Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote
http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b

On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 03:33:07AM +0200, dnewbie wrote:
> Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b

Wow. Looks like we have a good influx of new D people in the last 2 years. That's a good sign!


T

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Never step over a puddle, always step around it. Chances are that whatever made it is still dripping.

The <1 year stat is rather disappointing though...


On 6 July 2013 15:24, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 03:33:07AM +0200, dnewbie wrote:
> > Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b
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> Wow. Looks like we have a good influx of new D people in the last 2 years. That's a good sign!
>
>
> T
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> --
> Never step over a puddle, always step around it. Chances are that whatever made it is still dripping.
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On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 05:33:16 UTC, Manu wrote:
> The <1 year stat is rather disappointing though...

Not enough votes in total for any meaningful statistical inference. There is also probably a bias in favour of more established users as they most likely spend more time here and click through to the poll.

On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 06:32:24 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> established users as they most likely spend more time here and click through to the poll.

... and are MORE LIKELY to click through to the poll.

Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual accuracy :-(

On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual accuracy :-(

Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I absolutely have to.

- Jonathan M Davis

On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:48:40PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> > Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual accuracy :-(
> 
> Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I absolutely have to.
[...]

Y'know, I've always found correct-as-you-type features extremely annoying. I encountered it first in MS Word, and it annoyed me so much I crawled back into my Vim cave. :-P  When I upgraded to a smartphone, I decided to give it an honest try ... but after about half a year or so, I'm starting to regret it. I mean, it's nice that once in a while you can just type approximately and it will correctly guess what you intended. But other times, it makes the wrong guesses and completely mangles your text -- but you're so accustomed to it that you don't notice the mistake until it's too late! And yet other times, it will add random nonsense words to your custom dictionary just because you hit the wrong sequence of keys by accident. (Mistype a word, hit space, get the wrong guess, hit backspace, get the mistyped word back, erase a few characters, then accidentally hit space instead of, say, B, and now the *partial* mistyped word is in your dictionary. Wonderful.)

I'm feeling quite tempted to turn off the feature, right now.


T

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On Saturday, 6 July 2013 at 05:33:16 UTC, Manu wrote:
> The <1 year stat is rather disappointing though...


Perhaps a repost in d.learn would change that.

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:48:40 -0700
Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, July 06, 2013 08:36:31 Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> > Typing replies on a smartphone seems to carry a bit of a cost in textual accuracy :-(
> 
> Typing on smartphones is hell. I generally try and avoid it unless I absolutely have to.
> 

+1k. I genuinely miss Palm's Graffiti 1...Thanks, Xerox! (And tactile inputs in general, which Apple killed off and everyone else now idiotically apes.) I like being able to, for example, switch songs and adjust volume while driving or walking without having to bury my head in a tiny screen to do so, like some twitter-obsessed social-whore Millennial.

Anyway, typing on a mobile device was more or less a solved problem until that sack of shit Steve Jobs moronically convinced everyone that physical buttons and styluses were bad things (Remember, that was the same dumbass who was convinced that Ctrl-Click was "simpler" for average users than Right-Click, and that "Hold Up For 5 Seconds" was a more sensible way to turn a device off than a power button or switch). And so *now* PDAs (erm, I mean "smartphones") are horrible to type on.

On 7/5/2013 6:33 PM, dnewbie wrote:
> Hi. It's time for the annual poll of the year. Please vote
> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=51d766e4e4b03d6de547a64b

D started in 1999.