72deluxe

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   by 72deluxe 6y ago

   It's a terrible way to learn. The example of context based words mentioned just doesn't work: "For example, a child who says "horse" when the word was "house" is probably relying too much on visual, or gra
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   by 72deluxe 6y ago

   Yes, I am personally disgusted that installing Office FORCES a word processor and spreadsheet to be installed when all I wanted was WMF clip art!
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   by 72deluxe 6y ago

   Yes it seems so! But it's different to the browser wars because the browsers used to used sensible amounts of RAM, and these "modern" chat systems seem to like ballooning quantities of RAM for displaying text and pictures, eg
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   by 72deluxe 6y ago

   Looks very nice, perhaps the replacement for my MacBook when it finally dies.
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   by 72deluxe 6y ago

   Yes, it's good isn't it!
6. 546.▲
   by 72deluxe 6y ago

   Haha it's insane why it would need so much RAM for chat. It's truly insane.
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   by 72deluxe 6y ago

   Thanks, an interesting paper. I wrote a word-wrapping algorithm once so this will be a good read to see how bad mine was.
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   by 72deluxe 6y ago

   I know, it sounds bliss! Like the 1980s - fewer distractions, clearer thoughts.
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   by 72deluxe 6y ago

   I did work in a place like that, and it turns out that hastily writing lots of code to do something yesterday whilst under stress just resulted in a constant turnover of staff, with nobody knowing how any of the millions (literal millions)
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    This is true. It is less pain for you in the long run to be free of people who believe magic occurs in nanoseconds overnight.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Ugh but where does it end? I dig out my "The Dilbert Principle" book and will start reading it again to promote sanity.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Thanks. If only this was available for C++ toolkits or C# WinForms, I'd use it in a heartbeat.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Yes, I ensure that my outgoings are low. I have a mortgage to pay (it isn't a luxurious area, so the house prices aren't astronomical) but before moving to 3 days I ensured that I cleared debts on cars/credit cards (eg. do yo
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    I wondered this too. It's not like there's a part of a language you MUST use. Perhaps they are fearful that it'll grow and grow and add features in that will make it difficult to learn and unwieldy. Stroustrup always said tha
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    No way. Really very informative, thank you! And I will stick with C++, thank you!
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    24 hours a week over 3 days. I went part time the other year since working 37.5 official hours (actually more) was full of arguing, battles and stress at work. I realised having a life was more important than work. Work is part of your life
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Have you tried FreeFileSync? It has an automated component that routinely syncs directories, eg. to a remote target if you map via sshfs
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Cmd-shift-g for "go to path"
19. 559.▲
    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Learn CMD+shift+N and your life will be complete. In Explorer, just learn Ctrl-Shift-N. And alt-up to go to the directory above (cmd-up for Mac). Honestly, using the keyboard for both applications removes a lot of the pain.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Looks very simple to write, although as others have said why not use a GUI to build the UI, eg. wxFormBuilder which has outputs to Python/PHP/C++ ? Thought I'd mention that as it might be something useful to others.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    This drag & drop behaviour is still perfectly viable in WinForms eg. using C#. Never quite a polished as Borland's offering of yesteryear (the GUI editor always felt clunky) but it's perfectly do-able.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    I used folders all the time and knew that I could type Windows, P, A, N Enter and Notepad would open. It took milliseconds.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Not sure I agree that a computer without touch is broken, since I have managed to use one for 30+ years without a touchscreen. I assume this what made him develop the Windows 8 with the appalling touch Start menu, which everybody hated.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    But typing the correct command also isn't that hard!
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    This is very true, thanks.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Perhaps I have not had these problems because my locale is UK English. I've used Windows for decades and it has been very stable for me for the past 7+ years.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Isn't this the problem with iOS apps too? They can't share libs or .so between them, which is why each iOS app is colossal for no good reason, eg. Google Sheets 180MB alone, Google Docs also 180MB, YouTube 280MB..... insane sizes
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    The irony is that the Lighthouse site itself scores really badly! Can you accept its advice?
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Everything from voidtools.com is a great search tool.
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    by 72deluxe 6y ago

    Have you ever read Windows Internals? Or MSDN? It has more documentation than any Linux system, ever. Even Microsoft's documentation of Apple's SDKs is better than Apple's. Windows Internals books are extremely extremely deta