dualogy

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by dualogy 10y ago
Until you install Word, apparently ;)
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by dualogy 10y ago
> The UI remains a convoluted Escher'esque nightmare. Totally disagree. I hopped from OS to OS for over a decade every other year or 3 (Win, OSX, Linuxes with various DMs/WMs) and it's always, always an adjustment period
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I wont buy a laptop without a magsafe or similar connection Not a big deal nowadays, my mid-2014 Thinkpad has a similar connection (it won't ever drag the laptop when pulled), I'd think most laptops should have such connect
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by dualogy 10y ago
Crikey, seems like my off-the-top-of-my-head memory did fail me here!
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by dualogy 10y ago
Sure, though consider VB apps weren't that sleek considering that typical RAM in the late 90s ranged from 32-128 MB commonly: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/266641-28-average-1998-c... And of course in the
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by dualogy 10y ago
WebAssembly in browsers hasn't progressed all that much over the last 5-6 years (~2011 was The Big HTML5 Hype Year =) .. if it's out of preview in another 10 that'll be plenty! Current spec is extremely limited in capabilit
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by dualogy 10y ago
> I've been trying for the last 3 days to wrap my work style around cabal/stack... You have me puzzled! You can totally ignore/skip cabal and just use - to create project dir with stack.yaml stack new myproject sim
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by dualogy 10y ago
> That said: I think we should. Electron is problematic and you can always tell an Electron app when you see it because the performance is so terrible. Is this intrinsic to Electron architecture --- or just the current realities of the s
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by dualogy 10y ago
True enough, if there's budget/schedule scope for crafting, we certainly should. In the short-medium term Electron apps will probably hit that ole VisualBasic sort of sweet spot: for learners to write xcopy-distributable (I'd
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by dualogy 10y ago
> This just rekindled my dying spirit of hacking. I've observed over the years it's pretty weird the sorts of things that can effect such "rekindling"! We should collect them all in a thread. For me, at various poin
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by dualogy 10y ago
> No more grep, no more piping, no more SED scripts Fedora/Gnome here. I never use this sort of stuff, and modern power users really don't have to . That's why I categorically state that practically no-one in the real wor
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by dualogy 10y ago
Shouldn't be hard.. Haskell to me so far feels like an ecosystem with way fewer jobs / freelance gigs than there are eager-to-go-commercial enthusiasts hacking away in their spare time..
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by dualogy 10y ago
Well it does the job already , working just fine for the 31-years-old IMAP protocol, the 33-years-old POP protocol, the 18-years-old RSS protocol, etc.. I might like an "incredible" email app but all I really need is a "su
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by dualogy 10y ago
Someone managed to hang your backend ghci or some such it seems.. simple enquiries such as `:t reverse` or `:i Maybe` bring no response in over a minute. Could be a client-side issue too (FF 51.0.1 in 64bit Win 8.1) but nothing shown in the
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by dualogy 10y ago
> they were talented experienced and motivated Agreed and that's the whole secret sauce right there, combined with: no distractions (social media or indeed even "coding forums" with constant flame-wars on this and that lan
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by dualogy 10y ago
Yeah but not having a bite for a few days or even a week just simply won't be the cause
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by dualogy 10y ago
Just for you, not as a job. One cow lasts a man a year if he eats nothing else and isn't picky with the cuts. That's ignoring cow reproduction though ;)
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by dualogy 10y ago
Who's writing the unit tests, the same bot as writes the code? The customer?
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by dualogy 10y ago
Well guys it's over. Buy a cow and find yourself a meadow :D Next up, this is gonna turn the Node.js script kiddies that copy-and-paste together modern society's infrastructure from Stack Overflow into copier-pasters of "Dee
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by dualogy 10y ago
Interesting indeed! In the west maths is widely not taught/practiced in such "fun" ways sadly, and by and large mostly formulaically and by rote. Unsurprisingly, it instils mostly a yawn reflex in a majority of people for the
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by dualogy 10y ago
> or filesystem maybe For text files ?! Get outta town ;)
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by dualogy 10y ago
You mean "the day WebAssembly gets out of preview/alpha/worse status in all major browsers".. yeah, don't we all --- wouldn't hold my breath. Once there, give it another 2 years to actually mature in the wild
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by dualogy 10y ago
> Programs that were a bit glitchy under xmonad had no such glitches under awesome What sorts of programs, what kinds of glitches?
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by dualogy 10y ago
> JQuery wasn't around until 1996 In fact it wasn't around until 2006!
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by dualogy 10y ago
I see, thanks, this curiously "mildy" (or perhaps, increasingly/incrementally) incentivizes most of these linux/posix/unix-"native" FOSS projects to no longer provide separate "Windows builds": s
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by dualogy 10y ago
Newb question, does this "Winbash" run Linux/posix/unixy binaries that wouldn't otherwise run or does it assume the actual Windows dists/builds for (Elixir / Go / PostgreSQL / MySQL / GHC
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by dualogy 10y ago
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein
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by dualogy 10y ago
Certainly is "possible" (and if you search you'll likely find some "3D renderers" for 2d canvas) but that'd need a rasterizer implemented in JavaScript and if you want anything more than 1-colored triangles, s
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by dualogy 10y ago
> My theory is that all software eventually becomes difficult to maintain and full of warts, regardless of smartness, regardless of conditions. I've come to a similar (intermediate) conclusion for now. Would certainly fit the genera
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by dualogy 10y ago
Well that's an entirely different problem to attack. Exercise: I used to do all kinds of programs incl "45 mins a day, 6 days a week" but found "sufficiently enjoyable results" while keeping the process enjoyable

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