ben_straub

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by ben_straub 15y ago
This is actually the question the product answers. A lot of graphic designers like to start designing on paper, then move to Illustrator or PS for the final work. The classic way to do this is to scan in your sketch and make it a layer, and
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by ben_straub 15y ago
I worked for Wacom up until 4 months ago, and I was involved in the development of this product. I'm not sure how much I can talk about this without violating NDA, but I'll try. Normal Wacom tablets use electromagnetic resonance (EMR) to b
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by ben_straub 15y ago
The largest benefit you can expect to get from compiling 64-bit is the ability to address more memory. Performance is a bad reason, unless you need extra floating-point precision or your problem is highly vectorized, and you just doubled th
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by ben_straub 15y ago
As a father of two, I heart this idea. This takes the budgeting headache away from the manager, and is completely fair. It implies that every developer is responsible for his/her own workstation maintenance, though, and that might be a ris
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by ben_straub 15y ago
I think you're straw-manning the premise. He's not talking about the difference between a '10 MBP and an '11 MBP, more like the difference between a mid-to-high-end '08 MBP running Leopard and a mid-to-high-end '11 workstation running Lion.
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by ben_straub 15y ago
I'll take one if you still have them. Thanks!
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by ben_straub 15y ago
Leadership and management are orthogonal. There are managers who couldn't lead their team out of a paper bag, and there are great leaders with "Intern" on their business cards. More importantly, there are leaders who aren't even _good_ at m
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by ben_straub 15y ago
Not likely. Apple's moved to a clang-based toolchain, haven't they?
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Native Win32 for fun and profit(ben.straubnet.net)
6 points by ben_straub 16y ago|1 comments
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by ben_straub 16y ago
Demos don't work on my droid. I keep getting the "Visit this site on your iPad" box.
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by ben_straub 16y ago
As a Windows git user, this is a minor concern. msysgit works from cmd, powershell, and the include bash prompt, and the gitk and "git gui" tools are actually pretty good once you're familiar with the metaphors. The one thing that still giv
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by ben_straub 16y ago
Powershell: PS C:\> 0.1 + 0.2 0.3
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by ben_straub 16y ago
Not at all. Behind the compiler curtain, they're the same as functors ( http://www.newty.de/fpt/functor.html )
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by ben_straub 16y ago
Yeah. "C++0b" is most likely at this point.
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by ben_straub 16y ago
Well, you either have to publish your member variables and their names to the world, or use PIMPL, which is (I think) a bit of a hack. Having partial classes (a la C#) would be nice for this.
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Git: Grafting repositories(ben.straubnet.net)
38 points by ben_straub 16y ago|3 comments
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by ben_straub 16y ago
Sort of like Quince( http://quince.infragistics.com/ ) for the web. Nice.
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by ben_straub 16y ago
With a capacitive device, it's possible to detect things like fingers some distance away from the surface, but the signal is so noisy that you get a lot of false positives. The endpoint of all this stuff seems to be the Minority Report UI (
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by ben_straub 16y ago
For good or bad, Microsoft has committed to backwards compatibility. That means that all the techniques that work for installing apps now will work until Windows 7 is no longer supported. My team has put a lot of effort into making our inst
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by ben_straub 16y ago
Granted this isn't an issue for most mainstream users, but this would put my company (Wacom) out of business. Not all input devices are keyboards or mice; not all applications can get by with only network and limited disk access. Not all co
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by ben_straub 16y ago
MS Word has a diffing feature. I'm not sure how to trigger it from the UI, but my current source control system activates it when you diff two versions of the same Word doc.
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by ben_straub 16y ago
I actually keep my homework on github. :) And yes, depending on your pipe, downloading all the binaries can be slow. But the ability to have history and synchronization between machines (I probably use 4 or 5 computers on a regular basis) i
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Git for other purposes(ben.straubnet.net)
14 points by ben_straub 16y ago|8 comments
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by ben_straub 16y ago
You still know who it's from, just look at the signature: http://i.imgur.com/Icz56.png
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by ben_straub 16y ago
Nope. MSBUILD and all the new compilers ship with the Windows 7.1 SDK: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/archive/2010/04/07/coming-s...
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by ben_straub 16y ago
They support some of C99. LMGTFY: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146381/visual-studio-supp...
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by ben_straub 17y ago
Exactly my thoughts: neither of the two characteristics ("exceptional-ness" and "loyalty") are binary qualities. Both exist on a continuum, and more importantly, they're orthogonal. But the article assumes everyone is either moving up or mo
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by ben_straub 17y ago
I'm in: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01WPnhCByvoC3ga_XHOsFoYg==...
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by ben_straub 17y ago
A company is giving its customers good service. Is this fact altered by their motivations for doing so?
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by ben_straub 17y ago
But unfortunately irreversible, and non-upgradeable. When things improve on a Moore's-law curve, you don't want to make a permanent commitment.

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