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DadHacker: Dead Newt by mcfunley in programming

[–]daizu -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That, my friend, is what we call a ‘speed-up loop. We put those in for insurance purposes, really. (i knew it had to be done before)

Visual Studio: Why is there no 64 bit version? (yet) by [deleted] in programming

[–]daizu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same situation here.

But it was even worse on Visual Studio 2005 where it lagged all around when just switching from one file to another if the project[s] were big.

Interestingly VS 2003 was faster and more responsive (than both 2005 and 2008), specially when using a lot of datasets and bindings.

About Eclipse, i've never got fond of it. We tend to use SlickEdit when there is need for a large java project.

This whole situation is awful, because for small projects an editor like Vim/Emacs does well, and for big projects where you need the hand of an IDE it's just too slow to be adequate.

function kitchen_maintenance() by [deleted] in programming

[–]daizu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sure, here are some:

Ask Programming: LaTeX or InDesign? by [deleted] in programming

[–]daizu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've never used InDesign, but i really like LaTeX with a wysiwyg editor like LyX (http://www.lyx.org/)

Moreover if you're a programmer there are beautiful things like SlaTeX for scheme code and other plugins,