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motti

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I live at http://www.motti.co.uk/

Company: https://www.copycopy.com/

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motti··on OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy
If it's sophisticatedly rewritten then it's no longer AI generated
motti··on Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made
It does. Cmd-Shift-/ and start typing
motti··on Ask HN: What are some of the best job boards you have seen (any industry)?
http://www.indeed.co.uk has a very clean craigslist-like style which I find a joy to use when recruiting.
motti··on Ask HN: Google Doc email virus?
Changing your password is the fastest way to ensure all authed sessions on any device is logged out. Google offers a "log out of any sessions" button somewhere in account settings, but most other services don't.

If your email account is compromised, any service that do password resets via email confirmation, are potentially compromised by whoever has access to your email via OAuth.

motti··on OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
We at CopyCopy (a cross-platform cloud clipboard) solve this problem by only universally copying stuff that you copy twice.

So:

copy once -> not sent to cloud/devices

copy twice (or click floating button) -> sent to all your devices and cloud account

motti··on OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
Indeed, WHATWG is currently considering [1] a related scenario where rogue websites with access to the clipboard will inject formats with dodgy payload to exploit flaws in some app if the user pastes.

[1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1244

motti··on High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains “user”
Windows itself leaves the c:\users\<username> path as it was first set, even if you rename the username.
motti··on Ask HN: Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?
We (copycopy.com), do.

Atm we use a mix of QtQuick/QML and some widget code mainly when wrapping QtWebKit it for some parts of the app furniture that need it.

Although the guts of our app requires native code (for clipboard monitoring and websocket message receiving), were considering ditching much of the UI in favour of a webapp.

motti··on Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
With Marshmallow, you can just turn off or deny certain permissions. So for most people who really want to run the Uber app, the question is really whether it runs OK without all these permissions.
motti··on What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ from Autism After Magnetic Stimulation
My mother published a fairly seminal paper on the topic [1] 18 years ago which concludes that emotional awareness (specifically, the "Theory of Mind"[2]) can be learned by people with Autism.

At the time this was against prevailing wisdom but AFAIK is now considered accepted wisdom.

[1] https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?cluster=165456960940191... [2] https://www.autism.com/understanding_theoryofmind

motti··on Abandoning Gitflow and GitHub in favour of Gerrit
It does. Dependant changes/commits can be pushed at once, and if they are submitted out of order, they will be queued until the dependant changes are submitted/merged. In recent gertit releases, you can even submit (merge) all changes in a particular topic at once.
motti··on Qt 5.6.0 released
They announced a start-up/small business plan [1] of $49/month.

[1] http://www.qt.io/start-up-plan/

motti··on Never buy Epson printers
The Brother color lasers also are happy to print without color toner cartridges present.

By contrast, HP's cheaper color lasers require the cartridges to be present, and if they run out and are left in the machine, they cause banding over your printouts. This is due to their integrated drums wearing out, so you have to replace the color toners even if they're not being used (or hack around with transferring chips onto less-used old cartridges, even black ones so they're seen as colour ones).

motti··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | UX/Graphics Designer and/or Frontend Coder

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup currently launching a consumer productivity app.

The ideal candidate would be comfortable:

• Mocking up beautiful compelling usable designs

• Undertaking user research both with on-site interviews and via data-driven analytics

• Have experience in user research for deciding good UX based on actual data.

• Have a ability to dream up good UX and get in the minds of users

• Not afraid to do frontend coding to create engaging interactive design for our webapp.

Brownie points if:

• Your a great graphics designer who can draw up custom illustrations

• You're not afraid to create rich properties for native UI platforms like Android, iOS or Qt QML.

• You're comfortable with Git and other such geekery

Prefer on-site in our London office but may consider remote applications for the right candidate as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone.

Terms negotiable: long-term contract or employment.

Just email a CV to jobs@copycopy.cc

motti··on Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research?
You're right, and thanks for the feedback.

We thought animations would be good enough but people do like to see the real live thing. Here's a live demo, albeit one with rather poor sound and editing: https://vimeo.com/140990404. Password is "disrupt".

motti··on Ask HN: Evernote alternatives for research?
Try CopyCopy. We do bookmarking and article saving but more broadly let you keep anything for later just by copying it (using normal copy and paste). So we handle not just web articles, but any information that's copyable in any app! See https://www.copycopy.com/

If our homepage isn't clear enough, check out https://www.copycopy.com/product (excuse the unfinished wording on that page as it's not live yet).

You can go to https://www.copycopy.com/account and turn on experimental features which will enable tags (called "labels"). From our webapp https://www.copycopy.com/clips you can search clips, or filter them by label.

Oh, and we're quietly releasing our Mac OSX app tomorrow.

motti··on Mimic – abusing Unicode to create tragedy
This sort of stuff can be the basis for many XSS attacks, see http://websec.github.io/unicode-security-guide/character-tra...

For instance, \u2329, \uFE64, \uFF1C and \u3008 can be best-fitted automatically to \u003C (the regular '<' mark in HTML)

motti··on Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
I've founded a startup that wants to tackle the digital notebook and save-for-later problem, for any content - not just web stuff. What's your wish list for your ideal notebook?
motti··on 10M events a month, free
OTOH if you can afford the time and resources, then human customer support is an excellent source of user research. If you record these customer queries you can discover what's the next bit of functionality that your users want, that your competitors don't provide. You also discover which existing functionality isn't explained well enough.

