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by Crinus 8y ago
I might be a pessimist, but i believe it is way more likely that people who are working with Electron are doing it on powerful workstations, mostly worked with the web stack and want to reuse their knowledge and many of them have no idea (o
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by Crinus 8y ago
> Meanwhile customers happily used the apps without caring about what tech was used People didn't care what tech was used and still do not care, but they do care if the programs are slow and resource hogs. Note that thanks to all th
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by Crinus 8y ago
If you run an application that needs the KDE (or GNOME) libs and you focus on it (e.g. an IDE, a browser, a document viewer, etc) then it doesn't matter that it uses the KDE/GNOME libs since you can consider them as part of the pr
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by Crinus 8y ago
Still, isn't it the entire system's load?
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by Crinus 8y ago
KDE1 was very fast and lightweight, i used it back when it was new via Caldera OpenLinux on a PMMX with 32MB RAM and i was very impressed not only with how fast it was but with how much stuff the CD came with (although that was largely due
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by Crinus 8y ago
Is that 600MB of used RAM? Why is it so much? I've seen KDE environments use less than 400MB and when i use Window Maker i get something around 250MB or so. (all of them are ridiculous sizes considering something like Windows NT 4 need
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by Crinus 8y ago
AFAIK they call it Plasma (just Plasma, not Plasma Desktop) because that is now the name for what was previously called KDE and KDE now is the name of the community and project that acts as an umbrella for various other projects, including
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by Crinus 8y ago
> I found the developers had went bankrupt > found them broken, relying on system calls that are undocumented > they removed the system calls it used an it no longer works, so theres $100 down the drain And that is why backwards co
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by Crinus 8y ago
Apple does not pay much attention to backwards compatibility, deprecates APIs all the time, changes how they work, etc and if something is undocumented it is free for all to axe it regardless of how many applications use it. Microsoft, on t
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by Crinus 8y ago
Windows has a lot more software than Mac and unlike Mac, software in Windows keeps working for years on (i personally use a lot of older software, largely because it is faster on modern machines). This means you have a TON of options, but a
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by Crinus 8y ago
This is about Frontpage, the parent post is about Dreamweaver. Also it is misleading, the linked page is about the server-side Frontpage Extensions, if you used Frontpage as an HTML page editor you'd just get a static site which is as
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by Crinus 8y ago
PageMill doesn't have a real site manager, it only has a sidebar that shows the files of a folder, but doesn't know anything about the site's structure. It is really just a notch above Netscape Composer.
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by Crinus 8y ago
> I find it, give the developer $5-$50, and enjoy a long and fruitful relationship. > You Google what you want and get all sorts of shite. You risk your neck and download some file from Sourceforge. You are comparing buying an applica
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by Crinus 8y ago
Do not use it then. Applications should use the native GUI APIs for the OS they are running on, native GUI APIs are not there for shits and giggles, they provide actual functionality and not using them is a waste of resources. Linux having
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by Crinus 8y ago
Yes, so? Unless i'm misunderstanding what you are talking about, these are exposed to (untrusted) web pages through the web browser, the pages do not have a means of accessing it directly. So the browser can take measures of avoiding i
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by Crinus 8y ago
"is", as long as you consider FreeGLUT as being GLUT.
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by Crinus 8y ago
This is on the browser to handle though and only confined on the browser's process(es), it doesn't need to affect the entire OS.
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by Crinus 8y ago
If you are going to rely on a 3rd party host why switch Blogger (which handles everything for you) with GitLab/GitHub (which requires a bit of extra maintenance from your side)?
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by Crinus 8y ago
Yeah, Mozilla is wasting a ton of money, but they wont admit it unless Google stops funding them and they run out of ad cash. Even then i have a fear their marketdroids will start selling out their users (see Mr.Robot debacle) as a grasping
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by Crinus 8y ago
Have you tried Paintbrush? It is basically a modern mix between MacPaint and MS Paint (the good one, not the abomination introduced in Windows 7). https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/
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by Crinus 8y ago
Right, that is your style, but i wouldn't call that "too many grammar restrictions" :-).
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by Crinus 8y ago
Yes, that is what i meant with "inline variables". IMO this is usually a sign of code that is too long to be readable and if you really need that you should either split the function to make it more readable or, if that cannot be
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by Crinus 8y ago
What grammar restrictions? I've converted a few C99 libraries to C89 (since i prefer that one and i often work with older compilers because they are faster) and 99% of the time the reason a library uses C99 is inline variable declarati
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by Crinus 8y ago
> the remaining apps in 32 bits were (and in some case still are!) It should be noted that 32 bit applications are still very common in Windows land since the majority of applications do not have much to win from being 64 bit. On Linux
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by Crinus 8y ago
That is what you get for using 4096x4096 sized alpha blended HDR bitmaps for the icons and animated emojis on your 5" QUHD phone :-P.
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by Crinus 8y ago
Yet, the BIOSes both of the last motherboards i bought (one recently, another 3-4 years ago) had some very elaborate UIs, with skinned menus, star backgrounds and a bunch of other frivolous stuff. I think one even had some sort of backgroun
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by Crinus 8y ago
This is just made to look like Windows 3.1 at a glance but there are many small details that are different from real Windows 3.1 (or even 3.0). For example Windows 3.x do not have a 3D shaded button at the top left corner of windows, instea
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by Crinus 8y ago
The only other way to handle <pre> tags is to wrap these long lines, but i do not see how that is not fundamentally broken considering that the entire purpose of the <pre> tag is to show preformatted text.
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by Crinus 8y ago
Early to mid 2000s was the best time in web design. Everything before that was "omg, i can put animated images and color on the web, LETS PUT ALL OF THEM IN THERE!" (aka the Geocities School of Style) and after after that was &quo
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by Crinus 8y ago
That i do not want some third party's permission to make my site and desktop applications available to everyone. Note the one you asked, but i have the same issues with the certificate mafia.

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