10 Dec
2008
10 Dec
'08
4:22 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Of course paper has the advantage that I can read it anywhere, it never
crashes, it never gives strange error messages, etc. And it withstands a
hot soldering iron a lot better than any computer does :-)
On the other hand, it's hard to drag 1000 pages of doc on a business
trip because you want to do some hobby coding/design during the boring
evenings, or if you do work on the road.
And I simply can't 'flip through' a pdf
file (even on the fastest
machines I've ever used) in the same way that I can flip through a book.
I used to routinely flip through data books, etc and interesting devices
would catch my eye. It's much more difficult doing that with pdf files.
"flip"? You really are oldskool. If you need to go to a section,
there's search, and a specific page is but a few numbers into the "Page"
box away.
-tony
PDF can be our common ground though, You print it out, I read it on
screen. I like formats that allow us both to work effectively.
Can't go with the "TXT FOREVAR" folks, though.
And to your other point, to be consistent, I must concur. It's a hobby,
and anything goes. I was only asking that a disclaimer be applied,
since the difference between "I code this up on my own because it's a
hobby and I think it's fun" and "I don't trust pre-written apps and you
should not either. Write them yourself all times" is sometimes hard to
distinguish.
Jim
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