On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk wrote:
Never trust a language where its users won't tell you that it sucks.
That's an excellent rule.
-Eli
With Common Application, Many Find a Technical Difficulty in Common, Too
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/education/23college.html
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When he would follow the program’s instructions to execute a “print
preview” of his answers — which would show him the actual version that
an admissions officer
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote:
Catering for new users isn't the end-all be-all of design.
This is something which seems never to have occurred to 90% of the UI
designers out there. For a given piece of desktop software --
especially OS software -- how many
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:27 PM, John Sinteur j...@sinteur.com wrote:
scroll focus follows the mouse, my keyboard focus stays in
whatever I'm typing in.
Having mouse events and keyboard events go to different applications
is a *feature*? That's some of the most pathological UI behavior I've
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 17 2008, 13:15:05)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-3)] on linux2
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
quit
Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
exit
Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
--Eli
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Dave Brown dagbr...@lart.ca wrote:
No, it's full of hate.
Python there is saying, I know what you wanted to do. I know *exactly*
what you wanted to do. But you have to conform to EXACTLY HOW I WANT
YOU TO DO IT before I'll actually do what I can obviously
On 8/20/07, Jarkko Hietaniemi j...@iki.fi wrote:
You are trying to use the Inttarweb before you pay us? Sacrilege!
It's not just the places looking to get paid. Libraries with free
wifi can be among the worst offenders. I've been to libraries where
you are required to check out a wireless card
