Derbasti

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by Derbasti 14y ago
This somehow lacks all geek-appeal to me. It looks like a regular mother board. Not interested. The raspberry pi on the other hand looks cool . Strange.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Say what you want, but that demo was absolutely brilliant. I am not the target audience, though.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I'm not American.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
This is something I always loved about Python (as compared to other languages): There are several awesome interpreters available for it! This one has a curses-based interactive GUI for docs and autocompletion. IPython has this awesome qtcon
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I have this vision of a custom Vim keyboard for the iPad where every key is labelled according to its function. Hence, in normal mode, 'd' would be labelled 'del' and 't' would be 'goto'. Then press 'd' once, and 'd' is labelled 'line' and
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Well, lets see how Gruber does without Dan. To be honest, they never seemed to be a particularly good match to me.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I happily spent my $30 on that Double Fine project. Then Leisure Suit Larry came up, then numerous other remakes, now this... Frankly, many a developer has produced crap games for a great franchise. I don't like spending money on crap games
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Sorry, but back at the university, I gave several semesters of tutorials in programming for beginners. It's not that people are 'dumb' or 'smart'. It's just that some people have an easier time with some topics than others. I have seen peop
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by Derbasti 14y ago
No, but then I don't think that Google is a basket of goodwill. Quite the contrary, actually.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Well spoken, but not all people are like your girlfriend. To most people, learning a bit about programming would primarily be an exercise in frustration.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
The sad truth is, if Apple were a private company, they could do this. Being a publicly traded company, their first responsibility is their shareholders. Hence, they can not indulge in good-heartedness just for the sake of it if there is ev
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Lua tables are not an implementation detail. They are the one and only complex data type in Lua and everything (including OO) is built on top of them.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
That is precisely the point of the BSD license: Give freely to everyone.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
A strange way of looking at it. But it makes a lot of sense.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Looks a lot like Ingredients ( http://www.fileability.net/ingredients/ )
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I just disable ViEmu whenever other people sit down at my keyboard. The switch is right up there in the menu bar. More recently though, I just open up Sublime Text and have them work in that. My computer, my rules.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
For some reason, my main Chrome installation broke (kept resetting itself every few days). Also, I became fed up with sending all my settings, bookmarks and history to Google. So I tried Opera. It had a few quirks which ultimately threw me
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I switched from Chrome to Firefox a few weeks ago. Yes, Chrome is noticeably faster for every rendering task. In particular, it's nice that single tabs don't slow down the whole browser. In the end though, both work fine and I don't mind th
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by Derbasti 14y ago
> Firefox start-up time is visible to all users. Really? Except for OSX users that is. Still, improving startup time is a good thing.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Right, but that does not imply a move away from Windows in general. People 'update' whenever they buy a new machine or the IT department makes them update. Whether or not they skip a version or two does not kill Microsoft immediately but it
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by Derbasti 14y ago
People have always complained about new versions of Windows. They bitch and moan and they cry and vouch never to touch it, but in the end, it does not matter. Most people buy a new PC every few years and it comes with some sort of OS and it
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by Derbasti 14y ago
It makes sense to use a language that is close to what people will be using later just so they will be able to transfer their learned knowledge more easily. Lisps are very interesting and important, but their syntax does not transfer easily
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by Derbasti 15y ago
It is a fairly awesome text editor, great syntax highlighting, great snippets and navigation features. What makes it less than ideal for me is lack of Dropbox syncing: You can download and upload stuff alright, but you always have to explic
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by Derbasti 15y ago
having dabbled in a bit of Ruby metaprogramming, I can't say that it is particularly simple. Still, simple Ruby is simpler than simple Obj-C and certainly simpler than simple C++ (if indeed there is such a thing as simple C++).
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Exactly. C++ is simply way more complicated than Obj-C. Also, the Obj-C object system is pretty high level and dynamic (message passing, late binding, dynamic dispatch). This makes it somewhat slower at method calling, but at the same time
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Because in order to create a really good new generation of word processor, someone would have to start from scratch and reimagine the whole thing. Microsoft lives from taking users' documents hostage and making users pay for software upgrad
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by Derbasti 15y ago
> The experienced also don’t mind digging into code I only got this pretty recently. For the longest time, something did not work, I would try to look for an obvious cause but more often than not, I would not find anything and just give
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I guess that is still valuable. Maybe someone else will pick it up and write the tests for it. Contribution is contribution is great!
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I used to be a subscriber to Spotify, back when I had to jump through crazy hoops to be able to subscribe to it from Germany (involving a VPN, entropay and paypal with a fake address). I have since moved on to Rdio, which does not have as g
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Man, this is a fucked up world.

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