Comment Google should rename Go to Issue 9 (Score 5, Interesting) 512
This was reported by the author in Issue 9. There have been suggestions to rename the language to Issue 9 - I like it.
Comment Re:Is Go! alive? (Score 2, Informative) 512
A couple academic papers too, dating back to 2003. No docs isn't that accurate.
Comment Re:What Apple does right (Score 3, Informative) 505
Which is slower, as I mentioned in a reply to another poster who brought this up.
Might not be important to some people, but to me, it's a feature I miss in Mac OS X land.
Comment Re:What Apple does right (Score 1) 505
his is something that most users don't do - they either click on the menu with the mouse or hit shortcuts directly
This is my problem - I do use this manner. It's handy because I don't have to learn the various different short cuts accross different applications. It also allows me to explore the various commands quickly in a new application or get to commands without shortcuts without leaving my keyboard.
control-F2 is something, but it's more keyboard presses to be worth it. As in Control+F2, right, right, right, there is my menu option. So it doesn't allow quick access to actions or exploration without using the mouse.
I know I can configure short cuts to actions I often access, but tbh, I prefer not having too.
Comment Re:What Apple does right (Score 2, Interesting) 505
When you say contextual menu, you mean the right-click menu?
Cause this isn't what I am talking about.
What I am talking about there is a menu options in Tools -> Options -> Random Area -> Some Option. In Windows (most anyhow, and most linux apps too), the underlines appear when I hold down alt (I used italics to demonstrate where this will be). I can then go Alt + T + U + R and then use arrow buttons to get too Some Option.
How do you do this in Mac OS X?
Comment Re:What Apple does right (Score 4, Insightful) 505
One of the problems OS X has is that it lacks the ability to use these menus through the keyboard easily. In Windows I can hit the Alt key, and quickly see all the menus I can open by using an other key (the letter used for the menu item will have an underscore). Such as Alt + F is the file menu.
Each menu item then can be accessed usually through an access key. So Alt - F - S would be save. I know in both Windows and Mac OS X you have direct save short cuts too, and you can configure short cuts to common items, but that's not I want.
What I want is to be able to access a menu list from the keyboard quickly while exploring, not remember various different short cuts.
Comment Re:Objective C Java (Score 1) 211
One argument would be the available tool set and support for Java-based technologies is much larger than that of Objective-C.
Additional, the collective knowledge (and hence publications) for Java, is again, larger.
Comment Re:There are pressure insensitive keyboards? (Score 2, Funny) 129
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you ruin a great business opportunity.
Comment Interesting tweet (Score 1) 205
In this tweet from Dec 23rd, 2008 the user states:
my blog was under DDoS atack, I replace it to http://cyxymu1.livejournal.com/
Obviously this user is used to DDoS and is quite aware of being at the wrong (could say both sides are wrong) end of them.
Comment Re:I hear... (Score 1) 60
That player is just being mysterious and playing hard to get... chicks dig that!
Comment Re:I hear... (Score 4, Insightful) 60
Girls do like smart men, just not to the exclusion of other characteristics such as social skills and appearance.
Comment Re:Buffer overflow (Score 3, Informative) 501
There will be integer overflow after C++0xFF
Fixed that for you.
Comment Usually when people buy sports cars... (Score 4, Funny) 299
... they do it to impress girls. And, with a bright yellow transformers car, I think you might struggle. Oh wait, this is slashdot, nevermind!
Astronomer Photographs Meteor Through Telescope 81
Matt Rogers writes "Amateur astronomer Mike Hankey may be the first person on earth to take a picture of a fireball meteor through a telescope. The picture has been confirmed authentic by numerous professional astronomers and asteroid hunters. This picture could possibly be the first of its kind. Taking a picture of a meteor is a very difficult thing to do, taking a picture of a meteor through a telescope is near impossible. The hunt is on in southern PA for the meteorites that broke away from this space rock. Using Hankey's picture, as well as security tape, meteorite hunters have been able to narrow down the crash site to a smaller area. Even with the trajectory roughly determined, professional meteorite hunters think finding these meteorites may be near impossible. However if they are found they will be immensely valuable and could be very large."
Comment Re:who can afford that? (Score 1) 43
Most of them results are from sigs, so that search is probably exaggerating how often he does it.
