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Is this related to the point cloud generation feature modern compositing programs use, like Nuke? Example/tutorial video: http://vimeo.com/61463556 (skip to 10:27 for magic)

With 10+ years of being a professional programmer I think you will automatically get the insight of being agnostic is really the only way of surviving and keep your passion for your work.

Those who fail at this will stop working as a programmer, move out in the woods, build a cabin and live happy as a farmer.

When you're young you will inevitably always have an attraction for styles that ring the most true to you. You have one single hammer you have learnt to use or even worse, have heard really good programmers at Hacker News prefer to use, and therefore you use this hammer for everything.

You are a poser.

Most programmers have been there. Posers can be extremely sharp and useful if they get to do what they're good at, but they are posers nevertheless and at the start of a humbling journey to agnosticism - getting shit done instead of bickering and posing.

Reading this gave me goose bumps since you managed to describe and explain something I've been thinking about for a long time.

"Physically based rendering" have a second newer edition: http://www.amazon.com/Physically-Based-Rendering-Second-Edit...

"Never memorize something that you can look up." [Einstein]

It's only true if you work/learn/pair program with people that think this is true.

The IR-filter most cameras have is a real problem too. I have a webcam with the IR-filter removed.

When I do this with a Project STAR spectrometer and my cameras and point it to a candle I get two distinct dips in the spectral distribution. It should be even like a blackbody. I have made a parser for the RGB-picture to turn it to a B&W power distribution and I thought I'd might do a simple software filter to make it completely even, like a calibration of sorts. Like so: http://www.flickr.com/photos/defdac/7874867702/in/photostrea... I use the power distributions coupled with lumen and wattage-specification as input for my home made spectrally based global illumination renderer to calculate PAR in aquariums. Do you think this will work?

I'm currently learning Blender. It's an open source 3D-modeling program with one of the most non-intuitive GUIs ever created. It's like the Vim/Emacs of 3D-creation. Being able to just grab a 3D-object with your hands and kneed it to the shape you want would be freakishly amazing.

The thing with unity is that it's almost so easy to grasp that when you sit down with it, it's almost not necessary. You can spend time thinking about actual implementation details while Unity does all the "boring" stuff. That said - when I started searching for specific problems I had the community had all the answers and then some. Another awesome thing is that you can do really complex stuff, like intricate shaders, if you want. Completing a full featured 3D-game have never felt so close to me.

"Did you help somebody solve a problem? Write it down. Did you connect with a colleague or friend? Write it down. Did you make somebody smile? Write it down."

This sound more like pride/fulfillment rather than gratitude?

Since Unity3D already can deploy to Androd platforms I would venture to guess that we will see quite alot of games ready for the launch of Ouya.

These tips doesn't feel crisis-specific to me.

"You have to ask yourself: "Do I understand why my program is doing X?"" "I almost never use a debugger." "And if your program is so complex that you need a debugger [simplify]"

To me, being afraid of a debugger is like being afraid of actually knowing exactly what is going on - being lazy and just read logs and guessing what might have gone wrong, instead of letting the debugger scream in your face all the idiotic mistakes you have made.

I would argue that using the debugger is being lazy in an intelligent way, instead of spending hours reading endless logs trying to puzzle together logic the debugger can show you directly.

First open source routers running Linux. Next disruptive innovation: Open Source Linux TVs?

Yes, it also struck me how this really underlined what Ken Robinson says. School is for fabricating industrial zombies that are good on solving prefabricated problems/tests made by someone else higher up in the hiearchy. Not inventive entrepreneurs that finds and solves real problems autonomously without the need of a professor/architect dictating what and how to solve someting.

Do you think it would be possible to see shifts in photosynthetic activity in plants due to low/high nutrients/humidity? Especially when IR-filter removed?

Your comment made me think of "Everything is Amazing & Noone is Happy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

As a Swede I don't know who "Ike" is: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_was_President_Eisenhowers_nick...

Me too.

That piece about convergent/divergent creativity was truly wonderful. Thanks!

Thanks for this. I had a hard time articulating why email is not broken, and you pretty much sums it all up.

That looks like Notch standning by the bar.

Wow. Just wow. 64kb: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kx66_i3ue4

I have started to look into Unity3D the past couple of weeks and I'm impressed. Deliver to Android/iPhone/PC/mac/xbox etc. I have never felt so close to make my dream game.

I might show my ignorance for the complexity of the process here, but here goes: Why is laser cutting from prefabricated digital prints considered "handcrafted"?

More of this. I don't know javascript that well, but looking at the annotated underscore.js was really enlightening.