I have a color Boox tablet, and I am very very disappointed about the colors. Very hard to distinguish many colors and shades. Black and white though is really good.
I have also seen the color eink tablets, and the colors are so dull that you at first glance can take it for grayscale. Even so, I think colors would be very good to have for work and functional purposes, only to distinguish between colors. Certainly not for enjoying them.
My bank in France (Credit Agricole) requires me to install an App on the phone in order to do operations like entering an non-french IBAN to transfer money to supiers. Stuff that worked before easily over the web, doesn't work anymore if I don't install the app. Now I need to go physically to the branch. And they tell, this is because if security - such a lie. Apps are much more insecure than web + sms tokens.
Are you touch typing? I am sincerely curious. For me, because I am touch typing, the trackpoint was a big advantage over the trackpad - I don't have to lift the hands from the keyboard. This is how I got used to the trackpoint.
Ironically the existence of NodeJS is somewhat related to Haskell, as Stephen Diehl mentions in [1]:
> As a funny historical quirk, back in 2011 there was an interview with Ryan Dahl, the creator of NodeJS, who mentioned that the perceived difficulty in writing a new IO manager for GHC was a factor in the development of a new language called NodeJS. When asked why he chose Javascript, for the project, he replied:
>> Originally I didn’t. I had several failed private projects doing the same on C, Lua, and Haskell. Haskell is pretty ideal but I’m not smart enough to hack the GHC.
I made a colorscheme for vim that uses same color for font and background. Use it sometimes when I need to write long confusing thoughts. It's quite a nice experience, the sentences turn out to be similar to the way I would speak, but still with more thought and deepness.
I do it all the time - I don't know another way if you want to touch type. It creates a symmetry - depending if the letter key with which you need to combine is on the left or the right hand, I will use the opposite hand to press the Shift or Ctrl keys. And the AltGr is an absolute must for me as I need to write accents for several western European languages and the English International with AltGr Dead keys is the best solution I found so far (and I do not understand why it is not shipped with Windows).
