That's both arrogant and incorrect. 1. There have been far more technological advances than types of weapon actually used against our own kind (to the extent that 'technological advances' is even quantifiable). 2. Any extraterrestial civilization engaged in interstellar travel can kick our ass without issue. We're talking about a civilization that has harnessed huge amounts of energy, is highly rational, organized and intelligent. Even if they were peaceful in principle, they would be foolish to not have advanced defense mechanisms other then 'try not to be seen' or would be able to very quickly muster such a defense. If they're hiding, they're not hiding from us, but from a more advanced civilization than their own.
In the area of interstellar travel, we are currently just a bunch of poop-flinging monkeys learning how to use a stick to catch some ants. Properly advanced civilizations might just drive by in their safari vehicle looking at the silly monkeys.
I dare you to try to identify another culture in the history of humanity that actually openly celebrates the murder of innocent civilians
Didn't the US have a little problem with lynching in the past? But I guess you're going to say all those blacks were criminals, right? No white supremacist would ever just want to see black guys dead, 'guilty' or not.
The thing you have to realize is that almost all humans are very, very good at dehumanizing their out groups (i.e.: the 'not us' people), to the extent that there are no innocents among those groups (hell, they're not even human. They're 'less than dogs').
'The only good [x] is a dead [x]' isn't just some farcical mythological exclamation, it is deeply ingrained in our biology. It takes hard work to build up civilization to prevent that instinct from surfacing and even then that layer of civilization is very thin and easily destroyed.
Muslims were literally dancing in the streets on 9/11
If I'm not mistaken, there are no records of Muslims in the biggest Muslim nation on earth (Indonesia) dancing in the streets because of 9/11, nor do I believe that American Muslims did so. Ask yourself what the difference is between the dancing ones and the non-dancing ones and their relation to the US (and their relationship with Israel). I'm not saying they are right to hate the US or excusing them for it, just that their human capability for hating enemies and disregarding the humanity of those killed in 9/11 is fueled by that relation, not by the specific religion they were brought up with.
I don't know if you've looked at the ongoings in central and southern Africa in the last couple of decades, but I'm pretty sure there have been some pretty horrendously acting Christians there as well: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/afr...
Bottom line: Humans don't need a lot to deeply hate an entire group of people and rather see them die than live.
Note that a sentence is commonly made up of multiple words. You turned my qualification of a sentiment into a sweeping ad hominem and then attacked that ad hominem.
My version: "The hate for Eclipse is so terribly outdated" Your version: 'anyone who doesn't like Eclipse is, "outdated"' See what you did there? Asshole.
The way you blithely dismiss anyone's "anecdote" on how Eclipse was an epic fail for them makes it quite clear you think they are a moron
Like I said, citation needed. You are imagining things. I haven't blithely dismissed shit and furthermore have no problem calling people morons when I feel it is warranted. Let me reiterate that I think that people who create and attack straw men are morons or assholes.
So, it sounds like you are saying that you love Eclipse for what you are doing and you want people to try and convince you otherwise. Why?
Well, I firmly believe in the power of advanced IDEs and I am always looking for new features that enhance my productivity. I've seen the Netbeans vs IntelliJ vs Eclipse (vs vim) debates many a time here on Slashdot and apparently IntelliJ is 'infinite times better than Eclipse' (which is 'donkey shit'). Taking such comments at face value, I would be an idiot if I wouldn't switch to IntelliJ, right?
The thing is that I just don't see it. I don't see the mountainous advantages of IntelliJ or disadvantages of Eclipse. I'm definitely not in love with Eclipse and have had plenty of battles with it (albeit not more or less than with pretty much every other mildly complex application out there), so if there is a better alternative out there, then I need to invest time in that alternative.
However, the replies on my (upmodded and early up in the comments, so highly visible) request ("I am genuinely interested in which features/properties for any of the above-mentioned languages are lacking in Eclipse and make it worth switching to another IDE for that language") have been mostly the same old same old: anecdotes of issues which I've never experienced and general comments about slowness which I also don't experience.
If it works for you, that's great, but this approach you seem to be taking that anyone who doesn't like Eclipse is, "outdated", or a moron because you've never had that problem before is just petty and ridiculous.
Citation, please. I don't think or have said that such people are 'outdated' or 'a moron'. I will tell you who I do think are either morons or assholes: people who create and attack straw men.
If I pressed one then a dialog would pop up saying something like, "That button isn't enabled."
Which button was that? Was it part of a plugin? Because in 10+ years of working with Eclipse almost daily, I've never seen anything like that.
