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by cytzol 15y ago
Thank you for posting this. I still think of lenses as just a tuple of (focal length, f-number), and can't understand why two lenses of the same "spec" can be different. Probably a bad mode of thinking to be in.
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by cytzol 15y ago
I don't want to venture too far off-topic, but when the Perl 6 folks re-designed regexes, they found out that they weren't really designed for anything; the syntax just grew , and common features were sometimes longer than rare ones: ht
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by cytzol 15y ago
In more general terms, the 'porcelain' is the user-friendly interface commands, and the 'plumbing' is the internal commands. With Git, it's often said that some of the 'porcelain' commands only make sense in the context of the 'plumbing' on
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by cytzol 15y ago
I'm a Dvoraker, and the difference between typing on an actual keyboard and on a touchscreen is enough that I can happily go between the two. The issue isn't about speed, it's about comfort. Two years later and I can't type any faster than
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by cytzol 15y ago
What have you started using instead? I really dislike all the versions of Safari for offering only Google/Bing/Yahoo.
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by cytzol 15y ago
I've never had the broken back button behaviour, but often, when a site is down, the indirection page replaces whatever I was looking at with a blank screen while the real site tries to load. For a technology that's meant to be completely i
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by cytzol 15y ago
> All other languages should either provide a COALESCE function/operator, or a sane alternative to "||" which skips only NULL values and nothing else. In Ruby, only nil and false are false, so you can use || to catch 0s and empty string
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by cytzol 15y ago
> Unless you mean the person by person "all/most/only important" - that's far too much hassle. Yeah, that's the one. How else would you do it? It might be more annoying since you'd have to re-organise your existing friends all at once i
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by cytzol 15y ago
Not blaming, but worrying about. There is plenty of software that can read Word's .doc files. Yet I store my data as plain text, as I imagine that the software will be killed or end-of-lifed in the future, even though I can use it fine righ
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by cytzol 15y ago
Is it wrong to think badly of an editor where it's up to the developers to add a colour picker when the users want one? Emacs has a simple colour palette widget available at runtime.
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by cytzol 15y ago
While I can't provide a citation, I believe that the contrapositive is true: if it doesn't help Google, it's not going to be implemented . Right now, Google's interests are aligned with a standardised, compatible web, and when Google gets
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by cytzol 15y ago
> I've never been a fan of Facebook. This is something that's puzzled me . Is it the privacy implications, or just a general dislike for the company? The way I see it, it's a publishing platform for posts shorter than blog entries an
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by cytzol 15y ago
I switched to Dvorak two years ago, and though I'm a bit faster, it's not by much. The benefit of Dvorak is comfort , rather than overall typing speed, and that's something that can't be easily measured. Most of the time, your hands stay o
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by cytzol 15y ago
I use UK Dvorak, which is similar to Dvorak, except the @ and the " symbols are switched around. I haven't yet encountered an OS that offers this as a default layout, so whenever I'm away from home, I get those symbols wrong. The cost of ty
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by cytzol 15y ago
I don't know enough about how gems work, but the 'hub' script is faster when installed manually than when installed as a gem: https://gist.github.com/284823
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by cytzol 15y ago
It's a joke that Perl has no good tutorials? I think that's what the article is trying to fix!
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by cytzol 15y ago
Even Dropbox, a cloud company, uses Amazon S3.
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by cytzol 15y ago
No, and I don't think they ever will - they took long enough to implement Selective Sync. They'd rather have a product that can be seen as 'simple', than one that could have users ask "why can't this person see my files?".
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by cytzol 15y ago
I'm that case (my Dropbox folder would almost fill up my hard drive, oh the joys of solid-state drives). You can either: a) use Selective Sync to only synchronise a few folders onto your computer, such as syncing the important documents fol
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by cytzol 15y ago
I'm guessing it's the sideways version of upgrade or downgrade: the new OS isn't better or worse, just different.
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by cytzol 15y ago
Funny you mention the Kinesis, which can switch between qwerty and dvorak with a keypress, without you having to consult the OS about it. (great if you can't configure the computer you're using)
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by cytzol 15y ago
I've heard of SecureCRT, but I haven't seen anything that would draw me away from PuTTY - what do you use it for? (genuinely curious)
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by cytzol 15y ago
If you have to give me steps, then I think you've missed the point of the Ribbon! The Finder has a lot of places you can perform operations on a file: the menu bar, the toolbar, the Get Info inspector, and the context menu. All the Ribbon d
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by cytzol 15y ago
Did you consider that you haven't missed these things because you aren't used to using them?
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by cytzol 15y ago
Let me ask you about those monitors! I'm running 3x17-inch portrait monitors in the same configuration (turnable 3-monitor stand), and while I'd love more space to work with, I once tried a 22-inch monitor in the middle and the height of th
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by cytzol 15y ago
> The laptop boots the Android emulator and runs eclipse much faster than my primary pc which is a i7 tri-channel w/24gb ram. Which is... odd. I bought an Air in December, and stopped using it (gave it to a family member) because I coul
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by cytzol 15y ago
The servers taken from Instapaper were shown to have not even been booted, let alone shown to give access to any files. Standard procedure is to copy any drive you can get your hands on before seeing what's on it, to stop preventative measu
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by cytzol 16y ago
Apple doesn't like to let their old technologies hang around for very long. Suddenly not having Xcode 3 available is what I'm afraid of.
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by cytzol 16y ago
FWIW, it doesn't come with the new Air models.
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by cytzol 16y ago
You think that Apple are the ones who want to lower the bandwidth? I'm the one who had to download 3.8GB for a whole IDE and development kit when all I wanted was gcc and a linker. If they cared about bandwidth more than making programmer

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