ohgodthecat3's comments

Linode lets you upload VMs but I don't think they allow downloads.

I'll be honest I've never read his book but the 10,000 hours fits as an analogy to the hard work that one must put in to be an expert.

Sure 10,000 hours isn't going to make you excellent but focused hard work can and most of the time does.

You can become good in under 10,000 hours I just used it for reference. Maybe you would have preferred this: http://norvig.com/21-days.html

Well I think most of it is time, the whole 10,000 hours thing.

Since we are talking about drawing take a look at MindCandyMan on conceptart.org (His journey sketchbook http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870)

Post of an example of how far he has come: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1789531#po...

His website showcasing his work: http://www.jonathanhardesty.com/paintings.htm

Well I'm sure the ipad has plenty of educational games like the app that teaches algebra without math but you could always look at a netbook and something like http://www.qimo4kids.com/

An ipad may be easier for a child to get started with as everything is just there on the screen.

I had one college course with a custom edition and we still had the option of using the regular edition, (all the page numbers were the same the custom editions only difference was a lack of extra chapters that we weren't going to cover).

The custom edition was cheaper than the regular edition and this is the only reason the professor did this. The book didn't seem to have very many used copies being sold as it was an advanced class and people were more likely to keep the book than sell it.

Just providing context to how a custom edition can be cheaper if the professor does work.

I've also had many professors write their own book and give it for free in pdf or let you buy it for $20 at the university copy center already bound with the option of buying supplemental books that they thought were of good quality.

Maybe my engineering department was different but it seemed most of my professors tried to work to help the students not have to pay large amounts.

I don't often print photos but when I do I usually use walmart or walgreens online service (though I've found walmart easier to get through). And this is because they offer the size of pictures I want like larger frames and stuff. I looked at picplum and just don't see the point because of the limitation of cheap (quality) 4x6 prints.

Edit: I guess they have added larger photos but walmart is still cheaper and offers good quality in the mail.

I might have wrote a confusing comment accidentally. The don't use black pretty much comes into play in realism and other art with how people perceive the color black.

It is more realistic to represent shadows and blacks with dark colors as that is what they are but we rarely see black.

Because Chinese painting is rather stylized in is specific way black is a major factor, the same would go for things like comics and comic books and other such things.

What I am confused about in this whole thing is because you are developing these patches and fixes and additions using the gpl code doesn't that mean that your patches cannot be released under the public domain as per the gpl because of how your code was made.

I'm thinking of this in the same way that wordpress themes/plugins have to be gpl if they use wordpress functions and such.

Wouldn't your patch have to be completely separate from textmates code to be considered eligible for anything other than being licensed as gpl?

My comment was going off your entire premise that using black was a nono because that is what you wrote.

We could even see it in your website design because you chose to use a grey font color over black (because I'm guessing you are on a mac and the font rendering works better). However if you look at it on windows it becomes harder to read because it is grey (http://i.imgur.com/CfTYi.png windows screenshot with black and grey)

I said that black can be used to focus in apps and websites and in digital mediums because it isn't realism that we are going for and black actually works really well for this purpose. The idea of using saturated colors is fine but not using black for the sake of it is silly.

Now using black in large quantities is another thing.

I think he took the wrong message away from his art teacher as I was taught the same thing.

But it was in regards to representing realistic things with paints. As he says shadows usually aren't truly black and painting with a dark blue as your darkener is usually a better idea.

You can use black but when you use it in paintings to darken colors or for your regular darks it regularly stands out to the viewer, black is supposed to be used in very limited quantities in artistic works. (Hell half the time people recommend not buying black paint when starting out but to mix other colors to create a black looking color[1])

This doesn't really switch over to apps and other things as they don't represent any realism but instead try to allow us to focus on specific things which black can be useful.

His example image with a big black square dominating the others is a terrible example and would be better if the bottom was a representation of the layout with black as the darkest color instead of the lighter greys and grey-blues. And what we would see is more contrast but little change in distraction.

[1]: http://painting.about.com/od/colourtheory/a/JimMeadersBlack....

The problem for me isn't the package manager, ports is great in FreeBSD.

The problem is FreeBSD doesn't keep up with modern hardware and you have to work very hard to get a laptop that works specifically with it.

I don't have it blocked by opendns and I have quite a few filters active on the network.

It is because some shady sites were putting a lock icon as the favicon to make you think it was secured so the tab is the better place for them.

It is pretty easy to notice when your account is hellbanned now as you are also slowbanned and it makes the site virtually unusable (waiting many seconds to minutes for each page to load).

Yeah I never found it very good either though the regular sublime has a lot of good stuff in it it is just hard to find and get used to. (Kind of like when you start using vi you don't do stuff the fastest way but the way you learned that can approximate it using x+i rather than c)

The best way I found to do it is to use the ctrl+shift+p (may be cmd+shift+p on mac) menu which has keybindings next to the names so you can find the keybinding if you forget it

You can do custom macros as well but those aren't seen in the menu but if you look for tutorials they are there, not quite the same as vi but workable.

Well if you like modal editing you can use sublime text 2's built in vi emulation. So if you donwload sublime text 2 (you can try it without buying it) and in the user settings have

    {
        "ignored_packages": []
    }

You can use vi style modal editing with most if not all of your usually vi commands.

You can also get multiple cursors from the keyboard with ctrl+alt+(uparrow or downarrow) not the most convenient of keybindings but can be rebound if you look for "select_line" in the default keybindings. (Linux and Windows)

Actually dropbox and truecrypt work really well together, even with large truecrypt containers because of the way truecrypt updates its container on file changes.

That isn't exactly the same what he is saying is that for many of us we can't justify the $10 dollar plan enough to purchase dropbox but would purchase the $5 dollar plan at 25gb or 50gb or half the ten dollar plans size.

This isn't to say it would be a good idea for dropbox to offer this whether they make more money now or with the cheaper plan is unclear to us just many people want a $5/month $50/year plan.

I'm surprised no one posted your other emails when you were sending them (the ones about the outage). Kind of expected here.