So, I take the time to set up key mappings and Fonts & Colors (for which the settings are spread out in different sections). Almost every other time I start Eclipse, my key mappings have been reset for no apparent reason. They're just gone. If I change workspaces I have to set it all up again as well. Lame.
You know you can export and import preferences, right? It's one of the features I really really liked the times I worked on the employers location. Install Eclipse and plugins, import the preferences I brought from home and go.
The intermittent reset keymappings and suddenly breaking Tomcat thing sound as if something was messing with or just locking your workspace files. Some syncing or backup tool perhaps. It's still obviously a bad way to fail for Eclipse.
Alas, again, these are two of those: 'never had that problem'-things again. Anyway, I have given up on my initial request. Apparently people don't wish spending time on telling me which great features of IntelliJ I'm missing out on.
I have a 4k monitor, with 125% scaling enabled. The website where I order food recently managed to increase the amount of whitespace and lack of content to such an extent that now generally 10 rows of food fit on the screen. 10.
The rows are (pre-scaling) at least 140px high, even if no images are included. It's ridiculous.
Of course it doesn't help that determining the dpi of the user device wasn't well-supported in the past. Responsive CSS should really use min-resolution instead of relying on pixel counts: http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
The workaround for the whitespace plague of course is creating and always applying some user CSS code for frequently visited sites.
The downside of WinRAR is that it is an archive, which means efficiently updating it in place is cumbersome.
At some point I started to generate PAR files for my photos (using PAR2s generated by MultiPar - which is scriptable). This achieves a comparable recovery capability as the recovery records of WinRAR, but is much simpler to deal with when doing updates to what the PAR files cover and uploading those changes to a remote location. The PARs exist on the directory level and before regenerating them in the case of changes, I run the PAR verification pass to see if any rot has occurred.
In addition to that, I replaced my remote NAS with a (remote) general purpose Mini-ITX box. Easier to keep secure and use ZFS with snapshotting enabled. Considering that the source files could still rot on the HDDs in my main machine, the snapshotting provides protection against uploading new rot for the data for which I am too lazy to (re)generate PAR files for. I really just need a bit-rot protection FS like ZFS for Windows for this bit, of course.
I didn't say it was necessary to buy faster hardware. I just said that the "it's slow as hell"-argument doesn't really stand today. You can call it 'heavy' or 'badly optimized', but not 'slow' anymore.
I'm not sure 'badly optimized' is even warranted still. As I said, Eclipse has come a long way and some things just intrinsically require a lot of processing. I sortof want to try running it from and with code on an HDD to see if it is still significantly slower than the alternatives on those. OTOH, if you're devving (professionally) off an HDD, you are doing it wrong anyway, so fuck it.
I for one would like all my Desktop apps to have an Eclipse style UI. Its very flexible to layout, as you see fit. I first tried Eclipse in 2002
Yes, exactly. I bought a 3840x2160 monitor a while back and it is absolutely fantastic to be able to use that screen estate exactly as I want. A dedicated little corner for this, a little corner for that. It's just great. My most recent bit of perspective design is having the task list always visible and displaying the open TODOs in the currently edited file, which makes me aware of which open ends coincide with what I am editing the file for at that point.
Its also one of the reasons why I love Foobar2000 so much. It just seems natural for any advanced user to want to be able to truly customize their tools. I sure like it.
I also remember seeing the auto-complete for finding a certain preference in the configuration. I thought it was awesome and was fairly sure that all mildly complex desktop applications would soon include such a thing. To my surprise, not many have done so.
Eclipse is indeed still a slow piece of shit, even with an i7 & 16GB. But I suppose you'll claim that frequent processing lag that allows me to type faster than the system can render the characters or the editors taking several seconds to open and process text files are not a "valid complaints".
Sounds bad and that would be a valid reason to dislike Eclipse. As I said to a sibling AC, I haven't used Eclipse with an HDD for 6+ years, so maybe Eclipse is still shit on an HDD.
If you do use an SSD, it would seem to me that there is something wrong with your install. It definitely sounds like something that shouldn't be happening, because it sounds unworkable.
1. You need 10 copies of eclipse for each configuration because plugins rarely work together.
Never had that problem, and my install is chock full of plugins.
2. It took 20 minutes to index source changes. It never figured out I just wrote a method and could auto suggest it in a reasonable time.
It used to do that on an HDD, yes. That's why I mentioned having an SSD. I'm not sure whether that is still a problem, as I haven't used Eclipse with an HDD for 6+ years.
