{"id":5157,"date":"2012-06-23T19:49:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T00:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2012-06-23T19:59:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T00:59:12","slug":"retina-glider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/23\/retina-glider\/","title":{"rendered":"Retina Glider"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/06\/23\/laocoon\/\">Devin Coldewey<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/log.scifihifi.com\/post\/25739768798\/roomthily-a-glider-from-the-game-of-life-found\">Buzz Andersen<\/a>):\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/06\/23\/laocoon\/\">\n<p>The glider could arguably be called the mascot of the Game of Life &mdash; that is, if the game ever needed one. It represents both the emergent complexity of the game and its extremely simple core nature.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Etched permanently into the body of one of the most advanced computers ever made, then, is a symbol of experimentation, tradition, and potential &mdash; being killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article doesn&rsquo;t mention that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/hacker-emblem\/\">Eric Raymond<\/a> has proposed the glider as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hacker_Emblem\">hacker emblem<\/a>. It represents the opposite of the direction Apple is taking its hardware and software.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devin Coldewey (via Buzz Andersen): The glider could arguably be called the mascot of the Game of Life &mdash; that is, if the game ever needed one. It represents both the emergent complexity of the game and its extremely simple core nature. [&#8230;] Etched permanently into the body of one of the most advanced computers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5163,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}