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by gkya 8y ago
Well that's just a fraction of what I was talking about. StumpWM is nice, but it's the window manager. But imagine an environment where, say in the web browser you could hit C-h k, find what function is bound to the key that boo
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by gkya 8y ago
TIL! I didn't know search pushed marks, thanks!
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by gkya 8y ago
I use Emacs since about five years straight, every day, and have used it on and off before, and have quite some Elisp in my .emacs.d, and can say that you're totally wrong on this. Yes the language has problems, the API, having been t
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by gkya 8y ago
Emacs is an application platform, just like how the browsers are today. It has a nice way for making UIs: it's all text, parts interactive, and you can bind keys, make hooks and thus create decent, customisable applications in it. Ad
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by gkya 8y ago
It's C-u <Space> in Emacs lingo; it pops the mark ring. Some actions like C-<Space>, M-< and M-> push the position of the point to the mark ring before moving it, and when you pop the mark ring, you jump to the posit
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by gkya 8y ago
Emacs is in no race with text editors. If Emacs was a pack of a dozen of eggs, text editing would be that one egg on the corner with the fragile shell. Mr. Java can beg all he wants, but one thing people don't get is that Emacs is no
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by gkya 8y ago
> You can also easily create a second "view" into a file with the Zerox command, which is a nice way to look at two parts of a file at once. Emacs has this too. You can look at a buffer from different windows, or clone-indirec
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by gkya 8y ago
It is really shocking people can think this way when also making use of hundreds of people's free labour, and when the very existence of most of programming careers are a direct product of OSS innovation. Hopefuly this attitude is not
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by gkya 8y ago
> Any why don't you want to answer the second part? Because I think the answer is obvious. BTW I did not see the Stack Owerflow part, that is the exact kind of compensation for tge greater community I was talking about. Thank you
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by gkya 8y ago
Nobody owes me anything but eaach and every on of us owe something to the FOSS community.
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by gkya 8y ago
I'm not going to answer the second part, but for the rudeness, you are being rude because you reduce blogging about one's experiences w/ programming and related stuff to self marketing.
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by gkya 8y ago
That sounds like an issue caused by an indecent debugger to me. I havent had to debug JS, but indeed the browser debuggers can use some sophistication and customisability, IMHO.
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by gkya 8y ago
If you ever used any F/OSS software, or made use of a blog post when solving some problem, you owe to the community a blog or something similar. That can be answering SE questions etc. occasionally or an anonymous blog, not contributi
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by gkya 8y ago
> I am born into it, there is no reason for me to buy. What a self-annihilating affirmation this is! A fucking gem :) You're rich and hilarious!
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by gkya 8y ago
It's also a measure of the value of your partner's personality. A SO which needs me to communicate in $$$ is the last thing I'd ever want in my life. It's a glaring symptom of a shallow personality.
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by gkya 8y ago
Oh, hello from Turkey!
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by gkya 8y ago
First of all, I did not say slavery did not exist in the Empire. It did. But the Janissary/Devsirme is not it. IDK much facts with their proofs about slavery in the Ottoman Empire or Islam, but I doubt the truth of your statements.
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by gkya 8y ago
I LOVE *BSDs, but this statement is just false. The linux sphere is full of very nice experiences. Projects like Void and Alpine are out there, and then there are the gems like NixOS and GuixSD.
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by gkya 8y ago
Add to that that you can work while the update is being downloaded and applied; and in the very few occasions where reboot is absolutely inevitable (I have never had such a situation since many years; even the new kernel can wait until I&#x
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by gkya 8y ago
Yeah, but at least you can remove it if you want.
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by gkya 8y ago
Not only, but Debian wouldn't do this ever too. It's just as easy to run a Debian desktop spin, and it does not have any of the scandals or idiotic decisions Ubuntu has. This is what's nice with the distro ecosystem. Someon
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by gkya 8y ago
> Now my gaming PC run Void Linux and with native Steam and Wine (PlayOnLinux, Lutris) I've got access to most of my game library. It's easier to just ignore the few games that do not work on Linux nowadays. Do you have this se
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by gkya 8y ago
Yes but it has to replace your desktop with a checkerboard of launchers, which might be a thing whose effect ranges from unnecessary but harmless to annoying and confusing, especially when it lags.
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by gkya 8y ago
Comparison to NPM is also unfair because of the rather unique community around it.
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by gkya 8y ago
Everybody is, at some point. There is no eternal religion.
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by gkya 8y ago
Simpler does not mean better. ed(1) is definitely simpler than any text editor out there. DOS is simpler than any modern OS out there. Yet we use none of these because complexity is needed for sophistication.
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by gkya 8y ago
You're welcome! Nothing personal, this is kind of my pet peeve (and possible future research topic), so I just feel the need to write somethings when I see it mentioned.
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by gkya 8y ago
> but I’m completely unqualified to critique the proposal on its technical merits. If you ever used a working, solid package manager, you're qualified to critique. I've used many languages and their respective package managers
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by gkya 8y ago
Yeah what else did Sokollu/Sokolovic did other than blowing the sultan? /s Almost all of the brilliant men of the empire were devsirme. Janissaries were too. You might have some funny anger at dead rulers from centuries ago for
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by gkya 8y ago
Paderasty was indeed common in the imperial palace. How much of that was forced, slavery-like relations are beyond me though.

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