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Wow. Very nice job. Very intuitive. However, you should move the cube into the center of the screen, since that is the center of the players focus.

Society can be pretty tolerant of eccentricity and a lack of personal hygiene when it's accompanied by genius. Look at Albert Einstein and even Richard Stallman.

It seems like sometimes I'd rather do anything other than what I'm actually suppose to do and what pays the bills, almost like a mental disorder.

History is full of geniuses who weren't interested in paying the bills, to the chagrin of their creditors, but ultimately to the benefit of civilization as a whole.

Because computers got more computing power

You're missing the essential component of artistic creativity.

Wow what a great interface. Really great clean design and I like the fact that you've used two seperate btc exchanges. I think this tab will be pinned in my browser once I begin my new career as a bitcoin dealer on localbitcoins.com ;)

I agree with the sentiment of your post, but I don't think they "make acquiring and owning games easier" than piracy. In fact it's very easy to pirate gog games because of their anti-DRM stance so if a potential customer doesn't feel like paying the 5 bucks for a game, it's just a torrent away. Not saying GOG haven't done something wonderful but it's certainly not pirate-proof.

Mint never ceases to impress me. Mint 15 runs faster off of a live cd for me than ubuntu 12.04 LTS does natively. I presume this is something to do with unity and all the underlying bloat that is becoming more and more of a defining characteristic of ubuntu these days. I don't have anything against unity in user interface terms; I think it's a pretty decent GUI and doesn't deserve the flak it gets from the linux community. Nevertheless, Cinnamon is a triumph of clean, simple, and utilitarian UI design and trumps any other conventional UI on GNU/Linux I've ever used, and the underlying design of Mint seems to ensure there's never any slow down getting in the way of getting things done.

Keep up the good work Mint

Could you direct me to some of this research you're citing? it seems really unlikely to me that dual monitors would have any kind of significant impact on productivity. in fact don't they encourage multi-tasking which tends to decrease productivity?

Duck duck go has one up.

http://www.ddg.gg

Brilliant post kas. I'm impressed by your loyalty and cogency.

If the two of you ever considered having kids, there'd be a few things you'd do well to prepare for. I am the child of a severe manic-depressive/alcoholic. I can't begin to tell you the myriad ways this has effected my development, but the influence runs deep and strong. Your children will grow up in an environment of chaos, where crisis is often the default state of affairs. I'm not saying your kids will, in the grander scheme of life, be any worse off for the potentially unstable environment in which they grow, but it can make them feel unusual, left out and alone in comparison to their peers. With any luck, they'll be as well-rounded, if not moreso than anyone else, not in spite of but because of their experiences with a close relative suffering from severe mental illness.

I wish you the best of luck and send all my love to you both.

Oh, don't misunderstand me. Vim is complex alright, and like I say, it has a pretty steep learning curve, but it has just the right amount of complexity for it's purpose (in this case, quite a lot). Hence, an example of good design in my book.

vim, too complex? you could say that about practically any CLI interface but it's merely a relatively steep learning curve, not a case of too much complexity. In fact vim is pretty concise and compact in terms of design

Try surf from suckless for single-page, distraction free browsing. That and practically any other of the suckless tools; the standard of both design and execution with suckless is just out of this world, and when they say in their mission statement that they intend to comply with the unix philosophy they really do hold up to it with their code.

I wouldn't recommend gentoo as a beginner's distro. Way to throw a newbie into the deep end and potentially alienate them to linux forever

It's a potential point of conflict, but it's a pretty generic naming convention in my view and I'd be dissapointed to see that Zed has slapped a trademark on it. Even if he is building a brand around the name I don't see why he wouldn't be open to letting some other technical authors in under the same umbrella.

Keep in mind that art is most properly classified as a subset of communication, so in certain cases a very similar vocabulary will be used regarding them.

You say the author is incorrect in implying that artistic expression may inhibit us, yet in his context, artistic expressions or attempts thereof do inhibit the users, because they're attempting to communicate artistically, rather than directly and immediately as the author wishes.

