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by tjl 10y ago
I know about it, but I'm guessing it's quite expensive. The certainly make it difficult to figure out pricing (or even just get the trial).
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by tjl 10y ago
It's hard to say. It's very much like a spreadsheet, but has additional features. One of the ideas from it is now in Excel as pivot tables, but it's done much better in Improv.
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by tjl 10y ago
The product I miss most is Lotus Improv. I used it on NeXT all the time. There's no mainstream product that's quite like it.
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by tjl 10y ago
I tried Pepper back then and found the same issues you had. In the end, I usually end up with BBEdit. It's fast, the developers are responsive and keep it up to date and it handles the languages I'm interested in fairly well (but
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by tjl 10y ago
There used to be an OS X editor called Pepper that was basically PE for OS X. I don't think it's still around. I can't find it except in very old references. There is Eddie [1], which is based on a BeOS editor and is written
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by tjl 10y ago
It might be some time before it's abstracted enough. For example, there's software packages for Finite Element Analysis, but if you don't know the underlying math, you can't do anything more complicated than the basics.
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by tjl 10y ago
People are pretty happy with Alexa, but I've heard it's pretty strict in how you say things. The 3rd party extensions require you to ask things with specific phrases which makes things a lot easier to handle, but it's harder
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by tjl 10y ago
True, but in my co-op (one 6 story building and one 3 story building) we get a tax break because we handle our own garbage. It's far less than our garbage bill, but it helps. I know because a) I used to be the co-op treasurer and b) we
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by tjl 10y ago
Not in CS, it was in Systems Design Engineering. My Ph.D. was more mechanical than anything. My Master's had a big CS component as I was affiliated with the computer graphics lab (my Master's co-supervisor was part of the lab unti
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by tjl 10y ago
Alexa is basically an audio command line. You have to say things specifically. Plus, Alexa is pretty restrictive in that it only needs to handle English (and American English at that). It also has a limited set of things it can do since it&
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by tjl 10y ago
In Canada, it's generally the case that your taxes go to pick up the garbage. They might hire a company to do it, but it's usually the municipal government that pays. I'm living in a co-op and we get a tax break since we cont
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by tjl 10y ago
I do know. I've been trying to find a job and I have an Engineering Ph.D. from University of Waterloo which is considered one of the best in the country. Companies in the US often hire from UW (Microsoft has traditionally been a big hi
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by tjl 10y ago
I have a friend who suffered from Crohn's (he had surgery and he's better), but he managed it with diet. I have IBS and my GI specialist recommended specific diet changes (along with a referral to a dietician) as well as drugs.
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by tjl 10y ago
My parents live about a half hour from Belleville which itself has decent Internet. But, where they are they're basically stuck with cellular. They have a WiFi-Cellular modem that they use. Unfortunately, they have a tiny data cap for
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by tjl 10y ago
There's possibly a couple of other cities. Kitchener-Waterloo (which is close enough to Toronto) and maybe Calgary. KW has the University of Waterloo which has spawned a number of companies including Blackberry, although SF (and Micros
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by tjl 10y ago
Social services like health care, I'd assume.
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by tjl 10y ago
Would you be seriously fine with the nearest grocery store being an hour away (over deteriorating roads) and it possibly being 3x as expensive? Plus, what are you going to do about garbage? People forget that is also a social service.
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by tjl 10y ago
There's been other proposed notations, but they all have their own shortcomings. Any alternative would have to be much better than the standard one, otherwise nobody would bother to retrain to use it. The problem with this blog post is
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by tjl 10y ago
But, they could have it encrypted except when you explicitly message the assistant. They can also get the full text of the conversation on-device and do the machine learning on it. After all, Apple is doing it for photos, so text should be
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by tjl 10y ago
The external examiner should allow that to happen, if they're doing their job. The whole point of the external examiner is so professors can't just collude to pass people. I've seen a number of things happen during a defence,
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by tjl 10y ago
Most of my colleagues did this too. I know I've done it with my supervisor. It's just easier when you're trying to write out something complex and everyone who you're writing to knows how to read it without difficulty.
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by tjl 10y ago
I've known students who defended their thesis and were told to do major revisions. Typically, it's because their thesis supervisor didn't do their job properly as they should know not to send that student to defend. You'
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by tjl 10y ago
I don't use BT Sync because if I'm on my local university network they block BitTorrent. It's not a big deal since I've graduated, but I still go there and use the library and meet with people so it would be inconvenient
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by tjl 10y ago
Upgrading your privileges is against sandboxing rules, so no it can't be sandboxed.
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by tjl 10y ago
It's a standard OS X authentication API. The overview of the authorization stuff is discussed in: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Securi... If you look under "Authorization Ser
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by tjl 10y ago
I use it, but there's no iOS solution so I can't use it for a number of things.
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by tjl 10y ago
The AirPods are independent of one another, but they fit into one case to charge. So, the case charges both the AirPods at the same time. If you want to charge the case, you use Lightning to charge it. But, the case is good for 24 hours of
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by tjl 10y ago
Those have a pretty short battery life. They're 1.6 hours for "audio streaming" which I take to mean Bluetooth as the longer life is only for when you download songs to the earbuds. Then, the case recharges up to 2 times, so
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by tjl 10y ago
If you're just looking at fit, a few minutes is enough to test them. They were tested in the demo area after the event. Sound quality given the noise in the demo area is one thing you wouldn't really be able to know, however. I&#x
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by tjl 10y ago
I hadn't heard about the pairing process for non-Apple hardware. To be honest, I wasn't interested because the EarPods don't fit in my ear well, but I've heard that the AirPods fit better. There was an article on Macworl

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