Derbasti

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by Derbasti 15y ago
Caffeine keeps you from sleeping, but it does not make you awake. At least that is how I feel. Also, I vastly prefer tea over coffee. Usually green/white tea, or mate tea (even more caffeine) or some herbal stuff.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I used to disregard this for the same reasons you are disregarding it. But at some point I realized that (a) I prefer big font sizes (~13 pt regardless of with/without glasses) (b) I like to have two columns of code next to each other. (c)
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I can't say yet. It is not out yet.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
What do you mean? It is very viable to use Lua on a Blackfin.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
A mixing console. The Lua is considered part of the software. It will not be exposed to the end user. It will however make it trivial for us to do quite complex modifications of the software without recompiling. For example, displaying feet
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I think the biggest leap for Kindle was the Kindle 3 (aka "Keyboard Kindle"). If they support that, they should be fine. As far as I understand, the newer Kindles (touch, non-keyboard) use the same software and processor as the Kindle 3, so
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by Derbasti 15y ago
We are currently using Lua in an embedded system to define user interaction. The embedded application is a rather complex thing with a screen and a few hundred buttons, LEDs, encoders and faders, so user interaction can get messy. It all ha
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by Derbasti 15y ago
As far as I can see, there is not much risk involved in asking Facebook/Google/Dropbox/Yahoo/Microsoft/Whatever to give you "your" data, as per European law. Then look at it and see what is wrong with it. Then file a complaint. What can the
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by Derbasti 15y ago
As far as I know, those unwrapping-consent EULAs are not legal (at least in Europe). And I seem to remember that some court in some county decided that EULAs in general are not legally binding (to consumers at least) any more since no one c
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by Derbasti 15y ago
This might be a great way to brush up you CV after university (for law students).
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I think the point of the ribbon is to get rid of rightclick menus and the menu bar. This is certainly a requirement for making a touch-first UI. That said, it will necessarily make mouse based interaction more clunky. But they are committed
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by Derbasti 15y ago
And even if you haven't, you can learn how to read it in ten minutes. Say what you want about Obj-C, but I think its readability is really outstanding.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I once was stuck for seven months. I never quite understood why my employer was OK with that. The solution however was just as you described. I needed to get away from the computer. In that case, I had to get some science/math straight. Onc
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Really, you are paying for the privilege to be listed in the App Store and to be distributed to customers.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
What about Scipy? Will Pypy support Scipy soon, too? Without Scipy, I don't neet Numpy.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
You mean, like a first person shooter with HJKL instead of WASD? Kind of reminds me of the old days when I had a really hard time switching from keyboard-only arrow key controls to WASD and mouse in the game Unreal. Unintuitive as hell, but
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Tablet of the year: iPad 2. You don't say! I was not aware that there was much competition in the tablet space, yet. Feels lika a kind of random selection to me, though. But what did I expect.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I would like Raven to be this physical place that contains my most important web fixtures. That is, whenever I want to access Hacker News, instead of opening Chrome and hitting a bookmark, I'd just go to Raven and know that HN will be right
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I quite like it. Check out the "Web apps", to understand what Raven is about. But please, don't close all websites when I close the window. Closing tabs on closing the window makes sense for Chrome, where each tab represents something ephem
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I have used Cygwin for a while, yes. However, I found it to be slow and just... alien, from a Windows perspective. My main gripe with it was a different thing though: Its package management is atrocious. Packages are outdated and there is n
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by Derbasti 15y ago
To many people (myself included), any current generation processor will do. Processors are not the bottlenecks any more for most applications.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Agreed: The best thing about OSX is that it combines a great graphical interface and support for commercial software with a Unix command line. You can achieve something similar with Windows 7 and a Linux VM and some file system mirroring to
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Run a Windows VM with Visual Studio. That will need at least 1.5 Gigs. Then run some heavy stuff on OSX too and it will become slow. If you have an SSD, it won't become unbearably slow, but clearly straining. Which is to say, 4 Gigs are fin
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I have been working on a hackintoshed Dell for the last year or so. Initially, I tried to work with Windows 7. It really is not bad at all, but my brain seems to be hardwired to use a Unix command line (and Vim) at this point, so after a wh
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by Derbasti 15y ago
To me, the main limitation of the MBA is that it can only have 4 Gigs of memory. If it wasn't for that, it would be the perfect laptop. Relatively inexpensive even, as the article points out. However, I require 8 Gigs (for running VMs) and
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I own both an iPhone and an iPad and a Kindle. I'd tell you: for reading stuff, nothing beats the Kindle. PDFs though, not so much. You just can't comfortably put a letter page on a 7 inch screen. That said, I would not buy an iPad again. I
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by Derbasti 15y ago
So... The Start Menu needs to die, therefore make it a whole frigging screen instead of a popup menu. Very similar to the New Explorer thing: most people don't use 80% of explorer menu features, so put them in the ribbon where they take up
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Yeah. Cross platform availability is definitely a must these days. For some time, E-texteditor looked like it could be Textmate on Windows. By now it is just as much vaporware as Textmate itself, though. A pity, really.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Funny. I tried Emacs a few times but it was always that undo thing that kept me from sticking with it. Incidentally, it was also the undo that kept me from sticking with Textmate. At some point, I settled with Vim though. Lots more strangen
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I tried to use Texmate like that for a while but ultimately, not having a sensible undo and the kind of sucky non-regex incremental search blew it for me.

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