HeckFeck

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by HeckFeck 5y ago
His public persona, yes. We're close enough that I'm permitted to use his real name.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I'm starting to doubt my doubt I have for the Church of Emacs. It seems anything really is possible for those who repent, memorise the collected essays of Richard Stallman and pray in Lisp.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
If you install modern fonts and get busy with the drawing tools, you can produce a modern styled CV. I would say the chances are good if you made a modern one and saved it as a .doc it would open identically in modern Word. (Though, I have
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It fares quite well, actually. Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/GmVUAfC I converted my dissertation from Docx to Doc using LibreOffice Writer. It opened in Word 97 almost identically (some page breaks notw
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Excel, Word and PowerPoint run as well as they did on Windows. All the main functionality is very stable. Wine even integrated the icons and mime-types into my DE. It is only very occasionally I hit any critical error. It has only happened
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I recently used Wine to run Office 97 on Debian, just for old time's sake. I ended up liking it so much that I now use it for my word processing and spreadsheet tasks. This classic version is feature complete to me. Wine ensures it liv
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I regularly support Big Brother Watch, an anti-surveillance and pro-privacy campaign group in the UK. They send every MP lengthly reports that detail the follies and costs associated with these measures. I've also heard Conservative MP
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It's difficult to have an actual discussion when the same old platitudes keep reappearing in every crypto discussion. I can rephrase as a question: Should we stop using groundbreaking and individual-empowering technologies just because
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Ransomware would be eliminated if we just banned computers and made the internet illegal.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
This is just another form of the "we should ban encryption because criminals use it" argument. Criminals and wrongdoers will always exist. Statists and financiers are just another category of them, who have a system that convenien
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Delighted to see that BlogDB is written in Perl! I've submitted my blog to this directory/aggregator. Sites like these are indispensible for strengethening the independent Web.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
You'll enjoy it! Here's a well-written and resource to begin your journey: http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/ It explains many of Perl's "quirks" to a modern audience.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Ah, never thought I'd see this on the fp of Hacker News. Spent too much of my youth on WinBoards, Old OS Forums, ABWnet and MacDomain. It is good to see WinWorld still alive and kicking, it makes me miss those old phpBB boards (even wi
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Comments like these are what keep my attention here. Thanks very kindly for your encouragement. To learn from the greats, we ask from whom did they learn? It's an apt question. And you're right, I have had the desire this long, it
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
"A thought flashed through me, which I clothed in act" I can read and understand phrases like these, because I can read the same language. But I can never create anything with the same ring, or richness of metaphor, when I compose
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Not to mention IRIX's 4dwm. There was a different path available indeed.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
You have a point there. It is less noticeable on mobile, but desktop has no call for it. Though were we in a universe where every choice is a cruel dichotomy, I'd pick understated text-align justify over JavaScript bombardments.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
I just wanted to note this website is very well-presented. It mimics the simplicity of a sheet produced by an old typewriter. Eye pleasing and no distraction from the text, as a web page should be.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Certainly, brother. Together we shall bring the Word of Wall to all. I see a world where /usr/bin/perl will become PID1 and at every system boot will mv /usr/bin/python /dev/null there shall
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Whilst I missed the boat on Perl by a decade or two, I was exposed to it in a previous job. I was intrigued by its flexibility and power. It seemed so much could be accomplished with just the right knowhow. So gradually over the years I&#x2
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
> Also screw all Python programmers, what a bunch of losers with their indenting rules and PEPs. Weirdos. Whenever you hear somone say Python is good or interesting, run. Amen. This is my credo. I had to program Python in my last job and
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Corporations also have the means and the connections to lobby the state, which ensures the regulations are more to their liking. All helping entrench the corporation. The effect is that small competitors are kept out. They can't afford
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
It is a bit naïve to just blame the free market for everything wrong in the world. When I read complaints like that I wonder what "alternative" the author has in mind. Capitalism in this sense also gave us much of the software and
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Continuing on today's theme of GNUstep, here is a modern and maintained attempt to build a full desktop environment atop GNUstep. And before the question arises: "Workspace is NOT WindowMaker... Workspace is written from scratch.&
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Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux(github.com)
245 points by HeckFeck 5y ago|166 comments
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
Just finished giving it a read, thanks for sharing. Maybe some day I'll have done enough interesting things with programming to write a similar tale.
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
https://metacpan.org/pod/Bitcoin::Crypto Camels have a long history of transporting wealth. So it isn't all quiet over at CPAN ;)
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
> A while later the same mag gave away a copy of Delphi. Funny you mention that, was it PC Pro? I bought the same magazine a long time ago, I remember the CD. I really wanted to make windows appear and things happen on screen. But I unfo
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by HeckFeck 5y ago
The modern security state has made an example. Be silent and compliant and they might leave you alone.
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The wind goeth over it – musings on the symbolism of wind in literature(thelampmagazine.com)
1 points by HeckFeck 5y ago|0 comments

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