JackC

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by JackC 14y ago
Many of your requirements are met by Ditto (on Windows) and ClipMenu (on the Mac). The basic model is: Ctrl-V pastes like usual, Ctrl-Shift-V pops up a menu of every previous paste. Previous items can be selected and pasted using either the
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by JackC 14y ago
I'm curious about this ... how much more is "under the hood" of a RubyMotion app than an ObjC app? In the HTML5 -> Native tools you're dealing with an extra abstraction, Javascript running on top of an interpreter that talks to native A
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by JackC 14y ago
That's true. For example, this is basically just a rehash of that last blog post claiming that Franklin Delano Roosevelt invented Cracked.com.
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by JackC 14y ago
I think the potential of RubyMotion is in the "new ways of thinking and coding" aspect you mention -- the big potential win here is to import a Rubyish way of thinking about iOS programming. I'm not part of either the ObjC or Ruby communiti
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by JackC 14y ago
That is interesting! Looking into it, the estimated response time to an unexpected event for an average human driver is 1.9 seconds (i.e. time to notice, look, evaluate, decide, react).[1] Of that, 50 ms or 1/20th of a second goes to just p
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by JackC 14y ago
This. This is why we can have nice things. I've been thinking about the old programming saying, "There is no problem that cannot be solved by adding a layer of abstraction, except for having too many layers of abstraction." How many layers
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by JackC 14y ago
This is a good summary of our confusion. :) Sorry to be a pain about it. Would you agree that I can "purchase" the contents of a suitcase on a gameshow without knowing what they are? Or that I can "purchase" next year's wheat crop from a fa
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by JackC 14y ago
That's a fair point -- it'll be a problem if people get involved in Kickstarter who don't understand that there's no guarantee the project finishes. But I still disagree with your original point -- often on Kickstarter you are purchasing
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by JackC 14y ago
Another way to think about this -- when I get my copy of Light Table, will I be allowed to give copies to my friends? If not, then I'm buying a product. I may also be supporting an artist (I think so), but I'm buying a product.
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by JackC 14y ago
I think Kickstarter can be either a purchase, or an investment, or both. From their site: Copies of the thing: the album, the DVD, a print from the show. These items should be priced what they would cost in a retail environment. ... Kickst
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by JackC 14y ago
I think maybe it's a difference between "this is a cool product" and "this is a cool tech demo." As a tech demo, it's a neat idea that's been tried before. It becomes news when someone manages to put together a shipping product that actuall
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by JackC 14y ago
I was just thinking the same thing -- "this will never work in Boston. We fear and hate painted lane markers." But it turns out that something like 90% of miles traveled are on highways.[1] So what if you just limit it to limited-access hig
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by JackC 14y ago
It might be more accurate to say that the DA has the final say, but the victim often influences the DA's decision. This is particularly true with a victim like Facebook -- remember that the DA often holds an elected position.
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by JackC 14y ago
The pop-music assembly line is actually pretty fascinating -- and definitely staffed by artists. Check out this New Yorker article about Ester Dean, whose role on the assembly line is coming up with a hook for the producer's computer-genera
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by JackC 14y ago
The outcry we hear over these changes isn't just bored people being picky, it's the sound of a trillion dying neurons in a million interconnected biological systems. You seem to be suggesting that having to learn something new is like hav
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by JackC 14y ago
As for Rails, Python, etc. being the most common tools in SV, I tend to this it might be because they are free. I don't want to go all Richard Stallman on you, but I think it might also be because they are Free. I mean, I've never bothere
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by JackC 14y ago
What's going on here, as far as I can tell, is Connecticut is preemptively recognizing (by statute) a constitutional right that has been recognized in many courts around the country, but not yet in Connecticut. As really helpful context, ta
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by JackC 14y ago
For really quick one-off scraping, httplib2+lxml+PyQuery is a pretty neat combination: import httplib2, lxml, pyquery h = httplib2.Http(".cache") def get(url): resp, content = h.request( url, headers={'cache-control':'max-age
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by JackC 15y ago
Ooh, let me help you over-dramatize. One great way to radio-fingerprint people is when they use a point-of-sale device like a credit card checkout or an ATM or a pay-at-the-pump gas station. Put a camera on it (if you don't have one already
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by JackC 15y ago
It's worth noting what law enforcement wishes they could do and what they can do is pretty different. The only time this has been tested in court, the Sixth Circuit said it was unconstitutional. Which is because it's blatantly unconstitutio
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by JackC 15y ago
it's interesting how Kickstarter has transformed donations for innovation into a shopping cart experience I've been going back and forth about this, and I think the phrasing of the particular Kickstarter project controls whether it's more
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by JackC 15y ago
I'm with you on the importance of the CCD, but isn't it the whole point of lossless compression to fix your banding problem? I thought banding was because of the information thrown out by h264. When you color grade, you're smearing the dark
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by JackC 15y ago
IAAL. You know how lawyers always write "I am not your lawyer. This is not legal advice. Consult a lawyer in your jurisdiction."? That's for several good reasons, partly that we like being special, but also because no one could really answe
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by JackC 15y ago
> Gangsters existed before prohibition and existed after, they just moved into different rackets. Sure, but it's not like there's a fixed supply of "gangsters", like "continents" or "elements" -- some constant number of people floating
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by JackC 15y ago
That was my first question too. This is the best summary I found: http://smus.com/backbone-and-ember It links to a much longer IRC argument between their respective evangelists -- the whole thing is an interesting read if you like that so
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by JackC 15y ago
"Either this part of the video was made with a real hand held camera, or they have found better ways to 'fake shake' the video." Good fake camera shake isn't too hard. After you take your tripod shots to add CGI to, also take some actual
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by JackC 15y ago
> So you would be quite happy that All American Terrroists are safer than forign Actors? Maybe it goes without saying, but yes, yes, a thousand times yes. The U.S. Constitution guarantees the rights of everyone in the United States, whe
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by JackC 15y ago
Google's lack of support can be really scary. I've had situations in at least three different areas where something went wrong with their automated tools and I lost access to a service[1], and every time it was completely impossible to get
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by JackC 15y ago
Part of why I love the law is that every legal discussion is also a philosophical discussion. Should killing someone be legal sometimes? Should pornography be illegal sometimes? Where does my right to privacy win out over society's right
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by JackC 15y ago
To be clear: the fact that theft and copyright infringement both relate to interference with alienable rights does not mean that they should be treated the same way. A good legal system takes into account that different kinds of infringem

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