BruceEel

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by BruceEel 6y ago
> a locale-like scenario where it's either overkill or too weak for your use case, never in the middle. well put.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
> Runtime reflection is, in my opinion, the biggest missing feature in standard C++. Opinions?
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Oh my! But at least it was a forming experience. Thirty-two years later and I still can't make up my mind as to which editor to use...
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by BruceEel 6y ago
My first run-in with vi was on the Amiga, Aztec C bundled this "vi-like" editor called Z, I thought I'd try it out without reading the docs. I hadn't expected that the Amiga menu-bar would be empty and I had no idea that
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by BruceEel 6y ago
..and it works, high sierra, is back!
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Aye, very happy to have found what look like really viable alternatives, this is promising. And if I manage to make the transition, I will eventually want to try out more sophisticated distro's like Arch, I am quite sure of that.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Well, my head is spinning, but I've made a bit of progress. I thought I'd start by trying out a few of the ones you and others have characterized as user-friendly as well as one of the more bare-bones ones. The (hopelessly unscien
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by BruceEel 6y ago
...added to the list.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
I shall post my findings.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
This is a really good explanation, thank you.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
It's fetching the disk image right now. Gold... Thank you!
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by BruceEel 6y ago
> I love TextMate, too! Something you might find nice is how easy it is to run Mac in a VM on Linux; there are scripts that manage the entire thing for you, and it's pretty painless (and so fast; I was surprised). That would be exce
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by BruceEel 6y ago
This is excellent and indeed largely novel information, thank you. It sounds like the finding right combination of DE and package management solution plays a big role here. I don't remember much of my experience with Gentoo's pack
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Thank you @all for the suggestions! I'm going to set aside some time to experiment with these and see how far I get.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
> There are Linux distributions with great user interfaces and great UX Could you name some? No sarcasm, actually interested!
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Any distro in particular you'd recommend?
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Interesting. I regularly use RHEL (server/CLI only) but have not tried desktop Linux in a while. I get a fair bit of weekly exposure to Windows 10 and well, it's not like heaps of fun, UX wise. I'm reluctant to drop Apple mai
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by BruceEel 6y ago
> I've been forced to update to this pile of shit because latest iOS requires latest Xcode which in turn requires Catalina. It's a nightmare. I'm literally halfway there as I type this, Xcode 'installing components&#x
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Exactly. And what about if I initially DO specify it's London Ontario that I'm interested in but five minutes later I ask again, referring to it simply as "London".. shouldn't a "better Siri" come back wit
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Not a D expert, I'm currently using D for a side-project and having a great time learning as I go. IMVHO Walter Bright is right and much of 'So You Want To Write Your Own Language?' still holds.
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Considerations for programming language design: a rebuttal(medium.com)
2 points by BruceEel 6y ago|1 comments
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by BruceEel 6y ago
yeah, they go into that in the referred-to book (The Personal Computer from the Inside Out).. though spectacularly irrelevant in this day and age, it still makes a thrilling read, for me anyway ;)
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by BruceEel 6y ago
you don't say:)
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Yep. Compare that with the story of getting Windows 2.x work in protected mode (two devs and a spare Friday evening...) https://gunkies.org/wiki/Windows_3.0
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by BruceEel 6y ago
sobering...
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by BruceEel 6y ago
What if a Microsoft developer gets her/his hands on the leaked NT 3.5 code and secretly starts working on setting Windows 10 straight...
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Yep, nice and handy! You can sort of get 'spoiled' learning command line tools & their options on Linux first... Perhaps my most infuriating run-in with UNIX ever has been having to use AIX for the first time and dealing with
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by BruceEel 6y ago
I stand updated! ;-)
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Interesting and +1 to the question, what do you guys think? I'm still planning to look into Perl 6. What I like about Perl 5.x is its high out-of-the box availability (ie: no need to ask sysadmin to allow/install Ruby, Node etc..)
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by BruceEel 6y ago
I'm not quite at 1400 (yet!) but I truly depend on it... a fresh install of macOS feels broken without it. Even better when combined with Karabiner, as you too suggest. PS: great site!

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