Now I know there's the whole emphasis towards refactoring, but unless you're doing machine-level stuff for an atm machine or a missile silo, I just don't get it.
Sure, the Perl I write would have purists tearing their hair out. But the point is I can come back a year later and understand what I meant because a) I write it in a painstaking and boring fashion; and b) I comment it.
Cycles are cheap - what't the problem with using them?
I agree - it's amazing.
I bought one for my 76-year-old father, who uses a CRT iMac and has bad enough vision that he can't get a driving licence anymore.
It's set up to trigger the Mac's Zoom feature. Twist it to the right, and the screen zooms in on the cursor position, twist it to the left and it zooms back out. Click it once and it magnifies the cursor position four times, click it again and it returns to 1X.
It's a great bit of kit. He looked at me like I was mad when I showed it to him first, but now he raves about it. Of course, it helps that OS X has a great accessibility feature to use it with...
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Now I know there's the whole emphasis towards refactoring, but unless you're doing machine-level stuff for an atm machine or a missile silo, I just don't get it. Sure, the Perl I write would have purists tearing their hair out. But the point is I can come back a year later and understand what I meant because a) I write it in a painstaking and boring fashion; and b) I comment it. Cycles are cheap - what't the problem with using them?
I thought 'at_cho_prn' was the command line way of selecting where to download pr0n...
I agree - it's amazing. I bought one for my 76-year-old father, who uses a CRT iMac and has bad enough vision that he can't get a driving licence anymore. It's set up to trigger the Mac's Zoom feature. Twist it to the right, and the screen zooms in on the cursor position, twist it to the left and it zooms back out. Click it once and it magnifies the cursor position four times, click it again and it returns to 1X. It's a great bit of kit. He looked at me like I was mad when I showed it to him first, but now he raves about it. Of course, it helps that OS X has a great accessibility feature to use it with...
...it'll be a good learning experience for the kids when they install a new OS...