apotheon

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by apotheon 8y ago
OpenBSD has been the most trouble-free laptop install choice I've ever had the pleasure to enjoy, and the smoothest upgrade experience without reinstalling as well (including upgrades of Windows, MacOS, and DOS).
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by apotheon 8y ago
> However, I've run OpenBSD on very cheap laptops also, with the only thing unsupported usually being the wifi. This is easily solvable by buying a cheap/supported USB dongle for $10 or less. Are you saying that 10 USD is a sho
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by apotheon 8y ago
I will try to avoid rehashing things others already mentioned, but a few off the top of my head (without thinking about it any longer than it takes to type them) include: * continuing to favor user interface philosophies that implicitly rel
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by apotheon 8y ago
That's debatable, but I find Apple iOS, Google Android, and Microsoft Win10 all user-hostile. One of them being "worse" than another, in some person's opinion, in no way excuses anyone from being bad.
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by apotheon 8y ago
For the last half-dozen years (give or take), I've been flabbergasted that MS has taken some of the steps it has toward being a better technology neighbor. Even so, it still engages in some very sketchy (even "evil") behavio
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by apotheon 8y ago
In deprecating functionality necessary for the extensions that made Firefox worthwhile for me, though, the reasons to prefer it over other browsers evaporated.
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by apotheon 8y ago
"a decent competitor" How did it do that? It threw away all the technical and usability benefits it had over Chrome, so I guess it's "a decent competitor" instead of "a clear winner" for some purposes, li
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by apotheon 8y ago
That's not a readme.
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by apotheon 8y ago
No, not really. If you're unwilling to use a Microsoft code hosting platform, and are unwilling to screw around with hosting your own ticket system, wiki, and DVCS all at the same time, but need all three of those things and would be
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by apotheon 8y ago
If you actually read through the discussion on the mailing list, what Zed did (as I recall it from when this was news years ago) was screw up an operation, run into a bug, panic and start hammering on the repo to try to undo the problem tha
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by apotheon 9y ago
> I am still yet to find a single person that gave Nim a proper try only to decide that it is not for them because of style insensitivity. Unfortunately, it's unlikely that you can collect any meaningful data on how many people refu
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by apotheon 9y ago
Significant indentation comes with trade-offs -- real benefits, and real detriments. I agree it's entirely understandable that a language designer would include significant indentation, such as Python's use of the off-side rule (
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by apotheon 9y ago
Python's significant indentation is also off-putting for a lot of people who are no longer newcomers to the language. I think some people are also unhappy with its effects without realizing that the significant indentation is contribu
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by apotheon 9y ago
The "style insensitivity" decision dissuades me much more strongly than some case sensitivity style enforcement in the language would. It seems odd to me that Nim developers chose to go with that "style insensitivity" (w
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by apotheon 10y ago
Why did you move to Linux?
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by apotheon 10y ago
Let's not forget other more recent stuff that still happened before AtomOS, like Redox. I seem to recall seeing a couple others recently as well, but for some reason I'm drawing a blank now. I think the big deal about this is mo
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by apotheon 10y ago
I see it at least has a better license.
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by apotheon 10y ago
This language looks promising as hell, and I've enjoyed playing around with it a bit. The planned language design focus is rather enticing, but (honestly) maybe the biggest reason it attracts to me is simply the way its superficial ap
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by apotheon 10y ago
I think the implicit claim here is that Nim doesn't have any of those problems.
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by apotheon 10y ago
I'd like to highlight the fact that copyleft licensing also creates license incompatibility issues that prevent its use in many open source projects, and the same would apply to open hardware projects in the future. There are those (p
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by apotheon 10y ago
Good. You're doing it right. I'm going to try out Dina in XTerm, by the way.
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by apotheon 10y ago
Can you describe for me how the tooling, framework(s), and libraries are so advanced and excellent? How easy is it to train a programmer to use PHP in a way that results in fairly secure, reliable, bug-free code? (Note my use of the word &
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by apotheon 10y ago
Lesson Learned: If you can't do it yourself, start with PHP (or something else with incredibly cheap devs, I suppose) until you get VC funding, then rewrite it using something other than PHP.
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by apotheon 10y ago
For many use cases, this is not relevant to the end result. For many use cases where it is relevant, static site generators like Jekyll can actually imitate "dynamic content" from the perspective of the people running the site. Th
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by apotheon 10y ago
It's a testament to the poor state of the art in user experience for early social networking sites that Facebook had a (relatively) "good" user experience. It has always been horrible, except relative to most of its competit
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by apotheon 13y ago
I used WindowMaker with some GNUstep stuff years ago, but I ended up moving from there to Sawfish, then to AHWM, and eventually to i3. WindowMaker is nice for what it is; the (other) GNUstep stuff was kind of ho-hum at the time.
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by apotheon 13y ago
I have some workspaces that are tabbed (that's typically the case where I'm using a browser), some that are tiled, and some that use both -- usually involving a tab group in one tile and one or more other tiles on the same workspace. I gues
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by apotheon 13y ago
> I don't use Linux, I use FreeBSD. Ditto. For me, however, the performance benefits of going fairly minimal are kinda secondary to the productivity benefits of choosing tools that stay the hell out of my way. While there's a lot to li
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by apotheon 13y ago
> For those of you that use linux I use FreeBSD. Do I get to participate in this poll?
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by apotheon 13y ago
I wouldn't put it past the copyright cartels in the US to find some way to bend copyright law to go after people bringing copies of books into the US, even just for personal use, that were obtained in a manner that would be considered illeg

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