grewil2

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by grewil2 8y ago
I think the (governmental) department treated them alright, and they made good money too. They were not the types that liked to blend with the younger devs, even for a cup of coffee. I approached them two years ago and asked if I could work
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by grewil2 8y ago
After years of struggle, our IT-department recently managed to conclude the migration of all COBOL applications from machines running on Unisys 2200 to Java EE running on GNU/Linux. As a Java developer working with the latter, the fina
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by grewil2 8y ago
While some part of MS is moving in a more progressive direction, the main part with the Windows and Office products is the same as always: unfree licenses and evilcorp business methods. If MS truly wants to wash away the asshole label, they
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by grewil2 9y ago
I won't support OSes such as Windows and MacOS until they give me the same core user freedoms that you get with GNU/Linux.
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by grewil2 9y ago
For those who would like round off this excellent post with some classy, non-gpu, retro platform fluid, please check out Fluid Fire, a great little 1k Amiga bootsector intro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKatv85Bei4
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by grewil2 9y ago
My prefered way to quickly test these things without having to mess with your own setup, elpa directories etc: mkdir /tmp/.emacs.d wget -P /tmp/.emacs.d https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thefrontsi
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by grewil2 9y ago
Different terms convey different ideas. Writers pick "open source" to signal that they find user freedom unimportant, and "free software" or "libre software" to signal that they find user freedom important. Whi
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by grewil2 9y ago
Mastodon seems like a promising alternative. From the description: "Mastodon is a free, open-source social network. A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communic
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Ask HN: Extreme programming with two mice and keyboards?
3 points by grewil2 10y ago|1 comments
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by grewil2 10y ago
I tried LastPass, but didn't trust them, so I found https://www.passwordstore.org/ some year ago. I can't emphasize enough how good it is, mainly because it is so dead simple and transparent in how it works, and a
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by grewil2 10y ago
GNU/Emacs has nice tail-f functionality with its auto-revert-tail-mode.
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by grewil2 10y ago
It looks similar to company-mode ("complete anything mode") in GNU/Emacs, which works in shell buffers as well. https://company-mode.github.io/
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by grewil2 10y ago
Kind of weak licence, what are you actually allowed to do with this code? Change it? Distribute your changes? https://github.com/lzfse/lzfse/blob/master/LICENSE
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by grewil2 10y ago
It's hard to beat org-mode. http://orgmode.org/