stuart78

Too logical ;)

There was a great introduction to this story on yesterday's The World [1]. Sounds like a pretty massive disaster all around.

[1] http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-11-23/indias-crisis-over-ban...

I saw the same tour in Los Angeles, and it stands as my favorite show. He and the band controlled the room and it was just amazing, beginning to end.

It will be interesting to see how this might change in the decades to come. Will they find a way to evolve into a "real" colony? Will they find a way to sustain without reliance on "new arrivals"?

Semi-off-topic, those pictures will haunt my dreams.

Great post, I love the "basic" challenges of development back in the early days. Dealing with Sound, in this article, jumped out at me. We take so much for granted about how our computers work today.

It seems like services like these could be more helpful with author involvement. The example DHL clip, for example, helps tell the story visually, and if the article's author were involved in assembling a video package (without needing to learn complicated video production software) he or she could write a complimentary script and have a great video summary right alongside the more in depth text article.

This is the conundrum. I'm used to the sight of 45mpg on my dashboard. Passat TDI was kind of my perfect car, so I really don't know what I'll go for next.

I'm an owner, and while the info is not complete yet, I like where its heading. Honestly, I just want a different car, and not to be punished financially for their behavior. I'll take a buyout and if there's cash above the BB value, I'll be happier still.

This seems to answer that, was wondering the same thing myself.

http://www.science20.com/news_articles/is_loki_the_missing_l...

Remarkably impressive, but I have to admin to being a bit creeped out by the save and relive stuff at the end. A bit too close to the dream machine in "Until the End of the World" for my taste.

What a loss. High Output Management remains one of the finest books on our industry that I have read, and I'm glad we have that to help carry his torch forward.

What is remarkable to me about Diablo is how little it has changed. Dungeons and environments are more sophisticated, but at its heart it remains the game described in that doc, just better.

I read somewhere else about the move from turn based. If I recall correctly (sorry, no citation), the game was feeling a bit static, pretty much as you described. Somebody built a prototype live mode and that was when the game started feeling good.

This is one of my most common annoyances on web, and I am glad more and more people are taking an interest. For those with an interest in a deeper understanding of typography in general, I can't recommend The Elements of Typographic Style enough. Web is still primitive in the way it handles a lot of this, but there are some shining examples out there. The New Yorker is my favorite of these. To understand why, find a text hyperlink containing a descender (g,y,j,q,p) and observer how elegantly it is handled.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881792128/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_d...

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-the-islamic-state...

Love this. Wish my recent hikes were more ambitious (and thusly deserving of memorialization)!

Haven't used Soulseek in years. Mac client... Love it.

Me neither. Looks riveting.

Thanks! I feel so narcissistic when I load up my profile to see if I've got any replies ;)

Their business model seems backwards. There are a lot more of us consumers than producers, so why not offer packages to us? That model does turn SC into a more traditional service, but because it has a more unique collection than the alternatives, it seems to have distinct value.

My favorite part is when they align the golden ratio to get the white curve "just right"... and then just do a bunch of other random shit w/ the stripe. SCIENCE!

It was definitely that for me. I was a few years younger, and my dad's office (University campus) was the only place with networked computers I had access to. So we'd get in there and fire it up on a couple of Macs. Initially, the office just had B/W and Greyscale monitors, but the game looked great none the less.

I do recall the network configuration to be a bit finicky, so its possible that we spent about as much time setting it up as we did playing.

At first I was thinking of posting a joke about missed timelines, but then I remembered that nobody else is setting audacious public goals quite in the way that Musk does. So instead of a joke, I'll tip my hat to that and hope its true.

In my youth I was too impatient to make it far, but I remember this fondly. And Spectre. Multiplayer Spectre was amazing.

That video. I'm traumatized, yet I can't look away.

Sometime in mid-2015, my old aggregation reader got shut down I had to jump ship over to Flipboard. The most annoying part of this journey has been the total reset of my blacklist of news outlets and topics. Content farming, hat-tipping and "some shit somebody said on Twitter" is just spam delivered differently, and its frustrating that historically respected media has taken so long to think about not only the impact on their value, but how it impacts their core values.

Beyond my recreated blacklists, so much garbage has narrowed my focus and sources. NYTimes, a few RSS feeds, HN for tech. Hopefully, as with books, the culture will begin to correct course.

(Gonna break out my cane and start waving at some kids any moment now)

Confronted this when looking at Hamilton tickets recently. The thing that is crazy for venues and artists is how much of the value they are losing to scalpers via StubHub. If venues forced non-transferability (or some better limitation) and staggered releasing, they would be better able to appropriately price tickets without feeding the StubHubs of the world.

The total impermanence of so much of our architecture is depressing. While I'm glad people are moving to more walking-friendly locations, this is just more detritus to be demolished or forgotten.

That picture kind of breaks my sense of perception. When I first looked at it, I entirely mis-categorized the scale, and thinking it was looking North from San Bernadino, I was able to place the lakes and landmarks in order for it all to fit, and it pretty much worked, my mind easing over unrecognized characteristics as places I'd not been.

Then I read the article.

BART in the Bay Area is also a two-track system, and we face the same problems. This is the reason given (here in CA) for not running 24 hours, and the limited window for maintenance slows down all track work.

It also prevents anything like an express train from being possible. This might not work anyway given the relative distances and train frequency, but I would absolutely build my schedule around an express if such a thing existed here.

Design is a bit more than the 'color of the packaging' but I do agree it feels odd to try and get it in w/ the STEM. It calls attention to a certain anxiety within the design community about their own value while at the same time trying to overburden the relatively useful STEM shorthand.