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by rtra 16y ago
This may not be a very good idea. By supporting your wrist you will be imobilizing your arm and straining the weaker wrist muscles. Try to avoid the mouse. When you do have to use it, try to maintain your wrist in the neutral position and m
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by rtra 16y ago
STOP right now! I can't stress this enough. I had to stay away from computers for 2 years because a a sudden pain that appeared on one night of development and which i tried to ignore. Read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Pascarellis-Comp
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by rtra 16y ago
Actually, if you type with only two fingers you will be moving your forearm a lot, which is good. Edit: I want to elaborate on this. My brother, who's 18 years old, has never learnt how to type properly, but he is, of coures, very fast, usi
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by rtra 16y ago
> All this seems pretty neat, but when it comes to just getting a little work done - I'm still skeptical about how much advantage touch, motion, gestures, speech, etc will help. Probably major advantages for people with physical disabil
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by rtra 16y ago
Is that a good idea? How did it go?
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by rtra 16y ago
the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME from freedesktop.org's XDG Base Directory Specification.
37.
by rtra 16y ago
The origin of the content is irrelevant, and personally, I'm very grateful for having some bits of filtered reddit.
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by rtra 16y ago
what OS are you using now?
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by rtra 16y ago
you mean figuratively in your hand, right? Because those are EBook copies. fscking great, O'Reilly...
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by rtra 16y ago
You can easily configure all the key shortcuts you want. I use 'q' for quitting, 'w' for fit to width, 'p' for fit to page, 'g' for goto-line, etc... I love its minimal GUI interface (by default, C-m for toggling menu visibility!), highly c
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by rtra 17y ago
Some of us can't use the mouse for health reasons.
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by rtra 17y ago
I use 'conkeror' as my main web browser, which is a emacs-like browser running on xulrunner. I can have 10+ pages open and switch rapidly to the one i want by typing C-x b <3 letters of a keyword> return For me this beats regular ta
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by rtra 18y ago
Same. The first time i tried to read it I actually thought it was a joke.
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by rtra 18y ago
I don't know about those 5000 physicists against Einstein, but: > Einstein was attacked by some with anti-Jewish leanings. When a pamphlet was published entitled 100 Authors Against Einstein, Einstein retorted "If I were wrong, one woul
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by rtra 18y ago
Wherever you need it to fall. :-)
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by rtra 18y ago
Precisely. Isn't user input handled like this on most web code? It seems the most sensible way to do it.
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by rtra 18y ago
To further expand on this, we would have a request function returning type IO UnsafeString, and all output functions would have type IO String. By abstracting the UnsafeString type we would make sure its users don't use the type's internal
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by rtra 18y ago
And indeed a programmer can vet the code as he browses it, by using a data type like the one I gave above, just by making sure all user input methods have type UnsafeString, and all output methods had type String, with UnsafeString as an ab
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by rtra 18y ago
You can do that in Haskell easily. data UnsafeString = Unsafe String htmlencode :: String -> String sanitizeUnsafeStr :: UnsafeString -> String sanitizeUnsafeStr (Unsafe cs) = htmlencode cs
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by rtra 18y ago
try #startups at freenode
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by rtra 18y ago
That could be a perfect solution, but given the high relative speeds it's probably not possible. I take it must be pretty difficult to detect even a flock of birds at the the necessary distance.
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by rtra 18y ago
Yes, it would probably be too costly, require too much energy, and would not effectively neutralize flocks. I wonder if a small cannon wouldn't be acceptable.
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by rtra 18y ago
It would be interesting to have a source for that allegation about Bono. My 5 minutes googling it were ineffective. PS: It's not that I don't believe it, is that using it would bring me great joy.
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by rtra 18y ago
ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-514.pdf
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by rtra 18y ago
Works for me. Lisbon, Portugal.
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by rtra 18y ago
usenet
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by rtra 18y ago
What I did, after my 2 years away from computers. It sucked, but I was in real pain. - Switched to a big logitech trackball, which I use with my left hand - Negative tilt splitted keyboard (microsoft natural 4000, I higly recommend it) -
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by rtra 18y ago
I wasn't expecting a child with that headgear, so i just passed by noticing a blond chick and was like "nice..." :-)
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by rtra 18y ago
Damn, I know this sensation so well... Anyone have any advice for someone who keeps procrastinating about going to bed, even when exhausted?