You're glossing over the author's solid point on the nature of design, that over-engineering can stifle creative input. In the example he provides, the users became distracted from the purely photographic form of communication by a text-based one.

take a gander at some art history. when photography was first introduced in France in the first half of the 1800s it sparked a longrunning debate concerning the medium's place amongst other art forms, or even whether it should be considered an art form at all. Part of the debate was centered around public figures such as Nadar (who made photographic portraits of people such as Jules Verne and Charles Baudelaire). Nadar was so reviled by some for his insistence on photography as a high art that he was the subject of ridicule in the popular press, for example in this caricature [1]. It seems odd that something so banal to us as a photo should provoke such a debate, but photography had a highly disruptive effect on the rigid, academic art world of the day, in a way reminiscent of the anger caused by the introduction of the railroad not long before, or the way some individuals have predicted 3D printing technology could disrupt manafacturing and the power structures associated with it.

[1]"nadar raising photography to the height of art" by Honoré Daumier http://bit.ly/12qOL4Z

I think the song "Do you realize" by the same artist is even more apt.

"do you realize / that everyone you know / someday / will die"

Your logic doesn't stand up here. Why should you trust dostoyevsky's subjective understanding of god anymore than your own? Besides, dostoyevsky's best asset was his imagination, not his capacity for logic.

as for technical blogs, the only ones I get consistently useful information from are: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/, from which I've learnt a great deal about vim and also about some obscure but historically significant unix tools which otherwise I'd never have known of. http://archlinux.me/ Every now and then a good in depth article pops up pn this one. Dev blogs are great for learning about the nitty gritty details of a project aswell as getting a grip on the problems devs are facing right now.

I live in northern ireland where the state of mental health institutions is probably closer to eastern europe than it is to other western institutions (at least it is in my limited experience). Patients are usually prescribed a bunch of vague, cure all drugs and left to rot. There arent any activities or things to do for patients. Patients tend to get worse rather than better because of effect of the drugs and the general malaise and hopelessness of the place.

Mental hospitals are more or less the lowest common denominator when it comes to treatment of mentally ill people. It takes more money in the short term to do house calls, and to support people in normal life, but in thelong term it is more beneficial to keep these people in the mainstream of society, and not artificially compartmentalized and ostracized.

I think the post, generally, is accurate, but the author is giving a little too much slack to those who, according to him/her, don't live by default. For example, you could argue that Picasso "lived by default"; his father was a painter, and he painted from very early in his life. So even though he never made a concieted effort to escape the normal path of his life, he was still succesfu l by practically any measure.

Do you mean to imply that work of art generally are less 'miraculous' than that of nature, are you speaking exclusively about beethoven?

much appreciated. At the moment, being happy feels like the natural thing to do.

my 16 yo sister died two weeks ago tommorow. when i saw her dead just minutes after she had died, the first corpse i'd ever seen, one the things that popped into my head was how happy i should be to be alive. she died from cystic fibrosis, a disease that will most likely be eradicated completely in coming years by gene therapy &c. We should be thankful to live into old age, nevermind immortality, although I'd be surprised of anyone to refuse it considering our standard of life in the developed world.

derp. you're right, sometimes you'd think english wasn't my first language.

Regarding all the comments here about dial-up and slow connections whether out of preference or necessity, I can't recommend enough having a slow connection and a data limit for helping you concentrate on the things that are most important to you, but take the most effort to think about or to do. I use a three mobile 3g dongle (UK) and pay £10 a month for 1GB of downloads. I use wget to crawl and download web pages to view offline. I've been doing this for over a year now and it's great for avoiding the huge potential distractions of broadband, torrents for example, being amongst the worst offenders (have you ever downloaded a 100 computer science textbooks and never got round to any of them because you were watching a whole season of star trek: next generation? It's kind of ridiculous.)

I misread the title as empathy encourages analytical thought, which would make sense, because in order to empathize one has to have enough analytic ability to see how another person is thinking, if that makes sense.

It's regrettable you're not getting the feedback you should be getting, as this is something that will really help you stick to it. On the other hand, the very reason you aren't getting feedback is a good one: you're working on obscure articles, which is precisely the area wikipedia needs work done on in order to become the fully-fledged, echt encyclopedia (as I'm sure you know in the case of proprietary equivalents professionals are hired to fulfill the role you are fulfilling). Anyway, consider yourself a lonely pioneer ;)