https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkyDurR4S57n54BKqWaQs0DR8zgLpGSqYQ

Comment Threads

• Charlie Stross commented on Virtually there
  NOTE Apparently the Safari support came in during a relatively silent update. (It really didn't run in my iPad the first time I tried it.) What I'd like to see? Support for loading and mounting additional read-only filesystem images, say encoded in Base64 within the web page. Support for a translucent FS, to allow writes to a ramdisk to show up on top of the aforementioned read-only FS images. Support for writing out an updated copy of the VM, with a saved copy of the read-only filesystem with merged changes from a translucent mount. (In other words: you can edit...
• david.given commented on Virtually there
  Alas, WordGrinder is almost certainly too slow to be usable on a Psion 5 (I've run it on a 266MHz ARM box and it can barely keep up with my typing). That's the price for writing it in an interpreted language, unfortunately. There is a really cool fast JIT for Lua that's beating the socks off everything else (on x86, people are actually calling into Lua from C for numerical code because Lua is faster), but it's not quite out yet for ARM and it's probably non-trivial to use. As for RTF export... working on it....
• david.given commented on Virtually there
  Alas, WordGrinder is almost certainly too slow to be usable on a Psion 5 (I've run it on a 266MHz ARM box and it can barely keep up with my typing). That's the price for writing it in an interpreted language, unfortunately. There is a really cool fast JIT for Lua that's beating the socks off everything else (on x86, people are actually calling into Lua from C for numerical code because Lua is faster), but it's not quite out yet for ARM and it's probably non-trivial to use. As for RTF export... working on it....
• vatine commented on Virtually there
  heh, I think I've only ever used vi interactively and (perhaps obviously) think of it as having text-insertion comands taking arguments of indefinite length, terminated by pressing ESC. That way, it conforms with ed, the first unix editor I learned (although I was pretty proficient with the WordStar keys at that time)....
• vatine commented on Virtually there
  When I think about vi as a "modal editor", I get all confused and cannot use it. When I consider it as something that just happens to display the arguments (of indefinite length) as I type them, it All Just Works. Of course, I write an awful lot of code whose only purpose in "life" is to write more code, so I may have a slightly odd perspective on things....