3. It's not user friendly.
A very well supported statement.
4. It doesn't run on other operating systems well because it wasn't pure swing.
'Other' operating systems? AFAIK, it generally runs fine on Linux (barring high-DPI KDE environments) and OSX.
- The UI doesn't scale properly in my KDE environment courtesy of SWT (both NetBeans and IntteliJ do)
This seems to be limited to KDE in certain situations
The profiler is as close to unusable as possible
How so?
- It just consumes CPU for no good reason (as does IntelliJ). Working on an aeroplane flying across continents it's the difference between actually getting some work done and running out of juice after one hour.
I'm not sure 'developing software on an airplane' is a use case to optimize for. Having said that, needless CPU usage is obviously not a plus. Then again: CPU cycles on a dev machine or generally cheap. I'm pretty sure no dev on any semi-modern machine (my CPU is 6 years old) even notices Eclipse CPU usage.
This I agree with (but it's hardly a basis on which to choose an IDE).
Considering that Eclipse is built around the concept of plugins, the whole 'editions' download page never made sense to me. The only difference between the editions is that they include certain plugins by default (and as such, it doesn't really matter all that much which one you select). The fact that there isn't a basic edition makes it extra silly. Much better would be to have such an edition as the basis and allow you to tick some checkboxes of the plugins you want included by default. The current editions could just be presets.
I think there are some 3rd parties that provide the abovementioned functionality, but it should be on the 'Eclipse download' page.
I haven't heard anyone come up with one single proper argument against Eclipse that stands today. Any dev worth his salt has an SSD, plenty of memory and a half-decent CPU. In addition to that, Eclipse has come a long way, which make the "It's slow as hell!"-thing quite outdated.
Even if it would be marginally worse than other IDEs, it has some great advantages: 1. Multi-language, hell, multi-purpose even. 2. Cross-platform 3. Free 4. Open source 5. Designed to be extended with plugins and as such, a veritable buttload of them exist. 6. Generally consistent interface
I've used it (professionally) for editing and debugging PHP, Twig, HTML, XML, YAML, CSS, Android, Java, C, Shell scripts and Javascript code residing in CVS, SVN, Git repos (and even via FTP - shudder) in the past decade and in general being able to use the same hotkeys and UI elements to perform similar tasks. I will readily admit that the different languages have varying levels of support for the more advanced features, but on the whole it easily beats other multi-language tools and saves me from having to use and become proficient in the use of a multitude of language specific editors.
It's probably not the best example, but due to the lack of plugins for Objective C in Eclipse I've been forced to use XCode for iOS development: Talking about donkey shit..
Anyway, I am genuinely interested in which features/properties for any of the above-mentioned languages are lacking in Eclipse and make it worth switching to another IDE for that language.
Saying "even to me" means that you support that way of thinking. Don't hide behind "I'm explaining other people's thoughts". You have to realize that supporting the "at least he's honest/straightforward" way of thinking in any way is detrimental to the wellbeing of a representative democracy.
Real honesty is when politicians say: "Well, I can't really make any promises. There are a lot of factors influencing this and I will probably gain new insights in the future which will give me a more complete picture of the matter, which in turn might lead me to another solution than the one I currently believe is the best one. I can promise that I will try to select a solution to the best of my ability at any time in the future." NOT: "We're going to deport all those illegal immigrants."
The problem with the first one is that everybody chews up the guy saying such things as 'having no vision' or 'being weak' or whatever shortsighted qualification the primitive brain comes up with. Nuance doesn't sell. The second one may sound very straightforward, decisive and 'leader-like', but it locks the speaker to a specific action, which removes all opportunity of using new insights (which may determine the action to be unwise). Promising the attainment of specific results ("We're going to let the economy grow by 3% next year") is also extremely problematic, as there is no way to guarantee it will come true.
So, what can you do, as a politician? True honesty gets you ridiculed and keeps you from getting elected. Making a lot of promises will get you elected, but will bite you in the ass in the future (many choose this path anyway, trusting that they can take or mitigate the bite). What remains is trying to dance around the issues and promise as little as possible while sounding as if you know what you're doing and are a great person.
My point is that public opinion breeds political speak. Stop lamenting the 'straightforward' assholes and start praising the truly honest politicians.
Oh, for fuck's sake. You people are on Slashdot as well?
You are as moronic as Trump is. Just because you can relate to swinging an axe does not mean it's the best way to build a nuclear reactor. Moreover, if you really think that Trump is not 'saying political speak', then you are as naive as a 1-year old. If there is one guarantee in politics it is that the populists always end up being the ones who realize the fewest of their promises or just royally fuck up their country sooner or later.
