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General Software Discussion / Re: Editor with Synchronized Comments Page?
« Last post by wraith808 on February 14, 2017, 10:38 AM »
Is it necessary that it have a contiguous page?  i.e. can comments be associated with the text that you're actually editing rather than be a page?
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Living Room / Re: how to learn finance
« Last post by wraith808 on February 14, 2017, 08:25 AM »
Of all the websites I have ended up on while searching for finance/investment info, the most useful one I've found so far is: http://www.investopedia.com

Their articles explaining concepts are reliably great.

Seconded.  Motley Fool is worth mentioning also, specifically http://www.fool.com/answers/faq/
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So you're not really looking for an editor with facing pages.  You're looking for an editor with a synchronized comments page?
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Depending on how you have your sites set up, they may automatically update.  For safety's sake, I have the ones that I administer set up in this manner.
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Living Room / Re: Looking for smartphone
« Last post by wraith808 on February 11, 2017, 10:15 AM »
And you also might want to go with something off the shelf, no matter the limitations of doing so. That's usually the approach I use when I want to just use something as opposed to learn and tinker.  You can't really expect someone to do all the work, especially if you're going to unfairly blame them when something doesn't go to your expectations. You have to pay someone for that level of service.
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Living Room / Re: The Keybase Filesystem
« Last post by wraith808 on February 09, 2017, 05:39 PM »
Thanks for that... probably would have taken me more time to figure that out  ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by wraith808 on January 30, 2017, 05:47 PM »
We should probably mark informational posts about Fast Ring/Insider builds as "beta" or "preview" releases so people who aren't part of the Fast Ring/Insider program don't worry they'll be affected by these issues. Otherwise it just seems a bit like fearmongering, IMO.



Related: I came across a site that somewhat nicely lists all the recent changes to Windows 10 builds, and even makes it clear who will be affected by the changes (Fast Ring, Release, Business, Xbox, Mobile, etc.)

https://changewindows.org/

With this you can see what actually changed, rather than the standard boilerplate of "This update improves functionality and security of Windows." or whatever it usually says. For example, here's what it says changed in 15019:

That's awesome, and using that to link to any updates would be good.  But yes, not mentioning which 'ring' a potential problem affects makes the updates less than useful.
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Living Room / Re: Happy 2017, respect to DC friends.
« Last post by wraith808 on January 27, 2017, 11:52 AM »
Hi!

* wraith808 waves

Stay a while!  Your absence has been noticed :)
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At least people can now work on it and port it to any system that can run it.

I don't personally think that's an upside for stealing someone's property.  And though you took it out of your own repo, you have a link to another repo, and I'm not sure that's what we really want to host here.  There are plenty of places for any interested party to find that information.  As Deo alluded to, there's no license.  So it's not really legal to even work on, truthfully.  The rules don't change when it's a profit making organization.  And it's pretty obvious that they consider it theirs.

Is the work licensed under an open source license? If so, which open source license? Are the allegedly infringing files being used under the open source license, or are they in violation of the license?

This is proprietary source code owned by Opera Software AS.
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Living Room / Re: Text editor - macro - multiple regex find and replaces
« Last post by wraith808 on January 25, 2017, 07:20 PM »
Another piece of software you could try: RJ TextEd
It sort of grew over the last seven years:
RJ_TextEd_NoInstall.zip    9446479   2009.03.05
rj-texted.7z              99580128   2016.12.26



Could it be the addition of unicode that ballooned it?
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Living Room / Re: Text editor - macro - multiple regex find and replaces
« Last post by wraith808 on January 25, 2017, 02:59 PM »
Then there are a lot of other editors like BBEdit, Sublime Text, Atom, etc. but those are focused on writing code, which is not for me.

Sublime Text is not focused on writing code.

Agreed.  Many people use it for that (including me), but it's not focused on that.  In fact, I also use it for writing.
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Running a chkdsk sometimes results in it finding the sort of slack space you describe.

Yeah, that's what I meant when I said scandisk  ;D
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Have you run scandisk or some other disk diagnostics?
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android book reader (thinking Moon+)
« Last post by wraith808 on January 23, 2017, 07:43 AM »
Yes, I've made use of the refund policy instead of demos, but I didn't know it was that generous...
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Non-Windows Software / Re: Android book reader (thinking Moon+)
« Last post by wraith808 on January 21, 2017, 06:23 PM »
I vacillate between Moon+, EBookDroid, and just using the Nook reader or Kindle or Google Play Books.  Never used any of the with Calibre, though.

