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by c-smile 7y ago
Am I right that this has nothing with FOSS per se but just about "X is cheaper than Y" kind of reasoning?
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by c-smile 7y ago
Could be, but only if companies that are behind OS products will survive by themselves. We hear crack sounds here and there already. Yet, "the rise of hosted cloud services like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure" is just &quo
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by c-smile 7y ago
> - there were no forced labor neither for miner nor soldiers; Yes, I remember that it was a call for volunteers across institutions and there were surprisingly many of them even among people who knew what exactly this will cost. People
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by c-smile 7y ago
Weinberg's Law: If Builders Built Buildings the Way Programmers Wrote Programs, Then the First Woodpecker That Came Along Would Destroy Civilization.
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by c-smile 7y ago
> I hope your friend realizes that this is clear-cut racial/ethnicity-based discrimination. That is absolutely orthogonal to business requirements to be honest. Especially when you need to establish production of anything as primiti
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by c-smile 7y ago
Ha! With my University diploma I've also got a rank of Lieutenant-reserve of РВСН ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Missile_Forces ) so the procedure is metaphorically close :D
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by c-smile 7y ago
Yes, and actually Soviet/Russian education system has it roots in classic German one where Spießrutenlaufen ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_the_gauntlet ) was a great educational tool (see also: https:&#x2F
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by c-smile 7y ago
First 3 years all students of all Sciences (Math included) and all Engineering specialties were getting the same (mandatory) set of courses. Only rest 2 or 3 years were variable. As of Canadian Universities. UBC in particular. Anecdotical e
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by c-smile 7y ago
> was to make it hard to want to stay in school That is probably not that intentionally. That is just a result of my own observations. As of culture: Canadian mother: John, you are so smart, why you cannot solve this quiz? Russian mother
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by c-smile 7y ago
Yeah, that's what I said, "poorly written" is a criteria that can be applied to belletristic more than to science text books. Russian math books have just few words, formulas are the rest. What can be poorly written there? Ki
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by c-smile 7y ago
I was comparing my math books (from Soviet university, Physics and Applied Math) and my son's from Canadian university (CS). Huge difference to be honest. Canadian ones (same as in US I think) were more like belletristic texts written
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by c-smile 7y ago
What is the point in such functionality exactly in code editor, VSCode or whatever?
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by c-smile 7y ago
Universe was born pregnant with life, (C) mine, circa 2010. I mean that with that huge size and so number of opportunities, "invention" of self-reproducible forms is inevitable. And so we can treat the life as yet another form of
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by c-smile 7y ago
Am I the only one who think that <switch> https://open-ui.org/components/switch is a usability disaster? Distinguishing on/off state only by color is highly non-usable. Neither from a13y perspective nor for
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by c-smile 7y ago
"Hard to be a God" of Strugatsky Brothers. "Monday Begins on Saturday", circa 1965, of the same authors. That is a satiric story full of brilliant humor about programmer (main hero) in Scientific Research Institute of So
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by c-smile 7y ago
TL;DR: Korea, Taiwan, China are fighting COVID effectively avoiding country-locked-at-home mode. Major tool for that is the total control on population, e.g. using smartphones and other technical means. The fact: people and society in gener
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by c-smile 7y ago
Just for the note: Sciter implements what I call "an ultimate data persistence solution" - NoSQL DB integrated right into script VM. You can open storage as: var storage = Storage.open("path/to/data/file.
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by c-smile 7y ago
Far from that. Popular Mechanics is a better match I think (if to add there SF section - 10% of magazine volume usually).
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by c-smile 7y ago
Well, these magazines were issued in enormous circulation numbers. Year 1933, you would keep number of colors in illustrations as less a possible to make them affordable, right? In 1980ies, with more modern polygraphy technology, they used
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by c-smile 7y ago
And the most fascinated fact is that, despite of all these intruders and mutators, living organisms are damn stable and pretty effective devices.
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by c-smile 7y ago
"It opens the potential..." Applications that use Sciter for their UI are native applications. Like Norton AntiVirus for example. Or any other app of these vendors: https://sciter.com/#customers
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by c-smile 7y ago
> You can't write your GUI in those languages. What do you mean by "write GUI"? If to declare DOM structure then HTML is for that. If to initialize DOM structure from code at runtime then this (C++ here): use namespac
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by c-smile 7y ago
You can use Sciter in C++, Rust, Go, Python, Delphi, C# and D projects : https://github.com/sciter-sdk
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by c-smile 7y ago
Sciter's author here. a) Is anyone brave here to finance transition of Sciter to OpenSource? Please contact me if yes. b) Sciter's script is a JavaScript++: It uses JS syntax and runtime like `arr.concat(a,b)`. Grammar and syntax
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by c-smile 7y ago
Thanks, just added the note about the notes into my Sciter Notes :) http://notes.sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/note-note... CTRL+C in browser and CTRL+V in Sciter Notes ( https://notes.
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by c-smile 7y ago
Heh, that's mine and about my Sciter project. Sciter is pretty full implementation of HTML5 and CSS, has scripting engine on board, etc. So, indeed, I am personally competing with teams behind WebKit, Trident, Gecko, V8 (JS Engine), Ch
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by c-smile 7y ago
And check this: https://flightjs.github.io/
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by c-smile 7y ago
Everything that you can do in JavaFX you can do in WWW platform too and with surprisingly small set of features. > every property is observable and bindable in a unified manner Yep, see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-U
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by c-smile 7y ago
"sendEvent: and hitTest: in Cocoa" That is cooperative event propagation. Means it works only when widget cooperates by itself - designed to be embeddable and expandable - so it notifies its container about events inside. Example:
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by c-smile 7y ago
That is more about architecture actually. Ideally Web/UI component has two sets of styles: So called "primordial" or "base" - the one that defines layout of sub-components and parts and that is essential for compon

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