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illicium
18y ago
See also: sed arkanoid ( http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/scripts/arkanoid.sed ) sed sokoban ( http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/scripts/sokoban.sed )
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illicium
18y ago
You're underestimating the amount of work that is put into creating a complete font family -- each glyph must be drawn, tweaked for visual balance, kerned properly, etc. Bold weights and italics are sometimes created algorithmically from th
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illicium
18y ago
Being able to program against multiple cores/processors/machines is one of the biggest "unsolved" problems facing us right now. It's not much of a problem if you use correctly use multithreading. See also: Erlang
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illicium
18y ago
"At an early age, many young people learn the HTML language of Web pages and often branch out into its more powerful sister languages, such as XML ..." ..huh?
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illicium
18y ago
Yep, #1 is a quite popular and highly rated idea for Topaz (GNOME 3.0) over at Gnome-Look: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/May-B?content=45837 By the way, if anyone likes #3, it can be easily pieced together with: * Mire v2 GTK the
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illicium
18y ago
Yep, Consolas is a very beautiful and functional typeface. Note: on Linux use a patched Cairo for better LCD subpixel rendering, set to sight hinting--it looks MUCH better than the default (cairo-lcd in Arch Linux AUR, Ubuntu comes with a t
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illicium
19y ago
Neat. I wish there were libraries for more languages though.
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illicium
19y ago
Two more keywords: vim. mercurial. ;)
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illicium
19y ago
Alternatively, you can add a boolean "extensions.checkCompatibility" field in about:config and set it to false.
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illicium
19y ago
Exactly--tables (CSS or otherwise) are meant for _tabular_ data, like you would see in a spreadsheet, not page layouts. And if you want to use a table, the semantic way is to use a <table> tag, not a <div> or something else
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illicium
19y ago
Firefox 3 passes the Acid2.
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illicium
19y ago
Pylons and CakePHP are also quite good frameworks, if you're into that kind of thing, but I'd also suggest writing something simple in PHP (which is pretty much still the webdev language these days),
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illicium
19y ago
"During the first ten years of this HOWTO's life, I reported that from a new user's point of view, all Linux distributions are almost equivalent. But in 2006-2007, an actual best choice emerged: Ubuntu." Ubuntu sort of spoils users by mak