Crinus

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by Crinus 7y ago
Back when i was using iMac as my "watch" computer, i was simply changing the text background color of whatever i was watching to green in Finder. The feature to tag and color any file is really something that i miss in Explorer (i
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by Crinus 7y ago
I also like the Win95 aesthetics, though last time i checked Gtk+ does support Windows' theme engine (not 100% perfect but 99.9% is there). At least Gtk+ 2 does, did that change with Gtk+ 3?
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by Crinus 7y ago
As a user i really dislike this because more often than not certs are broken because the server is temporarily badly configured (instead of some malicious reason) and i do not even care about it (or even if it was compromised really) as all
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by Crinus 7y ago
Eh, i played NES games on my grandparents' ~24" TV, those pixels were clearly visible (though not so visible on my own monochrome TV). Also while "pixel art" is often associated with NES/SEGA by the people who grew
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yes, but my original question was that it can be written that way and since it can written that way, why do you need to implement a template system when the language you are implementing that template system can also function as a template
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by Crinus 7y ago
IMO even games that go for realistic graphics end up stylized, mainly because the technical limitations do force those styles (e.g. many PS2 games tried to be realistic but the lack of pixel shaders means they had to paint the lighting on t
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by Crinus 7y ago
A bit of both. The base OS itself provides way more functionality out of the box than Linux (imagine an asterisk here) and that is done through APIs that have remained backwards compatible going back to Windows 95 (of course new stuff got a
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by Crinus 7y ago
C doesn't bring anything. If i want to implement an IDE in C for performance and portability reasons, with a binary protocol that works over sockets i'd only need to worry about that binary protocol and sockets are provided by eve
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by Crinus 7y ago
As another "outlier" who doesn't mind panning around to read an article (though i do prefer if i don't have to), do you have a source about the behavior of those fabled "most people"?
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by Crinus 7y ago
> I wish I could install Firefox or Chrome from a decade ago as easily as I can install the latest versions. You can, on Windows. The secret is the system keeping backwards compatibility in mind for its core APIs, something that most des
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by Crinus 7y ago
Wouldn't that followed by a "Why?"
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by Crinus 7y ago
I was thinking about being able to write regular HTML with code <?php ... ?> and variable expansions like <?=$foo?> with uses like having a for loop over stuff (like, e.g., table records) and inside the body including another PH
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by Crinus 7y ago
> and templating systems ...but last time i checked PHP itself was a templating system. What changed?
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by Crinus 7y ago
> I'm going to watch it later, but I'll ask ahead of time-- is the author really stating that the feeling of watching that single video on Encarta was more enthralling than what I'll experience with that HTML5 interface? I
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by Crinus 7y ago
Chances are, just like modern internet took advantage of old communication technology (telephone wires) to spread, the "next" internet will take advantage of the "current" one.
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by Crinus 7y ago
The Windows vs Haiku case you describe is mainly a difference in terms of development culture. In Windows you can get similar fast performance and responsiveness by using the native GUI functionality, but most desktop applications nowadays
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by Crinus 7y ago
> a large part of this has been about not being constantly distracted when I’m with other people I do not understand this, why would a smartphone distract you if you do not set it up to distract you? Can't you just not install all t
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yes but which of those apply specifically to Office 2003, on Windows 10 and will be exploited today in 2019?
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by Crinus 7y ago
Such facilities actually do exist in Xorg, they are just disabled by default. But you can configure the server with a shortcut key to release input grab.
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by Crinus 7y ago
I don't know about others but my lightmapper will certainly benefit :-P. Perhaps compilation times, for some stuff.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Well, the list says "JavaScript" so i took it as plain JavaScript. If you care about avoiding churn you can stick with stuff that have proven to remain backwards compatible and plain JavaScript fits the bill.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Make is also very easy to grok though, at its core is just a series of "i want this file, it depends on these files, use these shell commands to produce it".
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by Crinus 7y ago
Sorry i do not understand, is this post a joke? I mean it literally because of the "never happened to me", then the multimillion line makefile doesn't sound real but then you do write something that sounds like someone who ha
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by Crinus 7y ago
It had never been true at all if you didn't care about gaining kudos from CSS purists and just used a table :-P.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> And really paying for software is no guarantee that you won't also be the product - I'm not sure where that naive notion came from. It isn't a guarantee, but not paying for software means that the developers have a stron
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by Crinus 7y ago
What sort of security issues do you expect Office 2003 to have that will affect you nowadays?
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by Crinus 7y ago
> KDE's code is now in Chrome, Safari, and Edge. The only major web browser not containing it is Firefox (which is also OSS). That's AMAZING. Amazing for whom? How much control does KDE have over the code they originally wrote?
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by Crinus 7y ago
If you get into running old games in modern Windows, i think you'll find that when it comes to games such assumptions are the first to fly out of the window :-P. Games tend to be among the most brittle desktop software.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> But how do you want to avoid that? Staying with old libraries forever? Well, one way would be those libraries to have backwards compatible APIs so that your code keeps working yet still using the same APIs. Some actually do try that (o
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'd put JavaScript in the "Examples" section as, like HTML, any change it gets is fully backwards compatible so you do not have to play catch-up with the latest stuff just to keep your existing code working. I do not know abo

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