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by fafner 13y ago
The link is to the original. The scribd link is to the side and is automatically added by HN. (I never really liked scribd and with pdf.js it's clearly obsolete)
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by fafner 13y ago
> If you "diversify" now, though, you miss out on cool Chrome features, or you spend your weekend maintaining a web browser fork when you could be at the beach. Sorry but what you are saying doesn't make sense. It is your proposal (for
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by fafner 13y ago
Excel is part of the cause. It simply mangles and hides programming. So it creates just the atmosphere were people think they can "avoid" programming and use Excel. Not realising that they are programming but in a very bad way. So don't
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by fafner 13y ago
Exactly! GPL levelled the field. BSD has been around for much longer than Linux and is very widely used. All commercial Unices and even Windows contain code from BSD but the *BSDs are still lacking contributions and funding. People alwa
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by fafner 13y ago
The huge success of GPL software proofs you quite wrong.
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So anything but giving things away for totally free is selfish? E.g., the person selling you bread is selfish?
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by fafner 13y ago
Why do you think it's selfish? Is somebody who sells software selfish? I'd rather say taking somebodies code and not contributing back is selfish...
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FreeBSD has to beg for funding http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/12/12/09/1726222/freebsd-proje... I think the BSD's are not a good example here in general. Most commercial Unices use bits and pieces from BSD without contributing much back.
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by fafner 13y ago
So far they only implemented "binary literals" which is based on a GCC extension that they were supporting already. But good to see that the compiler vendors are going forward. GCC already supports "Return type deduction for normal functi
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by fafner 13y ago
The US DoD is still paying for maintenance of a Symbolics Lisp Machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics#Endgame
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by fafner 14y ago
Somebody is currently implementing something similar in Emacs for Emacs Lisp: https://github.com/Fuco1/litable
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by fafner 14y ago
Droid Sans Mono's 0 and O look too similar. Which makes it useless as a programming font.
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by fafner 14y ago
I wish there were a great monospace font with extensive Unicode symbol support. DejaVu seems to support a lot of math symbols. But it's far from being perfect. My favourite fonts Inconsolata and Adobe Source Proc support barely anything b
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by fafner 14y ago
This shit again? And this time with such a bullshit title... GNU echo simply does a lot more than the other echo implementations. And believe me it's much more useful in daily usage. That's why the GNU tools are so successful. All the mi
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by fafner 14y ago
Is the blog post broken for anybody else using Firefox? The font is completely messed up for me. Both in Nightly and 20.0.
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by fafner 14y ago
I don't think there is a reason. GUD is very powerful and integrates well within Emacs. cgdb rather seems to be designed for vi users who don't want a debug interface in their editor.
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Valve's GDC Talk: Porting Source to Linux [pdf](developer.nvidia.com)
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by fafner 14y ago
Not only Rasterman. They seem to have hired a lot of Enlightenment developers.
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The Mozilla/Rust/Servo developers talked about why they continue developing Rust and not considering Go for the job. It has absolutely nothing to do with a turf war because Mozilla is actually using Go for some server side things. But one
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by fafner 14y ago
In what way is their version number scheme meaningful? They broke abi compatibility in the past without changing major version numbers and now they say they won't break the abi and compatibility and that's why they aren't changing major ver
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by fafner 14y ago
There are many EU countries there as well and the EU allows no software patents either. However there are many loopholes in the system which can still lead to patents being granted if the patent is formulated differently. That's why intern
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by fafner 14y ago
> Unwilling to Commit to the Provisions of a), b), or c) Above. That's the evil part. It means they are unwilling to license those patents. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipr-template-09
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There is really nothing to be gained in those "rage fests". And this whole incident clearly shows that. One bad decision after another escalating the situation. When it's over there won't be anything gained but only destroyed. So far we
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> Slow down, everyone. Injustice will still be there for you after your blood pressure goes down. That's why you should follow Prussian military complaint rules. The Prussian military allowed all soldiers to file complaints, even again
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by fafner 14y ago
You'll love this https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-b...
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No, they use real C++ features. I noticed it when trying to compile a plugin and it suddenly failed to build.
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There were patches for older kernels: http://www.linuxdna.com/ But I doubt that it's really worth it. As I said the real advantage was numeric stuff. I doubt that the Kernel will show any real improvement.
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Probably criminals trying to extort money from GitHub ("Cyberextortion") or testing their bot net. That's why it's so important that every time we visit a computer-illiterate relative that we update their browser and operating system. Only
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by fafner 14y ago
It's been ages since I used icc. But last time I used it, it could really do magic when it came to vectorisation and SSE support. So if you have heavy numeric code then it might be worth it. For Linux you can get a free (as in beer) edit
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I wonder why there is no c11status page for GCC. They already added support for many things to GCC 4.6/4.7. http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html > There is support for some more features from the C11 revision of the ISO C standard.

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