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Project Naptha 4 years ago

I find things like TextSniper to be more useful than this functionality, which has been in iOS and MacOS for a little bit. I use it more on hypothetically selectable elements that for whatever DOM-related reason aren't selectable than I use it on text in images.

In an "X is just Y" comparison, a good heuristic to determine whether someone is being a human being is to ask whether the comparison reduces the humanity out of the concept. This kind of thing is sociopathic.

I don't get how a pro photo app is supposed to be mobile-only and subscription-gated. One of the greatest things about flickr is that I can embed it almost anywhere, even hotlinking on my blog or on forums, and anyone, anywhere can see it on any device. (And if I pay, they can see a 6k version, served on the web, not through a download link.) I am really, really into photography but I do not have any interest in viewing image galleries on my phone when I have a 27" iMac 5k and Flickr shows me over a decade of photos collected from every type of photography enthusiast.

The thing with Markdown is that it does most of what you need to do with it, until it doesn't, when you can bring Pandoc to bear and put full-on LaTeX in your Markdown and it will render it however you want. I wrote a dissertation this way with inlined Rmarkdown code. It was great.

Are there that many people with iPad Pros who do not have the folio or Magic keyboard?

Also, I feel like the solution is to release an "App" that has a virtualization server in it, that can run MacOS. Keeps it contained, off to the side for the devs, but can take over the screen and inputs and be a fully-fledged touch MacBook to those who want it. (Maybe require dev accounts?)

I think folks are missing the forest for the trees: he's saying pick a language to really focus on and own it. That's your big tool now. Of course there will be other tools for more specific contexts. But having one big popular language in your tool belt (regardless of what it is) is better than skimming the surface of the tool-de-jour, especially as that tool is likely de jour because it satisfies an en-vogue concept.