DeepDuh

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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I could be wrong, but I think it was edited in. Otherwise scaevolus would probably have pointed it out instead of going to hunt LinkedIn.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Thanks a lot. I'm still reluctant to use LinkedIn since much of it feels like extortion to me. Btw. I'm surprised that you've found the ü character. Not even US customs/border protection let me enter my German name in the ESTA form.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I'm in a bright[1] office with an rMBP. I'm imagining everyone with displays that give less brightness / contrast is going to have a bad time. [1] It's a Japanese office. These people really like their cold bright neon. I think it has to wi
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
As a Swiss I'm curious how the name has come to be. Is the team related to ETH Zurich?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Am I the only one being put off by the CSS? I had to crank the display brightness to the max in order to read it without strain. Edit: I agree a lot with the content though - For many complex problems, especially the kind where you can't ju
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
The problem is that today 'being able to read/write code' and 'being a programmer' is as good as synonym. It shouldn't be, that's the issue. We won't call CEOs with programming skills 'programmer's just as we don't call them 'readers' tod
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
How about a good old desktop mail client? I don't really understand why so many people insist on only using webmail and then complain about the lack of certain features and/or GMail lock-in.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I get this feeling about Django, but not about Flask. Its codebase is so lean I can read all the relevant parts in an hour when I want to get back into it. I don't even need docs for this thing. However, I understand what you mean about req
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
> although since extensions don't have access to OS functions, it doesn't tell you if anything is playing a sound or not and that's why this should be a browser feature and not an extension.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Only if it works reliably though. I wonder whether they can make it work with plugins. Maybe you'd have to get a hook with some platform specific OS API that tells you when sound is playing (does this even exist though)? You could then matc
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Tl;dr: An editor with lua patterns instead of regex find/replace. Thanks, I stick with (and pay for) my ST.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Sometimes 'ahead of its time' is not such a good thing. Specifically, when the available hardware can't keep up with what the system design demands[1], e.g. a responsive smartphone touch interface created in an interpreter (as far as I can
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
According to [1] this has already been invented. Too late then. Let's make millions anyway, just because.. [1] http://www.radiolab.org/2007/jun/07/
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
After owning an iPad mini I have to say that an as-light-as-possible 7'' tablet appears to be one more device that's very useful have / bring along. It allows you reading / media consumption on a device with a satisfying screen size that's
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Isn't it obvious? When you have your stuff stored digitally it (a) takes care of the organizational aspects of note taking and (b) makes notes reusable. The payoff as a student is exam prep: Now you sit at a powerful desktop computer with
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I know, right. 'feelings' - sometimes a difficult concept to grasp after too much Fortran 90 or something similar.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Well, the thing about OSX is that it is heavily reliant on in house media codecs and drivers that I find haven't been virtualized very successfully so far. Furthermore, I find that the (paid) virtual host desktop solutions on OSX are much b
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
About HFS: You seem to dismiss it a bit quickly. Trial versions of 'MacDrive' on Windows have always worked very solidly for me - if I were still using bootcamp I would pay for it. However the bigger question IMO is: Do we really need nativ
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
window management is indeed better designed on windows (since 7) which makes your parent poster's claim a bit unsubstantiated, but thinking about it a little more there is something to it: Windows applications, especially since the ribbon
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Well, the reverse is already done in ASCII art isn't it?
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
As someone attempting to get into systems programming - thank you! Very insightful article - maybe it would deserve a punchier headline though.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Here's the problem: I had no idea until now.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
That's an interesting solution, especially since the suggested way for controlling spaces is already a touchpad thing on macs - extending the functionality for windows seems quite natural.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
>Ubuntu searchable menus (HUD) coupled with execution of the command from the search results would be something I'd be interested in. You mean like the OSX help system? Yes, feature discoverability is the main issue I have with Office r
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I agree with you. I wasn't arguing against gun control laws. Actually, Swiss gun control is very strict, plus it's also not so easy to get ammunition. Most of the guns here are the military rifles people keep after service and the ammunitio
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I'm working at a national Japanese research agency with several thousand researchers. The administrative overhead is probably close to 50% (as in, half the jobs here are in administration). It's only for a 3 month research project that I'm
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
I understand what you mean, I think I'm wired in a similar way. However I'm skeptical whether you can spead that kind of 'love' to a wider audience without coming from the applied side of things. I believe the power to describe some daily l
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
You do have a point, but I wonder what's behind that 'love in math' you're talking about. I tend to think that curiosity is the only basic character trait needed to fall in love with something as basic as math, grammar, music or physics. Ho
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
Well I didn't say it's the same kind of architecture. For the end user it serves the same purpose however.
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by DeepDuh 14y ago
> This was years ago, I don't know if it has improved, but it grated me greatly. Well of course, OS X has heavily improved since the early days (I'd call 'early' everything below 10.4). The surge of developers wanting to use OS X has al

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