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by hjek 11y ago
Lobotomies are definitely worse than adding a misleading preface to a book. Maybe a more precise title for the post would be "the greatest villain in the history of history of science"?
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by hjek 11y ago
Thomas Midgley Jr. is also a good contender: http://www.psychedelicporcupine.co.uk/2010/05/thomas-midgley... "Something had to be done, so Midgley took it upon himself to hold a demonstration where he illustr
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by hjek 11y ago
No code available on https://github.com/ephtracy and no mentions of license. Seems to be no-charge kind of 'free'. Not gonna be switching from vim+openSCAD for doing 3D this time around.
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by hjek 11y ago
True, Linux binaries are not as backwards compatible as Win32 binaries. However, with Wine and Mingw64 being around, Win32 binaries are a totally valid way of distributing software for Linux.
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by hjek 11y ago
the line: > enables up to 30x better graphics and 3x the battery life reminds me of these "save up to 50%" sales.
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by hjek 11y ago
This free clone of the fixedsys is just pixelisiuosly crisp and DOS'y: http://www.fixedsysexcelsior.com/
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by hjek 11y ago
RingoJS is pretty nice for JS server apps on the JVM though: http://ringojs.org/
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by hjek 11y ago
Absolutely amazing games on the webpage, especially Knossu, a "A non-euclidean horror game." Crisp and trippy graphics and sounds. Good gameplay, no "installation" required. But running a closed-source binary can be a bi
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by hjek 11y ago
this one? http://joxeankoret.com/download/breaking_av_software_44con.p...
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by hjek 11y ago
i'm not the big android user, but having used cyanogenmod with fdroid and free apps exclusively for a bit, i'm quite impressed with the free software userland, especially offline maps and puredata-patch runner, pddroidparty. pity
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by hjek 11y ago
That looks real nice! Glad someone is working on making Scratch do functions and stuff, because it's being used for teaching in many schools here in UK. Also, having just cloned it from https://github.com/jmoenig/S
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by hjek 11y ago
That "New Kind of Science" review was a curious read. Surprising how the absurdity of software patents is mirrored in physics: "Wolfram has since retreated from normal scientific life, in to, on the one hand, tending the Math
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by hjek 11y ago
So nice that they fix this issue for all Linux users in the form of a 370 MB binary. Totally not suspicious.
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by hjek 11y ago
According to Dr. Web, it spreads through USB disks and the internet, and Dr. Web has great solution to that problem: "Dr.Web Office Control access restriction system: Restricts or completely prohibits access to Internet resources and r
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by hjek 12y ago
original vi was not free software. vim is a clone, not a fork.
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by hjek 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29
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by hjek 12y ago
Guix seems nice in that it is all-free and is configurable in Scheme, but packages for quite common stuff like Java and Haskell and Jack-audio server are not present yet, although they are in NixOS. Looking forward to Guix 1.0 as I like Sch
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by hjek 12y ago
There a lot of strings and comments in the code, showing up as Mojibake. Could be interresting to translate them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake
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by hjek 12y ago
Vimium is really good for mouseless vi-like browsing in Chrome though. https://vimium.github.io/
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by hjek 12y ago
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied. "
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by hjek 13y ago
It's kind of a Debian/Ubuntu issue, but it is kind of heavy having to install 150 MBs of desktop environment (with database server, wtf?!) to use a paint program. Kind of difficult to compile from scratch too ( the ./configur
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by hjek 13y ago
Exactly that feature on p19! And what a nice manual. Those B/W pixel patterns are so pretty. I wish there was a way to run those old programs. I once managed to get KidPix in B/W to run on an emulator but somehow it stopped workin
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by hjek 13y ago
MSPaint does actually have transparency (at least the XP version has)! The "secondary color" desides which color is to be transparent, if you move stuff and have transparency enabled (in the "selection" options). So it&#
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by hjek 13y ago
MS Paint is my favourite Microsoft program ever. Even on GNU/Linux I can't do without it (just using Wine). The SHIFT + [drag] feature of MS Paint (kind of like on-the-fly brushes with transparency) is the killer feature I haven
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by hjek 13y ago
I keep this tiling window manager on a USB-stick in case I have to work on a Windows machine: https://code.google.com/p/bugn/ Feels like dwm and has virtual desktops too.
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HEXEN 2.0 (tarot cards about Internet and mkultra etc.)(ensemble.va.com.au)
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by hjek 13y ago
Really nice and quick. It gives more of a Acme feel to vim, but without having to use the mouse. Will definitely start using it.
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by hjek 13y ago
I guess OS X is open source too then: http://www.opensource.apple.com/ And I guess hamburgers that contain salad and tomato are vegetarian.
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by hjek 13y ago
It's funny that Android is "Google's biggest contribution to Open Source", because it isn't open source.
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by hjek 13y ago
Maxima is pretty simple and straight forward (and is kind of a free version of TI Interactive), but if it has to also look pretty, then OpenAxiom is way better as it easily exports to TeX or MathML: )set output tex on )set output mathml on

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