Your right about kids being manipulative that early but their behaviors do get naturally programmed just by normal every day activities. I'm just suggesting that you slightly alter the their program to your advantage instead of your disadvantage. In my case, my kid was waking up several times a night, taking one slurp off a bottle and then going right back to sleep. This was happening repeatedly every night and I guarantee he did NOT need anything. I know several groups of parents who are still getting up in the middle of the night to feed their toddler(s) and they are >= 1 year old for heavens sake! It is almost always due to people like yourself who are unwilling to let their kid cry little when they can guarantee they don't need anything. It just doesn't hurt a kid to cry a little.
It's obvious you should tend to your child if they need something. It's obviously you have to use some common sense here. The point I am trying to make is that it doesn't take long before they are fully capable of sleeping the night without being fed.
Don't get caught in the trap of always getting up in the middle of the night to feed your baby. After your kid is a few months old he/she is fully capable of going through the night without needing fed. For the first few months there's not much you can do but get up, feed them, and rock them back to sleep but it won't take long before your kid will be programmed to wake up in the middle of the night and start crying for food, even if they are not hungry. The best indicator of when this is when they don't eat much before going back to sleep. When this happens you should be able to train them to sleep the entire night (at least 6 or 7 hours) We sleep trained my son at 9 weeks, YMMV. Try the following:
Try to time it so they eat as much as possible as late as possible before going to sleep for the night. If possible, feed them a mixture of cereal and milk just before bed time. This sticks to their ribs a little better than milk and really helps.
Be prepared to let your kid cry for at least an hour before feeding them. It is not harmful (and helps develop their lungs) for a baby to cry. The first night our son cried for about 1 hour and 30 minutes, the second for about 45 minutes, and third for about 10 minutes. After that, he slept for between 6-7 hours at least 5-6 nights per week. Initially when they wake up, get up and check their pants (change if necessary), pat them and let them know you are there and then go back to bed. If you want to, while they are still up, you can get up every 15 minutes, pat them and then go back to bed. Shortly, you will be able to get them to go back to sleep when they wake up without feeding them, but then they will sometimes wake up and want their diaper changed. After about a week we stopped changing my son's diaper and within another couple of days he slept all night and has ever since.
Don't feed your kid in the morning unless they explicitly ask for it. Many times children will be completely satisfied with you just holding them, laying in bed with them or even playing with them for 15 minutes or more after they get up. In the morning, wait as long as you can before feeding them. By waiting, you are training them to be able to last longer at night between feedings. Over the next few weeks this will buy you another hour of sleep time because they will sleep longer before waking up legitimately hungry.
Don't let kids sleep with you in your bed. If your doing it now, stop immediately. It's easier for you to sleep if you can't feel every movement your kid makes (at least it was for me) and it is easier for them to sleep when they can't feel every move you make. After your kids are about 1yr or older, sleeping in their own bed also helps their self esteem immensely. Everyone sleeping in their own bed is just better for everyone involved. Plus it make extracurricular activities a lot easier.
Don't underestimate the value of reading to/with your kids. Start soon and keep it up no matter how many times they bring the exact same book to you. Make sure to expose them massive amounts of animal pictures, sounds, rhyming (very important), textures (also very important) music (the sing-along type not rap/rock ect...), colors, popup books. Be interactive, don't just read to them, take their hand and point to pictures and tell them what they are pointing at.
Let your kids get dirty when they start feeding themselves and moving around. In about 4-6 months your kid will probably stop letting you feed him/her and demand to do it themselves. Let them make a mess of their food and play in the dirt later on. It is very important to for your kid to experience all of the different textures that are out there.
Don't put your kids in a bubble. If something they are doing is probably going to cause them to get hurt a little, like bump their head or fall down, let them do it (see disclaimer). When they do bump their head and fall down, act like you didn't see it until they start crying. And when they start crying, let them cry for a couple of
I'm assuming that you were trying to control the scrolling via the relative position top to bottom in the text control as finding the current line in the OCR document by locating the actual text from the current line in the text control would very tough.
Since the windows are primarily the same on a line by line basis it is possible that you could scroll the two windows relatively accurately just based on the relative position as long as you centered each assumed current line in their respective window. This would probably be effective even without current line highlighting.
Another improvement, although difficult to implement, which would enhance the proofing speed and accuracy would be to highlight the current line on the scanned image and the text control. You would also want to make sure they scrolled together.
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I agree.
