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by dman 7y ago
Worth thinking about the number of companies globally that make a living writing software in the following categories of development tools a. Debuggers b. IDEs c. Querying Tools d. Text editors e. Source control tools f. Build systems The m
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by dman 7y ago
Nothing signals to me that the market for high quality software is utterly and completely broken than this piece of news. Sad to hear this - if the Omni folks are having difficulty what hope do other small shops have. I am always amazed at
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by dman 7y ago
The unix illusion breaks more and more with every release
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by dman 7y ago
You cant statically compile in glibc right?
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by dman 7y ago
I worked on some inhouse tools similar to Excel (rendering highly customizable grids) so efficient 2D rendering is of high interest to me. This is from C++.
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by dman 7y ago
Ah good to know - I was under the incorrect impression that the D2D "GDI" emulation mode was the only codepath remaining. Btw any pointers on how to keep track of the graphics stack in Windows? In the past there used to be a treas
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by dman 7y ago
I thought GDI is now emulated over Direct2D.
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by dman 7y ago
Same here - over time the positive surprises at Airbnb stays are becoming rarer.
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by dman 7y ago
I follow Indian and US news and politics on it - once you follow key journalists, politicians, intellectuals and critics - Twitter does a pretty job of surfacing the day to day concerns that show up in the country.
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by dman 7y ago
Any guesses of who they could pick? fwiw I think of all the networks Twitter seems to be the one that actually delivers tangible social utility.
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by dman 7y ago
One zonal cluster per billing account is free
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by dman 7y ago
Perhaps users should be given a mechanism for configuring the error printing :)
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by dman 7y ago
Would be reckless to still go ahead with it.
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by dman 7y ago
Didnt realize things had become so bad, will keep in mind when I visit.
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by dman 7y ago
Wonder how much of this is startups hiring early engineers who are only too willing to write new things to prove themselves.
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by dman 7y ago
If there is one thing in a computer you should not cheap out on, it is the power supply. Buy from Seasonic and buy more power supply than you currently need.
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by dman 7y ago
And financial companies
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by dman 7y ago
I thought I was the only one pining for that!
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by dman 7y ago
If you are using it in a commercial setting why not just pay for it?
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by dman 7y ago
I would be interested to see what people suggest for this as well
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by dman 7y ago
That was kind of my point - the more starkly minimalist the workflow the easier it is to make it pixel perfect and look exactly as you intended.
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by dman 7y ago
Things like dwm / i3 handle this much better since there isnt any UI to scale. You just set the right font size and you are good to go.
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by dman 7y ago
That is a good reason!
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by dman 7y ago
Could you please tell why tcc works for your usecases? Asking so that I know when to reach for it.
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by dman 7y ago
gcc error messages have improved massively since llvm came out.
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by dman 7y ago
This is an eye opener, I didnt realize it was that bad.
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by dman 7y ago
Linux
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by dman 7y ago
Thats messed up
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by dman 7y ago
Choice as a customer - choice of upgrading the RAM, choice of getting to keep the data in case the motherboard fails, choice of picking a non genius bar repair shop, choice of looking at product schematics, choice of being able to buy legit
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by dman 7y ago
What laptop are you using currently?

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