On 04/05/2010 05:26 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> (Or maybe it does; hypothetical situations are
> tough to analyze. :) )
>
In theory, hypothetical situations are easy to analyze. In reality,...
> In that vein: WRT short text messages (SMS, microblogging, etc.), is
> there any reason to suppos
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
>> I was thinking the other day about that. I was wondering if/when
>> the community-at-large reach a point where something wider than 80
>> columns becomes the standard. And if so, what will it be, or what
>> will define it?
>
> It's difficult for
On 03/29/2010 09:34 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> I was thinking the other day about that. I was wondering if/when
> the community-at-large reach a point where something wider than 80
> columns becomes the standard. And if so, what will it be, or what
> will define it?
It's difficult for the huma
On 03/31/2010 07:22 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> Something which I've long thought should be done but which no
> mainstream OS GUI I've seen does well is increasing screen resolution
> to increase quality of rendering while keeping the human information
> density per inch around the same
OSX has be
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bill McGonigle
> wrote:
> > On 03/29/2010 09:34 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> >> "Yes, this means you'll be a better programmer if you get a bigger
> monitor."
> >
> > FWIW, I got a 24" LCD display for this re
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On 03/29/2010 09:34 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>> "Yes, this means you'll be a better programmer if you get a bigger monitor."
>
> FWIW, I got a 24" LCD display for this reason, but it turns out to be
> slightly too large. I have to turn my
On 03/29/2010 09:34 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> It's commonly claimed that human
> understanding significantly increases when the information is fit in
> to the field-of-view at one time. That has been my experience, both
> personally, and with others. As one CS instructor put it
> (paraphrase),
On 03/29/2010 09:34 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Ric Werme wrote:
>
>> ... I find myself sticking to emacs and its "fill paragraph"
>> function and 80 column lines. It's amazing how much influence IBM cards
>> still have on me and other right-thinking individual
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Ric Werme wrote:
> ... I find myself sticking to emacs and its "fill paragraph"
> function and 80 column lines. It's amazing how much influence IBM cards
> still have on me and other right-thinking individuals.
I was thinking the other day about that. I was wo
