Today the blinkenlights stereoscope project starts as part of the nuit blanche art event in Toronto. The Toronto city hall is transferred into a giant matrix display. There are tools to create custom animations and an iphone application to view the live stream. I think this is a great example of using technology for art and beauty. W...
I was told that to be a good developer, you should read a lot of other peoples source code. I think that sounds reasonable. So I ask you, what is the most beautifully written piece of open source software that is written in c++ out there? (Apply any definition of beautiful you like.) ...
Hi, I have perfection paralysis when it comes to producing something graphic. If symmetries of the visual have not been fully explored, I have a harder time comprehending what is going on. I am a very visual learner as well, and I LOVE to simplify things that I just learned and draw them on paper. Graphviz is a nice tool to draw thing a...
I have following LINQ statement and I want to rewrite it using extension methods. from x in e from y in e from z in e select new { x, z } One possible solution is: e.Join(e, x => 42, y => 42, (x, y) => new { x, y }) Join(e, _ => 42, z => 42, (_, z) => new { _.x, z }); However this is everything but elegant. Do you any idea how...
It seems to me that some languages are generally being conceived as more beautiful than others. This seems to apply to all programming paradigms. Are there any abstract/paradigm-spanning characteristics which makes programmers consider a language as beautiful? Edit: If you think that there is no consensus then please don't hesitate to s...