Derbasti

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by Derbasti 15y ago
Regex search always uses a separate Window. Call me nitpicky, but I want to see my search results highlighted while I'm typing them. Especially when it is a regex search. Also, my Textmate regularly crashed whenever I tried to open some
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Nah, Textmate 1.5 as it is is perfectly fine. I mean, who really needs chunked undo anyway? And opening files larger than a few hundred k? Really, just split them. They"re a bad idea anyways. Or something like incremental regex search. Rea
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Funny though, how many people got hooked on Textmate and moved on to Emacs or Vim in the last few years. I certainly did. After tasting Emacs or Vim, there is no going back. I wonder whether we would have stayed if Textmate had been updated
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I don't believe this one second. Item: If record labels state that they invest a ton of money in musicians and nearly all of them do not make money, this means that the foremost goal of any musician must be to become one of the few acts who
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by Derbasti 15y ago
This happened to me, too. However, it seems that this only happens if the two iDevices were actually logged into the same account at some point--so no total strangers. Logging out of iMessage and back in solves the issue. I've seen it happe
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Yeah, that confuses me on a regular basis, too.
907.
by Derbasti 15y ago
The register 0-9 store the last ten deletes (yanks?) in Vim. This serves the same purpose as the kill ring.
908.
by Derbasti 15y ago
The register 0-9 store the last ten deletes (yanks?) in Vim.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
link does not work for me.
910.
by Derbasti 15y ago
That said, implementing all the basic movement commands and maybe some tag navigation goes a long way towards making any source code editor more useful. But I concur in that I would also demand macros, text objects and registers to really m
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Wait, what? Don't all radio devices always get tested by the FCC before they are approved for sale? I'm sure they could test airplanes to never be influenced by, say, a sub 2 Watt signal and certify cellphones of never exceeding 2 Watts of
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I am not quite sure but I think I spotted pieces of Qt in the Spotify client. That would explain a lot of its somewhat odd behavior on OSX (wrong focus states on some buttons, nothing serious) and its very consistent cross-platform looks. I
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by Derbasti 15y ago
"""Russia is now about to become our biggest market in Europe""" I have read things like that a few times recently. Since when is Russia considered a part of Europe? They have this small Exclave in Europe, but really the bulk of Russia is A
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by Derbasti 15y ago
That still does not solve the issue that current games have a lot of moving assets and really not that much static geometry. Trees, shrubs and grass move in the wind, water flows, walls crumble when hit by bullets, that kind of thing. Every
915.
by Derbasti 15y ago
As soon as I see animated objects moving about in a dynamically lit world, I will start to believe that Euclideon is on to something. Maybe there could be some middle ground like in the old voxel days, where you would have a static (unlimit
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Awesome app! I really like it! My wishlist: I would like to download some albums for offline use and I would like to have the app index more than 1000 songs. But don't take these suggestions as criticism. I love your app and it is already e
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Use Entropay to pay. Use store.steampowered.com/?cc=us and a browser and a VPN and a US steam account to buy, then gift it to your actual account. Works like a charm.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
And the RSS feed is abbreviated. Too bad.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Alright. It took me a few minutes to actually find a suitable version of Emacs for Windows. Then it took me another minute or so to find the English tutorial. As I quickly scan through the tutorial: The tutorial assumes I am using a termina
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Come on now, the builtin Emacs tutorial is atrocious . It tries to teach you the most basic stuff, like what the CTRL key looks like or how to hit arrow keys. Do you really think anyone who does not know the CTRL key would pick up Emacs?
921.
by Derbasti 15y ago
I agree. It is exactly what the name implies: a somewhat minimal object orientation layer on top of C. I wouldn't say the same thing about Cocoa though. Cocoa is good, but not great .
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Are you implying that self-taught programmers can only ever write 'something that compiles'? Because frankly, the best programmers I have met thus far have largely not studied computer sciences.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
As far as I am concerned, Obj-C and Cocoa are so tightly integrated into each other that using one without the other is a rather pointless exercise. There are compilers available to use Obj-C (the language) on just about any platform. I gue
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by Derbasti 15y ago
The only thing I really don't like about Objective C is that message passing is considerably slower than function calling. You just can not manipulate an image using the `setPixelX:Y:` method in anything close to real time. Using functions
925.
by Derbasti 15y ago
So true: If you can program, you are a programmer. How you came about this knowledge is insignificant. However, the post was about the fastest way to learn programming and books are a terrific way to do that. Not the only one. Maybe not the
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Actually, I have experience with both SciPy/Numpy and Matlab and I must say, I vastly prefer Python. I want to interoperate with C code without disgust. I actually want to write my computation kernel in C, inline with my general high-level
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by Derbasti 15y ago
You know, I recently rode my bike through some villages in Germany. Just about every house had solar panels on their roof. My parents have solar panels on their roof. They produce more electricity than they use and only need very little o
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Lets compare this to airplanes. Air travel used to be limited to those who were able and crazy enough to actually fly planes themselves. Now everyone can use planes for transportation in a very mediated and controlled environment. A pilot f
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by Derbasti 15y ago
> I'm lucky enough to live in an English-speaking country, but I'm sure that if I lived in a country that typically sees long delays before localization, I'd find a way to get it early. Even if that meant learning English and engaging i
930.
by Derbasti 15y ago
And programming computers is yet harder yet gives the user even more power. I think the dichotomy between power and usability is a false one. Technology should help people with their tasks. If this can be accomplished with a touch or speech

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