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by Torwald 7y ago
KDE is certainly a step up from Windows, but it is not where the Mac is. This is a fact. It takes more than a HN comment to explain that fact. If you can't discern that yet, lurk more in the Mac-based scene. Besides, I didn't call
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by Torwald 7y ago
My comment was supposed to be a joke about the vernacular in which OO tends to get presented.
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by Torwald 7y ago
I am not so sure anymore where I read it. This is interesting: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/03... It refers to this, I guess. http://www.paulgraham.com/lispfaq1.ht
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by Torwald 7y ago
So much then for basic Math problem solving.
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I Hate Advocacy (2000)(perl.com)
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by Torwald 7y ago
> the humor is repetitious and hard to embrace the world's oldest joke - a Sumerian rib-tickler dating back to 1,900 BC which goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her hu
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by Torwald 7y ago
> If twitter wanted heads of state off their platform, they would have asked them long ago. They put up with everything because like me and the rest of the internet they’re celebrity vampires. Maybe they don't put up with anything.
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by Torwald 7y ago
If you like doing your own adventure game, this may be interesting: http://www.skotos.net
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by Torwald 7y ago
Ok, understood. There is a diminishing return with every additional feature. I have to have a use case for every feature, otherwise it is useless and only takes up resources. My maximum number of use cases is finite.
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by Torwald 7y ago
"Eye-candy" can be supportive of said malleability. Inferring form what you wrote, I think your working definition of marketing is wrong. Maybe you can clarify what you mean by "marketing"? I am also unsure what you mean
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by Torwald 7y ago
> instead of the tech behind them being used for mostly eye candy. Why "instead"? Best would be to have both. Eye candy is an important feature. No need to sacrifice one to get the other.
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by Torwald 7y ago
The difference is, I don't need the confidence of the market in order to start working on the project. Sure, I need it to sell, but that's a different part of the job or a later stage if you will.
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by Torwald 7y ago
Number 4 is one of the main reasons I went the self-employment route and will never ever again apply for a real job. My confidence is what counts for me. Why do you think that your confidence in me counts? I am not going to make myself
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by Torwald 7y ago
Like ESR said: "these languages [perl, python, ruby] subsequently become more like lisp" (paraphrasing)
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by Torwald 7y ago
I'd rather have a baking class that takes an argument for what I want to bake, either bread or cake, and spares me the details of how baking is done. I don't have to know that a preheated oven is one that is at 175 grades etc
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by Torwald 7y ago
The problem with a Linux laptop is that you are then bound to shitty UI. A problem which already begins, if you merely switch browsers. For instance the only browser other than Safari, who has the close buttons on a tab right is Opera. I th
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by Torwald 7y ago
What is wrong with using a lot of disk? If apps start faster, run faster, then using more disk is a good trade-off.
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by Torwald 7y ago
> UX isn’t valued Good UX drives costs down for training and draining of human capital. That should be the pitch. Next question, who in the fortune 100 should hear that pitch?
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by Torwald 7y ago
The Pile of Index Cards (PoIC) system is another take on this https://unclutterer.com/2014/06/17/the-pile-of-index-cards-p...
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by Torwald 7y ago
> Can I just say how happy I am with Xfce. Yes. > There are no unnecessary frills. My macOs machine doesn't have them either. > It just gets the job done. Mine does as well. Do you want to talk about frills?
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Transistor invention documentary (video|1999)(youtube.com)
1 points by Torwald 7y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 7y ago
But didn't zsh development get stalled?
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by Torwald 7y ago
> By porting Unix to the PDP-11 in 1970, the group ensured Unix would live on into the future. I have a question about that. Why would they do this? What was so valuable in these few lines of (mostly proprietary) code, that you would mak
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Agile, design: avoid frankensteining your product(jonaizlewood.com)
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The Lo-Fi Manifesto (2015)(kairos.technorhetoric.net)
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by Torwald 7y ago
> * People sharing their opinion (frustration) about blocking issues IMHO that would be okay, if not beneficial. >and that developing into a discussion. That not so much.
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by Torwald 7y ago
I thought everybody knew that the book the movie was based on was based on the story in the OP. We had to read the book in school (in Europe). I feel old now.
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by Torwald 7y ago
Just wanted to add this to your list of long-term projects… http://longnow.org
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by Torwald 7y ago
I haven't seen the government stopping any of those, at least not consequentially. Let's take a look at this one: > Dump trash or chemicals wherever it's most convenient To make these stop, government didn't show itse
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by Torwald 7y ago
> My european take on this: governments are the only entities that can keep companies in check. What do you mean by "keeping in check?" What evil would companies do otherwise?

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