in mind, has large communities, many resources including books and courses and a newer JavaScript version. I would also recommend Generative Design book: http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/about

Learning Processing would not be directly useful for building web and mobile sites, but in my opinion be an excellent stepping stone for a graphic designer towards the world of technology and creative uses of programming. Using JavaScript (P5.js) to create visuals could be an interesting path for designer as an end goal and/or relevant and engaging way to learn coding concepts that can be later applied towards building sites or apps of any type.

Is this one of the devices on CIA hacked systems list?

This is an interesting opportunity for developing countries. Invest millions in education redesign now, wait a generation or two and watch billions in economic return as you become a global power independent of your geographic/population size...

Many technical writers use GitHub to write books so this makes it into the record of one's dedication to the 'streak' of consistent work. Nice history of how something (book, app version 1.0) was produced.

The point is that tracking systems are often embedded in hardware.

Your computer on which you typed this comment was most likely made in China...

Correct. See his very interesting book Hackers and Painters.

I studied both Computer Science and Fine Arts and Design. I was always interested at the intersection of these two disciplines. At certain point I discovered the work of John Maeda (at MIT Media Lab at the time) and realized that what I want to do is to make images with code.

At the time there were very few people taking this type of approach to art/design making. Digital arts meant using Photoshop not writing scripts. Nowadays more and more creatives from various disciplines use code as a tool of creative expression. Processing.org (direct descendant of Madea's ideas) is a huge community of artists who code.

What I find interesting is the cross over inspiration between the disciplines. Learning some new tech or algorithm feeds my ideas for visual works. And studying (traditional) artworks pushes me to develop programs to create similar visuals. One side very often inspires the other.

Often working on multidisciplinary teams (on multimedia type projects) I feel like people who have exclusively one type of background are somewhat handicapped. Artists who fear code are dependent on geeks to implement their ideas. And coders have to hire designers to create interfaces to their inventions. A lot gets lost in the translation!

Individuals that have knowledge and skills on both side of art/tech equation seem tremendously more innovative and can move forward much faster with their ideas. Ability to create complete functional prototypes or demos that work and look/feel good without having to ask/pay other people is freedom! I wish education systems recognized this and brought technology to art schools (beyond mousing in Photoshop) and arts and design into engineering schools.

In practical terms I use my dual skills working as UI/UX and data visualization designer/developer and I have an art practice creating dynamic images with code. Recently I won commissions for digital fine art frame company to create series of generative art projects. (I was told I was the first artist who codes they work with...).

In summary, amazing creative thinking and innovation happens at the intersection of fields and it might be difficult to quantify, but individuals that step outside of their main area of expertise always benefit in my opinion.

I share your observation about STEM. I do feel hopeful after I learned about STEAM - the term defined I believe by John Maeda. The A is for the arts and its importance as the reason why STEM exists... Meaning all the science/engineering efforts should be in the service of humanities.

Maciej blogs extensively... This is a good starting point: https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/07/pinboard_turns_seven/

Agreed. This is a good outline for integrating books smoothly into the site. Moreover, this could be expanded to other types of products like useful (actually used) tools/resources: hosting companies, billing automation systems, analytics software, etc. Many of these will also have affiliate link programs and/or can be approached for paid sponsorship deals. Considering the site's growing traffic it could bring significant money while serving relevant ads.

Indie Hackers is great. Two comments/requests. It would be great to have some business and entrepreneurship books reviewed by the community. Some are worth reading, but many are not and Amazon type reviews are not reliable indicator or hype vs. value. Another great feature would be to have a small follow up with some of the showcased businesses. Especially the ones that just got started.

Great work and good luck!

Actions of these people are somewhat similar to actions of whistle blowers and apparently those are either jailed or chased into exile...

Made somewhat similar project by organizing pixels in three dimensional space of HSL (hue saturation lightness) color model: http://www.pixelbox.com/colorclouds/

Note that this reduces identical pixels into one point in 3D space. The key idea behind the experiment was to learn more about the palettes used by painters.

Learning and prototyping are key uses. Both scenarios are not about end products, but can lead to great outcomes in the future. Especially if the users are young people that end up building things like satellites that can warn you about upcoming hurricane or pinpoint your location on the GPS smartphone map and other great inventions of humanity.

The software world metaphor: It is like your first programming manual that has examples and maybe even projects - they are not to be 'used' but 'learnt' from.

It looks like an interesting service, but it is difficult do judge a quality without getting actually relevant (to me) sample of freelance gigs... For example I recently specialize in creative coding on HTML5 Canvas and I kind of doubt I would get many truly relevant leads simply because of my narrow focus.

This does not mean this is not a good service, but it might work well for Angular developer (popular speciality) and not at all for somebody like me (fairly niche speciality). And without a 'test drive' I have no idea...

Based on the following article "Twitter holds an estimated 5% stake in Dataminr", so it would not make sense to put them out of business... http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/05/09/report-twitte...

Two experiments in computational design. I call them data paintings. Digital technologies already disrupted many fields - it is the time they disrupt graphic arts and painting. More on the way... http://www.pixelbox.com/circuitflora/ http://www.pixelbox.com/fishdna

Electric Objects is another one trying to get people to convert from physical to digital art on the wall. I believe them and Framed are priced at around $499... https://www.electricobjects.com/

Basically, once we are done covering Earth in garbage we will make sure we do the same to the sky... How human!

Zero to be precise. That was the only one missing.

Beautiful...

I would question your assumption that you are the dumbest person in the room. Your analysis points in quite the opposite direction. The rather toxic atmosphere you are describing, driven by egos with bitter attitudes indicates these people do not understand the meaning of the word team. And creating stressful atmosphere is usually counter productive to creative developments and innovation.

As a freelancer I worked in very many places. I have seen what you describe. I have also seen the opposite. Really smart people with educational attitudes helping juniors to fit in, learn and contribute to the team work.

My advice is focus on learning as you already do and find a more human/friendly environment to work in ASAP. Prolonging situation like this can take a serious toll on your life. And how long you want to work for/with assholes...?

I would be interested to know if the care he received changed his own perception of his actions. And I mean not what he would answer publicly to this question, but if he wondered while recovering in the hospital bed the paradox of the situation.

I live in Canada and in modern English spoken here 'guys' can refer to people of any gender. You often hear a group of young women (only) using phrases like "let's go guys" instead of "let's go girls". So, at least where I live 'guys' does not imply any gender.