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sakri

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Front End Developer and Creative Coder with 20 years experience. Specialized in interaction, graphics, effects and visualizations.

http://www.sakri.net/

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sakri··on HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points
Funny you should mention the F word... while reading "The Great Divide", I was thinking about the "Flash designer vs. Flash Developer" situation we had before the iPhone :)
sakri··on How AI could help us with ancient languages like Sumerian
Thanks for taking the time, that is an illuminating point.

I remember spending countless hours arguing with someone who genuinely believed 'greed is good', a total waste of time, no progress whatsoever on either side.

Thinking about it now, my sparring partners attitude makes some sense, if 'advancing our material condition' is indeed the end game. It's like two engineers arguing about implementation details, without realizing they are designing different apps.

Buzzwords like 'Goal Oriented' or 'Understand your clients motivation' fly around, but your point gives them more dimension. Thanks.

sakri··on How AI could help us with ancient languages like Sumerian
People use the 'set in stone' phrase all the time, it puts a different spin on it when 6000 years later, we are still analyzing some poor guys tax returns. This is fascinating stuff, too bad data mining the mundane lives of social media users pays better.
sakri··on The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS
Other than my own list of unread bookmarks, Google Readers signal to noise ratio (as a platform) was second to none. The feeds I followed would post 95% worthwhile content. A blog post is like a dinner speech, don't want to miss it. In social media the dinner speech is also available, only sandwiched somewhere between all the small talk and pleasantries. I never found a replacement, and quite a few people I followed cut down on blogging.
sakri··on Why Love Generative Art?
I got to live parallel to some of this. In the early 00's Agencies would send their designers/creatives/frontend devs to conferences that centered around Flash. Along with marketing talks and inspirational self help crap, the events gave a platform for some very smart/creative individuals. The enthusiasm drove a circle of innovation and competitiveness, which was good fun to watch. The scene has somewhat fallen off my radar since those days, but articles like this remind me of my soft spot for it.
sakri··on Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
That large image (the first one) are the little "twirly things" smaller "hurricanes" within the big one?
sakri··on A Simple Explanation: VLC.js
Killing the flash player plugin for video with another plugin?
sakri··on A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour
oh pleasche schqueesche me a fresch glasch of orangche jchuische. It's funny :)
sakri··on Don’t go to art school (2013)
I'm hoping robots, ai and UBI will liberate the masses from material obsession, leading to increased appreciation of the arts as vocation and entertainment, reviving and democratising our institutions. I fear reality will be more aligned with Black Mirror type scenarios.
sakri··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)
Hehe thanks! I forgot to mention that I am indeed fun to work with ;)
sakri··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2016)

  Location: Brussels, Belgium
  Remote: only
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: graphics/viz/animation with html5 canvas, svg, css (particularly text related tasks)
  Résumé/CV: This is a side hobby/interest, I made a bunch of examples at codepen a few years ago and want to pick it up again,  much easier if I can get paid for it.  
Examples : http://codepen.io/sakri/pens/popular/ (there's some good stuff on page 2, 3, etc.)

  Email: sakri döt rosenstrom at gmail
sakri··on The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations
If you google "portugal drug legalization study" you'll find plenty of positive results.
sakri··on Canvas Gauges
I heard somebody say "it's a dashboard application, not the dashboard of a car" when discussing gauge components.
sakri··on Oct. 4
The phone on the ground looks like it's got rounded edges like Samsung.
sakri··on Show HN: Drum machine in 100 lines of HTML/JS
hehe.. I was just a few squares short of recreating drop it like it's hot :D
sakri··on [dead]
?? I can't hear you? The only thing I could make out was ANY
sakri··on Mise en abyme
Ah, so the play in Braavos depicting recent events in Kings Landing is a Mise en abyme homage to Shakespeares Hamlet.

takes minute sip of $40 ristretto

sakri··on Lenin was a mushroom
This would have been an excellent opportunity for a dad joke about Lenin and the Vodka bottle had he not prohibited alcohol in 1917.
sakri··on Twitter Acquires Magic Pony
Lvl6 Unicorn : $1 Trillion evaluation, cross board agreement on perpetual 0 profit.
sakri··on Wall Street Has Hit Peak Human and an Algorithm Wants Your Job
I'm no expert on the matter, but I've read/heard plenty of proponents of Basic Income tying it hand in hand with the AI/Robot revolution. It seems there is an understanding that the current economic system will have to adapt.
sakri··on Wall Street Has Hit Peak Human and an Algorithm Wants Your Job
I'm so bored of "OH NOES Robots and AI are stealing our jobs", when it should be "Robots and AI are finally liberating us from our jobs".
sakri··on Show HN: 2D field of view demo
Here's a fairly detailed blog entry about some similar explorations : http://barradeau.com/blog/?p=194
sakri··on Mark Zuckerberg's multi-account password was 'dadada'
So the combination is... da, da, da? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
sakri··on Terms and conditions word by word
This is so much more fun than watching paint dry
sakri··on Withings acquired by Nokia
Together, we believe we can truly transform the world.
sakri··on The $2 Trillion Project to Get Saudi Arabia’s Economy Off Oil
Come on, don't be so harsh, the poor guy only has one wife!
sakri··on The Most Popular Cars in American Cities
The local/import map looks similar to the red/blue state map.
sakri··on Losing Money
heh, I guess I just never have needed to write about millions of dollars on official documents.
sakri··on Losing Money
Why does he use mm ($25mm)?
sakri··on Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
Ragnar dumps his Chinese girlfriend for Pocahontas. Rollo gets wind of these new adventures, immediately dumps his Parisian princess and swims to Tahiti for a life of Gauguin, further infuriating his inter-race-swingin bro. Floki giggles. Bjorn is even more bearded & pumped. There is still a diminishing side plot involving the British.
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