Duderstadt - Slashdot User

Comment Re:A (Path) Finder with a "Refresh" button. (Score 2, Interesting) 249

by generic-man on Monday October 23, 2006 @02:14PM (#16549388) Attached to: My Dream App For the Mac

Dear God, not like that. I have a 1024x768 display and I don't want to devote all of it to a file browser. The last time I used an environment like that it was called DOSSHELL.EXE.

I just want to hit CMD+R and see a Finder window refresh. Windows has supported a "refresh" shortcut in Windows Explorer (F5) for many years. I don't expect to install a gigantic piece of $35 shareware to get such a simple feature, but that seems to be the norm on Mac OS X these days.

Journal Journal: Still Can't Stand QuickSilver

Journal by generic-man on Saturday October 01, 2005 @02:18PM

As a yearlong user of LaunchBar, I've tried QuickSilver, its free-software competitor, several times -- the most recent time being today. I still can't stand it.

Journal Journal: Blog Blog Blog 2

Journal by generic-man on Friday September 09, 2005 @03:16PM

Blog blog blog. Blog blog blog blog blog, blog blogger blog blog. Blogosphere blog! Blog blogging blog blog blog. Moblogging? Blog blogging? Blogger. Podcast.

TrackBack?

Journal Journal: Why I Shouldn't Drink Espresso

Journal by generic-man on Tuesday May 17, 2005 @08:38PM

This morning I had a "Shot in the Dark," or a cup of coffee with a shot of espresso mixed in. All that caffeine went to my head as I posted an inflammatory comment in an IE7 article and responded to many of the repetitive responses I received.

Sorry for the flame-inducing post. That'll teach me to overcaffeinate myself in the morning.

Comment For some tasks, they work better (Score 1) 427

by Duderstadt on Wednesday March 03, 2004 @03:03PM (#8454355) Attached to: Purely Functional Data Structures

If you look here, you will notice that our friends at Microsoft have developed a high level decompiler for .Net IL. Basically, it decompiles the IL into an abstract, non binary, human readable form.

The tool for manipulating this new IL (ILX) is F#, an ML family functional language. This is because ILX fits more naturally with a functional language than it would with, say, C# or C++.

C# and the like can still be used, but if you look at the ILX and compare it to F#, the reason for using a functionl language should be obvious.

I don't know if you can do this with Java or not, but if there were such a decompliler, the output would be much easier to work with as in ML than with Java itself.

Journal Journal: Take jokes!

Journal by generic-man on Friday June 27, 2003 @08:32PM

What's with the people on Slashdot who can't read a joke and take it at face value?

A line from "Office Space" brings a vitriolic look back at high school.

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