I did notice this, however, and it's going to make me try FBReader:

FBReader Premium is 40% off till end of January 2017.

https://play.google....ails?id=com.fbreader
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Protocol links?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 20, 2017, 07:56 PM »
I'll just back out of trying to help in this thread.  I've not been cherry picking, I'm quoting the relevant part instead of a whole bit to reply to, and to be accused of such... well, let's just leave it there.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Protocol links?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 20, 2017, 06:10 PM »
A formal or even unofficial API? I doubt it. Valve tend to be a tad jealous of their software and their service both; they seem to do a good job of providing necessary APIs for game developers selling through the storefront and managing ancillary functions (cloud saves, achievements, etc.) for the games themselves, but nothing beyond what's strictly necessary.

That is a link to the API.  It also is not restricted to those that use steamworks, indeed, I already have an API key for it.  It gives a lot of information that would be readily obtainable from their queries- just not the users local information, i.e. the groups or what's installed on their computer.  So your assessment would seem a bit unfair.

I'm willing to learn PowerShell if it ever gets really mature, but, at the moment, it's just impressing me with the fact that it can be insanely buggy when you need core features to work.

Again, seemingly quite unfair.  I use it, and it, from my perspective of a daily user, is quite stable if you know what you're doing, and use the constructs as they're intended.  Many people want it to be a replacement for bash and such, and that, it's admittedly not.  So when you use it under those assumptions, yes, it might not operate in the way that you'd want it to.  Sort of like using a screwdriver to drive a nail, or a hammer for a screw.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Protocol links?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 20, 2017, 03:42 PM »
Is there even a way to access the files that steam has installed in an API?

UPDATE: Just checked the steam API, and there's a way to see the games that a user owns, but not the games that they have installed.

https://developer.va...ummaries_.28v0001.29
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Protocol links?
« Last post by wraith808 on January 20, 2017, 01:15 PM »
This app already does that work, though.
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Living Room / Re: how to learn finance
« Last post by wraith808 on January 20, 2017, 08:35 AM »
But then once I got to the content, I was happy with it, and it definitely helped me see some concrete steps to take. And yes, those concrete steps could be put on an index card (I summarized them in my previous post). But I felt the book was useful in driving home the point of the importance of doing these things as well as how big of a difference these things can make over the long term.

Yes, the system at it's basis is pretty simple.  He also goes over the envelope system at some point, though I'm not sure if he does so in that book, or if it's the other.  But in all honesty, the simplicity makes it easier to follow and continue to follow.
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Living Room / Re: how to learn finance
« Last post by wraith808 on January 19, 2017, 01:47 PM »
I read the Dave Ramsey book (Total Money Makeover).  I would classify it as more of a motivational book than an information book..  It's basically written to wake you up to the urgent need to get absolutely dead serious and focused on eliminating all debt, and shake some sense into you about getting deadly serious about making a major life-changing commitment to budgeting your money.

It's short on facts and details, but if you can benefit from the motivation I'd say it's worth a read.


Maybe it was a different one I read, because when I read Dave Ramsey, it gave me concrete steps on what to do to get out of debt.

Looking on Amazon, what you need is the workbook.

https://www.amazon.c...kbook/dp/0785263276/

The Financial Peace Planner is also a good one...I attended one of his Financial Peace University seminars at church, and it was good also.

https://www.amazon.c...-Step/dp/014026468X/
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Living Room / Re: Movies you've seen lately
« Last post by wraith808 on January 18, 2017, 04:40 PM »
La La Land
the lack of chemistry between the two really took away from it for me

You mean Gosling and Stone?  I thought they had great chemistry.  It's amazing how multiple people can see the same movie, and have such wide-ranging differences in what they see.  I've heard them compared to the Golden Age greats.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Black Hole Organizer updated to v.4.00
« Last post by wraith808 on January 18, 2017, 12:48 PM »
Remember reading about Ema Personal Wiki a while back  :up:

My thing also lets me become more familiar with WP, because I play around with the code often. The only missing piece would be having the info directly on a mobile device but exporting WP posts (functioning as notes) to ics is possible.

The more familiar I become with Wordpress, the less I want to be familiar with it LOL
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General Software Discussion / Re: Black Hole Organizer updated to v.4.00
« Last post by wraith808 on January 18, 2017, 11:23 AM »
3 months is pretty insane.  Unless it has very frequent updates, which would beg a different question.

Wordpress?  Wow... that's pretty crazy.  Currently, I'm using Ema Personal Wiki with Texthaven.  Still using Evernote, but not as much as I did before I found this combo.  It also allows me to use other things for editing.
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Living Room / Re: how to learn finance
« Last post by wraith808 on January 17, 2017, 07:41 AM »
I said it before I'll say it again, this is the year I get financially organized and literate -- who's joining me?

I'd say I'm joining you, but it's something I've already been doing for the past several years. I've been budgeting using YNAB and the YNAB method, combined with the ideas/goals/concepts explained in Dave Ramsey's The Total Money Makeover as well as The Millionaire Next Door by Drs. Thomas Stanley and William Danko.

Same here. Thought not the second one.  I'll have to check it.
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