Crinus

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by Crinus 7y ago
I'd go with a blue, implying general information instead of some point in the same single dimension where the "all good", "warning" and "error" points also lie on. Also make this a PNG so it can be used ou
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by Crinus 7y ago
IIRC the pre-2.5 menu wasn't just for adding stuff (though it was its most common use).
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by Crinus 7y ago
> making profit through consultancy This incentivizes making software that requires consultancy (or at best, disincentivizes fixing issues with the software that would lessen the income from consultancy). Your profit should come from the
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Qt has the perfect business model for OSS. Except for that part where their business model incentivizes them to bloat the library towards what is actually paying (car and smart fridge dashboard UIs) instead of what most people would wa
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by Crinus 7y ago
So they get all the benefits of the project while i get a regular flat salary? Why not just work as a regular programmer regardless of what i work on is FOSS instead and keep my own projects under my control for myself?
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by Crinus 7y ago
I do not see the association between elder audiences and on-site translation. Let's say you are a techie and you understand zero Polish yet you got a job in Poland and you want to buy some equipment for your computer from https:/
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah, back when 2.5 was new i was annoyed that space changed from showing the popup menu in 3D view to showing that action search list but this annoyance quickly went away when i realized how faster it was to find new stuff with it.
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW these do not sound very fun, at least for most people. Gamers tend to say that they want more complex systems but when games with complex systems come out most players either dislike them and/or go only for the most simple and str
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by Crinus 7y ago
Sure, and Linux will remove support for 32bit applications any time now :-]. Also since it got open sourced (properly), there are more people using Motif applications nowadays than 10 years ago. And there are other toolkits that target X ou
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by Crinus 7y ago
Unlike Python 2 not everyone among the Xorg developers want to drop it (e.g. Keith Packard doesn't seem very interested in Wayland). Also Xorg isn't really one thing, it is a bunch of different subprojects with the server being th
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by Crinus 7y ago
> This sort of thing is extremely difficult on X, but very doable on Wayland. I'd say it is the other way around. With Wayland you'd need buy-in from the entire stack since in Wayland everything needs to be implemented in the c
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'd generalize this with a "why". Why does this project exist? Why does that functionality exist? Why does it uses those types? etc (though you could say that this is part of the "Explanation" quadrant)
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by Crinus 7y ago
AFAIK GNOME and KDE's help systems have the ability to view info files and there is also the tkinfo viewer i mentioned. However note that the "source documentation system" i refer to is texinfo, not info. Texinfo is a preproc
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by Crinus 7y ago
My point was that options like -O<number> and -Ofast aren't the actual optimization switches, they turn on other switches and you do not know what you'll get - essentially wishing for fast code and hoping you'll get som
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by Crinus 7y ago
I do not think they ever did a good job when it comes to examples, especially in the earlier days. Others like Borland were much better there. But ever since 3.1 docs you could learn everything you wanted from the help file alone (3.0 help
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is a nice article (though i think a bit too wordy). Note that what it calls "tutorial", "how-to guides" and "explanation" is sometimes called "guides", "howtos" and "rationale&quot
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by Crinus 7y ago
I saw this on /r/linux and was impressed that you can create applications that do not look out of a 70's terminal :-P. Not a fan of C++ (though could be worse), but if nothing else it looks pretty (yes, i like that faux-win3.
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Final Cut: Library for creating terminal applications with text-based widgets(github.com)
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Issue trackers come and go Unless you use Fossil :-P. Or for git/hg/svn/cvs/Folder - Copy(43), one of those ticket trackers that work with files inside the repository itself.
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by Crinus 7y ago
That article relies on the flawed premise that because modern CPUs do not expose their real inner workings then C is not a low level language. However this is irrelevant because as a programmer you do not have any access below what the CPU
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yes they are documented, though the documentation is really something like "-fawesome-optimization, enabled by default on -O3" and the "-fawesome-optimization" has documentation like "enables awesome optimization&qu
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is wrong, you absolutely can have an idea of what a C (and most of the time, C++) compiler will generate. You may not know the exact instructions, but if you are familiar with the target CPU you can have a general idea what sort of
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Using a map with a touch screen is incredibly intuitive compared to a mouse. (I cannot imagine using sliders or other "physical" interfaces) What sort of map use you have in mind? I find panning (drag+move) and zooming (mouse
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Windows userland is being rewritten in COM since Vista I am not sure "rewritten" is the proper word as this implies replacement, but in reality nothing gets replaced (at least as far as the user/developer facing stuff go
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Gnome (3) is just a bit crap. It's the Windows DE of the GNU/Linux world. Windows is way WAY more customizable than Gnome 3. As an example all the issues the GP mentions are things Windows support out of the box (among ma
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by Crinus 7y ago
While strictly speaking you aren't forced to use Gmail, the reason i gave up trying to run my own VPS and mail server was all the little issues that caused people with Gmail to not ever receive (or receive, but in their spam folder) ma
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by Crinus 7y ago
It looks kinda interesting but the apparent mobile-oriented interface makes it highly unusable (and wastes a ton of screen space). The "legacy" version that used a more compact UI, menu bar and right click menus is much easier and
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Our computers are so much better for them to be reduced to a green phosphor VT-100 terminal. So much this. Every time someone harps about this or that great terminal application that looks worse than even MS-DOS applications from the l
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by Crinus 7y ago
Neat but i think this would be more useful if it was a standalone utility that did the launching itself instead of replacing your existing shell.
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by Crinus 7y ago
None of the games in currently the archive were orphaned when people originally shared them around either, but for the vast majority of them they wouldn't exist anymore nowadays if it wasn't for that original sharing. Even GOG had

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