On 3/13/11, gölgeliyele wrote:
>
> If you are a linux person, you may like Mac ports. I use a large number
> of linux apps on my Mac, such as GIMP, GNU emacs, Inkscape, vncviewer, etc.
MacVim looks nice. I've also heard great things about Textmate.
There's definitely nice software out there, of c
On 3/12/11 11:10 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 3/13/11, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
snip
OSX is a nice OS. I gave it a try once or twice. The OS is nice, but
man, when I started looking for software on the web I almost got sick.
"Top 10 software for Your Mac", "5 Apps that will make your Mac
Exper
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> On 3/13/11, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> snip
>
> OSX is a nice OS. I gave it a try once or twice. The OS is nice, but
> man, when I started looking for software on the web I almost got sick.
> "To
On 3/13/11, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> snip
OSX is a nice OS. I gave it a try once or twice. The OS is nice, but
man, when I started looking for software on the web I almost got sick.
"Top 10 software for Your Mac", "5 Apps that will make your Mac
Experience Awesome!", "This app will make you feel
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
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> >I wish all apps followed a defined standard and allowed us to set all
> > applications to use dark backgrounds at once.
> >
> > On Linux you can't even set the cursor
"Andrej Mitrovic" wrote in message
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>I wish all apps followed a defined standard and allowed us to set all
> applications to use dark backgrounds at once.
>
> On Linux you can't even set the cursor blinking to be the same for all
> a
I wish all apps followed a defined standard and allowed us to set all
applications to use dark backgrounds at once.
On Linux you can't even set the cursor blinking to be the same for all
apps. Either it's a GTK/KDE/XF/Whatever-specific setting, or you have
to hunt down some configuration file Some
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> On 3/13/11 12:14 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Doesn't matter, he's still constructed a blatant strawman. Those three
>> things I mentioned, plus the fact that he's using maximum contrast, all
>> make
>> text harder to
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> On 3/12/11 11:49 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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>>> On 3/12/11 11:07 PM, spir wrote:
Another obvious remark (not from me, read on the w
On 3/12/11 11:49 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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On 3/12/11 11:07 PM, spir wrote:
Another obvious remark (not from me, read on the web) is that what is
good for paper is not good for screens; because they are light sources.
On 3/13/11 12:14 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Doesn't matter, he's still constructed a blatant strawman. Those three
things I mentioned, plus the fact that he's using maximum contrast, all make
text harder to read *regardless* of positive/negative contrast. And
*despite* that, he's still using thos
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> On 3/12/11 11:34 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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>>> On 03/12/2011 10:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Even with a brightness
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> On 3/12/11 11:07 PM, spir wrote:
>> Another obvious remark (not from me, read on the web) is that what is
>> good for paper is not good for screens; because they are light sources.
>> Reading text on white backgroung is
On 3/12/11 11:34 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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On 03/12/2011 10:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Even with a brightness
setting matching the ambient light (many people I know have turned
the
backlight up wa
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> On 03/12/2011 10:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> Even with a brightness
>>> > setting matching the ambient light (many people I know have turned
>>> > the
>>> > backlight up way too high), longer block
On 3/12/11 11:07 PM, spir wrote:
Another obvious remark (not from me, read on the web) is that what is
good for paper is not good for screens; because they are light sources.
Reading text on white backgroung is like staring at an intensely
luminous sky, without moving your sight: doesn't this hur
On 03/12/2011 10:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Even with a brightness
> setting matching the ambient light (many people I know have turned the
> backlight up way too high), longer blocks of white text on a dark
> background have the nasty habit of leaving an after-image in my eyes, as
> demon
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> On 3/11/11 11:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> On Friday, March 11, 2011 11:18:59 David Nadlinger wrote:
>>> My question from above still remains: Is there any scientific data to
>>> back this assumption?
>>
>> I don't
On 3/11/11 11:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Friday, March 11, 2011 11:18:59 David Nadlinger wrote:
My question from above still remains: Is there any scientific data to
back this assumption?
I don't know. I haven't gone looking. However, I know that there's lots of
anecdotal evidence for i
On 3/11/2011 1:21 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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On 3/9/2011 10:18 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
They're text. With minor formatting. That alone makes html better. Html
is
lousy for a lot of things, but formatte
On Friday, March 11, 2011 11:18:59 David Nadlinger wrote:
> On 3/11/11 5:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > The problem with a white background on a computer screen is that a
> > computer screen projects light whereas paper merely reflects it. So,
> > while reading black on white works great with p
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> Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
>
>> I've never had a USB drive or an SD card die on me. And I've been using
>> the
>> cheap no-name ones from MicroCenter. Maybe you're just using *really* bad
>> ones or being rough on them? Or spend tim
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
> I've never had a USB drive or an SD card die on me. And I've been using the
> cheap no-name ones from MicroCenter. Maybe you're just using *really* bad
> ones or being rough on them? Or spend time near strong em fields?