There is a reason why matters on a national scale generally require complex nuanced solutions (or slave labor, slave labor always works) and that is that running a country properly is fucking hard. Talk is cheap.
At first I thought that Trump was deliberately put into the picture to draw the playing field towards 'the right', i.e. make one guy say the most outlandish stuff so that the previously outlandish things the rest said actually seem reasonable (and conversely, making the actually reasonable stuff sound silly and far away from reality).
But the completely baffling thing to me is that there are actually droves of people in the US that not only support Trump, but actively defend his words and say asinine shit like: "He's a true American. We need a guy like that for president" and: "The media are making him sound racist". I remember being very surprised that a moron like Bush Jr. could become (and stay!) president, but this is definitely a new low for the US. Trump hasn't been elected yet, but the fact that so many people like him and support him is already deeply, deeply disgraceful.
This may be a fair point. People will forgo a lot if stuff is cheaper. I'm not sure whether it is cheaper in all places where it is popular though, so I dare not conclude anything here.
because there's a feedback system
This may also be it. Taxi's in my country are generally very clean, very recent Mercedes Benzes, but when you take/order one, you don't have the faintest clue whether the driver drives like a moron (actually, you sort of do, because many of them do so). Even entire taxi companies aren't commonly or easily compared in quality (to the extent that you even have a choice).
But I have to say that I've found the process of arranging a taxi very cumbersome almost every time. Calling them on the phone, explaining where you are, where you have to go (possibly in a foreign language) or finding a place where taxis are/hailing them while kind of trying to ascertain whether (or accepting that) they are going to suck is just terrible.
Personally, given the choice of taking a regular taxi using an app that allowed me to arrange the ride or going via Uber, I would probably choose the regular taxi. In my country at least. In a different country I'd have to weigh whether I'd trust the country's (public) regulations on the taxi industry more than Uber's (private) 'regulations' of its drivers.
If the regular taxi app had a reliable feedback system (and the price wouldn't be ridiculous), it would be regular taxis for me, hands down.
Love them or hate them, they are a stabilizing force in the region. With them gone or impotent the region is going to change, fast.
Exactly. Why anyone would want to see the Middle-East destabilized even further by 'destroying Saudi Arabia' is beyond me.
The best thing that could happen is for countries that mainly depend on the sale of oil to gradually reform their economy and wean themselves off their oil income while they still have the cash to do so (too late, Venezuela). The world already has enough crappy economies to deal with.
But "holy grail" is rather overselling it, I suspect.
Even when practical, we're still talking very big, very expensive plants that depend on a long supply chain for all its parts, the high-purity fuel
1. That is not necessarily true. It's probably true for the near future, but AFAIK not fundamentally.
2. Solar is fundamentally dependent on accessible sunlight in copious amounts. I was recently made aware that in the event of a supereruption or other incident that decreases incident sunlight worldwide, a society mainly dependent on solar energy would have immediate and serious power issues. Besides that, solar becomes less useful the farther away from a star you get. Finally, solar fundamentally scales with the area of the receptors.
The latter two issues with solar are obviously more longterm issues related to space travel, but the first should be a real concern for earth-based panels.
Don't get me wrong: in principle I think that solar will be our next dominant source of energy and that it will impede investments in fusion, but when it comes to marking fusion as the holy grail, I tend to agree with TFS, as I deem it much more future proof. I agree especially because solar has passed the point of economic viability and thus no longer requires (public) investment. Widespread solar is going to happen soon, with or without them. Fusion, however..
So roughly 100x200 'sensels' on 130mm x 230mm (~5inch x ~9inch). Straight dpi is thus: 20dpi. Now that assumes a perfect point source, not a finger. The force sensitivity has 4096 levels, apparently ranging from 5g to 5kg. You're not going to push anywhere near 50N with your finger so not all those levels will be relevant. With some processing over multiple sensors, though, the precision could increase quite a bit.
They quote ~0.1mm themselves, which would imply about 250dpi precision in the horizontal plane, which is not stellar.
(Please correct my math if I made a mistake. It's been a long day.)
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That's both arrogant and incorrect.
1. There have been far more technological advances than types of weapon actually used against our own kind (to the extent that 'technological advances' is even quantifiable).
