speednoise

There's a Clojure wrapper (https://github.com/sjl/clojure-lanterna) which features in a pretty great series of blog posts on making a Roguelike with it: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-01/

Plausible Labs

https://www.plausible.coop/

Easier than you may think: http://cvdazzle.com/

> My point is simply that there existed no universe in which a responsible Google would continue supporting it

What about the universe where someone decides that keeping the goodwill of the (yes small, but as we've seen in the past week very vocal) Reader userbase is worth the miniscule cost of keeping it alive in maintenance mode?

It's a supply and demand thing. Very few people grow up wanting to make web apps, but many many people grow up wanting to make games, and when they have that chance, willing to take a pay cut to do it.

That doesn't really make it any less confusing

As typical for science reporting, there's no link to the paper and the issue of it not being peer-reviewed is buried in a quote halfway through.

The author mentions that he was Harry in another comment, so a little of both

Along the same lines: Pentametron: http://pentametron.com/ It actually goes a little further by writing sonnets.

So heavily discouraged that it was in this Microsoft sample code linked in the OP: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee41...?

This line of argument always jumps right from rods and cones to perceived affordances without ever making the case that there's a significant gain to perceived affordances from mocked up depth. If this is so uncontroversially true, surely someone has done a study you can link.

This habit is an example of what Chris Noessel calls "One Free Interaction"[1]. Another prominent example is the bounce on iOS scroll views. There seems to be something about being able to fidget with a UI that makes it more comfortable to use.

[1] http://www.cooper.com/journal/2009/01/one_free_interaction.h...

This was an internal email: https://medium.com/tech-talk/1aff50f34fc

I saw Adam Mayer speak at a meetup and he said they dropped the kit versions because they were a huge customer support burden. A lot of things can go wrong putting one of these together.

Linkbait listicle writing wasn't even #1!

Nah, there's another guy (from 2010!) http://le.mu.rs/motherfucker/Entries/2010/6/24_What_money_ca...

If not intentional originally, defiantly intentional now: http://dcurt.is/unkudo/

Meanwhile, half of Hacker News is implementing DCPU-16 compilers. The low level programmer is still flourishing, there's just a lot more people programming.

A follow-up that deals with how the mapping was derived from the structure of V1: http://intothecontinuum.tumblr.com/post/19813076775/did-you-...

Great overview of what's new from Marc Edwards http://bjango.com/articles/photoshopcs6/

I'd sign up in a heartbeat for a meetup like this in NYC.