charles_parnot

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Let Facebook rejoin the open web(scripting.com)
3 points by charles_parnot 9y ago|0 comments
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by charles_parnot 11y ago
The Mac app is still a paid app, but given the iOS ecosystem, it seems they decided it was not worth trying to charge for it. It's a bit sad but a great deal!
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Papers 3 for iOS is now free(blog.papersapp.com)
7 points by charles_parnot 11y ago|2 comments
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by charles_parnot 11y ago
Exactly
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by charles_parnot 11y ago
Right, it was tongue in cheek. There is of course some data in there :-) I suppose what I meant is that it is lossy: you cannot get back what you "INSERT". That violates a pretty basic assumption about what a database is supposed
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by charles_parnot 11y ago
An interesting consequence of contentless tables is that you end up with a database that does not have data. Should we still call it a database? :)
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
I actually did consider this when writing the "parser" but it was complicated enough that it was just getting in the way of my goal of having the simplest code and specs that got the job done. Also using 1-2-3-4 is simple enough t
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
I added a link to it on asciimage.org
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
Be my guest :-) I added the js port on asciimage.org. There is a Go version as well I will link to.
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
awesome!
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
I know SVG very well, even have used it a few times for automatic generation of various graphics for bioinformatic projects. I use a lot of different graphic editors, and I am very familiar with them, e.g. Illustrator, Sketch, Acorn, Photos
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
Nice to see the actual comparison of the binary size (and there is the 2x and 3x png). On the other hand, to be fair, the memory footprint will be more with the ASCII version (text + final NSImage loaded as bitmap in memory) compared to png
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
No worry, and no offense taken!
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
Nice way to think about it. I agree.
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
Yes, PNG is probably using less memory. For a few small icons, though, it's negligible either way.
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
Fair enough. I certainly did not mean to pretend anything like this.
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
Exactly, could not have said it better.
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
Exactly
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
I only use it for very simple icons (square, couple of lines, etc)
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
fixed!
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
ah, damn, you're right!
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
You are totally right, and I actually also considered doing just that initially in my code.
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
When you skip a character, you move on to next shape. So, 1-2-3 5-6-7 = 2 triangles But 1 3 5 = 3 points
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
TBH, the bug is an example of where this hack should not be used :D
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
Hi, all. I am the blog post author, blown away by the attention this 1-day hack is getting! I am the author of Findings, a lab notebook app for scientists. Check it out and show it to others: http://findingsapp.com I also create
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
I will write the promised README, btw :)
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
You could actually have quite a lot of data generated in a lab, depending on what you do. By only storing the signatures, you can have a much cheaper service that what would be needed to store GB of data, and really focus on other aspects t
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
We do plan to allow syncing to a local network drive, if that can work. The idea is that it will be file-based, and can leverage Dropbox, Google Drive or... a local networked drive. Still working on it, though! See PARStore on github for so
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Nice idea about printing. The export will be here very soon, it simply did not make the cut for 1.0 because it needs more testing. Yes, the 'first to file' thing is still new enough that many scientists st
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by charles_parnot 12y ago
The problem evoked here is for your institution at which you work, to know that their researchers are not changing the data afterwards and following best practices. In this scheme, the user would submit the hashes to a central server contro

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