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by gimboland 7y ago
Just to say, if you want to explore making the touchbar more useful, possibly check out BetterTouchTool [0]. I don't have a touchbar machine so I haven't tried out those features (I use BTT mainly for window control) but my unders
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by gimboland 7y ago
Bwahahahahahaha! Good one!
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by gimboland 7y ago
LOL @ "Multi-modal". The whole point of "modal" is that it introduces a new [mode]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(user_interface) ) in which the interactions that were possible a moment ago ceas
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by gimboland 7y ago
Cherry-picks can still lead to conflicts though, no? It's essentially just a particular kind of merge.
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by gimboland 7y ago
Thanks! Interesting stuff!
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by gimboland 7y ago
Yes, I've heard it said that calling it computer science is like calling astronomy "telescope science".
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by gimboland 7y ago
Well, the question of whether there's more to math than symbolic manipulation or not was of course one of the key foundational questions of computer science, thrashed out in the early 20th century before anyone had actually built a gen
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by gimboland 7y ago
What was it? I used darcs quite a bit back when I used to write more haskell, but have lost touch over the last decade or so. What happened? I was always under the impression that one of the things that set darcs apart was that it had a t
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by gimboland 7y ago
That last comment is absolutely golden. Once upon a time I had the privilege to spend a few years working in Swansea University's compsci department, which punches above its weight in theoretical computer science. One of the moments th
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by gimboland 7y ago
Here [0] is a 45-minute radio show/podcast in which a presenter and three academic experts discuss The Epic of Gilgamesh. It moves fast and covers a lot of ground. (I recommend this series, In Our Time, whenever I can. Many jewels in t
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by gimboland 7y ago
Yes. Nice clarification — many thanks indeed.
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by gimboland 7y ago
My understanding of this: "Eleanor waited to do all her studying the night before the exam" — that's data: it would show up on a video recording of the scene. "Eleanor procrastinates" — that's a judgement/
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by gimboland 7y ago
Hey Mark, thanks for taking the time to reply. I hear you on the bookmarks queue! :-) All makes sense. I hadn't heard of RSK until I read this comment, but I've now seen your other comment in this thread which mentions it[0], watc
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by gimboland 7y ago
They return an iterator, not a generator.
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by gimboland 7y ago
Mark, your writings have really helped me to understand the redux landscape (inasmuch as I do), so I'd be curious to know what you think of this, if you've seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmnsEvoy-gY (&qu
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by gimboland 7y ago
Nice. I missed this feature only a few weeks ago. Good to know it's landed!
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by gimboland 7y ago
It was never "there's only one way to do it". It is: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." The core of that statement is "There should be one obvious way to do it" - there
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by gimboland 7y ago
"Ostensibly" doesn't mean what you think it means here.
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by gimboland 7y ago
I'll take: * paying a few bucks for BetterTouchTool, Alfred, and SwitchResX so I get insane levels of control over window placement, monitor resolutions, etc. via keyboard shortcuts & gestures (on, I should note, my deliciously smo
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by gimboland 7y ago
I like the "right now" there. Like, fingers crossed, that could change...
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by gimboland 7y ago
"Free market" is supposed to mean "free from rentiers", i.e. exactly what this does not describe.
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by gimboland 7y ago
Well, yeah, sort of, depending on what you mean by "tiling like stuff", I suppose. For me, tiling was all about maximising my use of the screen and minimising labour, which meant being able to easily place windows where I wanted,
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by gimboland 7y ago
I don't know how generally true this is of people who like tiling WMs, but for me: a lot of it is about (easily) maximising the use of the screen, and (quickly and easily) moving windows to where I want them to be via the keyboard. I a
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by gimboland 7y ago
Well, you start by saying you hear him and see his pain, that that is an utterly awful thing to happen to anybody, and that while you can't imagine what he's going through, it is completely understandable that he would be feeling
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by gimboland 7y ago
A million people on the streets of London doesn't count as a significant anti-Brexit protest? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/23/one-million...
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by gimboland 7y ago
On a scale of 1 to 5, 0 is definitely some color flag.
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by gimboland 7y ago
Nah, I don't fit into either of your categories. I'm perfectly happy with my 2015 13" MBP; I use it as my main machine, every day, doing my job as a dev: most of the time, at home, it's driving two monitors (and acting a
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by gimboland 7y ago
> I do have subjective experience I don't believe you. ;-)
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by gimboland 7y ago
n) I can easily recognise my MBP in a conference room full of computer scientists' laptops when we return from lunch.
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by gimboland 10y ago
Cool, so we don't need icons at all!

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