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by cpr 15y ago
I'm really not sure why the author is expending so much energy on the "@". It was the clearly obvious symbol for so-and-so at a given machine. What else could Tomlinson have used from the basic teletype character set? And, as I commented to
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by cpr 15y ago
Boy, I really don't know. I've actually enjoyed using Objective-C and Cocoa when used for Mac OS/iOS development (the dynamicity of Smalltalk data structures with the control flow of C), but I don't think I'd ever voluntarily choose it outs
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by cpr 15y ago
Mostly defaults--I only have a handful of custom keybindings, most of them a carry-over from the old ITS/Twenex Emacs defaults, since I have editing finger habits which are decades old. (It's wonderful that you can get most of the basics in
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by cpr 15y ago
Oh, probably started them 10-15 years ago. Hard to say. I started around 1978 or so with Emacs on ITS (MIT-AI lab Incompatible Timesharing System), which was built in TECO. So those files wouldn't be very useful. ;-) Then moved to TOPS-20 E
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by cpr 15y ago
Yes, but it's great to see your functions in context. I also use Emacs for text editing, and I'm writing a major manifesto right now which is thousands of lines.
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by cpr 15y ago
Sorry, my grandparent comment was about Emacs, not Sublime Text.
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by cpr 15y ago
That's right--this is not just multiple views on one file/buffer, this is multiple views that are synchronized to follow one another, to give you the full effect of one long view.
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by cpr 15y ago
I've been using Emacs for 32 years (hard to believe) and never knew about this incredible but apparently obscure feature of Emacs. On my 27" cinema display, even using 12pt Monaco for my tired old eyes for extreme legibility, I can get 4-5
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Emacs follow-mode(stackoverflow.com)
221 points by cpr 15y ago|50 comments
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by cpr 15y ago
C'mon, all the Mitford sisters were fun people--one was a passing girlfriend of Hitler, one of Mussolini, one married the head of the brownshirts (fascist league) in Britain. Jessica married a Marxist professor at Berkeley (I believe it was
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by cpr 15y ago
I noticed the Cappuccino folks eyeing this paper on Twitter... (Since the new Lion Auto Layout facility is based on the same algorithms.)
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Lion: Cocoa Autolayout Release Notes(developer.apple.com)
114 points by cpr 15y ago|25 comments
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Tagged pointers and fast-pathed CFNumber integers in Lion(objectivistc.tumblr.com)
7 points by cpr 15y ago|0 comments
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Cassowary Constraint Solver in JavaScript(badros.blogspot.com)
6 points by cpr 15y ago|1 comments
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by cpr 15y ago
You could run all your apps in Lion in full-screen mode and move among them with swipes...
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by cpr 15y ago
Why is this surprising? Summers is just part of the revolving door posse, having passed through Goldman after his Harvard tenure. I actually like Summers' style from what I've seen of him, and I've always been pleasantly surprised to get
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by cpr 15y ago
10.5 ia also available for download through the Mac dev resource subsite.
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by cpr 15y ago
As jjm says, with Tame as a concrete, proven solution, it'd sure be great to have CS adopt something like it. Turning the problem "inside out" like this may be the best approach. I.e., it has well-defined semantics and "only" involves JS re
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by cpr 15y ago
I guess as long as everyone's asking... cpryland@gmail.com Thanks if anyone's got more left.
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by cpr 15y ago
Interesting. My experience with a couple of releases (10.4 and 10.5, I believe) was that the seeds would be wildly unstable, and built a long time ago, and then, out of the blue, the GM would be stable. I.e., Apple seems to clean up a lot o
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by cpr 15y ago
6 months from now. ;-)
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by cpr 15y ago
Sorry, but (coming from a 40-years-of-software-development grizzled veteran), I don't see any new pattern here. Just good old-fashioned modularity. Perhaps I missed the point?
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by cpr 15y ago
It sure fixes a lot of the expressiveness problem.
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by cpr 15y ago
Source-level stack traces are coming, to Firefox first. I would imagine WebKit will follow. IE perhaps not, but, personally, I intend to ignore IE in future web apps, until it mostly catches up with the front runners.
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by cpr 15y ago
Dense arrays are coming in Harmony, thanks to WebGL. (JS.next) CoffeeScript incurs no penalty when compiling to Javascript; in fact, in many cases it's faster than handwritten code.
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by cpr 15y ago
Could we see a screencast?
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by cpr 15y ago
Why is everyone assuming Apple's being evil here? Not that they're perfect by any means, but the pattern seems pretty clear: they start off with a restrictive situation, see how it works, and then adjust. (Sometimes they restrict more, then
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by cpr 15y ago
Bill Gates wrote code very well, and was an exceedingly good programmer. I know, because I used to sit with him late at night at the Harvard CRCT PDP-10 consoles (graduate research center in computing technology), ribbing him about hacking
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by cpr 15y ago
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/ has your answer. (Though it looks like his site is down right now--odd. Google "john gatto" and you'll find lots of other materials.) Gatto was NY State Teacher of the year in 1990, and worked miracles with
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by cpr 15y ago
Fascinating. Too bad NaCl means something entirely different in the Curve CP world than in the Chrome world.

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