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by Pacabel 12y ago
I'd like to see the Documentation, Community and News content on the front page, rather than hidden away on those separate pages. The new design adds an extra, unnecessary level of indirection in order to get to this useful information
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by Pacabel 12y ago
This sounds like a dangerous trade off to be making. It's reminiscent of what we saw with GNOME 3, or even Windows 8. The experience is made much worse for existing users, in a vain attempt to "simplify" the design to alleged
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by Pacabel 12y ago
What's "unappealing" about the existing design? The existing design seems to do a good job of using the space available to convey a large amount of important and relevant information, with very little effort required from the
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Is there a practical reason why there's so much empty space with this new design, and why so little valuable content and functionality is visible by default? Viewing the existing site in a desktop browser, I get to see the description
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by Pacabel 12y ago
They really are. It doesn't matter if they're used on websites or in web browsers or in any other context. Time and time again it has been shown that they do nothing to help make functionality obvious and easily accessible, and in
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Nonsense. Tomte's comment points out some serious and real flaws with the design of the website that severely impact its usability. It's very constructive to point out such problems. And pointing out such flaws in somebody's
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by Pacabel 12y ago
KDE 4.0 was still somewhat immature when it was released, but I'd hesitate to call it a debacle. From what I remember, it was meant mainly for early adopters, so that issues could be discovered and resolved quickly. KDE 4.1 addressed m
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by Pacabel 12y ago
A century is a rather long time. We only have to look at the past century to see how significantly economic conditions can change. Massive social and economic change on a global scale can happen within even just half a century. So I'd
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That has been my experience, as well. It's also important to remember that Java is still in this position even after almost 20 years of development. And this is development undertaken by large companies that were or are quite well fund
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Most of the emails I send contain no formatting whatsoever, except for indentation, paragraphs and other formatting that can be represented just fine using plain text. Why should I wastefully send unneeded markup that inflates the size of m
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That's not what people mean when they say "cross platform". "Cross platform" means supporting all of the widely-used platforms at a given point in time, and supporting them well. Today, that includes at least Window
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That's not very good reasoning. You're basically saying that Fedora and Ubuntu are the same distro, because differences in the default package manager and other core software are irrelevant. Clearly that's not the case. It is
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I think it's fair to consider them as different distros, at least in practice, given how much the choice of a desktop environment can affect the user experience. A lot of the software available by default will differ, obviously. Instru
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by Pacabel 12y ago
That's not a very convincing example. Let's ignore the fact that it's a trivially small example to begin with. I don't think it's very representative of larger apps, especially ones that are far more complex than a
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's not about "hate". There's no emotion involved, in fact. It's about rationally looking at a given tool, considering its capabilities, considering how it can be beneficial and harmful in a given situation, and co
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by Pacabel 12y ago
A lot of the decline was due to people being driven away, directly or indirectly, by tyrannical ops. A given channel, or even entire networks, would often start out pretty free. Dissenting discussion and arguments were allowed, if not encou
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Not everybody here is technical, and not every technical person necessarily has web development experience. I've personally worked with some brilliant embedded software developers and compiler writers who likely wouldn't know what
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's unfortunate that the wording of the email subject (and the current HN submission title) can make it sound like the problem is with PostgreSQL, when it's really a problem with Active Record's adapter for PostgreSQL. Postg
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I doubt that working on small casual programming puzzles is his only use for programming languages. I read his comment as saying that that's merely all he's used Rust for, so far. Short-term and long-term stability are needed for
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Yes, it's a big language, but the complexity is at least justifiable, and generally comprehensible. C++ gives you immense power and a huge range of functionality to choose from, and some of the complexity arises from this. It has a ver
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Where else would be a good place to start? Going to individual academic institutions may be one way, but this would also be quite localized, and hard to scale. It also misses intelligent people who are unable to afford to attend such an ins
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by Pacabel 12y ago
I'll gladly use modern C++ techniques and a bit of care, even if that means only getting say 90% or 95% of the safety that Rust potentially offers offers, if it also means that I can get my code written today, and I can trust that it&#
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Why do you see C++ as "terrifying"? Yes, it is a very powerful language and there can be a lot to it, but it shouldn't "terrify" you. These days, it's generally quite easy to avoid much of its C heritage (inclu
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Reddit and Digg are/were far more general, however. So I don't think it's a very valid or useful comparison to begin with.
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Well, the trend so far has been a serious lack of language and library stability, and there's very little to suggest that the situation will change any time soon. Stability isn't something that happens overnight. It takes a lot of
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by Pacabel 12y ago
No, D's lack of adoption does involve the language itself to some degree. While the core language itself is better than C++ in some ways, these benefits just aren't compelling enough to exceed the downsides of D, nor do they outwe
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Many of the so-called "trolls" at Slashdot are often mislabeled. A lot of the time they're merely the only people who'll ask difficult questions, or who'll point out flaws with arguments and reasoning that are painf
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by Pacabel 12y ago
Well, pretty much any time that Java, C# or Go are being used, C and/or C++ are also being used. We can't forget that their major implementations are built with C and/or C++, along with much of the underlying software they ru
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by Pacabel 12y ago
It's pretty well known that C++ suffers from a variety of problems. Many of them have been known about for some time. Despite this, nobody has been able to produce a truly viable alternative. There have been some encouraging developmen
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by Pacabel 12y ago
This incident should serve as a very good lesson to those in the Firefox community who often claim that memory and performance problems don't exist, even after numerous users report experiencing such problems. Such memory and CPU consu

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