Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — pjonesdotca

pjonesdotca

HN member
Joined
Mon, Aug 03, 2009, 2:34 AM UTC
HN karma
247
Public activity
123 items

About pjonesdotca

ruby and scheme hacker living in toronto.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #35356507

    First, tweening. If you can get an AI to do the job of a tweener you've already massively impacted the VFX/Animation pipeline.

  2. comment
    Comment #33424639

    Because the models are not creating a 1:1 replacement of the original work. As mentioned before "style" is not something subject to copyright and the model creates a model of that …

  3. comment
    Comment #32593280

    It doesn't "copy". These are not collages patched together from different original images.

  4. comment
    Comment #17450463

    I'd recommend Teeline. It was developed for British journalists. I've used it off and on when I was a scrum-master to keep notes on standups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeline_S…

  5. comment
    Comment #17320191

    Well...Wintermute wasn't essentially hostile to humanity - it just had it's own goals. I find that way more cyberpunk than a dystopian AI bent on humanity's destruction.

  6. comment
    Comment #17320130

    https://cachethegame.com/ <<< fixed the url link

  7. comment
    Comment #17217919

    From the Ruby side Sinatra is just as fast as flask to get something going. Having supported all three ( Rails, flask, Sinatra ) if it's going to be an API. I usually start with Si…

  8. comment
    Comment #16868017

    Kinda shocked that someone would apply for a patent for a tool that is essentially a decision tree.

  9. comment
    Comment #16773390

    Oddly enough last week I showed this video to my 9 year old daughter who has a passing interest in animation and she understood the technology clearly. That fact alone means that w…

  10. comment
    Comment #16521379

    Mostly unenforceable in Canada as well.

  11. comment
    Comment #16521375

    The major problem I see for the "gig economy" is that as a contract worker one is essentially on their own for things like health insurance and unemployment benefits. While neither…

  12. comment
    Comment #16466038

    exactly what I thought

  13. comment
    Comment #16465942

    You also need to take into consideration how incredibly lucky you were. "Pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" is a myth and always has been.

  14. comment
    Comment #16465924

    6 month emergency fund? Have you seen how many people in the US are living paycheque to paycheque? I know many people who make six figures who would struggle to meet that requireme…

  15. comment
  16. comment
    Comment #15770975

    The problem with the hacker mindset as it applies to algorithms affecting lives is that most folk who studied computer science ( or any of the hard sciences for that matter ) usual…

  17. comment
    Comment #15770957

    Actually modern advertising ( post WW2 ) was built by psychologists - the artists just dressed up the intentions. Edward Bernays pivoted from being a propagandist to advertising an…

  18. comment
    Comment #15012668

    I'm kind of amazed that this article never really covers chord progressions. A useful start is this chart http://www.donaldsonworkshop.com/baraboo/songwriting/chordma...

  19. comment
    Comment #14050890

    A great intro to Prolog can be found here if you're not the type that learns solely from reading. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SykxWpFwMGs

  20. comment
    Comment #12910351

    The CIC site crashes under load every time a Republican wins the White House.

  21. comment
    Comment #12818025

    I have 'jj' mapped to ESC.

  22. comment
    Comment #12338899

    http://beatcancer.org/2014/03/5-reasons-cancer-and-sugar-are...

  23. comment
    Comment #12292967

    niche not nitch

  24. comment
    Comment #12271649

    "which would fundamentally alter what it means to be human in a profound and everlasting way" This has periodically happened over the long course of our species existence. A hundre…

  25. comment
    Comment #12217518

    Probably about as many parents who are fighting to get their kids in French Immersion in the rest of Canada. I can't speak about anywhere other than Toronto but here it's quite sou…