You can use the normal self-service helpdesk methods to filter out the newbie questions.

motti··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | Marketer/Growth Hacker

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup on the cusp of launching a groundbreaking consumer productivity app.

We require someone to help us get many many users to try out our service!

The ideal candidate would:

• Know the correct channels for marketing our product.

• Have good writing and communication skills.

• Be prepared to get hands-on posting on all relevant marketing channels and pushing our product.

• Have been involved in a tech product launch.

Brownie points if:

• You've worked in advertising to some extent.

• You've done some really cool "growth hacking" in past.

• You've got some coding or design ability.

Remote applications are fine as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone but we're very happy to have you on-site in our London office. Will consider shorter term or longer-term contract or employment for the right candidate.

Just email a CV to jobs@copycopy.cc

motti··on Email reminder, 1d@gleym.com gives you a reminder in 1 day,
Have you seen followup.cc?
motti··on Ask HN: Why is communication among physically nearby devices still impractical?
There's a lot of work and movement on http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct
motti··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | UX/UI Designer and/or Frontend Coder

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup on the cusp of launching a groundbreaking consumer productivity app.

We require someone to help us get many many users to try out our service!

The ideal candidate would be comfortable:

• Mocking up beautiful compelling usable designs

• Undertaking user research both with on-site interviews and via data-driven analytics

• Have experience in user research for deciding good UX based on actual data.

• Have a latent ability to dream up good UX and get in the minds of users

• Not afraid to do frontend coding to create engaging interactive design for our webapp.

• Implementing new UI for web and mobile apps (Android and iOS) via mockup tools.

Brownie points if:

• You're not afraid to code using native UI platforms like Android, iOS or Qt QML for rich prototypes.

• You're comfortable with Git and other such geekery

Remote applications are fine as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone but we're very happy to have you on-site in our London office. Will consider shorter term or longer-term contract or employment for the right candidate.

Just email a CV to jobs@copycopy.cc

We're also looking for a marketer, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639361

motti··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)
CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | Marketer/Growth Hacker

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup on the cusp of launching a groundbreaking consumer productivity app.

We require someone to help us get many many users to try out our service!

The ideal candidate would:

• Know the correct channels for marketing our product.

• Have good writing and communication skills.

• Be prepared to get hands-on posting on all relevant marketing channels and pushing our product.

• Have been involved in a tech product launch.

Brownie points if:

• You've worked in advertising to some extent.

• You've done some really cool "growth hacking" in past.

• You've got some coding ability.

Remote applications are fine as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone but we're very happy to have you on-site in our London office. Will consider shorter term or longer-term contract or employment for the right candidate.

Just email a CV to jobs@copycopy.cc

We're also looking for UX/UI designer, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639387

motti··on How Googlebot crawls JavaScript
I don't think this is true at all.
motti··on Code Review Best Practices
Step over
motti··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)
CopyCopy, London, UK | REMOTE or ONSITE | UX/UI Designer & Marketer

CopyCopy is a young, cosy, startup on the cusp of launching a groundbreaking consumer productivity app. We urgently require a UX/UI designer to beautify and improve the UX of our multi-layered product and also undertake many marketing activities.

The ideal candidate would be comfortable knowing/learning how to:

• Mock up beautiful compelling usable designs

• Implementing new UI for web and mobile apps (Android and iOS)

• Undertaking user research both with on-site interviews and via data-driven analytics

• Perform obvious marketing tasks (can be learned on the job).

Brownie points if:

• You're not afraid to learn desktop UI (Qt QML)

• You're comfortable with Git and other such geekery

• You've been involved in a tech product launch

• You're a British citizen (simplifies tax for us)

Remote applications are fine as long as you're located +/-3 hours from London (GMT) timezone but we're very happy to have you on-site in our London office.

Will consider shorter term or longer-term contract or employment for the right candidate.

Just email a CV to jobs@copycopy.cc

motti··on New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline
Google originally pioneered Gears as a way to get webapps to work offline (at a time when HTML5 was still being hashed out by WHATWG) and tried to get it adopted as an open standard (http://gearsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/gears-and-standards....).

Spreadsheets had (view-only) offline capability via Gears as far back as 2008 (see http://googledocs.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/view-your-presentat...) but this was then discontinued in favour of the standards methods. FWIW, they have been helping with the HTML5 storage APIs from the beginning.

The HTML5 way of doing offline is AppCache, which Google have used for other products (http://googlecode.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/gmail-for-mobile-ht...) and are presumably using here (or the alternative FileSystem API - http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/pub/FileSystem/).

I suspect the Chrome-only limitation is due to the differences in the way is currently implemented, for instance:

* Until Firefox 26's release yesterday, it would prompt for each site that wanted to use AppCache (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6881368).

* Firefox doesn't handle the no-store directive well

* Chrome Apps can be granted unlimited storage (https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/storage#unl...)

motti··on Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet
Dan Shapiro has written a good post on this: http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-read-a-patent-...

To summarize, he says:

1. Skip the title

2. Skip the drawings

3. Skip the abstract

4. Skip the specification

5. Find the independent claims, and read them

6. Back to skipping – toss the dependent claims (any claim that starts with “The _____ of claim _____” is essentially a refinement or detail of the parent claim).

motti··on Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum
Try Gerrit. It's tightly coupled to git, it's quite easy to host, similar to Rietveld/Mondrian in style, and has good documentation.
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