noema

Shame that it is (basically) a Windows exclusive application.

I take it you have not been to Amsterdam or Berlin. I live in the latter and, while there certainly are homeless people, it is absolutely nowhere even close to SF per capita.

“Importance” is subjective

No, not really. "Importance" is a rough proxy for legacy and influence. This is why one can say without any trace of subjectivism that Shakespeare is the most important writer of the English language, or Kafka the most important writer in modern German, etc. Maybe this is slightly less rigorous in the case of '2666' which is still a relatively young work, but it is widely hailed as a landmark novel.

An easy solution to this is to give point-based weights to achievements and cap the max total "points" any given game can have, allowing a developer to have many small achievements for their game if they wish. But really, none of this matters because Steam achievements are easily auto-unlocked via SAM.

In Search of Lost Time (Proust) -- the definitive portrait of life, memory and experience

Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty) -- groundbreaking analysis of "the thickness of things" implicit within perception

Labyrinths (Borges) -- masterful explorations of time, thought, infinity... certain passages of this collection surface in my mind on a weekly basis

Civilization and Capitalism (Braudel) -- telescopes seamlessly from the microscale to the macroscale, granting a synoptic view of the modern world

His work is often read as an archaic, pre-verbal poetics of the classical world: https://www.bastian-gallery.com/ausstellungen/cy-twombly-a-m... The scribblings draw from the walls of Pompeii, soft whites and blood reds evoke a certain Greco-Roman pallette etc. Scribbles but more than scribbles.

He was actually criticized for not adhering to postmodernist scripture: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/10...

See also: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691170725/re...

Google WW2, the Berlin Wall, Crystal Pepsi, Walmart, Donald Trump and then you may understand why Warhol reflects the contemporary zeitgeist and academic neoclassical art does not. (By the way, Twombly is totally unlike those other two artists. There is in fact a subtle classicism to his work.)

Unpopular opinion: “singularity” is empty marketing hype masquerading as eschatological theology. The stark reality is that AI technology is inextricably tied up with market dynamics. Future innovations will continue to be largely funneled into hyper-optimizing user engagement metrics and ad revenue for $BigCo, not creating the 2001 starchild or whatever.

The author clearly has not tapped the goldmine of world cinema (or American film history for that matter) if Superbad is their paradigmatic case of a challenging film.

Hubert Dreyfus's critiques of AI systems (particularly, their all but total inability to bodily engage with a social world) still remain relevant.

Why is Pong a lesser work of art than Journey?

I think games like Pong, Tetris, Asteroids etc are more ideal for making a case for games as a unique medium, because instead of deferring to cinematic or literary elements (as most art games are wont to do), they instead have a purity of form and function not dissimilar to a Josef Albers or Steve Reich piece.

SCSS isn't a methodology, it's a tool for reducing repetition and capturing syntactic complexity in CSS.

(Responding to now defunct comment claiming that conservatism is correlated to age because of life experience blah blah)

Age here is a proxy for wealth, of course.

Have to disagree - personally found those films to be too heavy-handed with their "message". Koyaanisqatsi maintains a certain ambiguity throughout, conveying both awe and fear at modern civilization.

At my job we use Quip strictly for collaborative design docs (i.e. architectural design, project scope, tutorials etc). Personally I don't think it can be a true wiki platform since it lacks robust indexing -- this is without doubt its biggest shortcoming.

The main intent of Builder isn't performance, but to avoid a combinatorial explosion of constructors for every possible set of parameters.

For mainstream labels, sure, but independent labels still serve an important curatorial role.

Probably because most are doing glorified CRUD, but with an absurd barrier to entry (the interview process).

Arguably a social engineer.

Try ambient and drone music.

This is a terrible logo by any objective visual design standards -- the shape, proportion, weight are all decidedly unappealing. Honestly, three simple circles would have been better. As for the "3D ellipsis" concept -- I think this is a classic example of a Gestalt psychological phenomenon, where knowing the concept in advance informs the holistic visual interpretation. I have to wonder if they bothered to focus test the logo on individuals who were not privy to the concept before their initial impression, because this reads like a circle followed by two 2D squashed ovals, with no obvious indication of three-dimensionality.

It is no hyperbole to say that Eno is probably the most influential producer of the latter half of the twentieth century. You may know him indirectly via his collaborations with Talking Heads and Bowie. His legacy permeates all electronically produced music today.

This doesn't conform with any of my experiences in non-trivial JS codebases. Migrating to TS tends to reveal previously overlooked implicit typing issues. Also, I find the "upfront productivity loss" of TS to be overstated: adding in annotations here and there doesn't take much time at all, and pays dividends quickly. Many hours have been lost tracking down some elusive runtime bug stemming from a typo in a vanilla JS property access.

Funny enough, this is another obvious feature that they get completely wrong -- lists are publicly editable, with no (apparent) way of restricting adds to the original creator. So inevitably any niche curatorial effort slides back to the lowest common denominator taste over time.

I find Kotlin more readable than Java in most cases -- less noise to drown out the actual logic. Could you provide an example of a language feature which requires you to "hold context in your head"? It's possible that you have just worked in bad codebases abusing Kotlin sugar. Inferred types for example can improve readability, but only if the variables are named appropriately.

Purely anecdotal, but pinterest is the only social media network that my mother has ever signed up for. She and her friends use it for recipes and animal photos. I reckon the platform has managed to capture those for whom Facebook is too much of an information barrage, and Instagram is too youth-oriented or "me"-centric. From what I've seen, it's like a more innocuous Tumblr, without all the drama.

Testing and debugging vary from site to site. Most of the ones I've used run your code against a hidden suite of tests to check all possible edge cases. This would otherwise take up a very non-trivial amount of time in the session. Actual debugging is also not possible on all of the sites -- usually the most you can do is litter your code with logs, which is far from a clean design.

From talking to some people who give out these interviews, most of those points really don't matter at all. What matters is A) getting a correct solution and B) being able to explain how you arrived at the solution. Tests, idiomatic code, clean design, etc are not expected and will inevitably waste precious time. Besides, the very nature of the interview (using a walled-off in-browser pseudo-IDE) restricts you from actually writing best-practice code.

Isn't the whole point of pseudocode that it's a language-agnostic description of an algorithm? Pseudocode written in the 1970s still stands up -- imagine if a COBOL block had been in its place.

Personally I like having separate installations for each language-specific IntelliJ flavor just to reduce confusion when toggling between different windows. The slight GUI differences also help to "code-switch" (in the linguistic and literal senses).