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by benibela 5y ago
I use XQuery for everything. It has a much better syntax
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by benibela 5y ago
As Delphi programmer, I have so far been avoiding libcurl successfully, and spent years rewriting curl because I need to make HTTP requests At first it was simple. I was making Windows apps and Windows has an API for HTTP requests. Just c
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by benibela 5y ago
And advertising is a big expense (when you cannot post it on HN) Afair I read a post about self-published fantasy authors, and the only author who earned over 100k, also paid like 50k for ads
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by benibela 5y ago
Software is the worst. After 15 years of open source development, I have basically earned nothing
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by benibela 5y ago
Easier to write . than ->
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by benibela 6y ago
>4. I need to have pulse audio volume control window opened all the time, otherwise the laptop loses my external sound card after first call via browser, and I need to turn it off/on. Sounds is really bad To get sound on my headphon
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by benibela 6y ago
It becomes rather chaotic when some people are in the office and some are remote. When everyone is fully remote, you should always reach them quickly by dropping a chat, but when they are offline they tend to be stuck in meetings
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by benibela 6y ago
I also basically never had a lunch with anyone. Only when everyone travels somewhere as a team building event, but then I do not talk during lunch. Not even as kid with my family, I would always read a book during lunch rather than talking
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by benibela 6y ago
>I am pretty convinced that a lot of the tensions in our society are caused by the fact that many of the things we need on a daily basis are produced by corporations where the feedback already is massively diluted by the time it reaches
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by benibela 6y ago
I have my personal library of string functions Recently I rewrote the codepoint reverse function to make it faster. The trick is to not write codepoints, but copy the bytes. One the first attempt I introduced two bugs.
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by benibela 6y ago
No, ntfsfix I do not think linux fsck works on ntfs
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by benibela 6y ago
I have a dual-boot laptop with windows and linux, and use the ntfs partition to share data between them Recently, I extracted a large archive with Linux on the ntfs, and the partition was full Then Windows did not start anymore Linux would
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by benibela 6y ago
The ABCC11 gene. The odorless version is very common in Asia
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by benibela 6y ago
It seems to just return the most popular sites Mostly ignoring what is on the sites
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by benibela 6y ago
I have a few problems. In the default settings other users could not access the X server. I forgot how that is changed. I changed it once and now just copy the config Biggest is getting the sound to work. Pulseaudio in system mode should do
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by benibela 6y ago
Here: https://benibela.de/bin/others/phd-thesis.pdf
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by benibela 6y ago
I have run the browser on a separate user account for years
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by benibela 6y ago
>The paper's called Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature: A Logical Proof and a Narrative.. That reminds me of a more serious approach of that proof. Roger Penrose's books, The Emperor's New Mind and the tw
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by benibela 6y ago
C++: has generics, inheritance, pointers, macros, const, function overloading, and exceptions Sun: C++ is too complicated. We need to simplify it by removing generics, pointers, macros, and const Google: C++ is too complicated. We need to
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by benibela 6y ago
But they fixed the wrong "errors" C++ is actually a good language. But everything that comes from C is bad.
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by benibela 6y ago
Twenty years ago, GUI designers like Visual Basic or Delphi. You drag-and-drop the controls on a form to create a layout, then you compile it instantaneously and had a complete GUI app. Nothing else has come close to that productivity si
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by benibela 6y ago
>4) Selecting the Nvidia graphics disabled on-board audio. I had to either use USB or Bluetooth. I never figured this out despite countless hours of messing around with alsamixer. My best guess is that it was trying to direct everything
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by benibela 6y ago
I do that, because I use a not popular enough programming language.
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by benibela 6y ago
Unfortunately I learned Delphi Afterwards you could not take the other languages seriously Like comparing two strings for equaltiy, strA and strB. In Delphi, you write: strA = strB In Java: strA != null && strA.equals(strB) Delphi j
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by benibela 6y ago
And libgen/scihub for ebooks
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by benibela 6y ago
And it is not open-source Nowadays most people refuse to pay for languages at all, when there are open-source languages.
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by benibela 6y ago
> They say this is the future of making money as an artist -- that the true value of their art is finally being appreciated. Does that also work for physical art? My parents were full-time artists, but did not know how to sell anything,
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by benibela 6y ago
Why can't each array have its own indexing? You could declare the array as array[0..100] of something resp. array[1..100] of something for 0/1 based, and just as well do array[2..100] of something, or array[-1..100] of something,
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by benibela 6y ago
Yes, this is such a silly Git problem In Mercurial it is always "default", and in SVN one used to use "trunk"
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by benibela 6y ago
However, once you have a stable wormhole, you could send one end to the future using time dilation (like in the Xeelee cycle) Then people then can look back to us

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