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I started in 2001, with some autocad, 3ds r4 and 3ds Max experience, I struggled with the blender interface for many hours over a year or two.

It was not designed to be easily learned, but the ui is fast to use once you learn it. One hand on the keyboard hitting memorized hot keys, the other on the 3 button mouse...

What drove me to learn was that I could use a powerful tool, that's improving at a fast rate, legally, for free.

I since used lightwave, maya, sketch up, newer 3ds max... inventor. I still go back to Blender because it's faster for me.

Since 2.5, command and hotkeys in the interface, there's undo, much more friendly to new users, there's much better learning resources. If I was starting now, I'd probably become proficient 5 to 10 times faster.

Yes, Cinema 4d has a reputation for being easy to use, I may give it a shot.

I started with 3ds r4, then 3ds Max r2, blender, lightwave, maya. I've stuck with blender the most, partially because the ui is fast to use for me. It was not fast to learn, though that has improved.

Granted, Cycles (Blender's global illumination renderer) is not selected by default, but it's a drop down at the top menu bar to switch.

Then you can click "file" -> save "default settings".

Here's the official Cycles demo reel: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wDRTjzLNK0g

Said from a throwaway account?

It's likely possible to figure out your identity from what, when, and where you post online publicly... Especially by someone that has the resources to collect and data mine much of what is posted.

Would that be ok?

I don't think so, unless it's part of a legal and targeted investigation.

I just started to dive into FreeCAD as an Inventor alternative.

(Are you talking about pre-Blender 2.5? If so, I agree.

It was a challenge going from 3ds r4 and 3ds Max 2... Had to memorize hot keys and get used to a tile based layout. But once I did, I was fast.

The ui was very different, but in a good way, IMHO. The 3D concepts are mostly the same.

But post 2.5, everything is much more discoverable. You can search for commands, pie menus, change hotkeys... and there's great learning resources now.

So I have to ask people that had a difficult time using blender, if they tried it in the last few years.)

Yes.

The editing/condensing the audio and text was part of the studying for me though. It made the otherwise one-way-brain-dump class a bit tactile. Then being able to review everything quickly was helpful too.

Yes, great point. I did ask permission before the class. I was not allowed to offer the recordings to everyone, and I took them down after the class.

Also, I think it helps that I'm writing/reading/editing and listening. multi-sensory.

Perhaps it could be better by adding video, smelling, tasting, and feeling... :)

But no, just capturing the exact words, and being able to trim to what's needed helped me.

Nope, those that asked were showing up and putting effort in the class.

It all depends on you, what you're selling, how much time you want to spin your wheels trying to make it perfect without actually selling anything...

Perhaps do a bit more research then just do it, whatever is most comfortable to you?

https://www.google.com/search?q=mean+stack+ecommerce

https://www.google.com/search?q=nodejs+ecommerce

https://www.google.com/search?q=worspress+ecommerce

https://www.google.com/search?q=php+ecommerce

https://www.google.com/search?q=drupal+ecommerce

https://www.google.com/search?q=odoo+ecommerce

Or just start selling somewhere already established... Worry about ui/ux later? https://www.google.com/search?q=Selling+on+amazon

https://www.google.com/search?q=start+selling+on+ebay

Yes. I did not know about it and it seems like a useful tool. I'm glad to see it at least.

See for yourself:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/Digg.com

Thanks, I was about to dig that up. Neat to see this again. (I should check out their more recent research now.)

It takes a investment to learn for sure, but that has drastically improved over the years. Now you can hit space and search for commands, and most everything is findable in menus, has good tooltips that lists hotkeys...

When did you use it last?

Did you watch any video tutorials?

What 3d apps do you like?

When I started about 15 years ago, Blender was much less intuitive and there was little tutorials and help. It helped that I used 3ds r4, 3ds Max, Auto Cad, and VIM... It still took many hours over a couple years to become comfortable with Blender.

They've since made everything MUCH more discoverable and organized. I've seen and helped young kids get started with it. I've also used/still have to use 3ds Max, Lightwave, Maya and others ...but Blender is my creative swiss army knife.

