bglusman

It is strange and not so strange, and not always such an illusion... perhaps we can blame nature, but though form should follow function, and much good is hidden and much ugliness made pretty, but it's a mistake to think that they are entirely separate and unconnected. http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html

I hear what you're saying about only wanting the most "correct" version, and no doubt that's how most people feel when looking for information, but about some things you have an ability and perhaps an obligation to contribute to deciding what is the most correct version...

This suggests to me that Ward is onto something here, but also that you may have a point about it's limitations in its current form. I hope the hypothes.is project (funded by kickstarter, http://hypothes.is) succeeds, and I wonder if some degree of integration between the two is possible so that reputation and correctness rating across wiki-nodes (or any such federated system) can naturally "bubble up" to top visibility with some citation/indication of the bubbling via the hypothes.is client, regardless of which specific fork of the wiki you happen to be looking at... I'd love to discuss this possibility further with Ward, hypothes.is, or anyone else interested since they'll both be open source projects any of us can try to make this happen in :-)

I'm interested, but no idea how much help I'll be :-) Feel free to ping me and would love to try and help, as I've been wanting some context to learn and play with Julia since finding out about it, and being able to do web work in it would be great. Be nice to learn something about web frameworks design and whatnot at the same time!

Have you checked out Random Hacks of Kindness? (http://rhok.org) I had similar ideas with a project of mine 6 or so months ago and built a version/part of my idea at a startup weekend (https://github.com/bglusman/diffapp) before I knew about RHoK... I'd still like to do more with the idea, and am starting something hoping to help scientific research in the next few days with Mendicant University, but there are real coordination and management/leadership challenges I think... I had some ideas on how to work on them with my app, but I think it's easy to underestimate the problems.

Oh, also relevant is http://codeforamerica.org

better yet, also Dijkstra, "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."

Hi all, just finished Mendicant University's core skills course, and this was my personal project for the course... it tries to help you and others avoid anti-patterns that you can define formally by example. I don't expect it will work for all the examples you can dream up yet, but maybe with your help we can get it there together. Please share any ideas or examples you get working or try/want to get working!

Just gem install outlaw and then enter outlaw in a project directory to try it out, or peruse the repo on github.

yes! Though I just discovered the other day you can use the --binstubs option which obviates the need to use bundle exec in the project

Sounds like you've got some good ideas, I figured you might :-) I dunno how I'd characterize Enjyn, probably a good experience but basically a failure. I think I allowed myself to be persuaded by my partners (against my instincts, but I probably wanted to agree with them) that kickstarter's ascendence didn't really change things for us that much and that we didn't need to completely rethink our plans and pivot before we'd launched. That's just one key point though, and I don't pretend it's the biggest or most significant mistake, just the earliest point when I think I knew in my gut things had changed and allowed myself to be talked out of it.

This is awesome! My first startup was a kickstarter competitor (enjyn.com) and something like this is one of the big things I wanted to do for code!

My tentative plan was not to just make it for coders though, and to break things down, so one task is to write unit/accceptance tests for a portion of the bounty (maybe configurable, maybe 20 or 30%? dunno) and once the bounty for the tests was accepted, any code that passes those tests automatically gets the remainder of the bounty... if Gun.io can benefit from this idea, my blessings to you!

OK, this might be a stupid/ignorant question, but what do they mean by "[it seems very unlikely to be true that] if a quantum wavefunction were purely a statistical tool, then even quantum states that are unconnected across space and time would be able to communicate with each other."? Why is this less likely than the alternative?

It reminded me of the single electron universe hypothesis by Wheeler(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe) and wonder if anyone can speak to whether this changes perception on seriousness/testability of that idea.

I just responded too, just in case, awesome of you to offer to do this for the community! Good designers are hard to find your stuff looks excellent!

Excellent post! I think I'm the one who turned Linus on to Sublime, and I was turned on to it by THIS 10 things about Sublime post which is also an excellent resource! http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-tex...

I signed up for the program when I read that story, and just sent my cheek swabs in (4 of them!) this past weekend... seems like a no brainer if you actually want to make a difference in the world :-)

I wonder if there's a decent solution on the forwarding thing with some kind of unique id as metadata on an address, so if something's important someone in possession of the old address can find you through the ID? Or maybe that's just not practical, as no one would use it/retain the info unneeded in the short term.

Excellent point on the skeuomorphism, though I'm not sure what the alternative is. He mainly focuses on all these things we don't have to learn to know how to use, but for any kind of sophisticated functionality I think some learning will be required and it's more about making it flexible and easy to learn, and utilizing additional channels for information in both directions.

We've been talking about gloves with accelerometers in them at work, but now that you mention it I expect that has much the same problem as Kinect, though I suppose you could add some feromagnetic material to the gloves and give at least subtle resistance and feedback through electromagnets or something...