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- Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:34
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Linux Adventures
- Replies: 117
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- Sat Jan 31, 2015 21:39
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Starting out in programming
- Replies: 13
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Thanks! I got hit by nostalgia and decided to come check out the forums. From what I've gathered, the most relevant difference is that emacs is much more customizable because: It's a Lisp Machine running over a very thin C-layer, unlike vim (and... most everything else, I suppose) which is a C syste...
- Sat Jan 31, 2015 20:07
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Linux Adventures
- Replies: 117
- Views: 68396
Bridge's website would have to be one of the worst out there. Indeed. I avoided it at first in favour of Antergos, but it drew me back in because it supports both LXDE and Xfce, while Antergos has an Xfce version but no LXDE. I'm using the Xfce edition on my development PC, but plan to do some Arch...
- Sat Jan 31, 2015 19:44
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Starting out in programming
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8712
Something nobody's mentioned yet is: Use a real IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Notepad does not qualify. (Notepad++ is a decent-ish choice if your language has no real IDE.) Debugging tools - breakpoints, watches, edit-and-continue, live variable inspection - are absolutely 100% essentia...
- Thu Jan 02, 2014 12:32
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Eventual smartphone/desktop merge
- Replies: 103
- Views: 54421
Paramultart: not sure why you're so bothered about this. You could've clarified any terms you were unhappy with. Indeed, but again, why argue? It's not that important. I don't know why you're arguing. I only pointed out your brought-up sources (up to and including the bare assertion of thesis) were ...
- Wed Jan 01, 2014 3:11
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Eventual smartphone/desktop merge
- Replies: 103
- Views: 54421
You know the weird thing about science? There's multiple viewpoints in it and argument and discussion. As it is there's even argument as to how QWERTY came about, was it typewriter jams or from feedback from telegraph operators? ( http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/05/fact-of-fiction-the-l...
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 4:47
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Eventual smartphone/desktop merge
- Replies: 103
- Views: 54421
- Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:38
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Eventual smartphone/desktop merge
- Replies: 103
- Views: 54421
Those are gross overestimates of how flexible a hard keyboard would be. I'm not suggesting smartphones provide different keys for each purpose. The same keys can be used for different purposes. It doesn't matter to me if it's a Qwerty keyboard or a Gameboy I'm playing the games with, as long as it h...
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 18:23
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Eventual smartphone/desktop merge
- Replies: 103
- Views: 54421
And what do touch screens do to improve that? They don't. Touchscreens are only the hardware, and, as you've pointed out, not particularly user-friendly hardware. What does lead to improvement is using a layout (like messagease) designed from scratch for the touchscreen, rather than just naively sq...
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 14:50
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Eventual smartphone/desktop merge
- Replies: 103
- Views: 54421
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 14:19
- Forum: The Theater
- Topic: 500 Years of Christmas [Spoilers for...]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17855
We still call him the eleventh doctor. Don't know why. He calls himself the eleventh doctor. Still don't know why. As for granting extra regenerations - the time lords did the exact same thing for The Master loads of times, reviving him from his half life (see whatever the Tom Baker episode with the...
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:32
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Eventual smartphone/desktop merge
- Replies: 103
- Views: 54421
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 2:42
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Eventual smartphone/desktop merge
- Replies: 103
- Views: 54421
Hardly; steno gets you 100 more wpm with more accuracy.Paramultart wrote:Keyboards truly are the best input device. Everything else is sub-par.
- Sat Dec 28, 2013 2:35
- Forum: The Theater
- Topic: 500 Years of Christmas [Spoilers for...]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17855
It was hardly an epic solution to the regeneration conundrum Yeah, the entire conundrum was introduced then solved by Gallifrey ex machina over the course of a few minutes. They didn't have to make eleven the last regeneration; they could've left it for an incarnation that was more believably despe...
- Fri Dec 27, 2013 19:06
- Forum: The Theater
- Topic: 500 Years of Christmas [Spoilers for...]
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17855
500 Years of Christmas [Spoilers for...]
Spoilers for The Time of the Doctor. I was half-expecting something like this to happen with the Ponds' departure. The Doctor, realizing that New Jersey was just too lame , would himself follow Amy and Rory into the angel's arms, live out their life with them, and show up in the graveyard a few mome...