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by drothlis 14y ago
> Touch screen keyboards lack something essential: feedback. Not forever: http://www.macrumors.com/2009/12/24/apples-research-on-tacti... http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-patents-keyboard-with-a...
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Emacs, at least, already provides primitive parsing / heuristics that work reasonably well for most languages. See the example in the link I posted above: All I had to do was customise the colour and font-weight of various things already re
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> I think it would be interesting to compare the results with a similar eye track of a program written with more emphasis on data flow It would also be interesting to compare with code with decent syntax highlighting. For some reason I
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If you're coming from C, then you need to understand the STL's concepts of "Concepts", "Modeling", "Refinement", and Iterators etc: http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/index.html (that link doesn't cover C++11, nor even the STL additions in C++03
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MacPorts, at least, is starting to provide pre-built binary packages now.
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That's great to hear -- thanks. :-)
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An extended tutorial using Emacs's self-documentation: http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html Random testimonial: «The guide has been extremely helpful and without it, I wouldn't be making the switch from vim. I particularly like
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You don’t have the elisp sources installed. If you're on a unixy system, use your system’s package manager to install the "emacs-el" package.
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"A language should be designed in terms of an abstract syntax and it should have, perhaps, several forms of concrete syntax: One which is easy to write and maybe quite abbreviated; another which is good to look at and maybe quite fancy, but
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The article has an answer to that. I'm not sure if you're challenging the article's answer or if you just missed it...
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> context, failed experiments, shortcuts, optimizations, and so on. I think commit messages are the appropriate place for this stuff; I use `git annotate` etc. to find the information when I need it. I often have a 50-line commit messag
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Have you checked your calculations against David MacKay's? His conclusion was that "International shipping is a surprisingly efficient user of fossil fuels; so getting road transport off fossil fuels is a higher priority than getting ships
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> in Emacs, both Haskell and OCaml [...] can also be highlighted with symbols And not just Haskell and OCaml: See for example https://github.com/drothlis/pretty-symbols (though of course Haskell and OCaml might be much more suited to
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> Variable-scoping-level highlighting—variables in the same scope highlighted the same color. I played with this idea in the syntax highlighting of the code samples in this article: http://david.rothlis.net/c/compilation_model/#chapter
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by drothlis 14y ago
Something I've found useful is to highlight (in bold) the definitions of variables & types, but not their uses; and to otherwise have very little highlighting: http://david.rothlis.net/code_presentation/distracting_synta...
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by drothlis 14y ago
London UK: Junior test automation engineer. Permanent, full-time, on-site. At YouView we are automating the testing of our product (a set-top box) using stb-tester[1], a tool that we developed and open-sourced which captures video from the
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stb-tester[1] captures video from a set-top box or smart tv or similar appliance, and runs automated tests against it by sending infrared signals and analysing the captured video. It uses python and OpenCV. It is open-source software (LGPL
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Thanks! :-)
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Well, since you're volunteering... this is C rather than C++, but if you're interested in GStreamer (media processing library) and OpenCV (computer vision / image processing) then you could have a go at improving the motion-detection visual
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Did you find it easy to extend with your own formats? Or to modify an existing format, say html, to produce slightly different output? I usually use perl/sed/awk + markdown for generating html from my own made-up mini-formats. I'd love to k
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What did you use to convert to pdf / html?
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I would recommend: When you want to customise the behaviour of some command, don't google for the answer. Instead do `C-h f` or `C-h k` to read the built-in documentation for that function or key. From the help screen, click the link to vie
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If you're new to bash completion scripts...(github.com)
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Interesting CV. It's very different from most (in a good way). Games is not a problem. It's expected for a new graduate that most experience will be projects such as those. You have more projects to show than most graduate CVs I see; this i
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P.S. The polipo task is a representative example of the work you'd be doing after you had passed the interview and been hired -- not part of the interview process! :-)
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London, UK -- graduate or junior developer -- full time My team writes middleware (i.e. software that interfaces with OEMs' software and with the GUI team's software) for set-top boxes. We use a bit of C, a bit of C++, a bit of shell, a bit
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* Smallest federated wiki: http://wardcunningham.github.com
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Ah, I understand now: The sentence I quoted from the bash man page refers to ssh only when run with a command ("ssh hostname command"). Thanks!
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> 'interactive' is when called with -i flag (which sshd does when reached by > ssh with no command passed, i.e if you do 'ssh ls' it should not call > bashrc, but should call bash_profile) Do you mean that an interac
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Ignoring .bash_profile vs .bash_login vs .profile, the bash man page essentially says: login shell .profile interactive non-login shell .bashrc run by the remote shell daemon .bashrc I wasn't sure exactly

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