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Comment Re:konqueror best filemanager (Score 1) 515

I find Dolphin streets ahead of any of the competition (at least, when I last tried using any of them). The ability to have both a command line and a graphical view of a directory in the same window, so I can seamlessly switch between GUI and shell, is something I consider a fundamental requirement of a modern file browser. I get thumbnail views of image files and documents for quick identification, and I can easily run script commands against them. If I change directory (either by clicking in the GUI half, or by running cd), both views change.

As far as I'm aware, no other file browser does that.

Comment Re:Geotagging? (Score 1) 167

No. It's one of the missing features they haven't added to Google Photos yet. You can see locations for photos already geotagged, but you can't add a geotag to a photo that doesn't have the information, or edit geotag information on a photo that does. I still go to picasaweb for this feature.

I've raised a feature request for this, but it's still missing the functionality.

Comment Re:I want cards with those scanner codes embedded (Score 1) 243

Our business cards have a QR code on the back. If you want an old style business card, we can give you one. If you want to just stick our contact details into your phone, then just turn the card over and scan the code. I could also display the QR code on my phone, but I'd rather pass a bit of disposable cardboard around a group of strangers than my phone.

I'm also bad at remembering names and faces, so if I've just been given some cards at the start of a meeting, I can drop them in front of me and glance at them to recall who is who.

Comment Re:How to get out of work on a progeamming team (Score 1) 814

This is part of nearly every coding standard I've seen.

And yet, I've never actually seen a bug caused by it when this rule isn't enforced.

Oh, I have :-) Back in the days when we used C, someone had something like:

if (foo)
      A_MACRO

It worked fine, until the #define was changed to consist of multiple statements. The problems caused weren't local to that bit of the code, so it took ages to track down.

I've seen a number of easy to fix bugs caused by this as well, but none quite as spectacular as the above.

Comment Re:False assumption (Score 2, Informative) 814

Thank you. People who indent with spaces should be shot. Indent with tabs all you want and I can view it the way I want (2 space, 4 space, etc.).

If you use spaces instead of tabs, I'm going to have to take two seconds to run some elisp to fix it ;-)

Problem with tabs is when you're lining up code on multiple lines (e.g., variables, where many people use whitespace between the type definition and the name to line up the names), a different tab size breaks the alignment. You either have to force everyone to use the same tab size, or suffer ugly code.

If you're aiming to keep line length down (back in the days of 80 character displays), switching between tab sizes could cause code to become an unreadable wrapped mess if it'd been written using 2 space tabs (and fitted nicely into the editor window) and you viewed it with 8 space tabs (at which point it no longer did).

These days it's almost irrelevant. Most IDEs allow you to reformat the whole file with a single keypress to whatever style you want. Then reformat back to project standard before submitting to source control.

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