I think that all of your listed points are good but I want more. I am very interested in a development environment that stretches the capabilities of the current cream of the crop IDE's. How about:
A truly incremental development environment which can recognize and highlight syntax or logic errors before I compile, sort of like mispelled words in modern wordprocessors. And no I don't want to have to run a seperate app to get these features. I want them to work dynamically as I type without a noticable delay.
Advanced programming features like slicing which can help you understand unfamiliar code. I want to know where a given variable is used and modified. Which lines of code might be affected by a change in variable XYZ? I need help digesting huge quantities of code written by someone who's style I detest and find hard to follow.
Completely extendable via a modern component system and a modern and popular interpreted language like Python.
Serious support for documenting code, complete word-processing features within comment blocks, support for documentation generators like Doxygen, automatic template support for parameter documentation, automatic documentation updates when types change, etc...
Primarily written in cross platform modular C++ so that it can be f****** fast. I'm sick of 5+ second start-ups on todays machines.
Distributed and background compiling support for when I'm working at low levels on a large project. No more include file changes and then a 10 minute compile while I've got about 5 machines sitting idle.
Flexable project and build support where there are lots of files that are spread across multiple directories. How about project support that helps me maintain cross platform source code?
I want a development environment which can be a testbed for solving hard problems and implementing experimental features that haven't been done at all before. I suspect that this will require an environment that can completely break down the language that I'm programming in to a tree form so that it can be examined for coherency by language agents. There are a couple of interesting online documents that describe how such a system might be constructed.
I have been working on a text processing engine in my spare time for the last year or so that I plan on using as a base for something like this but I'm not quite far enough along to show it yet.
To a certain extent that is true but that's not all there is to it. Windows has some good aspects to it, at least W2K does anyway. Many people are relatively happy with the look and feel of Windows but HATE the way Microsoft is constantly trying to strong arm them in one way or another. For example, MS is always trying to force users away from competing products by making sure that compatibility with others only happens when it helps MS lockin.
The Home Producer 8 can do this. I have one and it's pretty darn good. It is an RF remote with a base unit which emits IR signals so you can be anywhere in the house and control your entire system. I got mine at Best Buy for $99.
Yeah stability has gotten much better over the last few weeks. It has been very unstable on dual processor machines for a long time (with spurts of stability). Lately, I can sometimes go a couple of days without it crashing.
Here is why I recently started writing text editor N+1.
As a programmer, I use text editors (of one sort or another) for hours each day and I can tell you there are many good editors out there but they all have one or more significant problems as far as I'm concerned. Here are the most important features to me:
1 - Must be lean and fast.
I may start it 100 times a day for various editing jobs and I won't wait more than a second for it to start and be useable. Since I'm going to embed it I also need it to be lean. As far as I'm concerned it is unacceptable to for it to bog down just because I'm editing files with extremely long line lengths or many lines. There is no reason that there should be a noticeable performance hit for megabyte file sizes or even gigabyte sizes.
2 - Must be cross platform.
I use multiple operating systems and I want to take it with me for use on each operating system that I use and write applications for.
3 - Must be modular.
I need to embed various modules of a full featured text editor into other projects of mine which need modules like pattern matching, buffer management for things like edit controls, stream editing etc... Since this editor will need to be used at both ends of the spectrum (full featured editing environment and as an embedded component) The entire architecture must be componentized so that I can easily use just the functionality I need and/or easily bolt on additional (major) functionality for other uses.
4 - Must be open source.
A good text editor is very difficult to write by oneself. A truly revolutionary editor is impossible to write by oneself. Why start a project that can't really be finished and who wants another middle grade editor?
5 - Unsatisfied by current editors.
As I said before, many editors have some very nice features, features you wouldn't consider going without even, but where is the ground-breaking advancements in editing technology? Most editors are rooted in the old standby of just editing text. Just being able to edit text isn't good enough for me. I want to be able to add modules (in which ever language I like or is more suitable for the job) which can really help me write whatever type document I am working on at any given time. How about advancements in user interface design to help me out? I have a ton of ideas on things that I would like my editor to be doing while I'm working but this post is already getting long and I have a couple other things I'd like to say.
In closing:
I'll be using my code for many uses even if no one else ever does, which makes it worth my while to write. I've wanted to do this for a long time (several years) and now have a design (no simple task) which doesn't require me to compromise in any significant area. My design is forward thinking (as far as I'm concerned), very open-ended and intended to encourage extensions to the core functionality via componentization.
