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by Crinus 7y ago
This isn't wrong and that is one of the largest issues people have with C++: if something is syntactically correct in a language, chances are you'll find it in any relatively big codebase - and with C++ there are a LOT of things t
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'm not sure i follow the reasoning nor the example you gave. You can change and/or update the OS, both being outside of the computer manufacturer's control and that is assuming there was even a computer manufacturer and wasn
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by Crinus 7y ago
I think we'll read such headlines regardless of that setting :-P. I'm actually wondering if there should be some sort of premade "profiles" when it comes to default settings. Debian for example is used in a lot of contex
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by Crinus 7y ago
Isn't this a "sane" default only in specific contexts though? (VMs). For a desktop PC that almost always runs a single heavy task (games, rendering, video encoding, etc) hyperthreading can be a day and night difference.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Isn't the reason that technically the CPU is still fast and it is the OS (that is outside Intel's control) that slows it down? And AFAIK all OSes can disable these mitigations (are they even a concern for personal computers, esp
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by Crinus 7y ago
I'm not worried that much about the technical side though, it is the data hoarding tendencies most sites have that i'm worried about.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Of those only VSCode is a desktop application and VSCode is already a web browser. Also considering it is meant to be modular, its documentation system would also need to be modular and i'm not sure if CHM is good with that.
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by Crinus 7y ago
People say that but my paranoid side is convinced that no real deletion happens :-/
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by Crinus 7y ago
I think the latter is a much lesser risk, assuming the "works" in "if it works" is indeed correct. After all, sure, /usr has a funny history, but in practice it doesn't really bother anyone.
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW Lazarus[1] has its own CHM generator and CHM viewer which uses its own HTML engine written on top of its LCL framework, making it cross platform. Though personally i prefer the native viewer on Windows as LHelp (Lazarus' viewer) f
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by Crinus 7y ago
Hm, almost every desktop program i have on Windows that bothers with help uses CHM and pretty much every documentation generator can generate CHM files, why do you think it isn't used?
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by Crinus 7y ago
AGPL doesn't fix the problem as it isn't a matter of these companies using the code, but the developers being taken advantage of unfairly. Amazon publishing their modified Linux wont be of much help to anyone who isn't Amazon
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by Crinus 7y ago
> What you call dark patterns are ways to ensure users don't accidentally load malware onto their device. They are still dark patterns, that they also have found excuses for those dark patterns does not make them any better. In fact
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by Crinus 7y ago
I write such comments sometimes, the reason is simple: when a codebase has a lot of comments in general comments often act as separators of "groups of code" (and often read like short prose), so seeing a bit of code not having the
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by Crinus 7y ago
It isn't about "could" is about "would", notice that i wrote "i dont want to pay" not "i cannot pay". After all that money you save on buying XXX is money you can spend on something you actually
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by Crinus 7y ago
This is because the vast majority of "FOSS advocates" are really "i dont want to pay for stuff" advocates - or to put it differently, what they like is the "Free as in beer" with the "Free as in speech&quo
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by Crinus 7y ago
Or, hear me out because will sound like crazy talk nowadays, you could simply listen to your users.
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by Crinus 7y ago
Yes, many programmers do live-coding sessions, but how many are making money doing it (and enough to live from that)?
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by Crinus 7y ago
The problem with these "many many ways" are that those that tend to work better also tend to be user hostile (subscriptions for things that have no reason to be provided as a service instead of as a product), make the users the pr
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by Crinus 7y ago
FWIW you get the same on Linux by installing stuff in /usr/whatever/wherever, /usr/local/whatever/wherever or /opt (which is the closest to Program Files-like place) and making symlinks to the "g
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by Crinus 7y ago
Assuming "package" is not just another name for "module" and that it goes away once "installed" (i do not know about NPM), what would be the difference between 1000 single function packages and a single 1000 fu
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by Crinus 7y ago
> so the compiler can do a lot of pointer and inlining magic that C and other languages can't. Isn't this a negative for Rust for when you actually do care about such micro-optimizations? It feels as if you not only need to k
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by Crinus 7y ago
But he made the browser - the browser is the application itself (what he made) - not the browser's engine. Saying that he didn't make a browser is like saying Notepad++'s author didn't really made an editor because he us
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by Crinus 7y ago
> "Look how easy it is to make a text editor!" - Drag the "text editor component" over a blank form. Look how easy it is to make a web browser! - Drag the "web browser component". But it is easy to make thos
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by Crinus 7y ago
IMO that is one of the most annoying misfeatures i've seen... on websites it is practically always used to distinguish between mobile and desktop, which misfires completely if you have a 1366x768 monitor and you aren't running a f
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by Crinus 7y ago
Obviously independent developers are supposed to slave away at big companies that pradvertise their products on HN, not make attempts to escape and work for themselves - at most they can work passionately for a VC-backed startup on some fre
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by Crinus 7y ago
Which users?
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by Crinus 7y ago
But that is still entirely subjective, i pretty much prefer Notecase/Fractal to Slack/VSCode. As i wrote in another reply you probably want to rename this to themability (or customizability, but that can be a bit vague whereas the
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by Crinus 7y ago
I second the 'customization' label (though perhaps themability is a better one?), for me applications that do not use the desktop look and feel are a negative thing and something i try to avoid, so the 'look' is certainl
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by Crinus 7y ago
Same, Save Page WE is a great extension :-)

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