Displaying 3 results from an estimated 3 matches for "technoids".
2015 Jul 06
3
Mappery inquiry
...39;s proprietary topo map software. It would install, and
sometimes even work, so long as I didn't try to connect a GPS to it. (The
ones I have are all also Garmins -- old ones wanting a serial port.)
I made a huge effort, for most of a year, with a lot of help from
high-powered Alpha Plus Technoids on several lists, this one not least
among them. But I only ever got one GPS to talk to the software one time,
and never figured out how ....
What I'm trying to do (and did, under M$, years ago) is go locate
game trails, lunch rocks, good stands, etc., on a hunting ground; then
come home...
2008 Mar 03
5
on the philosophical aspects of a specification
...genesis upside-down?
heck, next thing you know we'll be telling them to r.t.f.m.
i would prefer that implementers get more sophisticated
about teasing out the user's intent in "ambiguous" cases.
of course, i've always been suspicious of "specifications",
since many technoids think the job is finished once the
spec is "all done", before one line has been programmed;
give me _working_code_ any day of the week, thank you...
just a remark, intended to stir thought, _not_ a debate...
(please do reply if you must; i'll refrain from responding.)
-bowerbird...
2009 Feb 26
3
elastic tabstops, proportional fonts, and more
...markdown files per se,
and avoid the stupid .html middleman...
the world is full of technical dummies who
will kiss the feet of the person who gives
them the means to return to "the old days"
when .html was a simple thing to create...
today's xhtml/css mess is one sick joke
that the technoids pulled on the public
to reassert the role of "required experts".
it's time to disintermediate them again...
that's my opinion, and i'm stickin' to it...
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david said:
> The? comment that started this sub-thread
> was a throwaway line, really
ok, sorry i...