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Re: Tomorrow Theme

#111

Post by akkartik »

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…

I'm not sure how to do all of that, but the bit about reducing the dynamic range resonates. I think syntax highlighting should exist to highlight three categories of syntax:

a) comments. What is never run?

b) literals. What is just plain data?

c) punctuation -- mostly so it can be deemphasized.

Sample of my minimalist 'scheme': http://imgur.com/NrrS9.png

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#112

Post by daralthus »

akkartik wrote: post #111
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…

I'm not sure how to do all of that, but the bit about reducing the dynamic range resonates. I think syntax highlighting should exist to highlight three categories of syntax: a) comments. What is never run? b) literals. What is just plain data? c) punctuation -- mostly so it can be deemphasized. Sample of my minimalist 'scheme': http://imgur.com/NrrS9.png

I think different colors/shades for different types and highlighting profiling data for functions could be useful also.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#113

Post by akkartik »

daralthus wrote: post #112
akkartik wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how to do all of that, but the bit about reducing the dynamic range resonates. I think syntax highlighting should exist to highlight three categories of syntax: a) comments. What is never run? b) literals. What is just plain data? c) punctuation -- mostly so it can be deemphasized. Sample of my minimalist 'scheme': http://imgur.com/NrrS9.png

I think different colors/shades for different types and highlighting profiling data for functions could be useful also.

Funny you should mention profiling; I was just reading http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html today. The Go profiler seems extremely impressive.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#114

Post by reissbaker »

I really, really like this. I've been a fan of Twilight/ir-black style themes for a while, but could never find one with the perfect ratio of contrast to visual noise -- especially for console Vims. Now I have.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#115

Post by qdot76367 »

leif wrote: post #82
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…

Max/MSP does the same thing for DSP (audio) programming. http://cycling74.com/

Puredata does it for free! http://www.puredata.info

vvvv does it for video (similar to Max's Jitter, or pd's GEM, except better), for windows, for kinda free! http://vvvv.org

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#116

Post by mhd »

akkartik wrote: post #111
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…

I'm not sure how to do all of that, but the bit about reducing the dynamic range resonates. I think syntax highlighting should exist to highlight three categories of syntax: a) comments. What is never run? b) literals. What is just plain data? c) punctuation -- mostly so it can be deemphasized. Sample of my minimalist 'scheme': http://imgur.com/NrrS9.png

Which brings us almost full-circle to early monochromatic highlighting, where you didn't have many options besides adding bold and italic to the mix.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#117

Post by Groxx »

Wow, that's a nice one. Very readable, not too pastel... I almost never use the more 'stylish' themes because I find their tradeoffs a pain, but this might be an improvement on anything I've used thus far.

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#118

Post by danbee »

akkartik wrote: post #111
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…

I'm not sure how to do all of that, but the bit about reducing the dynamic range resonates. I think syntax highlighting should exist to highlight three categories of syntax: a) comments. What is never run? b) literals. What is just plain data? c) punctuation -- mostly so it can be deemphasized. Sample of my minimalist 'scheme': http://imgur.com/NrrS9.png

Your scheme reminds me of CGA colour palettes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

Re: Tomorrow Theme

#120

Post by thirdhaf »

positr0n wrote: post #109
thirdhaf wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Wow 6.1 is ancient... :-) LabVIEW 8.6 is a huge leap forward in usability, stability, and performance. If you can upgrade to 2011 that's even better. -National Instruments employee

6.1 was running on an even more ancient PC from 2001. This was at a former employer so I have no influence over this system any more. The funny thing was that we had ample budget for this project, I think we spent about $10k on a very nice rack-mount SCXI DAQ and about $60k on other equipment but upgrading the computer system driving the whole thing was out of the question due to color-of-money issues and dysfunctional inter-departmental politics.
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