Comments for frankschmitt.org

Comment on Things I Hate, Part II: Web Forms that Auto-Tab by Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:12:08 +0000

Great article, Frank. You’re obviously a gentleman and a scholar.

Auto-Tab is the Devil’s work.

Comment on Things I Hate, Part II: Web Forms that Auto-Tab by Ronald Quartel

Ronald Quartel — Sat, 07 May 2011 23:28:00 +0000

Finally somebody that shares my same frustration….

Ronald.

Comment on Safari Tip: Search in Google in New Tab by manwhojaped

manwhojaped — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:08:17 +0000

If Apple “engineers” had really thought of it, they would have added the command to the contextual menu – the way firefox does it. Needing to hold down another key is not good ui – such action requires another hand to be used. Mine are all used up doing other things.

Comment on Resolution Independence and the Mac by Frank

Frank — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:24:23 +0000

I’m 35 and I’ll go into Safari 5′s Reader Mode (if you haven’t tried it, check it out) on pages that are perfectly readable but designed for 20-something eyes.

Comment on Resolution Independence and the Mac by Charles

Charles — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:21:48 +0000

"A caveat is that some people (particularly those my age and older) are going to want larger controls on an arc-seconds-of-visual-field basis. That in itself might make resolution independence worth fighting for."

It's the main reasons. I promise you the teens who don't care now will be worse off than us much faster by staring at these tiny characters so much from such an early age. As the monitors have zoomed up in resolution, I am finding the Mac less and less usable, and I'm only 40. I hit command + 4-5 times on safari for every web page. My eyes twitch constantly now, but I have no issues reading books. THE PRINT IS TOO SMALL WITH HIGH RES MONITORS.

This is a huge ball drop.

Comment on HOWTO Disable that annoying Emacs Splashscreen by VW

VW — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:18:59 +0000

Thank u! I was already thinking to move back to vim!

Comment on HOWTO Disable that annoying Emacs Splashscreen by dan

dan — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:13:51 +0000

Love it. Thanks for the info.

Comment on Chaining vs. Nesting by Okke

Okke — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:24:24 +0000

I think matlab works around explicit branches quite nicely.

Matlab is used for working with matrixes (MATrix LABoratory), and instead of looping through the whole matrix, one can specify a condition on the elements of the matrix and then perform a calculation only on these elements:

x = [1 2 3]; x(x =< 2) = 0;

would produce a new matrix ('list') with elements [0 0 3].

As you see, this syntax does not explicitly use an if at all. A kind of selector is used instead.

Comment on Chaining vs. Nesting by must_submit_this_pic

must_submit_this_pic — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:43:59 +0000

netstat -n | grep tcp | awk ‘{ print $5}’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

in LINQ, assuming some a function netstat exists, this becomes something like

nestat(resolve=false) .Where(line => line.Contains(“tcp”)) .Select(line => line.Split(” “)[5]) .Distinct() .Select(ip => new { IP=ip, Octets=ip .Split(“.”) .Select(int.Parse) .ToArray() }) .OrderBy(t => t.Octets[3]) .OrderBy(t => t.Octets[2]) .OrderBy(t => t.Octets[1]) .OrderBy(t => t.Octets[0]) .Select(t => t.IP)

I’m guessing this will look totally unreadable, so I’ll leave a readable version over at reddit where I found this.

See http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/arsu8/chaining_vs_nesting/.

Comment on Chaining vs. Nesting by Mark Lee Smith

Mark Lee Smith — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:25:26 +0000

@mvm

You may be interested to know that this isn't remotely unique to Haskell, or functional programming.