It's not perfect, but for ~95% of what I need it is... and it's still improving. Ton Roosendaal and others involved with this are awesome. I donated some to see it open sourced, and some since. My best investment ever.

Handy.

In case this is useful to others:

I have to use Windows 7 at work. I recently found bug.n, a flexible tiling window manager made with AutoHotkey.

https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n

I do this too, though I find it much easier to tap on a surface than to extend/contract arbitrary fingers.

I agree. I also like Van Halen's: http://www.google.com/patents/US4656917 And many more: https://www.google.com/search?q=funny+patents&safe=active&so...

I have older family that are winows solitaire addicts. The windows 8 options were just bad: Huge fullscreen only, sounds, fancy menus you have to navigate first...

I copied sol.exe and cards.dll from their retired XP machine.

Works great, just a bit small now. (Aislerot solitare from Linux is a clone with scalable cards, I wish windows' solitare went that way.)

Any changing value that is not a perfect progression can be converted into sound.

If you can measure it and it's changing rates, you can transform it into the human audible range.

Edit: It would likely be more interesting to listen to the DNA sequence itself. That is possible, though so far I'm just seeing an interpretation of the dna letters into musical notes: http://www.tokenrock.com/dna_music/dna_into_music.php instead of something like raw data to pcm... Not a clean transformation.

Nice. Thanks for sharing the writeup and demo. You'll probably want to rate and character limit it.

edit: also perhaps deny a single user from duplicating tabs and saturating the bandwidth. ...but it's a neat demo and useful for trusted users.

Right, a thimble?

I'd want it out of the way for typing and other tasks.

The thumbnail is probably a good place to mount because it's not touching skin for long periods of time, or blocking the pad of fingers.

I'd test a pointing stick "eraser" or a trackball of some sort (because capacitive touchpad style won't work on everything) on the fingernail tip.

Probably. Some feel uncomfortable/less-professional repeating profanity.

I use "FileBox" for some things, but I'm taking the developer's word that it is secure.

Nice, I thought RAID 1 just gave redundancy.

I use mdadm's RAID 10 on 2 drives for redundancy and speed.

"In mdadm, the RAID10 level creates a single complex software RAID that combines features of both RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring). Multiple copies of all data blocks are arranged on multiple drives following a striping discipline." http://doc.opensuse.org/products/draft/SLES/SLES-storage_sd_...

Right, this idea is way over done. And I have not seen it do well yet. Perhaps someone will do it right...

They made something and want feedback. That's better than making a throwaway and trolling at least.

They made something. Good job! You seem to be brand new and have nothing to show.

I thought that was a glitch too, until the beat dropped. Nice work!

" Argument: Don't use black because nothing in nature is actually black.

False Conclusion: Don't use black on a web page because nothing in nature is actually black.

False Assumption: The black on a web page is actually pure black.

True Conclusion: Use black if you want to - it won't be pure black, it will simply be the darkest you can get.

PS. This is also true for paint: Black paint is also not pure black. " -ars https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6581935

Kinda unrelated story: I ran into trouble using "true black" (A combo of CMYK) on a van wrap. In all the testing I did, it looked fine, but outdoors, it looked green. But photos of the wrap looked fine. (the camera has a uv filter?) Figured out that the cyan ink fluorescenced in daylight with that combo of ink and material at least. And converted it to just black ink for the next ones.

But we don't interact with much of it, it could be a cached copy of another sim.

Edit: Perhaps it's adaptive and only simulates what will be observed. And if some cost saving optimization artifacts are discovered within the sim, it can be fixed and reverted to a earlier state.

Edit2: Perhaps it only has to simulate from your perspective, but the more you critically observe and interact, the more expensive the simulation is.

Beautiful!

It's like a remake of the "skyrocket" Linux screensaver for a nice gpu. http://www.reallyslick.com/pictures/skyrocket.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA3_pOMdbWU

(I did find this drone being torture tested interesting/related: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2Z9N4Q82g)