2. Any extraterrestial civilization engaged in interstellar travel can kick our ass without issue. We're talking about a civilization that has harnessed huge amounts of energy, is highly rational, organized and intelligent. Even if they were peaceful in principle, they would be foolish to not have advanced defense mechanisms other then 'try not to be seen' or would be able to very quickly muster such a defense. If they're hiding, they're not hiding from us, but from a more advanced civilization than their own.
In the area of interstellar travel, we are currently just a bunch of poop-flinging monkeys learning how to use a stick to catch some ants. Properly advanced civilizations might just drive by in their safari vehicle looking at the silly monkeys.
I dare you to try to identify another culture in the history of humanity that actually openly celebrates the murder of innocent civilians
Didn't the US have a little problem with lynching in the past?
But I guess you're going to say all those blacks were criminals, right? No white supremacist would ever just want to see black guys dead, 'guilty' or not.
The thing you have to realize is that almost all humans are very, very good at dehumanizing their out groups (i.e.: the 'not us' people), to the extent that there are no innocents among those groups (hell, they're not even human. They're 'less than dogs').
'The only good [x] is a dead [x]' isn't just some farcical mythological exclamation, it is deeply ingrained in our biology. It takes hard work to build up civilization to prevent that instinct from surfacing and even then that layer of civilization is very thin and easily destroyed.
Muslims were literally dancing in the streets on 9/11
If I'm not mistaken, there are no records of Muslims in the biggest Muslim nation on earth (Indonesia) dancing in the streets because of 9/11, nor do I believe that American Muslims did so. Ask yourself what the difference is between the dancing ones and the non-dancing ones and their relation to the US (and their relationship with Israel). I'm not saying they are right to hate the US or excusing them for it, just that their human capability for hating enemies and disregarding the humanity of those killed in 9/11 is fueled by that relation, not by the specific religion they were brought up with.
I don't know if you've looked at the ongoings in central and southern Africa in the last couple of decades, but I'm pretty sure there have been some pretty horrendously acting Christians there as well: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/afr...
Bottom line:
Humans don't need a lot to deeply hate an entire group of people and rather see them die than live.
The title is pretty clear about it: It was just discovered into the drives by Tangible Security.
Outdated was your word not mine.
Note that a sentence is commonly made up of multiple words. You turned my qualification of a sentiment into a sweeping ad hominem and then attacked that ad hominem.
My version: "The hate for Eclipse is so terribly outdated"
Your version: 'anyone who doesn't like Eclipse is, "outdated"'
See what you did there?
Asshole.
The way you blithely dismiss anyone's "anecdote" on how Eclipse was an epic fail for them makes it quite clear you think they are a moron
Like I said, citation needed. You are imagining things. I haven't blithely dismissed shit and furthermore have no problem calling people morons when I feel it is warranted. Let me reiterate that I think that people who create and attack straw men are morons or assholes.
So, it sounds like you are saying that you love Eclipse for what you are doing and you want people to try and convince you otherwise. Why?
Well, I firmly believe in the power of advanced IDEs and I am always looking for new features that enhance my productivity. I've seen the Netbeans vs IntelliJ vs Eclipse (vs vim) debates many a time here on Slashdot and apparently IntelliJ is 'infinite times better than Eclipse' (which is 'donkey shit'). Taking such comments at face value, I would be an idiot if I wouldn't switch to IntelliJ, right?
The thing is that I just don't see it. I don't see the mountainous advantages of IntelliJ or disadvantages of Eclipse. I'm definitely not in love with Eclipse and have had plenty of battles with it (albeit not more or less than with pretty much every other mildly complex application out there), so if there is a better alternative out there, then I need to invest time in that alternative.
However, the replies on my (upmodded and early up in the comments, so highly visible) request ("I am genuinely interested in which features/properties for any of the above-mentioned languages are lacking in Eclipse and make it worth switching to another IDE for that language") have been mostly the same old same old: anecdotes of issues which I've never experienced and general comments about slowness which I also don't experience.
If it works for you, that's great, but this approach you seem to be taking that anyone who doesn't like Eclipse is, "outdated", or a moron because you've never had that problem before is just petty and ridiculous.
Citation, please. I don't think or have said that such people are 'outdated' or 'a moron'. I will tell you who I do think are either morons or assholes: people who create and attack straw men.
If I pressed one then a dialog would pop up saying something like, "That button isn't enabled."
Which button was that? Was it part of a plugin? Because in 10+ years of working with Eclipse almost daily, I've never seen anything like that.
So, I take the time to set up key mappings and Fonts & Colors (for which the settings are spread out in different sections). Almost every other time I start Eclipse, my key mappings have been reset for no apparent reason. They're just gone. If I change workspaces I have to set it all up again as well. Lame.