Here's what I intend to do with it
I am currently writing the core buffer management module right now and am about half way finished with version 1.0 of it. I am concentrating on documenting the code, making it clean, modular and easy to understand. Once I am finished I will complete the documentation of the code and describe how it works and where I'm going with it. Only then will I open source it and try to help other people use and extend it.
Unfortunately we seem to be very close to the end of this cycle. I have hopes that someday soon a president will show the people the results of gridlock, waste, partisanship etc... to the American people.
Maybe a weekly address which truthfully shows:
1 - Pork attached to bills
2 - Which members of Congress are blocking progress and why
3 - Where money is getting wasted
4 - Accurate performance statistics of government programs
and other information that would get the american public pissed off enough to do something about it then provide an easy method of allowing the public to voice their concerns over the issues they care about.
I just hope that people still care about the issues.
This is a mentality that I don't understand (not trying to flame). Do you actually feel that the government will make good use of any money you give them? Don't you have the feeling that they are robbing you already? There's no way that the government can give me health care that I will accept. As for school, we as a parents are more responsible for a child's education than the government. You can choose where to send them, private or public etc... People need to be able to take their business/children elsewere if the nearby school sucks. Give the power back to the states at least so that I can get the hell out of a state if they are screwing things up.
The only reason I can understand this reasoning is if you aren't paying any substantial taxes (less than 5K per year for example) in which case things become very clear.
I don't think most people even understand the amount of money that is being taken from them in the form of taxes. One of the smartest things ever done to increase taxes is to make the employer pay half of the employment taxes and make the employee pay the other half. If people could actually see and understand how much was being taken from them there would be riots.
I for one am pissed about the amount of money being taken from me and for ZERO benefit. The worst thing about it is that the government is so damn inefficient I know my money is going to be wasted. I look around at the waste and it just makes me sick to my stomach. The last thing I want is piss more money down the hole.
As far as I'm concerned a dollar in my pocket is a dollar that I at least get to waste on myself.
How about someone coming up with a decent distributed development environment. I mostly work on fairly large software systems (100's of source files) and there is no reason I should have to wait for more than a few seconds for a project to compile and link, especially when I have a largely untapped 100 megabit network and numerous computers setting around doing nothing 99% of the time. There's no reason source files couldn't be replicated over an entire compilation farm every time they are saved to disk and then when I kick off a build, I could have everything compiled almost immediately.
How about using some of that untapped processing power to help me develop code faster. It wouldn't be easy, but some real time code analysis tools might be pretty handy too.
Yes indeed, it is almost certainly a video driver problem. I had the exact same problem while scrolling large windows (on my Windows NT box). In my case a new set of video drivers cured the problem completely.
There is a known bug #18110 and #21556 (dup) which wastes mozilla on SMP machines. I had to stop testing the nightly builds because it was so unstable on my dual PII 400 system. I'm still waiting for this to be resolved. I'm not sure if this affects you but it is out there.
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This post is spot on. Well said.
Your right about kids being manipulative that early but their behaviors do get naturally programmed just by normal every day activities. I'm just suggesting that you slightly alter the their program to your advantage instead of your disadvantage. In my case, my kid was waking up several times a night, taking one slurp off a bottle and then going right back to sleep. This was happening repeatedly every night and I guarantee he did NOT need anything. I know several groups of parents who are still getting up in the middle of the night to feed their toddler(s) and they are >= 1 year old for heavens sake! It is almost always due to people like yourself who are unwilling to let their kid cry little when they can guarantee they don't need anything. It just doesn't hurt a kid to cry a little.
It's obvious you should tend to your child if they need something. It's obviously you have to use some common sense here. The point I am trying to make is that it doesn't take long before they are fully capable of sleeping the night without being fed.
Don't get caught in the trap of always getting up in the middle of the night to feed your baby. After your kid is a few months old he/she is fully capable of going through the night without needing fed. For the first few months there's not much you can do but get up, feed them, and rock them back to sleep but it won't take long before your kid will be programmed to wake up in the middle of the night and start crying for food, even if they are not hungry. The best indicator of when this is when they don't eat much before going back to sleep. When this happens you should be able to train them to sleep the entire night (at least 6 or 7 hours) We sleep trained my son at 9 weeks, YMMV. Try the following:
Don't let kids sleep with you in your bed. If your doing it now, stop immediately. It's easier for you to sleep if you can't feel every movement your kid makes (at least it was for me) and it is easier for them to sleep when they can't feel every move you make. After your kids are about 1yr or older, sleeping in their own bed also helps their self esteem immensely. Everyone sleeping in their own bed is just better for everyone involved. Plus it make extracurricular activities a lot easier.
