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by fafner 14y ago
> Valve doesn't make business decisions out of kindness. Nobody every claimed that. Of course their support for Desktop Linux has nothing to do with kindness but is pure business. Microsoft and Apple are forcing Appstores on their compu
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by fafner 14y ago
Does not compute. Porting to Linux Desktop takes much more effort than porting to a console. With a console you have fixed hardware specs and you can tune everything in your software stack to fit your needs. With their current effort they h
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by fafner 14y ago
I don't think that photovoltaic is an essential step on a grid perspective. The production of PV cells costs a lot of energy, produces a lot of CO2 and requires a lot of nasty chemicals (zB HF). The prices are only cheap because of massive
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by fafner 14y ago
> According to the Hadopi law it doesn’t matter that the man didn’t carry out the infringements himself – as the owner of the Internet connection in question he is responsible for what happens on it. That's ridiculous. Imagine you get
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by fafner 14y ago
errno is thread locale in most modern implementations
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by fafner 14y ago
I think the language that gets Exceptions right is Common Lisp because of the restarts. With other languages handling exceptions is complicated. You either need to know internals of the code you are using or you simply bail out and print
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by fafner 14y ago
I thought so too. But even -Wextra does not include everything. Some Flags can certainly be a bit annoying (e.g., -Weffc++). A project I'm currently working on has a really long list of additional warning flags. But for manual calls to
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by fafner 14y ago
I never understood why binary literals weren't included in the language. Other nice extensions `x ? : y` => `x ? x : y`, vector extensions, C++ support for `__restrict__`, all those attributes (deprecated, format, warning, pure, etc.) R
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by fafner 14y ago
I found Preview.app always annoying. E.g., the maximize windows button not maximizing the window. Sure it is better than Adobe Reader. But there are quite a few very nice alternative PDF viewers better than it. And pdf.js is great as a b
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Yes, I really love PDF.js. I was consider switching to Chrome just because of the (proprietary) pdf viewer. But the Chrome PDF viewer even lacks the concept of pages! I had already kicked out the Adobe Reader plugin but using an external vi
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by fafner 14y ago
No, Chrome has its own binary plugin. IIRC it is closed source and not available in Chromium. Pdf.js is developed by Mozilla and now shipped with Firefox and it works quite well so far.