stephen balaban - Latest Comments

Re: Private: Idea Pirates

Stephen Balaban — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 18:41:12 -0000

Very much related, Hans Herman Hoppe's perspectives on Intellectual "Property":

"""
But let me say this much at this point: recall, I said property rights can only be acquired in things that are scarce, and only because they are scarce, are conflicts over their use possible. Now ideas, once they have been thought, are no longer scarce. If I think the same idea that you think, I am not taking anything away from you. You can still think exactly the same thing as before. Nothing is diminished on your part. Thoughts are, once they have been thought, free goods and conflicts over them are impossible.
"""

http://c4sif.org/2010/12/ho...

Re: An elegant pythonic solution to – TypeError: is not JSON serializable

Vadim Khaskel — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:21:39 -0000

str(your_array) - do the trick

Re: Caching with NSCache, or, The most underrated Objective-C Class

Lane Phillips — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:10:12 -0000

It would be true to say it retains the objects in ARC code, too.

Re: Google Glass Lifestream

Stephen Balaban — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:28:34 -0000

Fixed! Sorry about that, I now have a direct link to GitHub so that you can always download the latest version. (https://github.com/lambdal/...

Re: Fun with Triangular Numbers + Triangular Corporate Logos

ALOH — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 03:46:58 -0000

SATSE OMOC ALOH

Re: Fun with Triangular Numbers + Triangular Corporate Logos

Tu — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 03:34:52 -0000

Re: Fun with Triangular Numbers + Triangular Corporate Logos

Yo — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 03:34:10 -0000

Re: Google Glass Lifestream

thepete — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 18:07:04 -0000

Getting a 404 on LambdaBackup.zip Any chance there's a link to it elsewhere?

Re: An elegant pythonic solution to – TypeError: is not JSON serializable

Germán Larraín — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:00:35 -0000

You should replace `type(x[1]) == "Decimal"` with `isinstance(x[1], Decimal)` because that's the pythonic way to do type checking

Re: Google Glass Lifestream

edward — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:14:06 -0000

great tools for looking evidence something like report under table government staff

Re: Google Glass Lifestream

foo baggins — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:21:39 -0000

Redactapoop?

Re: Google Glass Lifestream

Stephen Balaban — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:34:42 -0000

Guilty as charged.

Re: Google Glass Lifestream

Mark Stosberg — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:33:37 -0000

Or it could be really depressing reminder of how much of the week you spent recording yourself staring at another computer screen.

Re: Google Glass Lifestream

Stephen Balaban — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:27:14 -0000

Making one of these every week would be a great way to remember what you did, who you interacted with, and get a general feeling for how the week went.

Re: iOS internationalization from day one

Angel — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:27:26 -0000

Even easier is to use AGi18n tools

Re: iOS internationalization from day one

Stephen Balaban — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:31:39 -0000

@nicklockwood on twitter brings up two good points:

1) An alternative method is to internationalize using storyboards (I prefer to do it programatically). The relevant command is ibtool --export-strings-file stooryboard.strings *.storyboard

2) Genstrings is very similar to the sell script above, the main difference is that mine writes to stdout instead of clobbering a file on disk. It's slightly more UNIXy.

Re: Leonardo DaVinci Quotes on Humility

Stanley — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:36:00 -0000

love it!

Re: Facebook Graph Search Breaks Your Privacy Settings

Laura Haggarty — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:32:58 -0000

Graph Search is HUGELY broken. See my blog post from yesterday about it: http://katydidscards.wordpr...

Re: Caching with NSCache, or, The most underrated Objective-C Class

kamek437 — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:13:17 -0000

I wouldn't say NSCache is in Objective-C, it's in Cocoa, or maybe Foundation.

Re: What services would you expect from a company with $2.2 trillion in revenue?

Kevin — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:29:27 -0000

How about wealth redistribution... oh wait, they already do that....

Re: Graph Visualization with GraphViz

Stephen Balaban — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:19:47 -0000

I'd love to add a force-directed edge bundling algorithm to GraphViz; see: http://www.visualcomplexity....

Re: Working with utf8 (like Chinese) with sqlAlchemy + Elixir

Eduardo Pereira — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:32:23 -0000

That solves my problem, thanks !

Re: Bjarne Stroustrup Talk at UMich Notes

Stephen Balaban — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:26:39 -0000

Hopefully people find this useful, it was a really great talk. I think the biggest thing I got out of it was the concept of creating "Infrastructure" as opposed to "Web Apps". Great discussion surrounding this.

Re: iWeekend Beijing – CitySavvi.com – a 24 hour startup

Carole Wai Hai — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:33:43 -0000

Awesome~

Re: Private: yuanfen flow in python

Stephen Balaban — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:21:58 -0000

what i'm trying to say is that we're a company that starts companies :).

and i'm helping to start yuanfen flow so i'm starting a company that starts companies