Don't underestimate the value of reading to/with your kids. Start soon and keep it up no matter how many times they bring the exact same book to you. Make sure to expose them massive amounts of animal pictures, sounds, rhyming (very important), textures (also very important) music (the sing-along type not rap/rock ect...), colors, popup books. Be interactive, don't just read to them, take their hand and point to pictures and tell them what they are pointing at.
Let your kids get dirty when they start feeding themselves and moving around. In about 4-6 months your kid will probably stop letting you feed him/her and demand to do it themselves. Let them make a mess of their food and play in the dirt later on. It is very important to for your kid to experience all of the different textures that are out there.
Don't put your kids in a bubble. If something they are doing is probably going to cause them to get hurt a little, like bump their head or fall down, let them do it (see disclaimer). When they do bump their head and fall down, act like you didn't see it until they start crying. And when they start crying, let them cry for a couple of
Since the windows are primarily the same on a line by line basis it is possible that you could scroll the two windows relatively accurately just based on the relative position as long as you centered each assumed current line in their respective window. This would probably be effective even without current line highlighting.
Another improvement, although difficult to implement, which would enhance the proofing speed and accuracy would be to highlight the current line on the scanned image and the text control. You would also want to make sure they scrolled together.
I think that all of your listed points are good but I want more. I am very interested in a development environment that stretches the capabilities of the current cream of the crop IDE's. How about:
A truly incremental development environment which can recognize and highlight syntax or logic errors before I compile, sort of like mispelled words in modern wordprocessors. And no I don't want to have to run a seperate app to get these features. I want them to work dynamically as I type without a noticable delay.
Advanced programming features like slicing which can help you understand unfamiliar code. I want to know where a given variable is used and modified. Which lines of code might be affected by a change in variable XYZ? I need help digesting huge quantities of code written by someone who's style I detest and find hard to follow.
Completely extendable via a modern component system and a modern and popular interpreted language like Python.
Serious support for documenting code, complete word-processing features within comment blocks, support for documentation generators like Doxygen, automatic template support for parameter documentation, automatic documentation updates when types change, etc...
Primarily written in cross platform modular C++ so that it can be f****** fast. I'm sick of 5+ second start-ups on todays machines.
Distributed and background compiling support for when I'm working at low levels on a large project. No more include file changes and then a 10 minute compile while I've got about 5 machines sitting idle.
Flexable project and build support where there are lots of files that are spread across multiple directories. How about project support that helps me maintain cross platform source code?
I want a development environment which can be a testbed for solving hard problems and implementing experimental features that haven't been done at all before. I suspect that this will require an environment that can completely break down the language that I'm programming in to a tree form so that it can be examined for coherency by language agents. There are a couple of interesting online documents that describe how such a system might be constructed.
I have been working on a text processing engine in my spare time for the last year or so that I plan on using as a base for something like this but I'm not quite far enough along to show it yet.
To a certain extent that is true but that's not all there is to it. Windows has some good aspects to it, at least W2K does anyway. Many people are relatively happy with the look and feel of Windows but HATE the way Microsoft is constantly trying to strong arm them in one way or another. For example, MS is always trying to force users away from competing products by making sure that compatibility with others only happens when it helps MS lockin.
The Home Producer 8 can do this. I have one and it's pretty darn good. It is an RF remote with a base unit which emits IR signals so you can be anywhere in the house and control your entire system. I got mine at Best Buy for $99.
Yeah stability has gotten much better over the last few weeks. It has been very unstable on dual processor machines for a long time (with spurts of stability). Lately, I can sometimes go a couple of days without it crashing.
I don't understand how it's ok to give away some elses property, regardless of the reason.
Here is why I recently started writing text editor N+1.
As a programmer, I use text editors (of one sort or another) for hours each day and I can tell you there are many good editors out there but they all have one or more significant problems as far as I'm concerned. Here are the most important features to me:
1 - Must be lean and fast.
I may start it 100 times a day for various editing jobs and I won't wait more than a second for it to start and be useable. Since I'm going to embed it I also need it to be lean. As far as I'm concerned it is unacceptable to for it to bog down just because I'm editing files with extremely long line lengths or many lines. There is no reason that there should be a noticeable performance hit for megabyte file sizes or even gigabyte sizes.
2 - Must be cross platform.
I use multiple operating systems and I want to take it with me for use on each operating system that I use and write applications for.