You know you can export and import preferences, right? It's one of the features I really really liked the times I worked on the employers location. Install Eclipse and plugins, import the preferences I brought from home and go.
The intermittent reset keymappings and suddenly breaking Tomcat thing sound as if something was messing with or just locking your workspace files. Some syncing or backup tool perhaps. It's still obviously a bad way to fail for Eclipse.
Alas, again, these are two of those: 'never had that problem'-things again. Anyway, I have given up on my initial request. Apparently people don't wish spending time on telling me which great features of IntelliJ I'm missing out on.
I have a 4k monitor, with 125% scaling enabled.
The website where I order food recently managed to increase the amount of whitespace and lack of content to such an extent that now generally 10 rows of food fit on the screen.
10.
The rows are (pre-scaling) at least 140px high, even if no images are included. It's ridiculous.
Of course it doesn't help that determining the dpi of the user device wasn't well-supported in the past. Responsive CSS should really use min-resolution instead of relying on pixel counts:
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
The workaround for the whitespace plague of course is creating and always applying some user CSS code for frequently visited sites.
You know a language really sucks when switching to JavaScript is considered an improvement by one random guy on the internet.
FTFY.
The downside of WinRAR is that it is an archive, which means efficiently updating it in place is cumbersome.
At some point I started to generate PAR files for my photos (using PAR2s generated by MultiPar - which is scriptable). This achieves a comparable recovery capability as the recovery records of WinRAR, but is much simpler to deal with when doing updates to what the PAR files cover and uploading those changes to a remote location. The PARs exist on the directory level and before regenerating them in the case of changes, I run the PAR verification pass to see if any rot has occurred.
In addition to that, I replaced my remote NAS with a (remote) general purpose Mini-ITX box. Easier to keep secure and use ZFS with snapshotting enabled. Considering that the source files could still rot on the HDDs in my main machine, the snapshotting provides protection against uploading new rot for the data for which I am too lazy to (re)generate PAR files for. I really just need a bit-rot protection FS like ZFS for Windows for this bit, of course.
I didn't say it was necessary to buy faster hardware. I just said that the "it's slow as hell"-argument doesn't really stand today.
You can call it 'heavy' or 'badly optimized', but not 'slow' anymore.
I'm not sure 'badly optimized' is even warranted still. As I said, Eclipse has come a long way and some things just intrinsically require a lot of processing. I sortof want to try running it from and with code on an HDD to see if it is still significantly slower than the alternatives on those. OTOH, if you're devving (professionally) off an HDD, you are doing it wrong anyway, so fuck it.
Your post seems to be lacking in the 'proper arguments'-department.
I for one would like all my Desktop apps to have an Eclipse style UI. Its very flexible to layout, as you see fit. I first tried Eclipse in 2002
Yes, exactly. I bought a 3840x2160 monitor a while back and it is absolutely fantastic to be able to use that screen estate exactly as I want. A dedicated little corner for this, a little corner for that. It's just great. My most recent bit of perspective design is having the task list always visible and displaying the open TODOs in the currently edited file, which makes me aware of which open ends coincide with what I am editing the file for at that point.
Its also one of the reasons why I love Foobar2000 so much. It just seems natural for any advanced user to want to be able to truly customize their tools. I sure like it.
I also remember seeing the auto-complete for finding a certain preference in the configuration. I thought it was awesome and was fairly sure that all mildly complex desktop applications would soon include such a thing. To my surprise, not many have done so.
Eclipse is indeed still a slow piece of shit, even with an i7 & 16GB. But I suppose you'll claim that frequent processing lag that allows me to type faster than the system can render the characters or the editors taking several seconds to open and process text files are not a "valid complaints".
Sounds bad and that would be a valid reason to dislike Eclipse. As I said to a sibling AC, I haven't used Eclipse with an HDD for 6+ years, so maybe Eclipse is still shit on an HDD.
If you do use an SSD, it would seem to me that there is something wrong with your install. It definitely sounds like something that shouldn't be happening, because it sounds unworkable.
1. You need 10 copies of eclipse for each configuration because plugins rarely work together.
Never had that problem, and my install is chock full of plugins.
2. It took 20 minutes to index source changes. It never figured out I just wrote a method and could auto suggest it in a reasonable time.
It used to do that on an HDD, yes. That's why I mentioned having an SSD. I'm not sure whether that is still a problem, as I haven't used Eclipse with an HDD for 6+ years.
3. It's not user friendly.
A very well supported statement.
