francois_h

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by francois_h 3y ago
This is really cool. One day I’d like to see a JS based window manager running as the main window manager on a local machine. I’m not entirely sure how that would work. Imagine using a JS window manager instead of Windows explorer or MacOS’
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by francois_h 3y ago
This is cool i guess. I usually just use rsync to get the same/better effect.
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by francois_h 4y ago
I’ve set up and ran my zimbra server for a long time too. It was a pain to set up initially, but once it’s running, you rarely have to make changes. The only bugbear I have is to update the letsencrypt ssl cert for secure connection and htt
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by francois_h 4y ago
Isn’t this just a glorified lsof?
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by francois_h 4y ago
I’ll just say it. The earth is around 4 billion years old. Due to the constant shifting of the surface and oceans, we don’t know what existed before. Fossils only form under very specific conditions. The Sahara for example were a forest bef
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by francois_h 4y ago
I laughed a bit when I saw “memory safety” and C in the same sentence. Your program is only as good as the programmer writing the program. Having said that, it just takes one missed check to cause a buffer overflow in C.
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by francois_h 4y ago
Surely the 32-bit driver would still work on 64-bit systems?
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by francois_h 4y ago
This reminds me of the time I hacked together an editor in assembly. I’m all for writing “just another xyz”, however after 2 decades of development I’m tired of the infinite amount of todo apps/editors/etc. on the web. I am confli
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by francois_h 4y ago
Software is limited to IP. You can’t really compare hardware right to repair with software. If you use OS software then you can chop and change as you want as long as you merge back changes to the original code. I doubt however that compani
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by francois_h 4y ago
I feel you. I’ve been trying to carve out my entrepreneurial dreams out for years too. I’ve got my main job, and trying different things on the side. At the end of the day, do what makes you happy. If you’re happy grinding away 18 hours a d
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by francois_h 4y ago
As an ex South African it breaks my heart to see the country I love and hope to go back to, being run to the ground and winding back the clock of progress to pre-colonial times.