One could argue that applies to sci-fi as a whole, but some how Vingie's vision of omnipresent dust motes seems more likely (certainly given several hundreds years of cyclical progress, as in the story) than teleporters or even flying cars. Certainly the conditions in the novel were extremely conducive to that type of a network but such a ubiquitous, space filling network could be useful in plenty of other situations (rescue operations or something as simple as adding a puff of motes to a high traffic area to bolster a network for example). Is it likely? Probably not. Certainly not without wireless power, but it's probably more likely than flying cars as our primary mode of transportation.
For a more near future example Vinge presents the network in Rainbows End, especially given the work that's been done with Wifi meshes. Granted, I haven't heard any news about the idea lately, but as I recall, Google has one in Mountain View delivering free wifi to everyone in the area.
Now all they need to do is make the settings page match the rest of the site. Notably putting the Save button at the top of the page after making everyone get used to not having to scroll around to find the Send button.
It's a bit more complicated and requires you to get familiar with Qt's paradigms for things like resource management (I'm still struggling with how to access files outside a qrc), but it offers infinitely more flexibility by exposing the entirety of Qt (and C++) to you as needed.
For example, I wanted to write a frameless app with edge snapping. The two problems I ran across were:
- First, when expanding a window the mouse would leave the web widget and so Titanium would stop sending mouse events (as it should). To fix that I had to wrap my content and center it in a larger transparent <body> and then account for that in the movement code. Ugly, but do able.
- And then, edge snapping on the other hand is impossible. Titanium doesn't handle multiple monitors very well. In-order to get the dimensions of a desktop you've dragged into you have to drop it first and even then it's relative to the upper left corner of the primary display.
I realize these are very specific issues but they're trivial in Qt (I handle resizing and dragging in Qt so mouse position is no longer an issue, and QDesktop is extremely straightforward).
Furthermore, not every library is available in Javascript so it can be useful to fall back to C++. I'm still using mustache.js for templating but I won't be using Strophe.js for my jabber library, I can instead use quicker C++ power library (I'd like to use libpurple but that's a whole other mess itself).
I'd been familiar with the concept of verbs and nouns in vim but this really simplifies it all. I wish there was a more comprehensive list of everything in a readable format. Man pages just don't do it for me :(
I'll try to expand the post as I internalize the learnings myself. I'm no vim expert, I just find that explaining it to others helps me solidify my own learning
From the document he links to it seems more like a fancy password manager that handles session cookies too with the idea of standardizing account management. Not necessarily a lofty vision but certainly something helpful and interesting (albeit seemingly dead now).
Teehee. Sorting by size sorts the string size rather than the true size. At first this leads to logical results, like 0.9GB being at the top of the results, and then you realize that 53mb file is right next to that 53.6kb file. Wait a second~
> Also when it comes to deciding if I want to share my public folder it would be nice if you could list what's in my public folder for me. I had to go check.
Agreed. It's shame Dropbox doesn't let you see what files you have in your Public folder more easily. It would be great if they could some how directly link it to a folder on your computer so you could quickly and easily manage those files.
I like the idea so I'd like to share my thought processes as I used it.
Firstly, I had a basic idea of what it probably was having heard about the hack involving file hashes a while back.
While it gets permissions for my entire Dropbox I was aware it only interacted with my Public folder. That's fine.
After signing up it wasn't obvious what to do next, even with the random link. I searched for a file that's in a folder with no luck. My first random file is one of my own. through that trial and error I figured out it only interacts with the top-level folder.
Personally, I organize my public folder. In fact, I have a "persistent" folder that I use to link to, to imply the links are largely non-transient. I'd love to be able to index folders of my choosing.
If you redirected to a page to control that it would be immediately obvious what's shared and what's not.
EDIT: As an aside, I found some pretty neat files I'd forgotten about!
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah - it only links with the top level foler - basically for simplicity of design. As explained here : http://uberzet.com/sharing-more a possible use of folders within your Public folders is to 'hide' files from Uberzet.
Anyway - there are obviously some pretty gaping holes in messaging and functionality. If I have time in the future I may fix these things up. Again, thanks for the feedback!
For a more near future example Vinge presents the network in Rainbows End, especially given the work that's been done with Wifi meshes. Granted, I haven't heard any news about the idea lately, but as I recall, Google has one in Mountain View delivering free wifi to everyone in the area.