Derbasti

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by Derbasti 15y ago
Mine started with a bunch of IDEs like MSVC, Anjuta, Eclipse, Winefish and Bluefish, interspersed with short bursts of Vim and Emacs every now and then, but that didn't stick. I used anything and everything, really. Those days were spent in
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by Derbasti 15y ago
They are actually using future with 'ever'. As far as I know, the future 'ever' is relating to all future events. In contrast, Apple is using the present tense or the past tense 'ever', which would relate to all past events. I guess you cou
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by Derbasti 15y ago
> Windows 8 will be the most secure Microsoft OS ever. Ever. Never again will Microsoft create any software product as secure as Windows 8. It will be the pinnacle of human software engineering and it's all downhill from there. Seriousl
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Extreme tidying up(npr.org)
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iOS is anti-Unix and anti-programmer(blog.dbpatterson.com)
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by Derbasti 15y ago
What I do regularly is to record a macro that combines some action with a movement. For example, I have some file with many many lines that need to be changed in a very similar fashion. (Recent example: ten comma separated numbers per line,
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by Derbasti 15y ago
OK then, let's solve that compile issue today then.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I have done that in the past. But writing a mex function is a lot more tedious than writing a weave.inline string. Think of all the type conversions you have to put up with in mex. Think about how you have to set up a compile infrastructure
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by Derbasti 15y ago
But numpy is using LAPACK as its backend…
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UDP doesn't…
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Don't forget that the ribbon expands and collapses its individual blocks dynamically based on how big the window currently is, thus switching around the look and position of menu items (at least in Office, it does that). That can make re-fi
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Sending data by SMS is several times more expensive than receiving data from the Hubble space telescope (~$10/Mb). 'Nuff said.
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But they don't run on PyPy yet. Now that will be awesome!
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I had a rather less flattering experience. It seems half the time I pull stuff using pip, it will fetch the wrong version or fail to compile, or not fetch essential dependencies... It is still good, but nowhere near as great as gem or apt.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Markdown compiles to a subset of HTML, whereas LaTeX is able to express pretty much anything that can possibly be put in pages of PDF. As such, Markdown is very clean and focused. You can figure out all features of Markdown in a few minutes
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Let me tell you about one project I have been working on. It was a large embedded device, with lots of highly optimized code in C and ASM on Sharks and Blackfins. The problem was, every time you changed the code, you also had to push it on
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by Derbasti 15y ago
This one doesn't. It works just fine offline.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
That is pretty much like complaining why your new car has no built-in right of way. Sure, keyboard shortcuts are different. But you kind of knew that beforehand, right? Seriously, if that is your biggest complaint, how did you ever get used
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Actually, I feel that while Win7 and Lion simplified things, they didn't really take many features away. Some Linux designers seem to confuse removing complexity with removing functionality. But then, this is Linux, so someone will add the
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by Derbasti 15y ago
The cross platform thing is huge for me. If I am investing a lot of time in some text editor, I want to be able to migrate that skill set to wherever I go. In that regard, nothing beats Vim. There are Vim keybindings for every major IDE. I
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I have worked productively with quite a number of different toolchains. Among them were full-blown IDEs that worked great (VS+VisualAssistX and Eclipse for C++, XCode for Obj-C), there were IDEs that worked less than great (VisualDSP, Matla
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I don't see Apple being fearful to be honest. They are still growing like crazy and they are serving a somewhat different market than Android is. You simply don't buy an iPhone because you want 'some phone'. This is not to say that an iPhon
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by Derbasti 15y ago
I agree, but that is why it is configurable. Actually, I guess I could get used to it--but that would make switching OSes so much more painful it is just not worth the effort.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Plus, Lion makes quitting apps virtually meaningless.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Funny, I feel exactly the opposite way. New users won't care one bit about the scrolling direction. They won't care about mostly-invisible scrollbars and they probably won't even discover multitouch gestures. They will however find the App
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Why choose something as inefficient at reading the web as a notebook? The iPad is far better suited for that. There are tradeoffs involved in everything. Laptops, Desktops, Tablets, Smartphones, everything has its strengths and weaknesses.
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by Derbasti 15y ago
Is that so? You see, I thought, democracy was about what what the majority thinks or does. Commercialism however is only concerned with what the powerful and wealthy want.
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So many people are filesharing (or have been at some point). It is like making alcohol illegal...
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All this makes me sick. Building a business out of sueing people with the explicit goal of settling out of court is clearly subverting the legal system for the courts are only used for extortion but not for making just decisions. This is no
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by Derbasti 15y ago
How well does it work? I friggin' love RVM, so a Python version of that would be most welcome!

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