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I still sometimes miss the trackball on my HTC hero - it's by far the easiest way to move the cursor when writing. Better spelling correction has made that less important in English, but to this day no dictionary seems to understand Norwegian compound words.
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Kelp Me! posted:also the Motorola Droid 4 was the single greatest slide-out-keyboard Android phone of all time by a wide margin I still don't understand why not one company in the entire world makes a modern android phone with a real keyboard. It's not rocket science and there are enough whiners to make it feasible. all you have to do it rip off an existing design. There is a new Psion coming soon:  But it's $400 for the Indiegogo vaporware version and $600 when it actually exists and that's the point where you think is it worth so much more than a cheap chromebook. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gemini-pda-android-linux-keyboard-mobile-device-phone#/ Yet again I've been looking at getting an original 5mx from ebay and trying to get it working with a modern PC (hint, it won't) 
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Computer viking posted:I still sometimes miss the trackball on my HTC hero - it's by far the easiest way to move the cursor when writing.
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Collateral Damage posted:Another reason why SwiftKey is great - arrow keys. The standard GBoard has text cursor movement by sliding on the spacebar???
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Kelp Me! posted:also the Motorola Droid 4 was the single greatest slide-out-keyboard Android phone of all time by a wide margin I used to have an LG Rumor, and now I miss the damned thing 
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My problem isn't with keyboards on screen. My problem is with keyboards on screen on lovely phones that slow to poo poo after an hour.
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Neito posted:My problem isn't with keyboards on screen. Solution: Get an iPhone. At least a 5.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Solution: Get an iPhone. Too invested in Android at this point. Seven years is a hella muscle memory.
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Collateral Damage posted:Another reason why SwiftKey is great - arrow keys.
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This is my most favorite phone I ever owned, HTC Touch Pro. It ran Windows Mobile and was my first smartphone
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Wasabi the J posted:The standard GBoard has text cursor movement by sliding on the spacebar??? goddamn why didn't I know this Do you know how long I'd sometimes spend tapping my screen trying to get the cursor where I needed it to be?
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KakerMix posted:goddamn why didn't I know this I watch tutorials because I'm old and realized I was struggling with technology. Also it's buried in the settings under glide typing.
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spog posted:Yet again I've been looking at getting an original 5mx from ebay and trying to get it working with a modern PC (hint, it won't) I loved my 5mx. It owned, I wish I still had it. People thought it was from the future, not noticing the mono screen.
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Wasabi the J posted:The standard GBoard has text cursor movement by sliding on the spacebar??? Dammit! You are a hero!
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Wasabi the J posted:The standard GBoard has text cursor movement by sliding on the spacebar??? Holy poo poo.
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gently caress it does too This owns
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It can't be that much bet... Jesus H Christ, now it's 2011 and it's like I'm holding my HTC Evo again. I miss that phone.
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Wasabi the J posted:The standard GBoard has text cursor movement by sliding on the spacebar??? Thank you very much
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Holy poo poo a feature that the default keyboard has but Swiftkey does not???
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Wasabi the J posted:The standard GBoard has text cursor movement by sliding on the spacebar??? Holy poo poo
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I've literally used the default keyboard for years at this point and have never noticed or heard of that feature. It's awesome.
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I've given Apple poo poo over their documented-nowhere little features ("two-finger hardswipe from the lower left to the upper right to automatically post all cat pictures to Facebook") but this Google keyboard thing is pretty classic. I've been using Android for 6 years and never knew, I've been dealing with trying to tap or drag the loving cursor into the correct place this whole time.
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To be fair it is a relatively recent addition to Gboard, within the last couple of years. Its one of the few features that I wish swiftkey had.
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Now somebody post the secret swipes to make precise text selection not rear end.
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I mean Swiftkey gives you the option to have the directional arrows show up on the keyboard which is nice, but that's a whole lotta screen real estate for 4 buttons that I literally use for a single specific purpose =/
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Wasabi the J posted:The standard GBoard has text cursor movement by sliding on the spacebar???  (picks up phone, tries it) 
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Is the Android thread all cluttered up with people talking about Telex machines or something?
