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Re: Tomorrow Theme

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Post by wgrover »

olliesaunders wrote: post #52

If HN believes creative thinking is a waste of time I’ll get downvoted for this but I fancy just letting my imagination go wild so here goes... Video gamers can supposedly differentiate between tones more similar to one another than non-gamers. Perhaps, if you made a theme of very similar colors, you could achieve the same benefit from programming. Although I suspect it might not work because the difference in the co…

You might find graphical programming languages like LabVIEW interesting; here's a little tutorial that shows what LabVIEW programs look like:

http://www.ee.buffalo.edu/faculty/paololiu/edtech/roaldi/tut...

"Wires" that carry values are color-coded according to their contents (integers are blue, floating point values are orange, booleans are green, etc.). Loops like FOR and WHILE are actual "loops" that encircle the repeated code. The flow of information along the wires determines the order of execution for the code, and you can debug your code by turning on a special mode that actually shows the information moving down the wires.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

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Post by sciurus »

phn wrote: post #19

I like this theme, and used it for a while but I find myself going back for monokai. A little off-topic: What do HN people prefer, light or dark themes?

Speaking of monokai, I recently switched to molokai and am enjoying it.

vim = https://github.com/tomasr/molokai

Xresources (e.g. xterm) = http://delicious.com/redirect?url=https%3A//gist.github.com/...

iTerm2 = https://github.com/larssmit/iterm2-getafe

Re: Tomorrow Theme

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Post by thirdhaf »

wgrover wrote: post #71
olliesaunders wrote: post #52

If HN believes creative thinking is a waste of time I’ll get downvoted for this but I fancy just letting my imagination go wild so here goes... Video gamers can supposedly differentiate between tones more similar to one another than non-gamers. Perhaps, if you made a theme of very similar colors, you could achieve the same benefit from programming. Although I suspect it might not work because the difference in the co…

You might find graphical programming languages like LabVIEW interesting; here's a little tutorial that shows what LabVIEW programs look like: http://www.ee.buffalo.edu/faculty/paololiu/edtech/roaldi/tut... "Wires" that carry values are color-coded according to their contents (integers are blue, floating point values are orange, booleans are green, etc.). Loops like FOR and WHILE are actual "loops" that encircle the r…

LabView IS fun, I've written a couple of drivers and a (physical device) testing GUI with it. As I've been thinking about it more I see two hurdles to overcome with LabView though: - Layout: Spaghetti code becomes a very tangible issue if you don't follow guides on routing religiously. Intro courses only touch on this and LabView code in the wild are rarely clean. These visual routing guides are ORTHOGONAL to good code design practices which you also have to follow to make maintainable and understandable code. - Navigation: There is no VIM or Emacs for LabView code as far as I know. Navigating a codebase and following function references deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole becomes tedious pretty quickly. Visual breakpoints help here but there's no substitute for quick navigation, I never found a Ctags equivalent for this language.

(Caveat, EE turned software engineer ranting)

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#76

Post by arnarbi »

phn wrote: post #19

I like this theme, and used it for a while but I find myself going back for monokai. A little off-topic: What do HN people prefer, light or dark themes?

Dark for code, light for prose.

Currently wombat and solarized-light, but I seem to like to change these every couple of months or so.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

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Post by joelhooks »

Xymak1y wrote: post #49
oemera wrote: post #16

I use this theme since I ever saw it in every editor or alike I use (Zsh, Xcode, Vim, Sublime Text 2) and I'm really happy with it! The colors IMO are more distinguishable than on solarized but this seems to be a matter of taste. Just try it out if you are looking for a new theme. BTW: as many mentioned it is awesome that the theme is available for so many editors! Edit: Should have mentioned that I use always that T…

Do you know where to get this theme for Sublime Text?

TextMate themes work with Sublime directly.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#79

Post by spartango »

thirdhaf wrote: post #75
wgrover wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might find graphical programming languages like LabVIEW interesting; here's a little tutorial that shows what LabVIEW programs look like: http://www.ee.buffalo.edu/faculty/paololiu/edtech/roaldi/tut... "Wires" that carry values are color-coded according to their contents (integers are blue, floating point values are orange, booleans are green, etc.). Loops like FOR and WHILE are actual "loops" that encircle the r…

LabView IS fun, I've written a couple of drivers and a (physical device) testing GUI with it. As I've been thinking about it more I see two hurdles to overcome with LabView though: - Layout: Spaghetti code becomes a very tangible issue if you don't follow guides on routing religiously. Intro courses only touch on this and LabView code in the wild are rarely clean. These visual routing guides are ORTHOGONAL to good co…

I'm not a LabView fan for various reasons, but something neat they've added as of V8.0 (I think) is an auto-format tool which will take a mess of wires and organize it. Vastly improves readability, and works really well.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

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Post by thirdhaf »

spartango wrote: post #79
thirdhaf wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LabView IS fun, I've written a couple of drivers and a (physical device) testing GUI with it. As I've been thinking about it more I see two hurdles to overcome with LabView though: - Layout: Spaghetti code becomes a very tangible issue if you don't follow guides on routing religiously. Intro courses only touch on this and LabView code in the wild are rarely clean. These visual routing guides are ORTHOGONAL to good co…

I'm not a LabView fan for various reasons, but something neat they've added as of V8.0 (I think) is an auto-format tool which will take a mess of wires and organize it. Vastly improves readability, and works really well.

Hmm, we were still running 6.1 in 2008 which probably explains a lot. (No upgrade path allowed at that time)
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