Daniel Pietzsch

Personal blog. Mostly photos.

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Why DRY?

I think this is a very important concept to understand as a programmer:

It seems to me that some programmers see themselves as Terminators: out to eliminate all code duplication with extreme prejudice; sometimes, perhaps, without even considering the trade-offs involved. Every time you remove duplicated code, you add a level of indirection, and as you’ve probably heard before, all problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, except for the problem of too many levels of indirection.

And, I didn’t know about the term “Rule of three”, but it’s a guideline I have been trying to stick to:

  1. Write a piece of code.
  2. Write the same piece of code again. Resist the urge to generalise.
  3. Write the same piece of code again. Now you are allowed to consider generalising it.

A mile wide, an inch deep — Medium

[…] everyone is in a “war for attention.” But it uses unique visitors as the way to compare how different outlets are doing in this war: […]
By this metric (misleadingly labeled “readership”), Buzzfeed is “bigger” than The New York Times. But that’s the exact same metric that would tell us last week was bigger for Medium than that week in October. Even if all we care about is attention — not any other value that may be important— this doesn’t tell us much. Maybe BuzzFeed gets more attention, total, than The Times. But we should stop purporting that one-dimensional graphs like this tell us that.

Apple’s next major Mac revealed: the radically new 12-inch MacBook Air | 9to5Mac

Interesting new rendering of a rumoured upcoming 12-inch MacBook Air.

If the following turns out to be true, I currently can’t imagine how this is going to be practical:

The upcoming 12-inch Air has the fewest amount of ports ever on an Apple computer, as can be seen in the rendition above. On the right side is a standard headphone jack and dual-microphones for input and noise-canceling. On the left side is solely the new USB Type-C port. Yes, Apple is currently planning to ditch standard USB ports, the SD Card slot, and even its Thunderbolt and MagSafe charging standards on this new notebook. We must note that Apple tests several designs of upcoming products, so Apple may choose to ultimately release a new Air that does include the legacy components, though there is very little space on the edges for them.

Via Eric Kim:

Thanks to Matt Stuart from In-Public for sharing this short 8-minute film about the resurgence of film photography.

Ok, here’s more of Gavin Harrison. You’ll find lots more on YouTube. He’s incredible and I’m going to listen to all the Porcupine Tree records now…

Watch Joel Meyerowitz talk about his 50-year long career as a photographer.

Via Martin Wolf. His comment works just as good for me:

One of my favourite photographers, Matt Stuart, talking about the Leica M and one of his favourite photos.

Incredible drumming by Gavin Harrison. (via 10 best prog drummers in the world today)

Sascha Lobo über das deutsche "Wir"-Gefühl - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Sascha Lobo mal wieder:

Keiner emotional zurechnungsfähigen Person kann etwa eine Freundschaft mit NPD-Anhängern zugemutet werden. Diese Freundesfilterung lässt sich aber als Symptom betrachten - je mehr man über Bekannte weiß, um so schwieriger lässt sich das “Wir” aufrecht halten. Die fluffige Gemeinsamkeit am Stammtisch des Sportvereins in prädigitalen Zeiten war auch eine Illusion - genährt durch die Annahme, man sei sich einigermaßen ähnlich. Die sozialen Medien können diese Wir-Illusion gefährden, indem sie die Gnade des Nichtwissens zerstören.

Martin Parr’s Homepage

Currently browsing the excellent homepage of Magnum photographer Martin Parr and enjoying what I see, read an hear very much.

Project 365: How to Take a Photo a Day and See Your Life in a Whole New Way

Tempted and contemplating…

Wo bleibt die gesparte Zeit? - WDR Fernsehen

Neue Technik hilft uns, immer mehr Zeit zu sparen. Warum haben so viele Menschen trotzdem ständig “keine Zeit” und sind dauernd in Eile - wo bleibt also die gesparte Zeit? Wir könnten sie mit Ausruhen und Kaffeetrinken verbringen. Doch der Soziologe Hartmut Rosa meint: Wir nutzen die gewonnene Zeit nicht für Muße - sondern wir nutzen sie, um einfach mehr zu tun: mehr zu erledigen, weiter zu reisen, mehr Aktivitäten in unsere Freizeit zu packen.

Leider nicht mehr als kompletter Film verfügbar, aber das verlinkte PDF ist auch sehr gut.

In search of lost time: Why is everyone so busy? | The Economist

Interesting read. Here’s one of the many good quotes from this article:

“Why do people feel so rushed? Part of this is a perception problem. On average, people in rich countries have more leisure time than they used to.”

Interview with Joel Meyerowitz

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artinduesseldorf:

Joel #Meyerowitz kommt am 9. Januar 2015 um 19.00 Uhr zur Finissage seiner Ausstellung ins NRW-Forum Düsseldorf mit einem Künstlergespräch zwischen ihm und Kurator Ralph Goertz. Zuvor führt er von 13 bis 17 Uhr einen exklusiven Photoworkshop mit maximal 6 Teilnehmer/inne/n durch. Kosten: 300 Euro. Bewerbungen bitte noch dieses Jahr an RG@iks-medienarchiv.de (hier: NRW-Forum)

Die Ausstellung wollte ich sowieso noch sehen. Da bietet sich der Tag doch bestens an!