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by ezy 16y ago
Yes, that's right.
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by ezy 16y ago
Oh yes I did. :-P I don't actually feel as strongly as this comment might sound -- use what you want to use -- but I wanted to get a dig in :-) When I used emacs extensively (in viper mode, before Vim really was popular and good vi alternat
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by ezy 16y ago
This is typical Lisper fare. Steve Yegge is right. Open source math packages and academic software isn't "industry". Sorry. And the bit about not needing libraries is just insane. It doesn't make any real sense unless you're interested i
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by ezy 16y ago
I fail to see the advantage (swipe, swipe, swipe, press) has over (move, press). Not to mention that trackpads are fairly sensitive to sweaty fingers. Do people really rely on multitouch gestures that much? Frankly, I don't get it. Track
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by ezy 16y ago
I realize this isn't exactly the point of the whole exercise, but a stiff pancake that easily slides onto the pan is kind of cheating. :-) A deformable pancake would make the experiment batter.
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by ezy 16y ago
(spit take) Heh... resistive screen and slow CPU. The year 2005 called and wants its N800 back. Until the competitors really start to care about excellence, Apple will continue to dominate. I say this not as a particular Apple fan, but ou
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by ezy 16y ago
The perspectives in the comments are more enlightening than the article. In some sense, the article sets up a false dichotomy. It's possible to be very critical while still being humble and empathic. But it's really easy to make criticism
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by ezy 16y ago
Would that change if the end goal, the project itself, were interesting? This type of thing always seems indicative of smart people working on dumb software to me. Or perhaps a type of avoidance behavior when things get overwhelming. Tha
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by ezy 16y ago
This, of course, is time spent on the computer . If 15mins more time on google replaced 15mins of time masticating a sandwich, rescuetime isn't going to know about it.
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by ezy 16y ago
Yes. This is borne out, IMHO, by the fact that even though everyone supposedly "knows" it's broken and how to fix it, it is by far still the most popular choice when you need very high performance with reasonable abstraction power in indust
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by ezy 16y ago
This is depressing. How can you work for Microsoft, see that, and not be depressed? Whatever you think of the company's technology over the years, you have to wonder how old timers feel about starting a career at a software company and en
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by ezy 16y ago
No, that actually wasn't the case -- although I can see why you'd think not. I typed in the graphics example from the BASIC manual[1] that gave you a blinky smily face and played with that. Ok, I went to printing and '10 print "hello" : go
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by ezy 16y ago
One common theme, at least for the programmers growing up in the 80s, was that all the BASICs had graphics support. Like you, I didn't learn logic and control structures to print out tables of numbers, I learned it so I could make an object
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by ezy 16y ago
I don't understand this. Why is it so hard to give someone the benefit of the doubt? The whole piece boils down to that. And it's very useful advice for arrogant computer dweebs. You can't just write people off like that successfully. And
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by ezy 16y ago
Honestly, I think a majority of the time, people mock it because they don't understand it. I don't. I believe what you say about being offended entirely, but I find it almost impossible to wrap my head around the idea. Getting mortally of
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by ezy 16y ago
Posting basically unsubstantiated contrary shit like this and ambiguous snarky replies is typically not a hallmark of someone trying to discover the truth; it's just an excuse be an asshole without real repercussions. But just to make it cr
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by ezy 16y ago
Let me get this straight. If someone offers to sell you a cellphone ( any cellphone) that they "found", you're going to buy it and keep it until the owner of said property tracks you down and asks for it? And this is "good faith"? I call
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by ezy 16y ago
This is a prototype for a major release by a company. It's not just a $600 phone, it's a $6Mil (or whatever factor of million) phone. Whether that's a valid amount to attach to it, I'll leave up the lawyers and pundits, but that, I think,
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by ezy 17y ago
I missed that. Yeah, then in all likelihood, if it isn't supported directly, one could hack it.
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by ezy 17y ago
Say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss. The corporate pissing matches have started in earnest... When Alan Kay said Apple would take over the world with an iPad, I don't think he realized that eToys or anything like eToys would ne
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by ezy 17y ago
Well, when I say "multitasking", I mean the ability to switch out of a network app without it disconnecting . I wonder how persistent network connections will be managed that aren't IM or streaming audio? One huge annoyance with the curre
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by ezy 17y ago
You bought a minimum $500 device and you're going to complain about a nominal upgrade fee? Why do people bitch about this? You have even less excuse if you're using a 3G version which costs $700 and charges you a min of $15 a month (assum
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by ezy 17y ago
Well, given that the iPad runs the iPhone OS, I think you can generalize this to one case. Any app that needs to maintain a persistant network connection. That covers IM, streaming...and remote login (ssh, vnc, rdp, etc...)
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by ezy 17y ago
This is a possible coping strategy, but a shitty excuse for being rude. Not everyone is an attention-whore.
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by ezy 17y ago
You figure out what the problem in the measurements might be and correct for that based on your hypothesis of what the problem might be -- then compare the new results to the model predictions (and other data). The tacit assumption is th
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by ezy 17y ago
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/PADD Yes, a very good name.
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by ezy 17y ago
My experience has been mixed. I used an Apple machine for a 3 years, then when I picked up a serveresque power box, ubuntu for a year, now I'm using a win7 on the same box. I briefly tried the hackintosh route, but it was unsatisfactory.
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by ezy 17y ago
This assumes the goal was/is clarity. Unlike software, people have a lot to gain from being unclear in this case.
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by ezy 17y ago
Raise of hands of those who like handwriting and drawing notes... with their finger. Yeah, thought so. :-) Now, that said, people do sell styluses for the iPhone, but good luck writing without touching the rest of your hand to the device.
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by ezy 17y ago
I got that, but that isn't enough. IM is almost as convenient. Again, I'm not trying to be contrarian here, I'm just saying it's not convenient if it's not useful. I don't think mouse drawing is useful. Maybe when more features come onl

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