demetrius

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by demetrius 14y ago
Well, if I'm not mistaken, Windows linking usually involves re-calculating offsets in the library code, so several versions of libraries are kept in Windows too. The only thing that is theoretically saved is disk space.
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by demetrius 14y ago
Currently Canonical encourages using QML for writing apps that will be mobile-friendly: http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/ Maybe this is going to be the mobile toolkit you’re talking about?..
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by demetrius 14y ago
All the above; but they are closely related. If the program has too many lines of code, it tends to be not too well organised (because it usually means it does too much) and it usually means it has too much features (thay could be easily mo
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by demetrius 14y ago
vim comes with a built-in program language vimscript and its very own spellchecker. If vim is not complex, than what is? I could argue that nvi may be not too complex, but vim is certainly too complex. (An good example of an editor that is
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by demetrius 14y ago
>> Someone actually thinks the typical pirate >> would give up movies completely if he could >> not pirate them? Why not? If people couldn’t watch movies, they would just read books. Lots of these in p
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by demetrius 14y ago
The budget is so big exactly because of copyright. If there were no copyright, people could re-use the best of the previous work — so creating works will be cheaper.
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by demetrius 14y ago
Because vi and emacs are just too complex and do things that should be done by separate programs, like formatting?
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by demetrius 14y ago
It seems the font size depends on the window width.
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by demetrius 14y ago
This site doesn’t tell its encoding (neither via HTTP nor via meta tags), so my Firefox displayed the first sentence as “There are lots of ГЎ la carte software...”. Also, I don’t understand why the article was written, every software develo
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by demetrius 14y ago
Your article constains no assert statement, therefore, according to itself, it is false.
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by demetrius 14y ago
I’ve tried to adapt your code snippet into an UserScript: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/154080 It works OK, but I’ve run into a problem with textareas: if a textarea contains the name of the Great Leader, after script executes, the
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by demetrius 14y ago
One could make an user JavaScript out of this (I guess replacing «span.className= 'kju';» with «span.style.fontSize = '150%';» should be enough) and enjoy the correct typesetting all over the Internet!
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by demetrius 14y ago
Don't forget about the dangers of being eaten by bears who walk on the streets...
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by demetrius 14y ago
Sorry, I was mistaken. -_-"
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by demetrius 14y ago
As for me, I’ve became wary of Ubuntu since it started shipping Ubuntu One pre-installed. It was clear back then that personal liberties are not that important for Canonical.
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by demetrius 14y ago
What an excellent idea! If I didn’t use CapsLock for choosing keyboard layout, I would have done this...
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by demetrius 14y ago
Laws are not set in stone (and when they were, in Hammurapi’s time, it didn’t help much), and some laws are clearly stupid and vicious. For example, in imperial China, it was once illegal for an ordinary person to keep astronomical tools at
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by demetrius 14y ago
Crime is something defined by law. Law can get wrong, and very often does. I live in a country where it’s forbidden to organise people to jog in the park together via social network (unless you get appropriate permission, lol). Is such a 'c
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by demetrius 14y ago
I believe they should’t really be compensated, because the demand for new games, films and books is created arificially, through advertisement. In fact, the older games are not less fun to play, they’re just not fashionable anymore; old f
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by demetrius 14y ago
>> What is wrong with accepting that >> you are doing something wrong and... >> keep doing it if you wish? Because we believe there’s honestly nothing wrong with it. Paraphrasing you: I don’t understand what is wrong
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by demetrius 14y ago
The article gives a one-sided. For example, while enumerating the similarities between the Scandinavian languages and English, it fails to enumerate differences (e.g. Scandinavian languages have suffixed articles while English, Old English
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by demetrius 14y ago
I would hate it if browsers started getting in the way with my text selection. The best thing about it is that it works almost everywhere. I don't select text when I read something in the terminal, though, only in GUI applications. I guess
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by demetrius 14y ago
Speaking of English. It has been noted that VirtualBox icon for «Clone» is a sheep. Russian translation that uses «Копировать»/«Copy» instead of «Clone», making the sheep icon absolutely idiotic (the translators resorted to «Copy» because m
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by demetrius 14y ago
Probably, but it itself is blocked when something important occurs, e.g. it was blocked (as well as Opera Mini servers) during the unrest after the elections.
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by demetrius 14y ago
Well, I seriously doubt anyone really bothered about these ads in Belarus. Most people back then bought software collections on pirate CDs that already included a keygen or a serial number. (In fact, some people still use these, but now it’