Koshkin

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by Koshkin 4y ago
I guess, the point was, you do not actually need this for a small project, and for a larger project it would look dreadfully complex.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
As a C/C++ dev, I want to learn Java. With its huge and sophisticated ecosystem, platform independence, the safety of the language, good efficiency, it almost sounds like one must be insane not to use it these days... (Sorry for being
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> As long as you're not trying to learn C. That's insane. K&R (2nd ed.) can easily be the only book you want to work through if you want to learn the basics of C.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> not K&R C K&R the 2nd edition of book teaches ANSI C. (It is still the best intro into the basics of C.)
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> a (rigorous) definition for what 0.999... means But 0.999... is not "defined" to be equal to 1, it is equal to 1 as a matter of fact. (In other words, both are just different spellings of the same number arising, automa
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> C devs? No. Competent systems-level C devs - yes. I don't think C is special in this regard.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
A good pay should cover your expenses, vacations and such, a bit of retirement savings, and leave you with some disposable money as well; otherwise, it depends on how much you want the job. (It's the same old supply vs. demand kind of
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Yes
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Nice to see that Dreamcast is still supported. It was my introduction to NetBSD 20 years ago.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> it doesn't really make sense to ask "what is really happening" But something is happening. Really.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
As to "the best OS Microsoft has ever made," it was OS/2 (which they abandoned in favor of the "hugely successful" Windows 3.0 which was clearly inferior on all technical accounts).
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Why, they all have been written already, long ago.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I wish ReactOS were ready by now...
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> That was the best version Microsoft ever made No. 7 was a rollback on Vista. The best one which was not a step back but rather a step forward was Windows 2000. (Some even swear by NT4, which I feel also has some merit.)
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> there being negative sentiment about XP I, on the other hand, clearly remember a huge wave of disgust and resentment towards XP right after it came out. Slow and bloated, with hideous, gimmicky visuals, it had been an object of all k
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Maybe this will be something closer to the world you live in: Unreal Engine, too, is written in C++.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM95
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by Koshkin 4y ago
DWM and MWM are two different window managers; DWM supports various window layouts.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
General population needs a "desktop," I get it. But for those comfortable with the CLI, a window manager (e.g., one that does not suck [0]) should be good enough. (Coming from personal experience - used Gnome/KDE/XFCE,
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Geometric Algebra is intuitive and concrete. Algebraic Geometry is unintuitive and abstract. Both are beautiful subjects.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> "true Communism" A typical true Scotsman fallacy. Pretty much the only good thing about communism was that the fear of it generally pushed the capitalism in the direction of a better, more socially-aware, self.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> hypocracy An excellent word, you just invented!
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K-pop: The rise of the virtual girl bands(bbc.com)
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by Koshkin 4y ago
“Science” is such an empty word, though. “Knowledge” and “research” are more concrete, and you can always ask whether knowledge is reliable and where its limit lie, and whether research is trustworthy.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
But Tetris ran on IBM mainframes also, on character-cell displays.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I guess there was something they could share during the Moscow fire in 1812.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Arbitrary or not, the limits had to be there due to small amount of memory computer had back then. I don’t think this is specific to Unix/C culture (unless it was what influenced the design of MS-DOS with its limit on the length of fil
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by Koshkin 4y ago
This probably only has served to exacerbate the issue on the English side.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
The French and the English, the neighbors who cannot pronounce a word of another’s language…

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