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by xtho 16y ago
If you turn visual effects on/off, you're back to the original settings though.
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by xtho 16y ago
It's somehow interesting that their previous acquisition was 3com. It's as if Palm returned to a previous home but in a different city.
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by xtho 16y ago
> Change your settings so that when you reply to a note, the note you're replying to is included below what you write (this is called quoting). Obviously, he has never been forced to use ms outlook. Unfortunately, he doesn't advocate te
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by xtho 16y ago
It is for notebook (incl. netbook) users who hardly ever use the mouse/trackpad.
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by xtho 16y ago
I don't consider copying a single menu bar as it is used on Macs since 1984 as an innovation. I detested the single menu bar on my Mac classic and I always thought the Windows way were preferable -- back then I was a Mac user. And I always
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JSR 292 and the Multi-lingual JVM(infoq.com)
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by xtho 16y ago
I personally wish they would go and buy a Mac and leave the desktop as it is.
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by xtho 16y ago
It's funny you're saying that after all the years of work that went into making traditional window managers more Windows/MacOSX like.
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by xtho 16y ago
Well, maybe different people who live in different countries on different continents have different ideas of what a bar is. Where I live you don't go to a bar to drink although you usually drink something when you're in a bar. But then ...
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by xtho 16y ago
Does is actually extend the class or simply wrap it with a decorator? I think Groovy takes this approach but I could be wrong.
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by xtho 16y ago
So, here we learn that clojure is "loosly typed" and that the similarity between Scala and Clojure is that they are more alike than different, and that Scala is more C style but with functions. Why do I still read such blog posts? (And BTW
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by xtho 16y ago
Ah, the good old times.
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by xtho 16y ago
Let's put things in perspective: R is S and S had it's first appearance in the 1970s. It's current reincarnation is from the late 1980s. I remember that other statistical packages back then had a similar looking syntax. This is also the rea
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by xtho 17y ago
I assume you want to visualize the data but don't want to do any fancy statistics: 1. Tutorial 2. Language definition 3. Import/Export + sqldf or rodbc 4. Either Lattice[1] or ggplot2[2], and [3] I'm glad I could be of help. :-) [1] http:/
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by xtho 17y ago
Think of it as a DSL, statisticians like to use. While it has its dark sides, its vector-orientation is well suited for a language whose main purpose is data manipulation.
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by xtho 17y ago
Since the person in question is a programmer: RTFM I'd say R is much closer to how a software developer is used to work than a spreadsheet. But I understand that many people who have no practice in software development would rather choose a
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by xtho 17y ago
Apple should rather add what is currently missing from the iPad instead of making fools out of themselves.
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by xtho 17y ago
The author refers to creativity as thaught in creativity seminars to BMAs, project managers etc. He elaborates on the concept as used in these classes.
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by xtho 17y ago
Would you prefer sending Space Troopers to Mars?
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by xtho 17y ago
Since they don't seem to tell what their success rate & the accuracy of the predicted date are, I wouldn't say they "can" do it, which would imply that they are 100% successful at predicting the day of a divorce.
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by xtho 17y ago
Captain Obvious at work? How does it answer the question? Assuming you know what the question was about?
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by xtho 17y ago
In the EU, you have a two weeks period that allows you to send back goods ordered online if you don't like them. I always thought something similar existed in the US too. Or are US consumer rights that underdeveloped?
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by xtho 17y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't automatically fetch news items from the following pages. Anyway, it's an improvement.
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by xtho 17y ago
Who would buy an ugly connection kit that sticks out of the device for an overpriced tablet? Okay, I forgot about the normal Apple user.
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by xtho 17y ago
It really depends on your discipline's culture. In the humanities, good writing style is essential. In e.g. medicine with its highly standardized report/article format where articles are targeted at an international community, language rath
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by xtho 17y ago
Who cares about the "experience" if it doesn't run vim and has no sd card slot?
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by xtho 17y ago
With respect to the language: having strings as the only data structure (everything is a string) and the developers stance on OOP (we don't need that) didn't help either and made way for python & ruby. With respect to the WWW, there was
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by xtho 17y ago
What is interesting about such lists of N writing tips is the total lack of theory of fiction or narration. It like explaining people how to write software by listing formatting rules/code conventions.
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by xtho 17y ago
Do you think that Apple would have survived without the "Sculley period"?
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by xtho 17y ago
I personally don't care if X is 1ms faster than Y, I wish though the developer of X and Y would agree on common command-line arguments and workflow (and hide the details from me) so that I wouldn't have to write my own wrapper.

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