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by Torwald 5y ago
Depends who do you want to serve. Here is an historic example: the GIMP. AFAIK the original purpose the software was intended to serve was to create merchandise, I think post cards, from fotos to sell at a stand. Compare that to Photoshop w
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The Succotash Quandary(boswell.copernican-tech.com)
12 points by Torwald 5y ago|1 comments
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by Torwald 5y ago
Over time people notice how you tend to comment your code (and do other documentation tasks.) They may not talk to you directly about it, necessarily, in the heat of the battle. But they notice and I've seen this making the difference
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Convert tabular data into relationship diagrams(sourceforge.net)
3 points by Torwald 5y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 5y ago
GA?
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by Torwald 5y ago
> It's always hard to find implementations of Oberon, so thanks for sharing! You could make the wish to run an Oberon the perfect excuse to go into retro-computing: https://archive.org/details/amiga-oberon/
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by Torwald 5y ago
Anybody remember these? https://www.ebay.com/itm/174146521380?_trkparms=aid%3D111000...
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When to Use the Ellipsis(vappingo.com)
1 points by Torwald 5y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 5y ago
We don't have to check news everyday, but on that day when the BIG news hit, you want to be there and soon enough.
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Francisco Goya: 2 Royal cartoons(eclecticlight.co)
1 points by Torwald 5y ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 5y ago
> Most politicians, even in 3rd world countries like mine, have at least one degree. Much better than in my country, Germany, where we get regularly news of diploma forgery from top politicians. (eg. Baerbock, von Guttenberg)
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by Torwald 5y ago
Broad in this context means that the coalition is build together out of many parties along a broad spectrum, as opposed to, say, two very conservative parties or so.
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by Torwald 5y ago
The major religions and also secular ideologies each have their strengths, otherwise they wouldn't have millions of followers.
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by Torwald 5y ago
How does society help parents of 18 year olds with that tasks? I see expensive college and unlike it used to be it is nowadays an open question wether you will recoup the cost. Military recruiters trying to "get" your kids. In som
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by Torwald 5y ago
Are you talking about Lisa?
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by Torwald 5y ago
Ask Tog https://www.asktog.com
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by Torwald 5y ago
"Opinionated software" is a established term, hence the use I guess.
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by Torwald 5y ago
What grates me with these situations is that they have my data, which is one thing, but I don't have access to that data!
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by Torwald 5y ago
22 months
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by Torwald 5y ago
I have a wheel there, it's awkward to "click" on that thing. But thanks for the tip anyway!
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by Torwald 5y ago
I am not sure what you are trying to say here. For me as a die-hard, old-school Macintosh user the irritation is just too much. This wasn't a problem when you could just hide the tab bar and use windows instead. But having loads of win
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by Torwald 5y ago
Windows, the OS, introduced closing on the left. (Supposedly to evade lawsuit from Apple.) Closing on the right is the traditional way, from PARC onwards. On a Mac windows and everything else (eg Mac OS 9 palettes) has the close button on t
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by Torwald 5y ago
Still can't use it. The tabs have the close button on the wrong side, for me as a Mac user. And yes, this is a serious issue. So far Opera and Vivaldi got it right. Brave and Firefox lack behind here.
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by Torwald 5y ago
Why is that funny? Our own (German) culture is full of usage of english words. Wouldn't it be natural to assume that other people would likewise adopt foreign words?
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by Torwald 5y ago
> The total energy usage shouldn't be much of an issue as we'll move electricity use from refineries to charging batteries – I believe these are at least in the same ballpark. That would interesting to figure out. How can we do
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by Torwald 5y ago
To save loading/startup time. Also has to do with oldschool Macintosh usability, which is a important feature that veteran Mac users want to have.
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by Torwald 5y ago
Allen Carr's Easy way out. It's a book. He explains the mind hack that smoking is. Once you grok that, quitting is easy.
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by Torwald 5y ago
> When I close all the windows of an app why on earth does the app stay open? Because you said so in System Preferences.
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by Torwald 5y ago
In the beginning years of the web, a lot of energy was wasted by a substantial amount of the best and brightest: They argued against any commercialisation of the web at all, fighting a battle that could not have been won. Instead these peop
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by Torwald 5y ago
Ah, cool! Thanks. Come to think of it, I also like the green as the second highlight color. It's just a slight derivation from the default orange but very tastefully done.

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