grego's comments

On: Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for d...

[grego]

I can be argued that Trump inherited the good economy from Obama. But there is so much more to life than just economy.

[RedBeetDeadpool → grego]

Trump did in fact inherit a good economy from Obama, but that's not really what I was talking about. I was talking about actions, not so much where the economy was.

On: Twitter to ban political advertising

[grego]

Well, if you read factcheck.org or any other fact checker, or just read transcripts of Trumps speeches you can see that the negative spin is usually there for a reason.

On: Storm 2.0

[grego]

In the old days a project would often start in Lisp (Common Lisp for example), and then later be rewritten in C.

This is the same pattern, and one should embrace it. Write the first cut, explore the problem space and prototype in a dynamic language. Once the design is proven, rewrite in statically typed language for performance and to get the possible remaining bugs out.

If the design was perfect from the get go, you could just write it in assembler to start with.

On: Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time c...

[grego]

What would be the off the self hardware (CPU) to use for this problem today? Still Intel, or AMD, or does ARM architecture do squaring fast? Or something else entirely, like GPU?

On: iPhone X

[grego]

I keep "loaning" my finger to family members all the time, when I'm driving, watching TV, and they want to borrow my phone. Not really sure Apple thought through this from every angle...

[MBCook → grego]

They could just hold the phone up and you could look over for a fraction of a second. No different than if you were talking to them.

[cbhl → MBCook]

Oh boy, that's going to be awful fun for parents. Let the kid play with a game; they call your name while pointing the forward camera at you and you've just Face ID'ed some in-app purchase.

[MBCook → cbhl]

That's an interesting corner case. My phone has a setting that lets me turn off touch ID for App Store purchases (so I would have to use my passcode) so I guess you'd just have to use that if your kid kept tricking you and you couldn't stop them.

[adiabatty → cbhl]

Then you get the bill in the mail a couple days later and then ground your kid.

[gberger → adiabatty]

In the mail? :-)

On: React Native is now open source

[grego]

After figuring out how to deploy to device (see AppDelegate.m), I tested accessibility and it seems there is virtually none. At least in the Movies example app, VoiceOver reads practically nothing.

How would one go about making the Movies sample accessible, or is that even possible?

On: How a Blind Person Programs

[grego]

Btw. what braille do you use for reading code? 8-dot us-computer braille, or something else?

(I'm the author of MBraille, now working on Vietnamese braille table for liblouis, so braille is in my mind...)

[zersiax → grego]

I tend to use 8-dots US braille, simply because I am used to it. Working with other tables would work just as well though if that's what you are used to, there's no 7 and 8 dot features that set it apart

On: Inkscape 0.91 release

[grego]

Krita is great. https://krita.org

On: Tessel: The end of web development as we know it

[grego]

Hey, this is just one of the necessary steps towards Marvin the Paranoid Android, or perhaps the sentient door...

[lifeisstillgood → grego]

all of which will exist in 42 years of course

On: Linux 3.11 Officially Named "Linux For Workgroups"

[grego]

To me hnriot sounds like a Manager. :) Devil is in the details and managers hate those.

[yebyen → grego]

Not that the definition of Window Manager is at all germane to the point, which I think was "I don't like efficiency".

Could have been either that, or "competition is bad, we already have the best way." You're right I think, it is probably characteristic of a manager to try to tell people what way to spend their time.