Sandra J. Shaw says no. tl;dr: Photography can be beautiful and have aesthetic features, but it is not art because it is not produced through cognition.
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Part 1 video of live-coding in Perl and Mojolicious; Part 2 coming up
Sunday’s live pair programming session with Gábor Szabó was a blast, so we’re doing it again this Sunday, April 4. Watch the video below, and learn all about it and register here.
(I really need to do a better job of looking at the camera.)
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Tuesday at Boston.pm: Perl subroutine signatures and type validation
I’ll be reprising my presentation on Perl subroutine signatures and type validation for the Boston Perl Mongers on Tuesday, March 9 at 7 PM EST. Visit their wiki for details; they’ll be posting the Jitsi URL shortly before the meeting. There’s also a Meetup page.
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Merck will help J&J make COVID-19 vaccine
This sounds like good news. I started my career at Merck as their corporate webmaster, back when they handed out such titles to a green 23-year-old.
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Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenged in US Supreme Court
From Bloomberg:
In an argument at the intersection of intellectual property and the separation of powers, the justices on Monday will consider a challenge to a congressionally-created board that critics have dubbed a “death squad” because of its tendency to toss out patents.
Greg Storhr and Susan Decker on BloombergQuintI told you this thing was bad news.