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DAllison

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About DAllison

Talk Anki(Droid) to me!

gmail: davidallisongithub

https://github.com/david-allison-1

https://discord.gg/qjzcRTx (#dev-ankidroid)

Recent public activity

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    Comment #23975258

    The Anki Database format (.anki2) is documented here: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Stru...

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    Comment #23613024

    No good reason. It's A combination of time allocation, the fact that it's a collaborative process and I'm still learning the ropes, and the fact that nobody's asked for one until n…

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    Comment #23612857

    It's in the process of being migrated to a Python/Rust hybrid. Most of the backend is now rust-based: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/tree/master/rslib

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    Comment #23598524

    > Somewhat related, but I would like a way to "cram" cards (ie. temporarily review all cards in a deck, in random order, without affecting anything about their spaced repetition ti…

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    Comment #23595298

    Missed the edit window formatted: Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but: * Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has m…

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    Comment #23593290

    Thanks!! No official roadmap (such is Open Source), but: * Rust Conversion (got a proof of concept, need to productionise it) - Anki Desktop has moved to Rust. We can unify all of …

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    Comment #23592986

    I've been contributing to the Andorid port of Anki (HTML based flashcards + spaced repetition) for the past few months. https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android https://github.com…

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    Comment #16402774

    > PS: Completely unrelated issue, just for fun search for "Logan's run" on Youtube, filter by "length > 20 minutes", and check out a few of the many results. ... Doesn't that waste…

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    Comment #14168879

    The suggestion is appreciated. Thank you. I have a minor doubt that I won't like the additional level of nesting incurred, but I'll attempt it regardless.

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    Comment #14168590

    Since it's buried at the bottom of the stackexchange: #region/endregion is useful for visually grouping Unit Tests per method under test. They're also occasionally useful to group …

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    Comment #13258138

    Original link [pdf]: http://littleosbook.github.io/book.pdf HTML version: http://littleosbook.github.io/ Source: https://github.com/littleosbook/littleosbook 2015 Discussion: https…

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    Comment #13150901

    I'm pretty sure that #1 is against Facebook's page guidelines: > Personal Timelines and friend connections must not be used to administer promotions (e.g. "share on your Timeline t…

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    Comment #12801709

    I haven't used it myself (no second Windows 10 PC), but that sounds correct. I believe it's designed to let you use your Surface as an external monitor with pen/touch support for a…

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    Comment #12799780

    Have you tried/considered the screen extension feature in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update?

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    Comment #12763796

    > Exact lookup in the trie is O(string_length), like a hash table It's worth noting that some standard libraries (Java's JDK for one [1]) will cache the value of String.GetHashCode…

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    Comment #11953573

    The xlsx files in the first 2.0 leak were definitely not the originals (generated using Russian software).

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    Comment #9594596

    Incredible pictures from something so simple. It's a shame about the single-step undo. http://i.imgur.com/NWSYgfz.png

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    Comment #9394120

    Running Android Studio and VS2015 side by side with no hardware problems (development-wise) on my Surface Pro 2. (Being honest, Chrome's significantly more of a resource hog than t…

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    Comment #9085987

    (Apologies if the formatting is problematic, my first post). 1. Stop the service: sc stop VisualDiscovery 2. Open up your favourite process manager and remove any superfish process…