vixsomnis
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Comment · 11 years ago
It's a bit reminiscent of the purported ancient Rome thumbs-down (or thumbs-up).
Comment · 11 years ago
Fountain lets me screenwrite like how I code, which is awesome. I use Goyo[1] and capslock.vim[2] to reduce distraction and make the capitalization easier. Git in Dropbox works well when only one person is committing.
1: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim
2: https://github.com/tpope/vim-capslock
My cowriter uses afterwriting[3] (locally[4]) to view them although we still use unformatted .docx for rough drafts, since he normally writes those and I revise.
Comment · 11 years ago
That is only an issue if we throw out the current system altogether.
What do you think of embedding IPFS links within html? Secure content can be directly loaded from the central server, content that only needs to be checked for integrity or hidden from the local network can be loaded from the distnet.
It'd be like mushing torrents and the web together.
Comment · 11 years ago
And here's the actual site where you can try it out: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.cgi?text=
Comment · 11 years ago
I think the web (www) won't change much at all, but that doesn't mean the way we interconnect with others won't.
This seems ultimately shortsighted. Human "progress" (increasing interconnection -- such as urbanization and population density) has been growing exponentially[1] since the birth of agriculture allowed humans to form societies.
Relative to this kind of momentum, the web is only a hint of the interconnection and globalization to come. The web may stagnate and become self-serving (as opposed to being useful), but this has no bearing on whether we'll eventually be able to simulate a human brain in its entirety or reach some {uto,dysto}pian future where all of our consciousnesses are somehow woven together.
I'm not saying that technology will be our salvation, but the graphs and trends don't lie. We are at a very interesting time in human history: we are either going to continue interconnecting exponentially or there will be some catastrophic event. There's no room on those curves for a plateau.
Whether humanity passes the torch of technological innovation to AI (voluntarily or coerced) or we suffer a self-wrought apocalypse, I don't know, but there is certainly reason to fear the changes the future will bring.
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/human-progress-charts-2011-3?... (This link isn't specifically tied to my argument. It's just the first set of graphs I found illustrating the long-term growth of humanity.)
Comment · 11 years ago
It's like grocery shopping and coupons, however. If you shouldn't be calling the function, then even a 99% reduction is not useful in that context.
Would you rather call a slow function, a fast function, or skip it altogether?
(A coupon only saves you money if you would buy the item in the first place.)
Comment · 11 years ago
I found this project a while back. I started putting TODO files and .topydo (config) files in my git repos while I work on them.
Much better than having your todo list in your README.
alias pydo='topydo'Comment · 11 years ago
Would proguard be able to prevent (or at least make much more difficult) this kind of reverse engineering?
Comment · 11 years ago
If there's no manual override, then it would be trivial to stop the car and threaten the passenger. According to the LA Times [0], Google is trying to make their autos fully autonomous, without any user controls. I'm not sure if there's more recent news than this.
If there is a manual override (wheel and pedals), the door is already locked when in motion, so the driver should have enough time to floor the gas and escape.
Unless Google incorporates some seriously advanced detection and response, I see SDCs being an easy target for criminals.
[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-google-car-20140...