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1021.
by bigfudge 16y ago
From my very limited knowledge of language acquisition, my guess is you might be wrong (although I'm happy to be corrected). Don't human children acquire language much faster, more accurately and from poorer signals than would be possible v
1022.
by bigfudge 16y ago
hello my name is brenda and I am anxiously awaiting their arrival in the United States and Canada
1023.
by bigfudge 16y ago
Admittedly the parent post is somewhat fanboyish, but it's true that the macbook (and imac) sleep functions are light years ahead of most PC laptops. They sleep very quickly on closing the lid, and resume fast too... I've never found sleep
1024.
by bigfudge 16y ago
Am I the only person to set a 20px+ programming font? I have pretty good sight, but with a widescreen-ish macbook, you can easily get 120 chars in a window at that size and it's much easier to scan code.
1025.
by bigfudge 16y ago
Although the private by default thing is a nice idea, here's the problem with the fridge's model: What about the situation where someone in a group goes 'rogue' and invites people who other group members don't want to see their stuff? These
1026.
by bigfudge 16y ago
Scary in the sense that many inexpert users would find it helpful to have a curated store for applications on their desktop with a simple, reliable payment mechanism, no installation headaches, and no/signficantly-less malware?
1027.
by bigfudge 16y ago
Playing a bit more, what would be really nice would be to be able to do later -r list to recurse through subdirectories listing issues in those too. At present it only looks upwards.
1028.
by bigfudge 16y ago
When you init it, it creates a .later directory to store the issues. You could revision this along with code, so yes it seems like a nice replacement to the todo.txt.
1029.
by bigfudge 16y ago
What does Garamond look like on an iphone 4?
1030.
by bigfudge 16y ago
What do you mean by autonomy? The big drawback of the ipad is that you do still need a mac/pc to sync and backup — mobileme is nice as far as it goes, but the ipad isn't standalone just yet.
1031.
by bigfudge 16y ago
I guess it depends what you mean by interesting. I'm not convinced that anyone targeting the enterprise is ever going to be able to reproduce the quality of UI that apple has achieved over the past few years. Android has proved a huge disap
1032.
by bigfudge 16y ago
I've not tried org-mode, but I've started using Markdown with pandoc ( http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ ) to do much the same thing. Markdown makes actually writing much quicker and more readable, but you can still insert raw LaTeX where y