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by fafner 14y ago
I wonder why libstdc++ development is so slow. Regex support has been missing since TR1.
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by fafner 14y ago
I use both Firefox and Chrome. But I prefer Firefox. Better addons and extensibility were already mentioned. But one thing that seems to be commonly overlooked is the superior typography of Firefox. Firefox even does stuff like ligature
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by fafner 14y ago
Use https://github.com/syohex/emacs-git-gutter-fringe if you want the symbols in the fringe. But sadly the Emacs mode calls git synchronously which can lead to a significant slow down when switching buffers. I hope that gets fixed.
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by fafner 14y ago
> Iran would diversify and overcome the situation. They've been under embargo one way or another for nearly 30 years so they have experience in maintaing the necessary cash flow to pay their citizens and avoid major economic collapse. I
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by fafner 14y ago
GNU Make already is a programming language. It's just not a very good one. Wouldn't Scheme be helpful to your "don't write programs in Make"-attitude? I mean if only few people know scheme they'll be less likely to hack your Makefile.
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by fafner 14y ago
CMake is a great example on problems with DSLs. Simply not everybody is a good language designer. CMake uses a pretty horrible language and comes with its own kinds of strangeness. I have used it quite extensively and it's probably the w
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by fafner 14y ago
Using make gets quickly really ugly. I wrote many Makefiles in my life and if you have to try to stick to GNU Make. At least it provides some basic functionality. But even that gets nasty quite soon when you need a simple thing like cond
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by fafner 14y ago
Ghostery is quite efficient at blocking Disqus, Facebook, G+, and other stuff that people seem to include in their websites nowadays.
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by fafner 14y ago
pdflatex can handle UTF8 as well: \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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by fafner 14y ago
There is already a Chromium plugin for pdf.js available. I hope Google starts using pdf.js so far it's better than the Chrome pdf viewer except for the startup time.
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by fafner 14y ago
If I remember correctly the PDF Spec says the files should be read backwards. The object table is at the end of the file.
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by fafner 14y ago
Chrome's PDF viewer lacks the basic features one expects from a PDF viewer. It doesn't make sense to abandon the concept of pages or not support ToC. Those things are essential in PDFs. pdf.js handles all of those things. And there were
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by fafner 14y ago
The Chrome PDF Viewer is not really useful. There is no table of contents. You can't jump to specific pages. And so on. It is also closed source. I wish Google would rather abandon their current viewer and start contributing/using pdf.j
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by fafner 14y ago
Similar to this SnabbSwitch is a virtual Ethernet switch for Linux written mostly in Lua (using LuaJIT). https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch/wiki
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by fafner 14y ago
Those constants are meant to be used in low level floating point library code. So bit patterns are critical here if you don't want these functions broken in a subtle way. Here is the patch that introduced the bug http://www.sourceware.org/
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Ownership types in Rust, and whether they're worth it(tim.dreamwidth.org)
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Udev fork is a training project say eudev developers(h-online.com)
1 points by fafner 14y ago|0 comments
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by fafner 14y ago
Matlab and PHP are very similar in their history. They weren't invented by programming language designers or compiler writers. The creators saw a problem and came up with a makeshift quick solution. Which sucked but was good enough to solve
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by fafner 14y ago
https://github.com/greboide/emacs-gestures
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by fafner 14y ago
Well Sun did learn from it. They started adopting x86 and Linux initially. But then they realised they'd only make themselves obsolete by this and stopped this. They released OpenSolaris to push Solaris against Linux. SGI had a lot of probl
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by fafner 14y ago
OSX userland is a wild mix of outdated GNU and BSD tools.
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by fafner 14y ago
Yes, exactly. I don't understand the purpose of this. 4chan is trolling nobody. The person of the year award is not meant to mean the most likeable or best person. That's why Hitler, Stalin (twice), Khomeini had the title in the past. Of co
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by fafner 14y ago
The games in HIB5 were better known Bastion, Amnesia, Limbo, Psychonauts, Super Meat Boy , Braid were all popular titles. (* were in previous bundles) The only game I knew from HIB6 was Vessel and that had no complete Linux port (released
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by fafner 14y ago
The bugs in the Linux port let me down. I played quite a bit of Psychonauts and enjoyed it. Certainly some things are annoying (like finding those arrow heads). But the biggest disappointment was that the game was constantly crashing and yo
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by fafner 14y ago
Sorry that was I typo I meant HIB V. Yeah, HIB VI was a disappointment and Vessel was only finally released for Linux two days ago.
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by fafner 14y ago
But HIB VI managed to pull in only $US 2m and HIB V had Psychonauts. So I think this is actually not a win. It clearly shows that big titles draw the money whether they have DRM and Windows-only doesn't even matter. (to add to it: Psycho
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by fafner 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the creators are actually the first ones to "back" the project as well. Potential supporters will certainly feel more comfortable backing a project that already has some pledges.
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by fafner 14y ago
Sorry, I don't remember it. I quickly closed it. No harm was done.
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by fafner 14y ago
Warning: Some GIFs are NSFW! I just hit space to see some penis GIF.
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by fafner 14y ago
Sorry, but how can you not get this? The smallest subset defines what you can use at least in the core. You have to add workarounds to make it work. Which takes up time of developers and increases the code complexity. Every configuration op

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