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by fafner 14y ago
If you use TreeStyleTab (or Tab Groups) then the hierarchy is a major context as well. Not to mention that creating a bookmark feels like a big decision. Something you want to keep for ages. While a Tab might be simply some a page in a refe
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> but you seriously need $10,000 ? That's not a lot of money. He says it will only get him 1-2 month of development time. Depending on where you are it might get you a few more month but achieving what he wants to achieve would take sev
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The problem is attracting a large enough group of users and contributors. If you have only a handful people working on it then it will quickly fade away. I've seen this with several open source projects. One maintainer finishes college, the
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by fafner 14y ago
Did the Canonical guys really criticise Lennart? That wouldn't be very nice of them.
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by fafner 14y ago
The only problem with PA I have are issues with the alsa-emulation layer. Except for that I seem to be lucky or issues were overstated (silent majority?). I remember that there was some criticism by Lennart Poettering that in some release C
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by fafner 14y ago
I agree that they should provide optionally new versions of LibreOffice, Gimp, and similar software for LTS releases. But I think it's highly unrealistic that this will include more than a few selected software packages. It takes probably q
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by fafner 14y ago
> Day-to-day users don't want to be beta testers, they want a stable (i.e. bug-free and polished) experience, and Ubuntu doesn't deliver that. Use LTS if you want that. I don't think Pulseaudio or Unity is comparable to the Amazon-Lense
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by fafner 14y ago
HP, IBM, and Oracle? btw. the IBM XL C++'s support for C++11 seems to be as good as the one in VC++ 2012. They don't have lambdas but variadic templates instead.
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by fafner 14y ago
But that world is too small and conservative in regard of language adoption.
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It's well supported in GCC and Clang. But the Visual C++ support drastically lacks behind. https://wiki.apache.org/stdcxx/C%2B%2B0xCompilerSupport
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And that's what I expected to be in the interview. Too bad he drifted off to quickly into his plan9/cloud rant. Thanks for your reply.
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Well Python2 vs Python3 is a story of its own.
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> It will also fail to compile with the latest C++ compilers from IBM, HP and Oracle. I don't see anyone complaining about them. Because GCC is easily available on those systems. Well and the fact that those systems are far from being m
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by fafner 14y ago
I guess the difference between mostly for Clang and GCC and full for Sun Studio and IBM is the difference between having a PR department and being an open source project. The important features are available http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.ht
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by fafner 14y ago
Yes it is necessary. Microsoft has people like Herb Sutter talking about how awesome C++11 is and that Microsoft is totally committed to it. But then they support barely anything of C++11. They are the once holding back the adoption. GCC an
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by fafner 14y ago
I'm a bit surprised that he is happy with a Mac Book. His editor acme requires three mouse buttons and Apple is designed for one mouse button use. Does he use an external mouse all the time? And I'm a bit disappointed that he's not using Pl
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by fafner 14y ago
Apple really follows the tradition of commercial UNIX: An ugly thrown together pile of shit as userland and third party libraries. It's worse now with their fear of GPLv3. But even before GPLv3 there were issues. Sometimes you had to wonder
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R at 12,000 Cores: Programming with Big Data in R Project(r-bloggers.com)
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by fafner 14y ago
They actually try to hide the usage of Tor as much as possible. There was a lengthy talk at 28C3 about it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMr8Xl7JMQ
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by fafner 14y ago
I guess the biggest problem is that Facebook is now the place where everything comes together. You suddenly end up having your boss, parents, coworkers as friend along with the guy you used to do drugs with during your teen years and that t
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by fafner 14y ago
Why not alias ls="ls --block-size=\'1 --color=auto"
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Open Hotel Rooms with a "Pen".(blog.spiderlabs.com)
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by fafner 14y ago
I recommend mu ( http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/ ) to search emails. It can be integrated with mutt. But if you are an Emacs user then it even provides a mail client (mu4e). And you can write scripts for it in Guile.
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by fafner 14y ago
We currently have a lot of technology to spot objects in space. As cli already pointed out there is the heat signature of any ship. Combined with radar it should be easy to detect ships from far away. In open space there is (probably) also
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by fafner 14y ago
Submarines are a good point. But with submarines you have the whole hide&seek thing going. That's a lot of suspense right there. However in space there is no hide&seek. The problem is that space is so huge that unless you assume rea
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by fafner 14y ago
The Apple Map street data is based on OSM. I haven't used Apple Maps so far. But is Apple using an old dataset or is OSM simply bad in some regions? I've heard that there were some problems like Apple rendering some forest roads as normal s
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by fafner 14y ago
Not only zeitgeist. But portrayal in fiction requires heroism, action, and suspense. You don't get that with real warfare. Being shot at by an enemy you can't even see and then calling in an air strike at the location where you expect the e
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by fafner 14y ago
> better autocompletion Bash has context dependent auto completion as well. So what's the advantage of zsh here?
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by fafner 14y ago
.csv only works for data. It doesn't work if you use any spreadsheet functionality. .txt lacks any kind of formatting. I don't know the current state of Word .html-Export. But in the past (late 90s/early 00s) it was known for being amazingl
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by fafner 14y ago
They are working on a Web version called LibreOffice Online. I don't know the current state. But last year they already showed a quick demo.

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