Like, for example: A 20th century problem is that technology has become too “easy”. When it was hard to do anything, whether good or bad, enough time was taken so that the result was usually good. Now we can make things almost trivially, especially in software, but most of the designs are trivial as well. [...]
Antecedent: A couple of months ago, having a look at some old stats in my last.fm profile, I realised how much I could remember a given time by just seeing the music I used to listen to (that old (unfinished?) project by marcos weskamp and didier hilhorst came to mind inmediately). The source: Last.fm keeps [...]
There are some words I’ve put under suspicion. They’re like magic. When they appear everything seems better, more pleasant, more adequate… I still don’t know what it is, but I’m somehow annoyed. Perphaps they appear too frequently in advertising, products, speeches… I think they hide some… swindle. 3 come to mind now: New Easy Original [...]
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Last week I went to a two-day openframeworks workshop run by Zach Lieberman at hangar. As said here before (and elsewhere), openframeworks is an open-source library to help other artists and students produce works through coding, written in C++. Yes, this might sound familiar. Its philosophy and intentions are very similar to processing‘s. However, openframeworks [...]
Friendship in C++: A friend of a class is an external function or class that has access to the private and protected members of this class. Isn’t it lovely? More favorites: In chuck, function declaration is fun. maybe() (also from chuck): a method for the non-decisive programmer. Returns 0 or 1 at random.