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by Teckla 16y ago
> Does anyone still use "mc" ? Midnight Commander is great! I use it for file management on my wife's iMac (I'm usually ssh'd in, while she uses the console). I also use it to keep her small business web site updated (it supports ftp, w
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by Teckla 16y ago
Finch is actually pretty easy to use once you memorize the keyboard shortcuts. On a related note, I recently switched from Pidgin to Finch, and it boosted my productivity at work. I'm a bit OCD, and every time my Pidgin window would blink,
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by Teckla 16y ago
As it turns out, the Microsoft Office example is not a good one. Microsoft Office was written in C, and only relatively recently ported to C++. Please note that I didn't say it was rewritten in C++. It was ported to C++. That is, the minimu
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by Teckla 16y ago
"Mostly compatible" (at the source code level) would be good enough for quite a few applications. For example, take a look at a lot of the C and C++ applications out there, which use OS APIs that often vary widely. Despite that, C and C++ a
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by Teckla 16y ago
Good catch. On their web page, text zoom in Firefox works, but text zoom in Chrome doesn't. Chrome bug?
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by Teckla 16y ago
I'm glad someone pointed this out. The inability to zoom the text sure makes that web page unfriendly to those of us that have trouble reading the little tiny microscopic fonts that are so popular on web pages these days.
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by Teckla 16y ago
One important thing I would like to see in such a book is one or more chapters devoted to memory management best practices.
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by Teckla 16y ago
I think it's a terrible idea to adopt more arcane glyphs merely to keep code more terse. Just because code is short doesn't mean it's readable. If anything, I think programming languages should use less arcane glyphs. Not to mention it woul
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by Teckla 16y ago
From the article: "But that final 1% of journeys presumably includes the summer holiday when people pile into the car and head off for the coast. Hopping on the train laden with suitcases and children may not be an attractive alternative."
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by Teckla 16y ago
If the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy are extended, it means the U.S. must continue to borrow greater sums of money than it otherwise would have to, in order to pay for those extended tax cuts. This is one area where Democrats and Republican
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by Teckla 16y ago
Congratulations on knocking down that straw man. ajg1977 didn't say the economy would have been worse without the stimulus. He said that what you presented as evidence was not, in fact, evidence, because it could be interpreted a different
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by Teckla 16y ago
> There is really no profit motive to killing the OpenJDK. They could change the licensing on future versions of OpenJDK. Perhaps free for academic and non-commercial use only. And then attempt to monetize the JDK for commercial develop
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by Teckla 16y ago
Very nicely done. I played to the end, which is a big compliment coming from me, as I don't usually play JavaScript or Flash games more than a few minutes. It gave me a pleasant nostalgic feeling, reminding me of the Commodore 64 games I us
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What I Believe (about Markets and Morals): A Reply to Jerry Coyne & My Critics(huffingtonpost.com)
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