You might forget them in the wrong pocket or your
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> Walter Bright Wrote:
>
>> On 3/9/2011 10:18 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> > They're text. With minor formatting. That alone makes html better. Html
>> > is
>> > lousy for a lot of things, but formatted text is the one thing it's
Transition effects? Is this the 90s?
Walter Bright Wrote:
> On 3/9/2011 10:18 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > They're text. With minor formatting. That alone makes html better. Html is
> > lousy for a lot of things, but formatted text is the one thing it's always
> > been perfectly good at. And frankly I think I'd *rather* go with pre
On 3/9/2011 10:18 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
They're text. With minor formatting. That alone makes html better. Html is
lousy for a lot of things, but formatted text is the one thing it's always
been perfectly good at. And frankly I think I'd *rather* go with pretty much
any word processing forma
On 3/11/11 5:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
The problem with a white background on a computer screen is that a computer
screen projects light whereas paper merely reflects it. So, while reading black
on white works great with paper, it's harder on the eyes with a computer screen.
My question fr
On 03/11/2011 04:35 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 3/11/11 5:21 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On 3/11/11 11:30 AM, spir wrote:
I do agree. I also wish -- something much easier to do -- they would
care for our nerval systems & stop saturating them with non-information
(white backgrounds).
Is t
On Friday 11 March 2011 07:35:09 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 3/11/11 5:21 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> > On 3/11/11 11:30 AM, spir wrote:
> >> I do agree. I also wish -- something much easier to do -- they would
> >> care for our nerval systems & stop saturating them with non-information
> >> (
On 3/11/11 4:35 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 3/11/11 5:21 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On 3/11/11 11:30 AM, spir wrote:
I do agree. I also wish -- something much easier to do -- they would
care for our nerval systems & stop saturating them with non-information
(white backgrounds).
Is there
On 3/11/11 5:21 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
On 3/11/11 11:30 AM, spir wrote:
I do agree. I also wish -- something much easier to do -- they would
care for our nerval systems & stop saturating them with non-information
(white backgrounds).
Is there any scientific data to back this assumption?
D
On 3/11/11 11:30 AM, spir wrote:
I do agree. I also wish -- something much easier to do -- they would
care for our nerval systems & stop saturating them with non-information
(white backgrounds).
Is there any scientific data to back this assumption?
David
On 03/11/2011 09:25 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
Based on your above comments, I get the feeling that you don't find
typography important at all. But typography is at least as important as
any other design decision, and most people do care about design.
If you create a web site for some compa
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> Based on your above comments, I get the feeling that you don't find
> typography important at all. But typography is at least as important as
> any other design decision, and most people do care about design.
>
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:43:43 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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>> On 3/10/11 2:22 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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Embedding formul
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>>
>> PDF ensures a consistent look across different platforms and viewers,
>> because the layout is fixed and fonts can be embedded.
>
> That's a signif
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>> "Jonathan M Davis" wrote in message
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>>> On Wednesday 09 March 2011 13:30:27 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:18:53 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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>> On Wednesday 09 March 2011 13:30:27 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> But why is it that academic authors have a chronic inability to
>>> re
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>>> Embedding formulas as images isn't really an option, because you want
>>> them to b
On 3/10/11 2:22 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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Embedding formulas as images isn't really an option, because you want
them to be in the same font as (or a font that looks good with) the
document's main font.
That strik
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>
> PDF ensures a consistent look across different platforms and viewers,
> because the layout is fixed and fonts can be embedded.
That's a significant part of what makes it good for printing and terrible
for everyt
On 3/9/11 5:15 PM, bearophile wrote:
Despite D is currently not widely used, it's not hard for me to find references
about D into computer science papers I find around.
This paper is titles "Code Sandwiches", by Matt Elder, Steve Jackson, and Ben
Liblit, it discusses D scope g
On 3/9/11 11:49 PM, spir wrote:
pdf is a printing format (a poor one,
according to typo professional, please ask); nothing else.
