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by generic_user 9y ago
Its a mystery to me how some people don't understand that when Richard S puts a 5 inch disk platter on his head and gives a St. IGNUcius Sermon he wants you to laugh along because it a Joke. Hes smart enough and confident enough to mak
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by generic_user 9y ago
There are hundreds of Linux distributions with install media for usb/dvd install. Installing a distro like Fedora is as easy as setting up windows and has about the same UI quality. Distros like Slackware or Gentoo give you more compli
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by generic_user 9y ago
Richard S has a great appreciation of self deprecating humor. Which is why he does silly things. Being able to criticize each other and crack jokes about each other is essential to open source and it helps to build community. We can critici
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by generic_user 9y ago
Occasionally people in the FLOSS community have been known to crack jokes and 'have fun'. Even tho most of the jokes are not very funny and the fun that is had is rather autistic by most peoples standards I see no reason why we sh
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by generic_user 9y ago
Very nice, I will take a look.
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by generic_user 9y ago
do you know what UI kit is used on Linux?
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by generic_user 9y ago
Thats fine by me, but the mods will have to do it. Thanks for posting the new link.
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by generic_user 9y ago
One of the things that can hook you into a new language is having a really well written introduction book that gives you the philosophy of the designers and the big picture while moving through the syntax and semantics. The book is roughly
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by generic_user 9y ago
Thanks! I have been waiting for this book I have had this book in my wishlist for quite a while. Nim looks interesting and compiling to C is highly desirable to me. I much prefer a well written book length introduction to reading through th
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by generic_user 9y ago
Do you have a link to the free chapters? Ok, I found them. https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action?a_aid=niminactio...
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by generic_user 9y ago
I think the hundreds of blog and social media posts by hardcore leftists co-workers calling for him to be fired and worse because they do not believe has the right to speak his opinions because the disagree with his opinions is ample proof
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by generic_user 9y ago
Given that Republicans control the Presidency, The majority in the Congress and Senate the majority of Governorships and state houses its a safe bet not only are they larger but Conservative media is going to get the biggest wins from this.
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by generic_user 9y ago
Its not just collective guilt its collective punishment.
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by generic_user 9y ago
I owe the United States and fellow citizens precisely what they owe me. The right to succeed or fail based on my abilities with the right to equal opportunity under the law regardless of my race religion etc. I certainly do not owe another
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by generic_user 9y ago
> Which is why its likely affirmative action will always be necessary. Affirmative action programs like most progressive ideology and policy has simply not produced any tangible lasting results. In most respects the focus groups of these
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by generic_user 9y ago
> So the government did this stuff. I maintain that, as beneficiaries of our forefathers' efforts in establishing this country, we owe a debt to continue their work and clean up their messes. It's a great benefit to live here a
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by generic_user 9y ago
> Equality of opportunities and equality of outcomes are not opposed goals, and the left hasn't abandoned the former for the latter. They may not be opposed goals but if a method includes the exclusion of certain racial and sex grou
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by generic_user 9y ago
There is no positive and negative racial discrimination. There is only racial discrimination and its always a bad thing. If you are advocating for racial discrimination against European people then your no different then European people who
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by generic_user 9y ago
>> I think if you take a population that has been the subject of generations of systemic government oppression, remove it (allegedly), and then declare "fairness accomplished! You are free to complete on a level playing field! Pa
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by generic_user 9y ago
>> We're currently suffering through four years of self-imposed punishment as a result of being a bunch of judgmental assholes in pursuit of a goal that any reasonable human would accept as self-evident-- that people deserve to b
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Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find(telegraph.co.uk)
13 points by generic_user 9y ago|3 comments
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Journalists Drink Too Much, Bad at Managing Emotions, Study Finds(realclearlife.com)
1 points by generic_user 9y ago|0 comments
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Apple Makes $1B Commitment Toward More U.S. Manufacturing Jobs(bloomberg.com)
1 points by generic_user 9y ago|0 comments
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by generic_user 9y ago
you can do this now in ISO C11 with the inclusion of anaonomous structures and unions. struct A { int x, y; }; struct B { union { struct A 2d; struct { int x, y; }; }
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by generic_user 9y ago
"William Sanford "Bill" Nye popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, television presenter, and mechanical engineer. He is best known as the host of the PBS children's science show Bil
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by generic_user 9y ago
It makes me think that these people have never used an offline email client and don't understand what pop and imap are.
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by generic_user 9y ago
I used Thunderbird for a long time and then switched to Sylpheed. For one its about as good an email client as Thunderbird. That's all I really used TB for. If I want to use a calendar TB is not my first choice. I would rather use some
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by generic_user 9y ago
I have about the same experience, but with Thunderbird. Once I got my accounts set up in Sylpheed/Claws (I have used both) I found it did everything I needed, Its extremely stable has minimal dependency and uses negligible CPU and memo
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Sylpheed – a simple, lightweight but featureful e-mail client(sylpheed.sraoss.jp)
172 points by generic_user 9y ago|132 comments
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by generic_user 10y ago
Its a bit tricky I think. > A secure coding standard form CERT should focus entirely on describing conventions and program properties that do not already follow from the standard as a matter of correctness. from CERT 1.7 "The wiki a

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