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Learning about the random function in Processing is evoking the same feeling I had when I first learned about HTML’s <blink> tag.

In 1996 Keith Shafer and several others proposed a solution to the problem of broken URLs. The link to this solution is now broken. Roy Fielding posted an implementation suggestion in July of 1995. The link is now broken. src

…making positive outcomes the easiest and default approach creates positive feedback loops src via this tweet

Sunday Funday.

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PowerPoint is just simulated acetate overhead slides, and to me, that is a kind of a moral crime. Alan Kay, src

def fact(n): return reduce(lambda x, y: x * y, range(1, n + 1)) print(fact(5)) #=> 120

This book is dedicated, in respect and admiration, to the spirit that lives in the computer. I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don’t become missionaries. Don’t feel as if you’re Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more. ...

brucesterling: Adapted from a talk by Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino, presented at World Maker Faire 2011 in New York. 1. Don’t make something you don’t use yourself. 2. Know who you are making it for. 3. Know what you want out of it. 4. Make projects, not platforms. 5. Respect the intelligence of the beginner. 6. Experts are not the best advisors when you want to make tools for beginners. ...