oatmeal_coffee

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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
Right. But a ticketing system doesn't solve this problem either. A pre-paid ticketing system could make this problem worse because there is no "cue" as it were. At least a bill being placed on the table, paid, and then picked
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
The question is whether or not to ban lobbying is not a reasonable one, if only because lobbying would not be able to be banned just on a principle of free speech alone. People have a voice—good, bad, whatever—and lobbying provides an effic
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
You can't paint all lobbying with the same brush. There are beneficial lobbying groups out there helping to bring a voice to issues in an arena where they would otherwise normally be drowned out. We just focus on the bad ones because t
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
A few things come to mind. Each use case—typesetting and word-processing—have enough standardized tools to fill an entire application's interface. I think making the compromises needed to do be able to do both adequately would be too m
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
So, essentially, this is a rewrite for TeX. But the reality is that creating complex layouts really, truly requires GUI layout tools. No matter how good the output is for this application, it's entering into an firmly-established marke
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
I foresee mashing a robust typesetting application and a robust word processing application as being an extremely difficult thing to do well. Both are very different use cases and resulting environments.
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
You can type directly into layouts in InDesign and see your line and page breaks in realtime. I think where the problem lies in InDesign is that it is, at its core, a typesetting and layout application and not a word processing application.
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
The Cocoa/Objective-C links are for building apps, not higher-level automation.
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
Yes, I know because I script for them all the time, but at least Adobe's API's try to be more robust than Apple's. My point was really more towards there being more to scripting than just Apple's own apps.
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
Apple has its issues with scripting in its apps but other companies like Microsoft and Adobe have robust scripting support in their applications. Developers like me have created significant workflows using scripting that save my company mon
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
Taking the entire migration process you describe changes the "price" to be paid for similar phone, so my claim of false equivalence still stands. There's no "lesson" when I have made the conscious decision to stick
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
True unless someone has made years of investments in iTunes-sourced content, then moving over to a cheaper phone with the same feature set is no longer an apples-to-apples comparison. I have a collection that goes back to iTunes' and t
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
How can anyone argue they don't have biases? From a 2013 article they ran explaining their politics: "We like free enterprise and tend to favour deregulation and privatisation. But we also like gay marriage, want to legalise drugs
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
How would you define deliberate practice, then? I would agree that deliberate practice may be hard to define across all skills, but it could be defined for a specific skill. For example in programing, I would consider problem sets and side
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by oatmeal_coffee 12y ago
A document that large must have some kind of a structure that you and your team can use to break it apart into smaller, more manageable chunks. One thing to consider is to place the content into a content management system of kind (a wiki c
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by oatmeal_coffee 13y ago
Any publisher that produces books with heavy math will know what to do with LaTeX, and if not then call a vendor that will know what to do with LaTeX.