frankohn

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by frankohn 4y ago
> And for instance, Janestreet's idiom udes labelled arguments as often as possible. So you have to give up to one of pillars of the functional programming paradigm and you get a less elegant but more practical programming language.
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by frankohn 4y ago
As a former OCaml hobbyist programmer my take on these kind of books or articles is that, yes OCaml is extremely elegant and beautiful as a programming language and it shines for simple applications. Some parts of it are actually not so ele
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by frankohn 4y ago
No, because the moon is tidal-locked to the earth so the pull is always in the same direction. Tidal-locked means the moon always show the same face to the earth.
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by frankohn 4y ago
I was wondering if a possible explanation is that, due to the gravity attraction of the earth, the hot, heavy, inner part of the moon, which is richer in heavy elements, I guess, like iron is closer to the near-side surface. Since in the fa
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by frankohn 5y ago
This situation if the result of the destruction of the social network of relations due to the modern lifestyle. To have meaningful social relations with our peers is extremely important for humans and even more so for teenagers I guess. Fir
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by frankohn 5y ago
I only know about limiting online games.
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by frankohn 5y ago
China is taking draconian measures to protect people from game addiction. While I generally don't agree with their politics I feel they are doing the right things to protect the society. I feel the occidental states are not doing enoug
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by frankohn 5y ago
Games with dark patterns are an overwhelming majority on Android. That's sad because they abuse fragile people and children. That didn't had to be that way if Google didn't promote its ad-based revenue model for apps and game
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by frankohn 5y ago
Yes it is still true, they just have decided to support newer c standards when they sabotaged c11 by making optional a fundamental feature like complex numbers: > Support for Complex numbers is currently not planned and their absence is
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by frankohn 5y ago
Looks like more complexity and that would prevent users from changing fonts in their preferences.
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by frankohn 5y ago
Many people are going to compare Lite XL to Sublime Text and VSCode so I would like to make a few comments about the comparison. Sublime Text is a more mature and has more resources than Lite XL. As far as I know it has a team of engineers
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by frankohn 5y ago
Lite XL use the freetype library for font rendering instead of the stb_truetype library. Using the freetype library we do hinting but only in the vertical axis and subpixel rendering and positioning along the horizontal axis. This is the so
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by frankohn 5y ago
You are right here for the unicode part. In term of quality of the text rendering I think we managed to be pretty good without introducing too much complexity or dependency, just the Freetype library. We chose a very specific approach where
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by frankohn 5y ago
Author of the Lite XL fork here. The reason why I started a fork of Lite is that rxi, the author of the original project, refused to merge my proposition to improve the font rendering. He didn't want to bring too much complexity to the
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by frankohn 5y ago
I made the "little library helper", lhelper[1] in short to help me compile C/C++ libraries on Windows for my applications, using gcc or clang. Later it turned out so nice and useful that I got it working also on macOS and lin
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by frankohn 5y ago
I agree, for their use case they should have linked to SDL2 as a static library. It was the best option instead of patching the binary with patchelf. I think many developers don't know about static libraries. For some reason they think
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by frankohn 5y ago
I moved to WindowMaker that I loved for its elegance and to icewm. This latter had none of the elegance of windowmaker but it used very low memory resources and had a decent windows-like look. I considered blackbox and tried to use it but i
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by frankohn 5y ago
I am surprised FVWM is still around. It was the first window manager I was exposed to in the 90s and my experience was very negative. Its default configuration was terribly ugly and the software expose a bazillion of option to the user for
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by frankohn 6y ago
I agree, I love the attention they have given to linux and their technical competence without any bullshit. I am glad to purchase games on Steam. They are also doing a great work supporting the SDL2 library. AFAIK they are employing its ori
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by frankohn 6y ago
There was an excellent citation: "I apologize, I wrote you a long letter because I didn't have the time to write you a shorter one."
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by frankohn 6y ago
The predisposition to myopia is genetic but one becomes myopic due to an environmental factor: the lack of exposure to sunlight. It is because of the lack to regular exposure to sunlight that people who study and spend a lot of time in home
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by frankohn 6y ago
- Games, many games are only available on Windows and drivers are best supported on Windows. - Work & business, many companies just require you to use Windows, so you have to. - Market share, if you are a developer and you want to reach
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by frankohn 6y ago
As a long time free software and linux supporter I am a little bit afraid of this. It seems like a very smart move from Microsoft. They get rid of the abysmal performance of windows's file system and spawning new processes by using...
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by frankohn 6y ago
Adoption of cycling would require more serious actions like improving the road system for the bicycles so that cyclist are safe from the cars. The cycling should be also a pleasant activity so that people can do it naturally, without being
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by frankohn 7y ago
> And to me, how could they anyway, I can't find "a Linux desktop". There are many, which one would they port to? This was the very reason that prevented Google to release Google Chrome for Linux.
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by frankohn 7y ago
Well for this problem I have since a long time an idea I am sure will works, I just need to kick-start it in the right way. It is the "fair publishing edition", a system of publishing a work in a way that is fair both for the auth
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by frankohn 8y ago
> X Window has a good design? Only because it allowed competing tool kits on top of it ("Provide mechanism rather than policy. In particular, place user interface policy in the clients' hands.") Yes only this simple thing
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by frankohn 8y ago
I like the post, it seems like they are good guys doing a good work on an unrewarding application. It is interesting the insight thet are giving with this article: - MS is improving on Windows Console only because of WSL - the design of the
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by frankohn 8y ago
Not serious, just bla bla, no equations are given and the author does not suggest any finite representation to replace the real numbers. This kind of article is like the old philosophers way, just words, words and arguments, nothing exact o
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by frankohn 8y ago
I advice people to not use WSL. It seems to me that this is the first step of their well-known embrace, extend, extinguish microsoft's strategy. They are now embracing the gnu/linux way of working like the packaging tools, the c

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