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by gdwatson 12y ago
Having said that, I'd add my vote to i3wm, as it isn't as ideologically pure as some others (you still have window titles if you want them, and the layout remains somewhat manual). Plus a rather readable configuration format, eve
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by gdwatson 12y ago
You don't give a lot of detail to work with, but my best stab in the dark is that in X by default the font renderer will sometimes use bitmap fonts (and stretch them) when what you really want are vector fonts. You can edit fonts.conf
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by gdwatson 12y ago
Microsoft had licensed Java, and had agreed to the terms of Sun's trademark license, including compatibility terms. Google avoided licensing Java entirely, hence the lawsuit.
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by gdwatson 12y ago
If I read the changes and commit message correctly, this removes SSLv3 support from the experimental new API that LibreSSL is creating. It does not remove support for the protocol under the existing OpenSSL-compatible API.
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by gdwatson 12y ago
Was it Joel who wrote a piece on the old Windows wizard for indexing a help file? It asked a question in a jargon-free way, with the result that neither the novice nor the expert understood what it was asking. In that case the clear solut
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by gdwatson 12y ago
My brain has taken to interpreting "GCC extension" as "supported by GCC and Clang," but nested functions are one of the few cases where that isn't true,[1] which is worth noting for readers who are concerned about F
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by gdwatson 12y ago
Does this have any impact on Oracle's DeWitt clause[1]? I haven't seen it mentioned yet in the discussions on technical fora. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt
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by gdwatson 12y ago
For the sake of someone who has never developed on a Macintosh and only saw CodeWarrior in action a few times, could you explain what happened and how Apple responded?
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by gdwatson 12y ago
Scheme has forms that add bindings to the local scope -- local defines -- but they're similar in spirit to let. There aren't any such functions in standard Scheme, and I don't know of any major implementation that has an
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by gdwatson 12y ago
If you have recommendations for books on amd64 assembly -- ideally ones that focus on running under a free Unix stack (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.) rather than a Microsoft stack where the books address such things -- I'd love to see them. I
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by gdwatson 12y ago
Can you provide more background on your statement that the SAT and ACT are not achieving the goals for which they were designed? My suspicion has been that things are changing because aptitude tests are unpopular for socio-political reason
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by gdwatson 13y ago
It's constitutionally-protected in the U.S -- a ban would require a constitutional amendment, which is very, very hard. Many of us on both sides of the political spectrum consider America's robust free speech protections to be th
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by gdwatson 13y ago
It's hard to say whether or not that's true. Such resignations are asked for at least as often as they are volunteered.
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by gdwatson 13y ago
In modern versions of Python you can declare "nonlocal x", but that's only necessary if you want to assign to x. Since assignment in Python creates a local variable by default, there needs to be a way to tell the byte compil
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by gdwatson 13y ago
Doesn't the KJV avoid the formal-plural convention entirely? Most of my reading has been in newer versions, but I seem to recall that it used thou for singular and ye for plural very consistently; I sometimes wish for that distinc
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by gdwatson 13y ago
I remember learning that in high school, and things made so much more sense; it explains why usted takes third-person verbs and possessive pronouns. Wasn't vosotros used as a formal tu at one time, especially with regard to royal
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by gdwatson 13y ago
"There's also something wrong when we treat half the population like baby breeding kitchen help, too." Is that really your view of stay-at-home mothers?
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by gdwatson 13y ago
History is also great for providing intellectual perspective. A lot of people take as universal ideas that are actually peculiar to our own era; since no era gets everything right, the ideas and attitudes of the past can help you evaluate
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by gdwatson 13y ago
This is only an obvious improvement if you share certain ideas with the committer: ideas about equality and how grammatical gender relates to it. Those ideas are by no means universal; why should dissent be shocking?
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by gdwatson 13y ago
Has this ever been conclusively documented? I've seen accusations by some and denials by those close to her, but never any proof of the claim.
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by gdwatson 13y ago
I certainly can't blame them for being upset. But for a NATO country to expel the US embassy would be a very dramatic act with uncertain consequences. There's a lot of fallout to accept there, and the impact would be broader t
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by gdwatson 13y ago
I agree that the president is too powerful, but I don't see how a parliamentary system would fix it. From a separation-of-powers perspective, Commonwealth PMs look very much like elected dictators.
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by gdwatson 13y ago
ECMAScript 4 had to be dropped when people realized that turning JavaScript into a JS-Java hybrid increased complexity rather than decreasing it. But the process of drafting ES4 and then disputing whether to go forward took a lot of time.
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by gdwatson 13y ago
But one of the beautiful features of TCP is that it has the properties necessary to treat it as a text stream -- you can build text-based protocols on top of it. Since troubleshooting an application-level protocol seldom requires you to de
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by gdwatson 14y ago
That's always seemed an odd quirk of the restaurant industry to me. Server to refer to a person sounds stilted to my ear; a server is a computer to me, but a waiter or a waitress is a person. So a sincere question: Why would someone be
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by gdwatson 14y ago
Some of these accusations are interesting, but there's not enough in the linked overview to draw any sort of conclusion. It's not clear why agreement with the authors' policy objectives should be the benchmark for holiness; the bit about "
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by gdwatson 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Correlations_with_IQ
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by gdwatson 14y ago
Honest question: What is the use case for these with the trend toward virtualization on more powerful hardware? The machines are really neat, but what in what fields are they used?
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by gdwatson 14y ago
I like the Rees OO ontology[1]. The set notation doesn't lend itself to easy reading, but it lets you break out the features of an object system in a more precise way. [1] http://mumble.net/~jar/articles/oo.html
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by gdwatson 14y ago
Rackspace Takes Koran-Burning Church Site Offline[1] : "Dove World refused, and Rackspace gave the church several hours to migrate the content." (emphasis mine) I guess that's better than just pulling the plug, but not much. [1] http://w

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