Crinus

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by Crinus 7y ago
> they are the complete antithesis of the Unix philosophy that so many designers and developers prefer. Word, Excel Interestingly, Word and Excel were the origins of OLE in Windows 3.x times that was meant to allow embedding documents of
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by Crinus 7y ago
Chrome doesn't have resources, it only consumes resources. Resources here mean system resources like memory, CPU time, etc. What sort of resources that Chrome has are you referring to?
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by Crinus 7y ago
It'd be useful if there was a standardized way for applications to expose additional streams that worked exactly like stdin/stdout/stderr but with custom names. At a first glance, named pipes (both the Unix and the Windows ap
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by Crinus 7y ago
The point of the article is that a native program that was meant to do one thing (VLC, play videos, though ok the "do one thing" is a bit stretched when it comes to a media player) needs less resources to do that thing (with thing
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah, one of my "plans" was to just wait until i'm between jobs again :-P. I had't thought about using YouTube to help with focus. Though i wonder if it'll also "help" with making things feel more like wor
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is incredibly interesting. How much time are you working on it? While i'm not that interested in a full blown OS, some times i find myself really wanting to work on a new GUI stack for Linux (above X) but the time i'd need to
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by Crinus 7y ago
You are underestimating the information that was available in the late 90s on the Internet. If anything, thanks to DOS game development and demoscene still being active, you could find stuff much easier than it is nowadays (there is a lot o
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by Crinus 7y ago
Same here. I just switch to the "desktop version" and it works.
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by Crinus 7y ago
I do the same, except instead of `history` i grep the .bash_history file :-P (i almost always need it for stuff i typed several sessions ago)
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by Crinus 7y ago
These look neat but they all seem to be targeting a subset of C (e.g. no struct support) instead of the full thing (even if we include stdlib). Only exception seems to be SmallerC (which as expected is larger than the other compilers/i
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by Crinus 7y ago
One thing i'm not sure about WinRT and cannot figure out from the docs, AFAIK it is possible to "bit bang" (or "byte bang" if you will) a COM object by arranging everything in memory using plain old C structs (or eq
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by Crinus 7y ago
Since i see this was downvoted, i guess it was taken as an attack on GNU. To clarify, this is far from it, it was an actual question. I get what FSF's purpose is, but what is GNU's purpose?
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by Crinus 7y ago
I can see the purpose of GNU in the 80s and most of the 90s, but really now that anyone can post any project online and setting up a project page is as easy as downloading Fossil and throwing it somewhere[1], what function does GNU serve? [
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by Crinus 7y ago
Weirdly, the github page says: > COM has been superseded by WinRT which builds on COM to provide even more guarantees about the binary interface. Yet the WinRT page says: > The Windows Runtime is based on Component Object Model (COM)
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by Crinus 7y ago
wxFormBuilder and wxWidgets is indeed "Dialog Resource Editor and MFC" wannabe, though more cross platform, with a nicer API and with more features. Also wxWidgets is actually what people think MFC was (a layer on top of Win32&#x2
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by Crinus 7y ago
No. Qt and C++ Builder are very different. Qt with Qt Designer is much closer to wxWidgets with wxFormBuilder than C++ Builder, but from my experience so far (i am working with Qt+Qt Designer at day job and worked with wxWidgets and wxFormB
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by Crinus 7y ago
Well, i had several things (mostly games) work by changing these settings. Also in many non-game cases the program did work but it had visual glitches (a common issue with some older apps is when they draw directly to the screen - this is s
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by Crinus 7y ago
> People said the same thing ten years ago and yet here we are, macOS is still an OS for 'general purpose computing'. Well, the "slow" part can be slower than ten years. It might just still not be there, but compared
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Sato admitted to the attack after he was arrested on Sept 17 and revealed that he was a huge fan of Matsuoka. I always find it weird when self-proclaimed "fans" harm the people they are supposedly fans of.
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by Crinus 7y ago
.EXE games do not work out of the box but because of existing overall backwards compatibility support and the effort of some enthusiasts, they are still the most likely to work compared to anything else. For Win32 pretty much anything can b
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by Crinus 7y ago
Desktop, web or mobile? My guess is that you'll get very different results based on this. Overall stick with technologies that have been around for a long time and have proven themselves to be stable and their developers do value stabi
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by Crinus 7y ago
I mostly agree except the Java part. AFAIK Java (at least J2SE) has been very stable with backwards compatibility going back to the 90s.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yes, note that i'm explicitly saying "from the user's perspective" here. Of course i'm not expecting sourcehut (or github or anything) to do something they do not even meant to do. Even projects in Sourceforge often
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by Crinus 7y ago
Note that i'm comparing the overall UI/UX of these services not just for this specific project. However libraries also have end users - the developers who are going to use the library (vs the developers who will work on the librar
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by Crinus 7y ago
Until they add X11 support that makes it pretty much useless for a desktop GUI (if you care about Linux anyway).
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by Crinus 7y ago
To me it is more absurd that you act as if it is impossible to search for what you are looking for using more than one word. You aren't supposed to memorize a word soup. You are supposed to search for what you are looking for based on
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by Crinus 7y ago
> Sourceforge circa 2002? Sourceforge has one thing that other services do not seem to have: it is user centric instead of developer centric. With that i mean that for any project you get information that would be interesting to the (pot
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is why whenever i think about buying software i check if they have a DRM-free version for Windows. 99% of the time this ensures i'll be able to use the software for years to come even if the company shuts down.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Not sure how npm works in detail, doesn't it pull directly from devs' repositories? In that case can't the devs just publish an update that breaks everything?
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by Crinus 7y ago
I've only used Photoshop very rarely but always disliked its UI. On the other hand i used PSP since the Win3.1 days up until PSP7 and then switched to GIMP which i used for 15+ years. I never really had an issue on doing anything with

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