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by preek 16y ago
I wouldn't say that, Tichy. If people buy a computer for their homes, they are motivated to learn new things. If it doesn't work out for them, they certainly could manage with more motivation. But so could anyone achieve a BSc. Everyone wit
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by preek 16y ago
Certainly cropping away needed functionality is not a very decent approach. But let me start with your comment. Since it is my grandfather this article is about, I can assure you that he had a pretty nice LCD screen on his old PC. It was on
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by preek 16y ago
I congratulate you to your cunning grandmother! It's good to hear that she keeps up. Anyway, "something not impossible to master" might not be necessarily optimal. In your scenario of browser usage the mouse adds an unneeded layour of compl
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by preek 16y ago
Have you seen Swype yet? You might like it(; http://gizmodo.com/5411779/swype-vs-qwerty-fight
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by preek 16y ago
But did you try reading and browsing with it for hours a day? I never had such a great reading experience!(; I don't think it was meant to substitue for writing long texts. However, you can buy the iPad keyboard dock to use the standard App
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by preek 16y ago
There's no point in denying the fact they have trouble, though. If a similar group of people keep having trouble with the same interface of a user application, then the usability is just plain bad. It's not the fault of the users, it's the
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by preek 16y ago
My personal opinion is that clicking with the mouse is a flawed design. This makes it hard for beginners. Why would you need to double click to start an application on your desktop while you only need one while you're in your webbrowser? Bu
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by preek 16y ago
My personal VIM preference would certainly suffer. Anyway, the touch screen is undoubtedly gaining use cases in mobile computing and terminals of banks, subways and similar.
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by preek 16y ago
The classic legal pad, not a bad choice. I personally prefer the Moleskine, though(;
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by preek 16y ago
I just had to do an Apache redirect from my wordpress installation to posterous. Over 2400 hits in like 70 minutes. Thanks for the interest!
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My grandfather’s iPad(blog.dispatched.ch)
56 points by preek 16y ago|99 comments
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by preek 16y ago
Something like news in a thread? Interesting idea - though a hard challenge when the content is not streamlined by a single contributor.
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VIM to write mails in Thunderbird(posterous.dispatched.ch)
1 points by preek 16y ago|0 comments
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IOS 4 Mail.app Fail(blog.dispatched.ch)
1 points by preek 16y ago|0 comments
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True story - Software Engineering fail (follow up)(posterous.dispatched.ch)
3 points by preek 16y ago|0 comments
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I want to work in a company which (or "Yet another random business rant")(blog.dispatched.ch)
1 points by preek 16y ago|0 comments
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by preek 16y ago
Even works with empty signup fields.
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Webscraping with Python and BeautifulSoup(blog.dispatched.ch)
2 points by preek 16y ago|1 comments
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The Apple Insider Myth(blog.dispatched.ch)
2 points by preek 16y ago|0 comments
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by preek 16y ago
My point being? You gave yourself the answer. If I may quote: ".. were hotly contested features since 1.0" This was around the year 2k IIRC. They honestly took ±10 years to include basic features while claiming to have a businessproof frame
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C# 4.0’s dynamicity(blog.dispatched.ch)
2 points by preek 16y ago|3 comments
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by preek 16y ago
My 2c on that topic: http://blog.dispatched.ch/2010/05/10/c-40s-dynamicity/
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Python’s binascii - hexlify() and unhexlify() What the heck?(blog.dispatched.ch)
1 points by preek 17y ago|0 comments
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Disable Mail-Forwarding for Lotus Notes programmatically (with Python)(blog.dispatched.ch)
1 points by preek 17y ago|0 comments
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VIM as Python IDE(blog.dispatched.ch)
31 points by preek 17y ago|4 comments
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Webscraping with Python and BeautifulSoup(gefechtsdienst.de)
2 points by preek 18y ago|0 comments