3 - Must be modular.
I need to embed various modules of a full featured text editor into other projects of mine which need modules like pattern matching, buffer management for things like edit controls, stream editing etc... Since this editor will need to be used at both ends of the spectrum (full featured editing environment and as an embedded component) The entire architecture must be componentized so that I can easily use just the functionality I need and/or easily bolt on additional (major) functionality for other uses.
4 - Must be open source.
A good text editor is very difficult to write by oneself. A truly revolutionary editor is impossible to write by oneself. Why start a project that can't really be finished and who wants another middle grade editor?
5 - Unsatisfied by current editors.
As I said before, many editors have some very nice features, features you wouldn't consider going without even, but where is the ground-breaking advancements in editing technology? Most editors are rooted in the old standby of just editing text. Just being able to edit text isn't good enough for me. I want to be able to add modules (in which ever language I like or is more suitable for the job) which can really help me write whatever type document I am working on at any given time. How about advancements in user interface design to help me out? I have a ton of ideas on things that I would like my editor to be doing while I'm working but this post is already getting long and I have a couple other things I'd like to say.
In closing:
I'll be using my code for many uses even if no one else ever does, which makes it worth my while to write. I've wanted to do this for a long time (several years) and now have a design (no simple task) which doesn't require me to compromise in any significant area. My design is forward thinking (as far as I'm concerned), very open-ended and intended to encourage extensions to the core functionality via componentization.
Here's what I intend to do with it
I am currently writing the core buffer management module right now and am about half way finished with version 1.0 of it. I am concentrating on documenting the code, making it clean, modular and easy to understand. Once I am finished I will complete the documentation of the code and describe how it works and where I'm going with it. Only then will I open source it and try to help other people use and extend it.
Unfortunately we seem to be very close to the end of this cycle. I have hopes that someday soon a president will show the people the results of gridlock, waste, partisanship etc... to the American people.
Maybe a weekly address which truthfully shows:
1 - Pork attached to bills
2 - Which members of Congress are blocking progress and why
3 - Where money is getting wasted
4 - Accurate performance statistics of government programs
and other information that would get the american public pissed off enough to do something about it then provide an easy method of allowing the public to voice their concerns over the issues they care about.
I just hope that people still care about the issues.
This is a mentality that I don't understand (not trying to flame). Do you actually feel that the government will make good use of any money you give them? Don't you have the feeling that they are robbing you already? There's no way that the government can give me health care that I will accept. As for school, we as a parents are more responsible for a child's education than the government. You can choose where to send them, private or public etc... People need to be able to take their business/children elsewere if the nearby school sucks. Give the power back to the states at least so that I can get the hell out of a state if they are screwing things up.
The only reason I can understand this reasoning is if you aren't paying any substantial taxes (less than 5K per year for example) in which case things become very clear.
I don't think most people even understand the amount of money that is being taken from them in the form of taxes. One of the smartest things ever done to increase taxes is to make the employer pay half of the employment taxes and make the employee pay the other half. If people could actually see and understand how much was being taken from them there would be riots.
I for one am pissed about the amount of money being taken from me and for ZERO benefit. The worst thing about it is that the government is so damn inefficient I know my money is going to be wasted. I look around at the waste and it just makes me sick to my stomach. The last thing I want is piss more money down the hole.
As far as I'm concerned a dollar in my pocket is a dollar that I at least get to waste on myself.
How about someone coming up with a decent distributed development environment. I mostly work on fairly large software systems (100's of source files) and there is no reason I should have to wait for more than a few seconds for a project to compile and link, especially when I have a largely untapped 100 megabit network and numerous computers setting around doing nothing 99% of the time. There's no reason source files couldn't be replicated over an entire compilation farm every time they are saved to disk and then when I kick off a build, I could have everything compiled almost immediately.
How about using some of that untapped processing power to help me develop code faster. It wouldn't be easy, but some real time code analysis tools might be pretty handy too.
Yes indeed, it is almost certainly a video driver problem. I had the exact same problem while scrolling large windows (on my Windows NT box). In my case a new set of video drivers cured the problem completely.
Uncle Sam didn't help you, he just didn't screw you as much as you thought.
There is a known bug #18110 and #21556 (dup) which wastes mozilla on SMP machines. I had to stop testing the nightly builds because it was so unstable on my dual PII 400 system. I'm still waiting for this to be resolved. I'm not sure if this affects you but it is out there.
Berst is still a retard. Read his column for a couple of days and you'll see what I mean.