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by fafner 12y ago
I think the kqueue interface is a lot worse than the Linux way. With kqueue everything is forced through one interface. In Linux it's just file descriptors and epoll to deal with them. It is a nice extension of the "everything is
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by fafner 12y ago
This law makes me angry. How could have anybody been so stupid? Did the publishers really think Google would just hand them over money? Google announced even before it passed that they'd drop the content. They underestimated what power
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by fafner 12y ago
I think one of the main reasons why Plan 9 didn't succeed, was simply the fact that it wasn't free software from the beginning. Plan 9 was released around the same time as Linux. But it was treated as a secret and then tried to be
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by fafner 12y ago
lesspipe is not a GNU project...
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by fafner 12y ago
People like you are the toxic part of the community. If you don't like dbus or systemd then either come up with a better alternative or use whatever else you prefer. But attacking someone on a personal level because you don't like
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by fafner 12y ago
I wasn't asking hp.
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by fafner 12y ago
If you make comments like that then show us what amazing work and contributions you have made to the community.
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by fafner 12y ago
I think the kqueue API is worse than the epoll API. They make it try to do too much by dealing directly with all kind of events. epoll on the other hand simply deals with file descriptors and there are other APIs to get file descriptors for
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by fafner 12y ago
I don't think that's true. Drepper was against strlcat for specific reasons. And in the meanwhile the C11 standard had adopted an alternative (but imo worse) API for it, based on the Microsoft stuff. Framing this as a general reje
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by fafner 12y ago
Especially bread. It's a staple food in many cultures. It's an important item. Why should we not demand high quality? Where I'm from people eat good bread. I grew up with good bread. It is really interesting but also sad, tha
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by fafner 12y ago
E.g., * John Wiegley, author of eshell and other things. * The ada-mode was moved to GNU elpa because the maintainer didn't want to work with bzr.
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by fafner 12y ago
I still remember when I was binding my thesis. The printing shop offered the option to engrave text on the book cover. But they only accepted Word documents as template for it. I gave up as soon as I tried to do smallcaps in Word. The thesi
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by fafner 12y ago
I rarely buy sliced bread. But then again I usually buy real bread and not that "toast"-thing, which seems to be mislabelled as "bread" in the anglosphere.
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by fafner 12y ago
bzr is a DVCS. But anyway: bzr has simply become a barrier. Not only to attract new developers but also some long term contributors have ceased contributions because they considered bzr to be too much of a hassle. But it's not only tha
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by fafner 12y ago
It's simply a joke about Emacs having a long history. Don't take it too seriously. Just like the "greatest thing since sliced bread" phrase. I mean sliced bread is not great at all.
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by fafner 12y ago
GNU tools are rather well documented and well usable. I really don't understand the claims you are making.
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by fafner 12y ago
And the danger of things like that is increasing with clang/llvm. That's why I think RMS is right to be sceptical of it. Right now a lot of development around it might be open source. But for how long? Especially if GCC is moved o
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by fafner 12y ago
Well it is limited by Emacs' display engine. It is obviously not supposed to replace your default browser. But it is usually good enough to view html documentation. Which is really something you want inside your editor.
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by fafner 12y ago
http://larsmagne23.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/eww.png It's from an early version though (over a year old)
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by fafner 12y ago
Rectangular mark mode is really awesome. It makes working with rectangles a lot easier. It is now so well integrated into my workflow that I'm really annoyed when I have to use an older Emacs version.
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by fafner 12y ago
It can display images. It seems to even support HTML5 SVG. The HTML rendering engine (shr) was originally written as part of the Gnus project for exactly that task: To render HTML in RSS and email. The browser (eww) just adds http support
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by fafner 12y ago
The web browser (named eww) is of course limited by the display engine of Emacs. So don't expect too much. But for reading documentation in html format it works well for me so far and I guess that's the biggest use-case for it.
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by fafner 12y ago
Once rms stepped down as a maintainer development around GNU Emacs seemed to have significantly improved. It is amazing to see the progress. Although the 24.4 release keeps waiting.
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by fafner 12y ago
GCC 4.9 added __auto_type as an extension in C.
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by fafner 12y ago
> Everything I've read seems like Minecraft totally failed to learn from id software and valve when it comes to modding. And still Minecraft mods are massive. I have played it but I'm not really a Minecraft person myself. Howev
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by fafner 12y ago
Microsoft will absolutely screw this up. We shouldn't forget why Minecraft became popular: It was run by one (and later a few) guys who were close to the community. They cared about input and made stuff to be fun. They avoided all kind
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by fafner 12y ago
For people who don't trust outside companies (known to work with governments) with their confidential and/or expensive data.
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by fafner 12y ago
They are currently using a trick trying to circumvent the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL issue. But it is highly dubious whether this is legally sound: ktime_t dtrace_gethrtime(void) { return ktime_get(); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dtrace_gethrtime); http
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Link-time optimization in GCC, part 3 – LibreOffice(hubicka.blogspot.com)
100 points by fafner 12y ago|19 comments
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by fafner 12y ago
Well if Microsoft gets the rights to it we all know what will likely happen: It will be made exclusive for the XBox. Maybe not immediately but eventually.

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