4. It doesn't run on other operating systems well because it wasn't pure swing.
'Other' operating systems?
AFAIK, it generally runs fine on Linux (barring high-DPI KDE environments) and OSX.
- The UI doesn't scale properly in my KDE environment courtesy of SWT (both NetBeans and IntteliJ do)
This seems to be limited to KDE in certain situations
The profiler is as close to unusable as possible
How so?
- It just consumes CPU for no good reason (as does IntelliJ). Working on an aeroplane flying across continents it's the difference between actually getting some work done and running out of juice after one hour.
I'm not sure 'developing software on an airplane' is a use case to optimize for. Having said that, needless CPU usage is obviously not a plus. Then again: CPU cycles on a dev machine or generally cheap. I'm pretty sure no dev on any semi-modern machine (my CPU is 6 years old) even notices Eclipse CPU usage.
This I agree with (but it's hardly a basis on which to choose an IDE).
Considering that Eclipse is built around the concept of plugins, the whole 'editions' download page never made sense to me. The only difference between the editions is that they include certain plugins by default (and as such, it doesn't really matter all that much which one you select). The fact that there isn't a basic edition makes it extra silly.
Much better would be to have such an edition as the basis and allow you to tick some checkboxes of the plugins you want included by default. The current editions could just be presets.
I think there are some 3rd parties that provide the abovementioned functionality, but it should be on the 'Eclipse download' page.
The hate for Eclipse is so terribly outdated.
I haven't heard anyone come up with one single proper argument against Eclipse that stands today. Any dev worth his salt has an SSD, plenty of memory and a half-decent CPU. In addition to that, Eclipse has come a long way, which make the "It's slow as hell!"-thing quite outdated.
Even if it would be marginally worse than other IDEs, it has some great advantages:
1. Multi-language, hell, multi-purpose even.
2. Cross-platform
3. Free
4. Open source
5. Designed to be extended with plugins and as such, a veritable buttload of them exist.
6. Generally consistent interface
I've used it (professionally) for editing and debugging PHP, Twig, HTML, XML, YAML, CSS, Android, Java, C, Shell scripts and Javascript code residing in CVS, SVN, Git repos (and even via FTP - shudder) in the past decade and in general being able to use the same hotkeys and UI elements to perform similar tasks. I will readily admit that the different languages have varying levels of support for the more advanced features, but on the whole it easily beats other multi-language tools and saves me from having to use and become proficient in the use of a multitude of language specific editors.
It's probably not the best example, but due to the lack of plugins for Objective C in Eclipse I've been forced to use XCode for iOS development: Talking about donkey shit..
Anyway, I am genuinely interested in which features/properties for any of the above-mentioned languages are lacking in Eclipse and make it worth switching to another IDE for that language.
Windows need film on them anyway for color, so might as well plaster the south side with a film that generates a few kilowatts of electricity.
Sure, it's no problem if the installation and maintenance of the stuff result in a net energy loss.
We'll make it up in volume!
Saying "even to me" means that you support that way of thinking. Don't hide behind "I'm explaining other people's thoughts".
You have to realize that supporting the "at least he's honest/straightforward" way of thinking in any way is detrimental to the wellbeing of a representative democracy.
Real honesty is when politicians say: "Well, I can't really make any promises. There are a lot of factors influencing this and I will probably gain new insights in the future which will give me a more complete picture of the matter, which in turn might lead me to another solution than the one I currently believe is the best one. I can promise that I will try to select a solution to the best of my ability at any time in the future."
NOT:
"We're going to deport all those illegal immigrants."
The problem with the first one is that everybody chews up the guy saying such things as 'having no vision' or 'being weak' or whatever shortsighted qualification the primitive brain comes up with. Nuance doesn't sell.
The second one may sound very straightforward, decisive and 'leader-like', but it locks the speaker to a specific action, which removes all opportunity of using new insights (which may determine the action to be unwise). Promising the attainment of specific results ("We're going to let the economy grow by 3% next year") is also extremely problematic, as there is no way to guarantee it will come true.
So, what can you do, as a politician? True honesty gets you ridiculed and keeps you from getting elected. Making a lot of promises will get you elected, but will bite you in the ass in the future (many choose this path anyway, trusting that they can take or mitigate the bite). What remains is trying to dance around the issues and promise as little as possible while sounding as if you know what you're doing and are a great person.
My point is that public opinion breeds political speak. Stop lamenting the 'straightforward' assholes and start praising the truly honest politicians.
