mschaef

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by mschaef 8y ago
What are you basing your opinion on? How much direct understanding do you have of what the Gimp team needs and doesn't?
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by mschaef 8y ago
MS Word's outlining feature was there in Word for Windows 1.0 at the latest, which makes it close to 30 years old.
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by mschaef 8y ago
Or a Mac IIfx... "Wicked Fast".
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by mschaef 8y ago
I don't think they have a 'bad icon' problem as much as a 'too many services' problem. I'm not necessarily saying that they need less functionality, just that they need to divide it up into fewer named/ico
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by mschaef 8y ago
At least on the IBM side, they were careful about IP rights. Summer of 1995, I had an internship (as a tester) on IBM's OS/2 LAN Server Enterprise team in Austin. This was well after the IBM/Microsoft 'divorce', but
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by mschaef 8y ago
> a Microsoft employee discovered a way to make virtualization work with their ongoing Windows 3.x design instead of having to go with OS/2. That's sort of right. Larry Osterman goes into more detail here, but the gist is that
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by mschaef 8y ago
To some extent, _every_ Windows program on Win95 was a 16-bit program. (There was a lot of the 32-bit API that was built by thunking down to 16- bit equivalents.... one notable example was that Windows95 notepad was still limited to 32K fil
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by mschaef 8y ago
> DOS commands and hierarchical file paths were based on DEC’s TOPS-10, via CP/M, both of which Cutler would have been familiar with. I'm sure he was, but DOS got pathnames in March of 83 and Cutler didn't join until 6 yea
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by mschaef 8y ago
> that doesn't mean IBM shouldn't invest in usability. For whom? They shouldn't necessarily spend a bunch of effort adapting their product towards the Unix world, particularly to the extent it compromies their product for
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by mschaef 8y ago
> The Windows 9x line evolved indirectly from DOS Not sure what you believe to be 'indirect' about that relationship. That Windows codebase started out running on DOS and ultimately wound up so closely coupled that they shipped
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by mschaef 8y ago
I can't look at "Goop" and not immediately think of this: http://goophandcleaner.com/ (Probably about as close to diametrically opposite the market of Gweyneth Paltrow's Goop as you can get.)
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by mschaef 8y ago
Thanks for your work on this... this is going to make a big difference for lots of folks. (Myself included.)
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by mschaef 8y ago
> During development with Rails I struggled a lot, because it was forcing CRUD ideology ... This reminds me a bit of my first experiences with Common Lisp to write anything resembling serious code. (A Java compiler for my compilers class
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by mschaef 8y ago
> There is no "you're doing it wrong" with GraphQL, or SOAP, or JSON-RPC, Where there's a will, there's a way to 'do it wrong'. It's amazing the kinds of messes people can (or are forced to) dream
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I wanted a Unix machine I could use to hack together bash scripts, play flash video without jitters, and use Photoshop and Word... without constant emotional labor coercing the system to do what I needed. Apple provided the best techni
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by mschaef 8y ago
Sure... and there are other reasons too, but knowing them doesn't really help solve the problems.
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Linux is always rapidly developing but there are always distros which suit the more conservative users who hate change. I agree that this is a difficult concept when first entering the Linux world but it is how it is. I first entered t
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by mschaef 8y ago
I just switched to a new Touchbar machine, and am adapting to the fact that I had several of my most common shortcuts bound to F-keys. At this point, I'm seriously considering trying to add better touchbar support to Emacs to work arou
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I got too tired of wrestling with all that crap and switched to a macbook. This is pretty much exactly my experience. There were usually ways to make things work on Linux, but it always required more effort than it was worth. Back in
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by mschaef 8y ago
Seems like a nice differentiator for the 'Pro' models might be to give them both the physical F/escape-keys _and_ the touchbar in an additional row.
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by mschaef 8y ago
Why do you say that? I've used emacs for years and use the escape key very infrequently. (Although I do swap control and caps lock, and have for years.)
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by mschaef 8y ago
> It is well known that Ubuntu is going through a phase of rapid change at the moment. I understand how you feel but I'm pretty sure the quality and consistency will only increase from here on. People have been saying things like th
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by mschaef 8y ago
> how does this translate into US units, are there such simple conversions? Not really. I have a couple of these types of conversions committed to memory (1 gal water = 7 pounds, etc.), but it's all pretty ad hoc. That said, I haven
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Food is like a modern 64 bit system. Meanwhile, the roads are still in miles per hour and all temperatures are in Fahrenheit, so I need an 8 bit subsystem to run it. The problem with that analogy is that a 64-bit computer is inherently
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by mschaef 8y ago
> it feels like a trip to middle ages reading about 'furlongs', 'hogsheads' and 'pennyweights'. I've lived in the United States for my entire life (43 years) and have never come close to ever seeing th
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by mschaef 8y ago
Even back to the early 90's, it was the one and only unit system used in science classes.
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by mschaef 8y ago
Problem is that the issue is not just about the numbers and units people expect to use. The other issue relates to the fact that we build things according to imperial dimensions. (Paper is 8.5x11, bolts have sizes in imperial units, screw t
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by mschaef 8y ago
> Every car I've ever owned had km on the speedometer. Same here. (Although, I've driven a couple cars that only had a single scale of digits on the gauge. Pressing a button would toggle the meaning of the numbers from mph to
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by mschaef 8y ago
> I don't want my spreadsheets crapping out on me at a few thousand rows. Agreed. Besides the sheer lack of functionality of the web spreadsheets, the clipboard is a continual annoyance for me... 35 years of correctly working clipbo
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by mschaef 8y ago
I had cataract surgery done. For cataracts. At age 42. The doctor was able to correct out something like -12D myopia in both eyes with a precision that was mainly limited by the fact that lens implants only come in 0.5D increments. She was

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