Great idea for a book. I am all for interactive education. Well done. Also, what a brilliant video. A new way to interface with code and imagine algorithms, animations and data. All to be used for education! My favorite part of the video was at 30min, where Bret demos how to interactively make animations. Reading the comments on the video led me to purchasing Braid http://braid-game.com/, a game that was mentioned. HA.
EDIT: Exploring your link, I discovered Bret Victor. Anyone looking for some inspiration look at his show reel. http://worrydream.com/#!/Showreel2012
Yes, anti-aliased selections! I love Paint.NET. It suits all my image editing needs completely. I've been using it for over 2 years. It's my go-to image editing program and I recommend it to anyone who wants a professional, feature-full, and free tool.
My friend! Best thing ON EARTH for this is a very famous book on the subject "How to Make Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. I recommend the audio version. It's practical and effective. Don't waste time, read/listen to it and apply the principles it teaches. This is the Wikipedia entry about the book. Use it to get you started. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influenc...
Remember: The most important part is practicing the principles you learn. Get out there, build your confidence and make some friends! Good Luck.
I like to think about how the world would change if patenting was not generally done. Rather, anyone could copy and implement everyone's ideas. How would this look in the grand scale? I think it's possible to discover a way of coexisting in such a world. Anyways, I agree with the author, patent killing is fun.
Cool game, what did you use to make it and how long did it take? It would be more engaging if controlling the ship was easier. The momentum drift makes it annoying to play because controlling the ship is so counter intuitive.
Their model already exists and they have moved to it - movie theaters and netflix. The movie industry is nice an healthy, they make more money each year then the previous. The reason they fight against piracy is simple - they want more money. If there's a chance to get more money, why not try? In reality, piracy is negligible and is not worth the policing effort. More importantly, eliminating piracy altogether will not convert all pirates to movie goers. That's absurd! A pirate is a person who will either steal a movie or not watch it. Either way they are not paying for it. Only a small percentage of pirates will switch to paying customers in a perfect scenario. So in reality, the industry will enjoy a negligible profit increase - that's all. Considering their current ever increasing profits from year to year, the industry is booming. They only reason they are chasing after pirates is because they are driven by they greed and incorrect perception of 'opportunity cost'. They see a huge chunk of potential pie because they imagine that once they are able to police movie watching completely, then every pirate will be paying them royalties. This is of course far from the truth. Greedy and dimwitted they persist to believe that illusion. I wonder what positive effects move piracy has on the industry that the industry is benefiting from but are not aware of? Perhaps free word of mouth advertising on an enormous scale? I think more people pirate movies than pay which means that a immense audience is functioning as free word of mouth advertisers. What impact would eliminating this group have on the industry? Worth to think about.
What a sorry piece of news! A federal judge thinks that mass surveillance is LIKELY unconstitutional? The only thing the constitution is good for these days is wiping you ass. Even if these practices are officially ruled as illegal, what will change? How will the oversight be conducted to prevent such practices from continuing. In my opinion, the NSA will simply begin hiding their operations from oversight. The biggest question is whether it is possible at all to implement practical and systematic methods that correctly oversee such government organizations. Is there a solution that guarantees that it will be impossible for the NSA and the like to hide their actions considering the almost system-wide corruption of government bodies? The solution to this problem is difficult to imagine for this reason.
What a pointless argument. It is clear that economics is both a science and not a science. Yes, it has overlapping parts with other sciences, but also parts which are unique to it, such as the human element, which make it difficult to fit into the category. But such fitting is not what matters. Let's move on to the real issue. That economics is difficult, which makes a large part of its application ambiguous, vague, subjective, hard to test, and etc. Through these properties, which are not prevalent in other scientific fields, economics lends itself nicely to exploitation by the natural human flaws. These flaws have to do with subjectivity which arise as a result of ambiguity and lack of fundamental understanding. For this reason, I consider economics to be a much more difficult field than other, more scientific fields. Of course, but what's next. How do we evolve the field to be more useful. How do we begin understanding it intrinsically. I don't know. But it would probably include a fundamental innovation in the scientific method itself which accounts for the human flaw to exploit ambiguity. But perhaps not. Perhaps it would eventually be ousted like an idea and replaced by a better hypothesis and working model.
Time for someone to create the most advance and far reaching global communication network using satellites, towers and other methods and charge everyone a small base fee for unlimited, global use. No contracts, no need for text, data etc packages, no need for roaming fees. Just one simple payment a month. Unlimited roaming, calling, data, texts, multimedia messages, voicemail, call forwarding, etc. Big communication companies of the day will die, as they should. Easy communication for all, no bs.
PS. This project seems perfectly suited for AngularJS. Also, check out Foundation framework for making both the desktop and mobile versions of the site ;) good luck. I will surely check back soon. This is a great project.
1. Search while you watch
2. minimalist interface design
3. dark color scheme
4. drag and drop sortable playlist
Things to add:
1. Mobile compatibility (doesn't work on my Galaxy Nexus)
2. Mobile compatible UI (bigger buttons, search bar, etc)
3. Ability to log in to save playlists, user settings
4. Ability to hide video, but leave audio ;)
What an obvious oversight. It is unbelievable that the developers would allow for a 'getting started' guide with such a poor first impression to exist. I have had a similar experience with jquery. As someone who has been using mootools before jquery I was completely furious with the lack of proper documentation and ambiguity in it. I hated learning jquery. Thank god mootools exists. Confusing, incomplete or ambiguous documentation is the absolute worst obstacle to a positive learning experience. I've not tried Ember, but if the experience is as the author describes, then I shall stick to angularjs. And what a tragic reaction to the criticism from the ember developer. It seems fitting that their documentation would be crappy. I'm sure that ember is a wonderful project and took a lot of hard work to create, but please fix the first experience - is important otherwise all that hard work goes to waste. Good luck.
I love the philosophy! Many miss the point because they take the article literally. It's not about materialism, the article is about the benefit of cultivating a behavioural trait regarding the process by which one attains knowledge. It can pertain to something as simple as the craft of a fork or to a more abstract and complex idea such as the structure of industry. Thanks for the read.