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by Crinus 8y ago
What would be a solution to that that wont end up giving 3rd parties practical control over what you can and cannot run in your own computer? (the practical bit is because in theory you can blessed repositories/app stores that users ca
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by Crinus 8y ago
That doesn't make sense, think HN/Reddit/etc, which are HTTPS and primarily link to other sites which can (and very often are) HTTP. There is no security compromised here nor any other link between the two than one referring
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by Crinus 8y ago
> I dont understand why they are doing this. They want people to fear the desktop since they have no control over it nor way to monetize it and move them to the web where the only way to monetize software is through ads and subscriptions
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by Crinus 8y ago
Not just the Macs themselves, but also the software in old Macs often had the names of its programmer(s) on the About box as opposed to a generic company name. I think this was sort of part of the Macintosh culture at the time since the sof
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by Crinus 8y ago
Perhaps i used a wrong description, but i meant having special cases/multiple uses and specifically about text markup languages. If every other element of the document tree, like sections, links, emphasis, references, images, figures,
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by Crinus 8y ago
With trivial i meant that it is trivial to have a script that makes @P; a separator (or start marker) if you prefer to work that way. I made the system script-driven with a generic syntax exactly because i didn't want to hardcode any s
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by Crinus 8y ago
This is just the way i have the scripts setup since it makes more sense for me for paragraphs to be full nodes that contain their children content, but it is trivial to make empty P nodes act as paragraph separators.
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by Crinus 8y ago
Yes, it was mainly inspired by Lout (although i think there is a much older system that used a similar syntax - and GNU TexInfo also uses something similar, but i didn't knew about that at the time), however IIRC Lout doesn't use
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by Crinus 8y ago
There doesn't seem to be anything comparable for Direct3D 12 either, the relevant page [1] in the same site has only scattered documents about it instead of a single coherent one. [1] https://microsoft.github.io/DirectX
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by Crinus 8y ago
That is for store stuff though, not Win32 itself and the vast majority of applications are not written for the store nor distributed through it (some do use it as a secondary means of distribution but from what i've heard the limitatio
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by Crinus 8y ago
I do not have anything online at the moment to show, but a small document processor i wrote some time ago used a @-based syntax which was essentially a tree of named nodes with attributes - essentially the same thing as XML, but with a simp
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by Crinus 8y ago
Based on previous history, chances are Microsoft will first abandon UWP (but leave its zombified corpse in Windows for backwards compatibility) and introducing something new-but-incompatible-with-anything-existing before Windows become irre
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by Crinus 8y ago
I am also annoyed by Python 2 vs Python 3 situation, however not because of the current incompatibility but about the potential Python 3 vs Python 4 incompatibility that the Python developers have shown to not care about introducing in the
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by Crinus 8y ago
I used to, until they blocked the public folder. The sync between my computers was nice, but for me the big feature was copy/pasting (or directly creating) an image or static html page(s) with images (or flash files, at some point) in
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by Crinus 8y ago
> Yes they are, UWP is the future of Windows APIs since Windows 8, like it or not. Well, i don't, but my two main gripes is that it seems to be an evolution of WPF which i never liked and that it is tied to a more locked down mobile
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by Crinus 8y ago
> COM/UWP Assuming with COM/UWP you mean "UWP's flavor of COM" instead of "COM and/or UWP", is anyone actually using that outside of mobile trash and game engine backends for XB1? All the Windows s
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by Crinus 8y ago
After, of course. Before that most people didn't have access to Internet.
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by Crinus 8y ago
Isn't http://curlie.org/ (ex-DMOZ) the most Yahoo!-style-like directory?
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by Crinus 8y ago
I doubt it'll be GIMP, but i'd like to see a program that follows the UX of Paint Shop Pro (especially PSP7, the last good version IMO before they rewrote the UI and then sold it to Corel that gutted it out) which i always found m
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by Crinus 8y ago
1. The point of this is to avoid repeating the common headers and have the type system validate that a pointer/reference of a subtype is compatible with its parent type (in C you'd need to typecast which can be dangerous). 5. I al
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by Crinus 8y ago
> we're not the population that Reddit redesigned for. What is the population that Reddit was redesigned for and how does that redesign cater to them?
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by Crinus 8y ago
> by making it more Facebook-like, they infantilised a great site And Facebook itself used to have a very simple and lightweight layout.
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by Crinus 8y ago
I like it in general, but i have a few comments: 1. "Data oriented. Just functions, structs and enums. NO: classes, inheritance, properties, etc." I think you should allow for struct "inheritance", at least in an Oberon-
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by Crinus 8y ago
Yes. Many people who go towards data oriented designs (not to be confused with data driven) implement them in C (or very C-like C++).
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by Crinus 8y ago
They are already collector's items? :-/ For quite some time i wanted to buy one to play around with Glide (on a real machine) but i postponed it since it also requires building a full desktop and i do not have space at my current
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by Crinus 8y ago
Whenever i re-read Tom Forsyth's (who worked on it) article about Larrabee [1], i facepalm hard at Intel's decision to drop it. It is one of the few cases where i really wanted to put my hands on that sort of hardware. An essentia
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by Crinus 8y ago
Sadly most of their reviews are of similar quality to the point where i wonder why they bother. It is nice that they host a lot of the software they list (there are several programs that their original developers have long disappeared but t
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by Crinus 8y ago
Why do you think backwards compatibility dropped? Just recently they decided to not build newer versions of .NET Framework on top of .NET Core (even though they have open sourced practically everything on .NET) to ensure that older programs
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by Crinus 8y ago
What is your skimming based on? All you can tell about the linked software is their name, is their name enough to tell you what it really is about? Most of them have "cute" names and the description is as generic as it gets, perso
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by Crinus 8y ago
And lists and a desktop UI :-P

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