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by jodoherty 15y ago
I doubt you noticed it yourself, since it's nothing out of the ordinary in a tech discussion, but your original comment is condescending in tone. Given that his entire business is built around providing customer service that uniquely avoids
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by jodoherty 15y ago
As a younger programmer, I've come to the conclusion that good code shares good interfaces, decoupled relationships, appropriate abstractions, and clear responsibilities regardless of methodology or paradigm used, so that your code is easie
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by jodoherty 15y ago
I've basically memorized my .vimrc and .gvimrc files from retyping them over and over again, but then I take the approach of using the standard configuration when possible and only customizing the minimum required, so it's not as bad as it
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by jodoherty 15y ago
No problem, but I would encourage you to reconsider your train of thought. The LPK25 is limited, but it's definitely more convenient for getting down ideas than using a computer keyboard, since once you have it set as the MIDI input device
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by jodoherty 15y ago
I use a little Akai LPK25 keyboard (fits perfectly right above my computer keyboard, so I just reach up a little to play) with seq24 for editing/recording MIDI notes and zynaddsubfx as a synthesizer on Linux. It's a straightforward, simple,
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by jodoherty 15y ago
Have you tried rowing? It exercises your whole body and helps reinforce good posture when you make an effort to maintain good form. I plan on buying my own indoor rowing machine next month.
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by jodoherty 15y ago
These guys have done some nice work in an area that's too easy to overlook. I'm really excited to see how their full screen color management idea works out, since the main problem I used to have with calibrating stuff in Linux is with calib
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by jodoherty 15y ago
How do you see it as a form of hinting unless we have different definitions of what hinting is? As I would define it, hinting is the modification of the appearance of the font at smaller sizes, usually away from the actual outline design of
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by jodoherty 15y ago
As a former Slackware user myself, I was mostly impressed by ArchLinux's package management and the user-maintained wiki. As far as learning the guts of the system goes, I'd say that ArchWiki has become one of the best searchable references
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by jodoherty 15y ago
I always had the opposite experience with font rendering. I always have to disable all hinting and turn on subpixel rendering to get results I like, since I prefer thicker glyphs that have more consistent forms, kerning and spacing at all s
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by jodoherty 15y ago
Perhaps the water on earth became trapped as part of a migrating space biosphere, just one of many oceans floating around in space, insulated by the frozen ice coating the outside and given energy by small collisions with other matter until
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by jodoherty 15y ago
The Bill Gates quote at the bottom is quite significant. I get more out of Yale's recorded Physics II lectures on iTunes U than I do out of the lectures at my current college, even with the added interaction with the instructor. It's amazin
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The problem with -2147483648 in C. (hardtoc.com)
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by jodoherty 15y ago
I would rather just pay them a small subscription fee to download their advertisement-free content via torrents after watching streaming advertisement-laced versions for free on their website and choosing which shows I'd actually want to bu
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by jodoherty 15y ago
Thanks. I think it'd still be useful though to shift from the paradigm of everything goes in my text editor to the paradigm that my text editor is already in everything.
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by jodoherty 15y ago
This is one of the reasons I wish all standard text controls came with an optional VI mode.
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by jodoherty 15y ago
Like you said, functional programming isn't hard, but I think the problem is that learning a completely new language with an unfamiliar syntax and abstractions is hard, and trying to apply functional programming techniques in most current m
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by jodoherty 15y ago
I hate that the default escape key sequence clobbers over Ctrl-A though, so the first thing I always have to do when I log into a new server or account is this: $ echo 'escape ^uU' > ~/.screenrc Or I quickly start tearing my hair out an
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by jodoherty 15y ago
I'm not a kate user, but what about just redirecting all the console output to /dev/null ? Then you shouldn't get any output, and so you can just send it straight to the background. $ kate &> /dev/null &
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by jodoherty 15y ago
Along with JWasm -- http://www.japheth.de/JWasm.html -- and DOSBox, this can make for a lot of fun.
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by jodoherty 15y ago
If you have Pages for iOS, an iPad stand, and an Apple wireless keyboard, you can actually get by pretty well using the iPad for word processing, assuming you sit at a desk to write.
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by jodoherty 15y ago
You get the features of Linux with the ability to run commercial content creation apps like Flash, Photoshop and Cubase. It's very win-win for someone who does a lot of different kinds of work. And since all the shortcuts use Command, the C
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by jodoherty 15y ago
You should check out FreeBASIC and Qb64. Maybe you can revisit some of those memories. :) I remember learning VGA programming in C and assembly language how it was instrumental in helping me finally grasp just how low-level C really was. T
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by jodoherty 15y ago
I wouldn't worry about it. With iOS apps, it's much easier for people just to buy your app and have it installed and running on their device than it is to try and pirate it, so unless you're seriously overcharging for your app, most people
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by jodoherty 15y ago
I dunno about lumps, but with a little welding knowledge I can imagine a lot of things I could try building if I could buy prefabricated shapes and sheets of the stuff.
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That brings up another question: How much will it cost and how can I buy some?
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Nobody needs it right now, but once most people have the option of it, new ways of needing it will appear. This would be great for cloud computing with family videos or games that you rent online which stream all the content directly from t
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by jodoherty 15y ago
If you can get away with unreasonably high sounding prices, it's only because there's a demand for your service and not enough suppliers with your level of quality. As such, it's only a matter of time before someone comes by and undersells
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by jodoherty 15y ago
I agree. For most existing users, especially power users, this will probably be as insignificant on the desktop as Active Desktop and Active Channel were in Windows 98 or maybe desktop gadgets in Windows Vista. I mean, who even remembers th
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by jodoherty 15y ago
The lack of a delete key never bothered me in Mac OS X since every single text field gives you bloody Emacs shortcuts. If anything, it's more convenient to be able to do Ctrl-A, Ctrl-f, Ctrl-f, Ctrl-d, Ctrl-d than reach all the way over to

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