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by Crinus 7y ago
While i agree with the first part, about the second part... Windows is hardly a monoculture, it contains a ton of technologies that overlap heavily each other. As an example, people used to make fun of the number of GUI toolkits available f
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by Crinus 7y ago
I had a similar case... i want to be able to download interesting videos with youtube-dl in case they or me go offline but i found having to copy the url, open a command line, move the proper folder, etc, type youtube-dl and paste the url b
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by Crinus 7y ago
If you refer to Ctrl+Shift+Z, it is very common for redo and also very convenient since you switch between undo/redo by pressing Shift (which is also consistent with many other shortcuts that use Shift as a way to reverse their effect
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by Crinus 7y ago
One reason i prefer Bash (and i mean Bash not just any shell) is that it tends to stay stable - scripts written years ago work just fine today. These days i mainly use Bash on Windows (via MSYS2) and really it is available pretty much every
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by Crinus 7y ago
Eh, Photoshop hasn't really optimized their UI/UX, their UI goes back to the original MacPaint by Bill Atkinson (Photoshop started as a more powerful MacPaint) and has evolved over the years starting from that. It is just that it
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by Crinus 7y ago
I meant what it doesn't support that your application needs, not the general differences in terms of functionality.
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by Crinus 7y ago
"Unsupported browser" what exactly does Firefox not support?
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by Crinus 7y ago
It isn't so much the paid contributors (though they help) as it is that Blender Foundation was making commercial quality projects for years using Blender with artists and programmers at the same place so they were able to provide immed
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by Crinus 7y ago
What exactly do you have in mind?
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QBasic :-P. Though all dynamic allocation happens by resizing predefined arrays.
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by Crinus 7y ago
> but any language with GC is a complete nonstarter as a systems programming language. Check this out: http://www.projectoberon.com/ A full system (not just a language, but also custom CPU on FPGA, OS with GUI, applicati
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW i'd also call that a win... but perhaps i do not see what could possibly go wrong :-P
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by Crinus 7y ago
No i think it is actually about philosophies (or at least a way of looking at how software should be made) - again, i point out to Borland (whose IDEs were always provided a way more integrated environment than anything Microsoft ever did -
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah most developers probably do not care, but it isn't like nobody cares (for example i do and i read comments like mine on HN often, so there are others who do too). At least when it comes to text editors there are options and you ca
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah well, it isn't like Python IDE are much better :-P. I think in general most languages with unix-ish background do not tend to have truly integrated development environments as unix was always about stitching together stuff. Only
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW personally with "native" i mean "native widgets too, where possible". It isn't always possible and i'm ok with that, but if your application uses a text edit area, a treebox for project files, a menu bar,
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by Crinus 7y ago
What is the problem with that? Besides for most people to be able to watch Netflix, some people will need to make Netflix. If there aren't enough people to make Netflix, something else will be made but at the end of the day there is no
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by Crinus 7y ago
> With languageserver and the other kind of refactoring daemons available for a whole host of languages nowadays these editors are much closer to IDE's than ever before. Most likely true, though i think the "I" part of &qu
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by Crinus 7y ago
> When Firefox will detect that this canary domain is blocked, it will disable DoH to prevent the feature to be used as a filter-bypassing solution. ...then what is the point of having DoH in the first place? Anyone who wants to intercep
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by Crinus 7y ago
If the single DoH 'server' is the issue, wouldn't having a list of several 'servers' around the globe (hopefully in places where there isn't any form of censorship and preferably though non-commercial instituti
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by Crinus 7y ago
I do not remember Code::Blocks' configurations, but a Release configuration may still contain debug symbols so you can debug your release executable.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Are you sure it isn't debugging information that bloats the executable? Try a strip --strip-all your.exe and see if it is still that big.
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by Crinus 7y ago
You may not pay for them (generally) in terms of execution time, but you pay for them in terms of compilation time and language complexity.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Heh, this reminds me of the Abrash quote about optimization mentioned a few days ago (from his black book): > We're so used to slow software that when a compile-and-link sequence that took two minutes on a PC takes just ten seconds
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by Crinus 7y ago
Wouldn't Java 1.0 code still work in Java $LATEST even with modules? As i understand it the question was about keeping stuff working, not refusing to add new stuff.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yeah, though i'm not sure if exceptions really slow down compilation and in some compilers you can disable them anyway. Also you can redefine new to return null on failure, though if you are going to use new, delete, etc might as well
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by Crinus 7y ago
The problem with C++ is that in addition to generic functionality, it also brings a ton of other baggage that even if you do not use, you still pay for (e.g. personally i really dislike how slow C++ compilers are). Though TBH i wouldn'
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by Crinus 7y ago
There is Tauthon[1] which backports Python 3 features to 2 and seems to do the "actual work". It has been around a while. It was also posted in this thread below by the current maintainer of the project but for some reason that co
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by Crinus 7y ago
Well, i work in a AAA game engine that needs to run on consoles, so... :-P (though i work mostly on tools nowadays but even then, optimization is important - from my experience people wont tell you that the tool is slow, but they'll r
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by Crinus 7y ago
Some parts are timeless, like this introduction in the first chapter about optimization: --- Understanding High Performance Before we can create high-performance code, we must understand what high performance is. The objective (not always a

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