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by beojan 9y ago
HTML5 is easier if you already know HTML / CSS / JS. Qt Quick is easier otherwise. If you're developing for the desktop, Qt Widgets is definitely the way to go. No, you can't (easily) style it in your own weird, custom,
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by beojan 9y ago
That has more to do with those secretaries being replaced by computers than anything else. When everyone can type, and mistakes are easily corrected, you don't need people whose only job is to type anymore.
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by beojan 9y ago
So it's really no better than C++, where containers have a `.at` function that does bounds-checking and throws an exception if out of bounds.
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by beojan 9y ago
Until someone uses it to keep the plaintext files with their passwords in it open.
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by beojan 9y ago
You're working on a GTK client for Postgres. Let's not forget that KDE exists, nor that you can use GTK on non-Linux platforms (I'm thinking of the BSDs here).
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by beojan 9y ago
> I believe both Uber and Lyft avoid revealing the destination until a ride is accepted How can they possibly claim to be ride-sharing services if the driver doesn't know where they'll be going until they've accepted the
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by beojan 9y ago
In practice, I just think of it as two base units: grams for small masses (i.e. prefixes smaller than 1 aren't used with tonnes), and tonnes for large ones. (Though terms like kiloton and megaton may well be referring to the US ton (2
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by beojan 9y ago
It's all a bit of a mess because the SI base unit is the kilogram, not the gram.
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by beojan 9y ago
This more or less is how things work in the UK, where I am. Nevertheless, whether you're paid by the university or by a Research Council, you're still being paid.
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by beojan 9y ago
> The EU is powerful, sure, but if I was China I might just tell them to piss off when they come knocking. It's not really Chinese companies doing the tracking, it's American ones. The EU is simply too big a market for them to
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by beojan 9y ago
People doing PhDs generally don't pay the university, they get paid. Perhaps this needs to be more widely known so more people will do a PhD (society could certainly do with more people understanding how academic research is done, ev
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by beojan 9y ago
That's the point. People will click on clickbait but very few will pay for it. Without the tracking, you also lose the filter bubbles that only show you opinions you agree with.
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by beojan 9y ago
The EU tried the soft touch approach and we just got generic cookie warnings on everything, so now we have the stricter regulation. The ultimate purpose is to put a stop to pervasive tracking and user-targeted advertising. Advertisers will
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by beojan 9y ago
They haven't moved away from major version numbers, "Windows 10" is just the product name now (like Mac OS X used to be). The major version is "Fall Creators Update" etc (monthly updates provide the equivalent of mi
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by beojan 9y ago
Saudi Aramco is worth 1 to 5 times Saudi Arabia's GDP.
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by beojan 9y ago
> Camtasia is much more than a screen recorder. Sure, but fundamentally, Camtasia is a screen recorder. It's purpose is to make screencasts. If you were editing video filmed with a camera, you would find Kdenlive, Premiere etc. more
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by beojan 9y ago
Where would you rate Movie Maker, and where would you rate Premiere Pro? Shotcut and Kdenlive are fundamentally video editors, which happen to be able to do screen recording. Camtasia is specifically a screen recorder.
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by beojan 9y ago
> relying on raw string concatenation > it's not so bad You can always use the C preprocessor in C++ if raw string manipulation is enough. Seriously, though, constexpr means C++ also has static if, compile time loops, function ev
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by beojan 9y ago
> become England's largest company, worth more than their GDP: In case people don't realize, GDP is the total amount a country produces per year , not the total value of the country. There's nothing impossible about a cou
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by beojan 9y ago
In England, very few police officers carry guns.
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by beojan 9y ago
ARM has lots of manufacturers licensing the basic design.
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by beojan 9y ago
It happens with Windows . It has nothing to do with openness, it happens with all OEMs.
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by beojan 9y ago
1. Good point, that's what happens when Ubuntu decides to reinvent everything (upstart, Mir, Unity, ...) instead of using an existing solution. 2. What is your software? I'm not surprised about the RPM distros, which have always s
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by beojan 9y ago
> let the user figure out how to support the three different init systems that can each be configured in seven different ways There's really only one init system you should care about anymore, and that's systemd. If you really
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by beojan 9y ago
With many of their services (Search in particular), the data is precisely what makes the service so good.
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by beojan 9y ago
What's the application? You can tell Wine to claim it's Windows 7, but that doesn't necessarily mean the application will work.
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by beojan 9y ago
> Converting the legacy code base (490,000 lines of code) to C++ was a straightforward, mechanical task that took only a couple of hours That sounds like they haven't actually converted it to C++ so much as compiled it as C++. T
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by beojan 9y ago
> I think that is the model that the UK (my country) should have followed. I agree, but we do have to remember that Norway had roughly the same amount of oil as us, but a tenth of the population.
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by beojan 9y ago
> no "gatekeeper" telling you who or what you can spend your money with or on That only means you'll use option B for the purchases where option A isn't available, not all purchases. > no ability to "charge ba
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by beojan 9y ago
I'd say more. The limit can be lowered or the rules changed, while treasuries are constitutionally protected.

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