That is a pretty appealing proposition even to me
Oh, for fuck's sake. You people are on Slashdot as well?
You are as moronic as Trump is. Just because you can relate to swinging an axe does not mean it's the best way to build a nuclear reactor. Moreover, if you really think that Trump is not 'saying political speak', then you are as naive as a 1-year old. If there is one guarantee in politics it is that the populists always end up being the ones who realize the fewest of their promises or just royally fuck up their country sooner or later.
There is a reason why matters on a national scale generally require complex nuanced solutions (or slave labor, slave labor always works) and that is that running a country properly is fucking hard. Talk is cheap.
At first I thought that Trump was deliberately put into the picture to draw the playing field towards 'the right', i.e. make one guy say the most outlandish stuff so that the previously outlandish things the rest said actually seem reasonable (and conversely, making the actually reasonable stuff sound silly and far away from reality).
But the completely baffling thing to me is that there are actually droves of people in the US that not only support Trump, but actively defend his words and say asinine shit like: "He's a true American. We need a guy like that for president" and: "The media are making him sound racist". I remember being very surprised that a moron like Bush Jr. could become (and stay!) president, but this is definitely a new low for the US. Trump hasn't been elected yet, but the fact that so many people like him and support him is already deeply, deeply disgraceful.
You know you can't eat emojis, right?
the lower prices Uber charges on average
This may be a fair point. People will forgo a lot if stuff is cheaper. I'm not sure whether it is cheaper in all places where it is popular though, so I dare not conclude anything here.
because there's a feedback system
This may also be it. Taxi's in my country are generally very clean, very recent Mercedes Benzes, but when you take/order one, you don't have the faintest clue whether the driver drives like a moron (actually, you sort of do, because many of them do so). Even entire taxi companies aren't commonly or easily compared in quality (to the extent that you even have a choice).
But I have to say that I've found the process of arranging a taxi very cumbersome almost every time. Calling them on the phone, explaining where you are, where you have to go (possibly in a foreign language) or finding a place where taxis are/hailing them while kind of trying to ascertain whether (or accepting that) they are going to suck is just terrible.
Personally, given the choice of taking a regular taxi using an app that allowed me to arrange the ride or going via Uber, I would probably choose the regular taxi. In my country at least. In a different country I'd have to weigh whether I'd trust the country's (public) regulations on the taxi industry more than Uber's (private) 'regulations' of its drivers.
If the regular taxi app had a reliable feedback system (and the price wouldn't be ridiculous), it would be regular taxis for me, hands down.
Love them or hate them, they are a stabilizing force in the region. With them gone or impotent the region is going to change, fast.
Exactly. Why anyone would want to see the Middle-East destabilized even further by 'destroying Saudi Arabia' is beyond me.
The best thing that could happen is for countries that mainly depend on the sale of oil to gradually reform their economy and wean themselves off their oil income while they still have the cash to do so (too late, Venezuela). The world already has enough crappy economies to deal with.
But "holy grail" is rather overselling it, I suspect.
Even when practical, we're still talking very big, very expensive plants that depend on a long supply chain for all its parts, the high-purity fuel
1. That is not necessarily true. It's probably true for the near future, but AFAIK not fundamentally.
2. Solar is fundamentally dependent on accessible sunlight in copious amounts. I was recently made aware that in the event of a supereruption or other incident that decreases incident sunlight worldwide, a society mainly dependent on solar energy would have immediate and serious power issues. Besides that, solar becomes less useful the farther away from a star you get. Finally, solar fundamentally scales with the area of the receptors.
The latter two issues with solar are obviously more longterm issues related to space travel, but the first should be a real concern for earth-based panels.
Don't get me wrong: in principle I think that solar will be our next dominant source of energy and that it will impede investments in fusion, but when it comes to marking fusion as the holy grail, I tend to agree with TFS, as I deem it much more future proof. I agree especially because solar has passed the point of economic viability and thus no longer requires (public) investment. Widespread solar is going to happen soon, with or without them. Fusion, however..
So roughly 100x200 'sensels' on 130mm x 230mm (~5inch x ~9inch). Straight dpi is thus: 20dpi.
Now that assumes a perfect point source, not a finger. The force sensitivity has 4096 levels, apparently ranging from 5g to 5kg. You're not going to push anywhere near 50N with your finger so not all those levels will be relevant. With some processing over multiple sensors, though, the precision could increase quite a bit.
They quote ~0.1mm themselves, which would imply about 250dpi precision in the horizontal plane, which is not stellar.
(Please correct my math if I made a mistake. It's been a long day.)