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dwineman: It’s pretty easy to argue that software patents are...

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:25:51 -0500

It’s pretty easy to argue that software patents are bad for the software industry.

Regardless of where you stand on that issue, however, it must at least give you pause when Apple, who not only exercises final approval over what may be sold on the world’s largest mobile software distribution platform, but also has exclusive pre-publication access (by way of that approval process) to every app sold or attempted to be sold there, quietly starts patenting app ideas.

But even if you’re fine with that, how about this: one of the diagrams in Apple’s patent application for a travel app is a direct copy, down to the text and the positions of the icons, of an existing third-party app that’s been available on the App Store for years.

I can’t see how this is even close to OK.

Crikey.

via danzigner on B3S, probably via someone else’s Tumblr...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:15:22 -0500

via danzigner on B3S, probably via someone else’s Tumblr (but I don’t know whose).

RIP Eric.

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:34:47 -0500

RIP Eric.

New WIP error display.

Fri, 14 May 2010 05:30:20 -0500

New WIP error display.

Current WIP. Moving along…

Wed, 05 May 2010 16:55:25 -0500

Current WIP. Moving along…

64-Bit/Snow Leopard-compatible Automator actions for Paparazzi!

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:30:33 -0500

64-Bit/Snow Leopard-compatible Automator actions for Paparazzi!:

Finally, right?

Current General preferences in Paparazzi! 0.5b7. It’s a...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:33:30 -0600

Current General preferences in Paparazzi! 0.5b7.

It’s a bit cluttered.

Wow. mrgan: I mean, where to start. 1. The new version of...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:50:56 -0600

Wow.

mrgan:

I mean, where to start.

1. The new version of Microsoft Visio - which, in case you’re not cursed with a sucky office job, is a very popular diagramming app - includes a rip-off of Panic’s Transmit truck.

2. They didn’t just copy the icon, of course - they first ran it through the world’s worst autotracer (check out that front grill!)

3. All the other icons in the app are of this “quality”.

4. Visio also includes a groundbreaking feedback feature called Send-A-Smile/Send-A-Frown. It is of similar quality as well.

(via Cabel)

Photo

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:04:17 -0600

(via nifkin)

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:02:28 -0600

(via nifkin)

tyznik: procedurally generated city (via zebedec) This takes me...

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:32:34 -0600

tyznik:

procedurally generated city (via zebedec)

This takes me to Bonerton.

"It’s got to be so annoying to compete with Apple, at anything really, because it’s not..."

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:47:53 -0600

“It’s got to be so annoying to compete with Apple, at anything really, because it’s not like they’re doing something fucking crazy. Everybody’s had these ideas before. The difference, and this is grim if you are a competitor, but the difference is that everyone else spends a lot of time (and often, money) determining why those things aren’t possible. And then it comes out, for real, only you didn’t make it.”

- Tycho Brahe (Jerry Holkins) (http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/1/22/)

Photoshop Blueprint Icon

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:09:28 -0600

Photoshop Blueprint Icon:

Xcodeish.

mrgan: James Lipton’s beard helps teens think twice before they...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:02:38 -0600

mrgan:

James Lipton’s beard helps teens think twice before they send a nasty text message. (More at AdFreak.)

"You can’t parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can’t be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that..."

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:43:24 -0600

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You can’t parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can’t be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool that is insufficiently sophisticated to understand the constructs employed by HTML. HTML is not a regular language and hence cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Regex queries are not equipped to break down HTML into its meaningful parts. so many times but it is not getting to me. Even enhanced irregular regular expressions as used by Perl are not up to the task of parsing HTML. You will never make me crack. HTML is a language of sufficient complexity that it cannot be parsed by regular expressions. Even Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions. Every time you attempt to parse HTML with regular expressions, the unholy child weeps the blood of virgins, and Russian hackers pwn your webapp. Parsing HTML with regex summons tainted souls into the realm of the living. HTML and regex go together like love, marriage, and ritual infanticide. The

cannot hold it is too late. The force of regex and HTML together in the same conceptual space will destroy your mind like so much watery putty. If you parse HTML with regex you are giving in to Them and their blasphemous ways which doom us all to inhuman toil for the One whose Name cannot be expressed in the Basic Multilingual Plane, he comes. HTML-plus-regexp will liquify the nerves of the sentient whilst you observe, your psyche withering in the onslaught of horror. Rege̿̔̉x-based HTML parsers are the cancer that is killing StackOverflow it is too late it is too late we cannot be saved the trangession of a chi͡ld ensures regex will consume all living tissue (except for HTML which it cannot, as previously prophesied) dear lord help us how can anyone survive this scourge using regex to parse HTML has doomed humanity to an eternity of dread torture and security holes using regex as a tool to process HTML establishes a breach between this world and the dread realm of c͒ͪo͛ͫrrupt entities (like SGML entities, but more corrupt) a mere glimpse of the world of regex parsers for HTML will instantly transport a programmer’s consciousness into a world of ceaseless screaming, he comes, the pestilent slithy regex-infection will devour your HTML parser, application and existence for all time like Visual Basic only worse he comes he comes do not fight he com̡e̶s, ̕h̵is un̨ho͞ly radiańcé destro҉ying all enli̍̈́̂̈́ghtenment, HTML tags lea͠ki̧n͘g fr̶ǫm ̡yo͟ur eye͢s̸ ̛l̕ik͏e liquid pain, the song of re̸gular expression parsing will extinguish the voices of mortal man from the sphere I can see it can you see ̲͚̖͔̙î̩́t̲͎̩̱͔́̋̀ it is beautiful the final snuffing of the lies of Man ALL IS LOŚ͖̩͇̗̪̏̈́T ALL IS LOST the pon̷y he comes he c̶̮omes he comes the ichor permeates all MY FACE MY FACE ᵒh god no NO NOO̼OO NΘ stop the an*̶͑̾̾̅ͫ͏̙̤g͇̫͛͆̾ͫ̑͆l͖͉̗̩̳̟̍ͫͥͨe̠̅s ͎a̧͈͖r̽̾̈́͒͑e not rè̑ͧ̌aͨl̘̝̙̃ͤ͂̾̆ ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ ISͮ̂҉̯͈͕̹̘̱ TO͇̹̺ͅƝ̴ȳ̳ TH̘Ë͖́̉ ͠P̯͍̭O̚N̐Y̡ H̸̡̪̯ͨ͊̽̅̾̎Ȩ̬̩̾͛ͪ̈́̀́͘ ̶̧̨̱̹̭̯ͧ̾ͬC̷̙̲̝͖ͭ̏ͥͮ͟Oͮ͏̮̪̝͍M̲̖͊̒ͪͩͬ̚̚͜Ȇ̴̟̟͙̞ͩ͌͝S̨̥̫͎̭ͯ̿̔̀ͅ Have you tried using an XML parser instead? ”

- RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags - Stack Overflow (via jacobd)