Derbasti

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by Derbasti 15y ago
I would describe myself as a pretty proficient and comfortable user of Vim and I have switched to Other Editors for short and long periods of time. Really, switching text editors is like switching languages: Every time you learn a new langu
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The thing about Emacs is really its extensibility. There is simply no other text editor out there that can open a single C/C++ source file and automatically infer all tags (even of included headers) without any kind of project set up. That
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by Derbasti 15y ago
He talks about the Destroy All Software Screencasts. Are they worth it?
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by Derbasti 15y ago
This could be my story, even though in the end (after Textmate, then Vim), Emacs tempted me more than Sublime Text and I eventually switched back to it from Sublime Text 2. There is too much accredited awesomeness in Emacs (and to a somewha
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Learning a new tool is learning a new way to think. It always pays off.
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I tried it. It is good. It supports lists, with checkboxes, and completion ([1/3]). It supports some links. It does not support tables. You can not reorder entries. It does not support code blocks. You can fold, but you can not narrow (i.e.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Well, consider GUI libraries like Qt, GTK or Cocoa. Cocoa in particular does not have any concept of a user modifyable "theme" or "style". However, it changes its looks with OS upgrades and all GUI applications change with it. With static l
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I think Apple could have reached the pinnacle of its life. Maybe it is not such a great idea to start there now. It certainly has a few more productive years to go, but it feels like the decline might be in sight.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Hmm, I did not like the idea initially, but then I started thinking of how Emacs and (more importantly) Sublime Text work ... I must say, this very system works amazingly well for Sublime Text, why am I presuming that it is an automatic fai
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Yet another freedom lost in the land of the free: You are not allowed to have secrets any more.
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The problem is not copyright itself. The problem is that the creators are not the copyright owners any more. This is a very subtle distinction. We should do all we can to help creators, not publishers. Publishers have their place in the dis
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by Derbasti 15y ago
This post is so deeply antisocial it makes me sad. Maybe I am just not born to be a programmer like he is, but I invariably have more fun and I am more productive and creative when working with other people. That said, I enjoy how he so poi
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by Derbasti 15y ago
It's funny how your argument can be applied just as meaningfully to most of the comments here. We all agree, but no-one can prove it.
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How can there ever be a legislative tool to fight foreign pirates? By definition, national laws only ever work within one's own border. Isn't it sad to see how hard a time governments have with coping with internationalization?
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Damn it, I was so sure that 2012 would be The Year of Linux on the Desktop. And now this! Kidding aside, there will always be IPhones/Playstations, which need to be jail broken and there will be proper computers. If anything, this UEFI lock
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Well, if you don't want your laptop to suspend while it is open, use Caffeine. Awesome App! I was really asking why you would ever want your laptop to not suspend when you do close your lid. Watching a video or game is not possible with a c
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I tried several times and failed several times. What won me over in the end was the need to do some project management and the discovery of Org-Mode. Those checkboxed lists and tables are pure magic. So what I really needed was a use case t
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by Derbasti 15y ago
As far as I am concerned, sleeping is only annoying if it takes time. My MacBook basically wakes up instantly, so I have no issue whatsoever with it. Why do you think sleeping is a annoying?
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There are ways to achieve arbitrary upscaling without loss of information (e.g. FFT-based). It would be interesting if TVs out there utilize such methods or if they scale using some simple interpolation scheme.
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Back pain used to be difficult to medicate. Then they found out that many cases of back pain showed operable anomalies in their lower spine. Surgery usually lifted the back pain. They thought they found the reason and cure for back pain. Th
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I think the most fascinating point in this is that wages remained constant in Germany whereas they rose in the countries that are in the worst shape right now. Can anyone corroborate this data? Is this actually true? That would be such an e
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by Derbasti 15y ago
To be fair, WordPad (Windows) and TextEdit (Mac) do come bundled with the OS and are perfectly usable as word processors (RTF style). I'm not saying that they approach the feature set of MS Office, OpenOffice, LibreOffice or iWork, but for
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I can only tell you that my mom regularly had issues with people sending her .doc files, which she edited in OpenOffice and they came back somewhat garbled.
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You know, I don't get that. I can see how the feature set of OpenOffice or LibreOffice would be sufficient for just about anyone. However, I strongly feel that both Microsoft Office and Apple iWork do offer some real benefits in terms of us
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Also, in many cases an employer might pay for some of the software.
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Unless of course you have an SSD. With an SSD, Spotlight is easily fast enough to work well. To start XCode, I hit CMD-space, xc, enter, with a split-second pause before the enter. That is enough for Spotlight to catch up to my typing and I
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Emacs. 'Nuff said. Just kidding. Actually MacVim, too. The current gen i7 MacBook Pro is an insanely great machine. - I pretty much can not work without VMWare Fusion. - Tower for git, Cornerstone for svn - Sparrow, for I want a second mail
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I think the real beauty of Solarized is how it works equally well in light and dark mode. Also, how it is explicitly not trying to be as high contrast as possible. I don't think I have ever used any color scheme as consistently as Solarized
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Well, light or dark? I go Solarized Light.
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Check out Project.tar.gz That plugin alone has changed the game for me. What a marvelous little thing.

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