This is rather surprising given that Addison Wesley uses pdf throughout
as their publication format. Other publishers I talked to do the same,
and so do smaller pub
Am 10.03.2011 11:46, schrieb Lars T. Kyllingstad:
I don't understand your big gripe with PDF readers either. Maybe Adobe
just makes a crappy one? I use the one that comes with the GNOME
desktop, Evince, and it works perfectly. (It's open source, too!) As we
speak I have it open on a 1422-page
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:15:01 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> PDF: *Complete* inability to adapt appropriately to the viewing device,
> *completely* useless page breaks and associated top/bottom page margins
> in places that have absolutely *no* use for them, no flowing layout,
> frequent horizonta
On 03/10/2011 01:58 AM, bearophile wrote:
spir:
(Thank godS, Unbuntu's doc viewer recently got an "inverse video" mode. Unthank
gods, white on black is far to be the most legible color combination. Anyway,
better than the opposite...)
Two of the most important PDF viewrs have an option to cha
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> > On Wednesday 09 March 2011 22:18:53 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
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> >> news:mailman.2409.129
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>> > On Wednesday 09 Mar
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>>> Am 09.03.2011 22:49, schrieb Daniel Gibson:
Am 09.03.2011 22:33, schrieb Nick Sabalau
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> > On Wednesday 09 March 2011 13:30:27 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >> But why is it that academic authors have a chronic inability to
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> On Wednesday 09 March 2011 13:30:27 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> But why is it that academic authors have a chronic inability to release
>> any
>> form of text without first cramming it into a god
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 13:30:27 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> But why is it that academic authors have a chronic inability to release any
> form of text without first cramming it into a goddamn PDF of all things?
> This is one example of why I despise Adobe's predominance: PDF is fucking
> useless f
spir:
> (Thank godS, Unbuntu's doc viewer recently got an "inverse video" mode.
> Unthank
> gods, white on black is far to be the most legible color combination. Anyway,
> better than the opposite...)
Two of the most important PDF viewrs have an option to change the backgroup
color of the pag
On 03/09/2011 10:30 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
But why is it that academic authors have a chronic inability to release any
form of text without first cramming it into a goddamn PDF of all things?
This is one example of why I despise Adobe's predominance: PDF is fucking
useless for anything but pr
On 03/09/2011 09:24 PM, dsimcha wrote:
2. Encapsulation is only a means, not an end in itself. Sometimes people lose
sight of this. The end goal is to write correct, efficient, readable,
maintainable programs. If increasing encapsulation hurts these goals instead of
helping them (as excessive
Am 09.03.2011 23:38, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
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>>> Am 09.03.2011 22:33, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
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>> Am 09.03.2011 22:33, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
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But why is it that academic autho
Am 09.03.2011 22:49, schrieb Daniel Gibson:
> Am 09.03.2011 22:33, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
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>>>
>>> But why is it that academic authors have a chronic inability to release
>>> any form of text without first crammin
Am 09.03.2011 22:33, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
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>>
>> But why is it that academic authors have a chronic inability to release
>> any form of text without first cramming it into a goddamn PDF of all
>> things?
>
> It'
"Nick Sabalausky" wrote in message
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>
> But why is it that academic authors have a chronic inability to release
> any form of text without first cramming it into a goddamn PDF of all
> things?
It's like how my dad tries to email photos by sticking them i
hat little I read, this one doesn't seem quite as bad as
some. It's actually readable by programmers, which is a nice change from the
usual. And I didn't notice any blatantly stupid comments either. It doesn't
seem to make much of a point, but it does still seem to have va
On 09.03.2011 23:15, bearophile wrote:
Despite D is currently not widely used, it's not hard for me to find references
about D into computer science papers I find around.
This paper is titles "Code Sandwiches", by Matt Elder, Steve Jackson, and Ben
Liblit, it discusses D s
bearophile napisał:
> One of the things the paper says about D scope guards is: "Scope guards do
> not provide encapsulation".
Yep, they don't. So?
--
Tomek
== Quote from bearophile (bearophileh...@lycos.com)'s article
> One of the things the paper says about D scope guards is: "Scope guards do not
provide encapsulation".
(Rolls eyes.) I feel like this is a "standard" criticism of language features
that's code for "I don't like this feature". IIRC t
Despite D is currently not widely used, it's not hard for me to find references
about D into computer science papers I find around.
This paper is titles "Code Sandwiches", by Matt Elder, Steve Jackson, and Ben
Liblit, it discusses D scope guards too (page 7 and several successi
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