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Kelp Me! posted:I mean Swiftkey gives you the option to have the directional arrows show up on the keyboard which is nice, but that's a whole lotta screen real estate for 4 buttons that I literally use for a single specific purpose =/ Gboard does something similar. Hit the > that's left of the predictive text bar. Then hit ... and select Text Editor.
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Horace posted:Is the Android thread all cluttered up with people talking about Telex machines or something? The entire thread can be replaced by three bots posting a never ending stream of "LG sucks, get a Pixel, here's how to scam Google for a Pixel." Have them spurt a few bitches about the latest Android OS for about two months after release. bigman.50grand posted:Gboard does something similar. Hit the > that's left of the predictive text bar. Then hit ... and select Text Editor. This is next level hell yeah.
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Do modern day programmers still uses flowcharts? Waaaay back in the mid-80s, I took some programing classes (primarily COBOL74) and we had a class in flowcharting. I specifically remember one exercise that everyone failed for the exact same reason. You had control over a humanoid robot sitting in a chair in a long hallway. You had to determine how many steps away from the wall the robot was sitting. The robot could understand only the following commands: stand, take one step forward, raise arm, & lower arm. The idea being that the robot would raise its arm and touch the wall. What do you think the mistake was?
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Mister Kingdom posted:Do modern day programmers still uses flowcharts? Waaaay back in the mid-80s, I took some programing classes (primarily COBOL74) and we had a class in flowcharting. The only I can think that *may* not be obvious: They forgot to check for the wall immediately upon standing. The other one I thought of "Didn't lower the arm after the wall check" I would think would be part of the program requirements, so it was unlikely to be missed by EVERYONE. It's probably something so insanely nitpicky and stupidly obvious I'll facepalm, right?
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Edge conditions have been mentioned, so I’ll go with “off‐by‐one error”. e: We don’t have the full problem statement, but it’s possible that there’s supposed to be an upper bound. The robot is in a hallway. There’s only so far it can be from the side walls. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 00:23 on Sep 16, 2017 |
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Proteus Jones posted:The only I can think that *may* not be obvious: That was it. The teacher thought it was hilarious. A few people forgot to create and/or update the counter, but everybody forgot to check to see if the robot was sitting directly in front of the wall.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Do modern day programmers still uses flowcharts? Waaaay back in the mid-80s, I took some programing classes (primarily COBOL74) and we had a class in flowcharting. A variation of Proteus Jones answer: the loop was step forward, raise arm, lower arm instead of raise arm, lower arm, step forward? -e- Too late
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Lurking Haro posted:A variation of Proteus Jones answer: the loop was step forward, raise arm, lower arm instead of raise arm, lower arm, step forward? It should have gone: Set counter to zero Stand Raise arm Check for wall If yes, stop If no: lower arm, take one step forward, add one to counter, raise arm, etc Mister Kingdom has a new favorite as of 00:31 on Sep 16, 2017 |
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You know, it's a loving robot. Not like it's arm is going to get tired or anything... (ONLY time I did flowcharts was COBOL class. I got him once. I had a friend who had taken the class previously for creds while working as a COBOL programmer at Caterpillar. He slipped me a couple of exercises that I got docked for, since "that's not how they do it in business". My teacher and I NEVER stopped feuding over DO WHILE NOT EOF loops. He wanted an EOF check EVERY loop. Really? Oh, yeah, you're a teacher.)
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I've been using swiftkey for like 5 years and paid for it back in the day and I'm switching to the Google keyboard because of the fuckin space bar thing, bye bitch
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Flow charts aren't like, formally taught in those classes anymore... but they're still used to explain logic because everyone knows them well enough to do simple stuff. Actually I think we might have covered them in like third grade as part of logic-teaching? Not sure.
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Mister Kingdom posted:It should have gone: No, you should check for the wall before standing - it's possible that there isn't space to stand up in the first place.
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