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by trop 16y ago
The delay is called "hysteresis". Gtk implements this through "gtk-menu-popdown-delay", and seems to be making sure the mouse is moving in a triangle region towards the submenu. (See gtk/gtkmenu.c, esp gtk_menu_set_submenu_navigation_region
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by trop 16y ago
Two different models of travel: One up which everyone is equally opportunistic (or kindhearted) and the system solves itself bottom-up. The other in which people are protected from their worst instincts (or those of others, who may be stupi
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by trop 16y ago
I've heard gmail's data store makes this an expensive operation. It doesn't want to load all your messages and sort/page through them by their content. But can't give you a citation on this. Presumably, this is why all views are chronologic
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by trop 16y ago
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL , a quote often attributed to Dijkstra, but actually written about Algol by C. A. R. Hoare in 1973: "Here is a language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its pre
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by trop 16y ago
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language) : "Pascal was the primary high-level language used for development in the Apple Lisa, and in the early years of the Mac; parts of the original Macintosh operating system were
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by trop 16y ago
In PaintAsm.a: .FUNC Monkey ;--------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; FUNCTION Monkey: BOOLEAN; ; TST MonkeyLives ;IS THE MONKEY ACTIVE ? SGE 4(S
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by trop 16y ago
Speaking of point & grunt, bear in mind that in the early '70s Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg were building by testing it in the Palo Alto schools. Now we grown-ups have adopted a paradigm which designed to be understood by young children.
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by trop 16y ago
So good to see something on the web about the beauty, vastness, and mystery of what is out there, rather than about the cleverness of the project's creators.
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by trop 16y ago
It's interesting looking at his code ( http://github.com/cloudhead/less.js/blob/master/dist/less-1.... ). It's clear, well described, and ambitious.
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by trop 16y ago
Not only that, but there's such a backlog of great, reliable desktop machines from the last decade! For most stay-indoors purposes, a seven-year-old Dell machine is just fine, and due to the numbers produced is effectively free (or near-fre
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by trop 16y ago
Also well worth reading is his "My analog to digital conversion" ( http://www.stanford.edu/~learnest/digital.pdf ), which despite its title is actually a bildungsroman about some terrifying engineering errors in 1950s military technology.
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by trop 16y ago
One attempted copy: http://rhizome.org/50k/ . Sadly doesn't look like they met their goal.
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by trop 16y ago
Indeed! There can be a joy & delight in writing an HTML (or XML) parser. I love that the libxml still has a quote at the top: "Programming with libxml2 is like the thrilling embrace of an exotic stranger." Mark Pilgrim That sort of exc
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by trop 16y ago
In a sense, HN is itself a bookmark site once logged in. That is, by looking at the "saved stories" link from my profile, I see what I've upvoted. Hence an incentive to upvote not just good items, but items I want to look at multiple times.
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Accessing Arrangement, Arranging Access: The Jeremy Blake (Born-digital) Papers(blogs.nyu.edu)
1 points by trop 17y ago|0 comments
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by trop 17y ago
As my friend's grandmother said, "They think they're so great, but they're just jumping through other people's hoops." Or as my father said, "Be careful how you treat people on your way up. You'll meet them again on your way down."
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by trop 17y ago
In some cities (Austin, Chicago, DC, Louisville, New York City, San Diego, Seattle) it's worth checking out http://ridethecity.com/ . Not just because it lists "elevation gain" for each route (though I'm not sure if it chooses routes with
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Care to Write Army Doctrine? With ID, Log On(nytimes.com)
1 points by trop 17y ago|0 comments
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by trop 17y ago
RE daemonizing, Ruby 1.9 does have a nice Process.daemon function (this is what the author is hoping for?). I'm also a big fan of the 1.9-introduced spawn() function. Not only does this make it easy to create background processes, but via
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by trop 17y ago
Sadly, I think a lot of this isn't physical but psychological. The stress of programming for a job will express itself in your body, despite the best mitigating techniques (keyboard layout, editor choice, screen color scheme, typing breaks
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by trop 17y ago
Some people argue that swapping ctrl and caps isn't good. See http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_pinky.html . Xah Lee says use a good keyboard... Not sure if this is true. I'm perfectly happy using the control key by reaching down with my l
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by trop 17y ago
I ran into an MIT engineering grad who was talking trash about Big Dog. He said "When you see a video of a new robot, remember that what you see is all it can do." In the case of Big Dog, this apparently means that it can run but not walk
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Virtual Bowery(canopycanopycanopy.com)
1 points by trop 17y ago|0 comments
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by trop 18y ago
Have been reading the recommended "On Beauty and Being Just" by Elaine Scarry. She argues that there is a continuum from physical beauty to mathematical symmetry and elegance to traffic laws to a representative democracy -- which is relate
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An Analysis of Conficker(mtc.sri.com)
6 points by trop 18y ago|0 comments
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by trop 18y ago
It's vaguely charming/ironic that the Casnocha is doing pretty good in the scalable world of getting blog posts chatted about... Out of all the millions of blog posts, to be one of the few that random people will look at today...