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by ktpsns 2y ago
Given how nice system programming languages we have these days, I refrain to let classic Null-terminated C-Strings entering my program. Even on embedded programming we opt-in for std::string (over Arduino's String). I am just happy to
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by ktpsns 2y ago
I haven't seen end-of-line conversion problems (as well as Unicode BOMs) for decades. My guess is that software quality improved these days. MS Notepad was a noteable tool which always mocked around with unix-style line endings. Using
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by ktpsns 2y ago
The name "looking glass" reminds me of the similarly named Java project 20 years ago, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass The effects of this 3d desktop where pretty cool for that time.
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by ktpsns 2y ago
It's hard to believe for me how you would not start buying own hardware at this scale. In particular when the hyperscalers (at first glance) don't have anything to provide to match the needs.
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by ktpsns 3y ago
I frequently read over virtually all of the docs of a language to grasp the ideas the authors had. Understanding a language theoretically is more of interest for me then tinkering around with it.
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by ktpsns 3y ago
I love LibreOffice and use it everyday. However, IMHO, the LibreOffice homepage is not very advantageous. I thin it should advertise the product features and UI instead of the organization. Replace the damned stock photos with screenshots :
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by ktpsns 3y ago
What a great text with useful references and links. Cudos to the author, who is also the OP.
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Graphviz is a classical open source code and a core building block of many contemporary data science codes. There exist bindings in virtually any programming language and the software is by no means outdated, despite there are more fancy, m
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Don't understand your concerns. Symlinks remain for compatibility. No need to change any tooling.
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Nice to see the author here! I have to say: I really like whats going on in Windows world from a developer perspective in the recent years. I am a hardcore Linux fanboy for decades but I have to admit that PowerShell, WSL, vscode, Windows T
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by ktpsns 3y ago
I used opera between 1999 ~ 2008. It was great and tons of features ahead anything else. It was also super fast – it was my favourite browser for older and underpowered systems. It is such a shame they did not open source the browser. I bet
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Perl oneliners never got old. A good collection of useful scripts can only win from new tooling. We honour perl with the P in PCRE and yet have modern tools like https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Same post is also discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38798501
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by ktpsns 3y ago
For the reference, there is already a Latex->Inkscape renderer for equations but it has limits, for instance it doesn't allow editing after rendering. https://inkscape.org/learn/tutorials/latex/ I fou
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by ktpsns 3y ago
I love this. Somehow people forgot how far simple things such as a VPS, some reverse proxies and some hand-written short tools in whatever language can bring you. For me, crappy little tools is the way to success. Perfection is the opposite
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Just my two cents for two trends I recognize: First, the ongoing unification of mobile and desktop UI, where the mobile users win features but the desktop users loose functionality. Large buttons or hamburgers instead of classical menu bars
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by ktpsns 3y ago
I got the feeling that these features should be part of a browser extension the same way as there are AdBlock extensions. I guess the reason it is not is "personal preference" of the author, or is there some technical reason?
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Another Lua implementation for MCUs posted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38067457
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Mod_perl was really tied into Apache. You could basically script the web server internals at a completely different level then (f)CGI and friends. In contrast, (f)CGI emphasizes a clean interface between different (os) processes. Both has i
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by ktpsns 3y ago
How does this compare to things like MicroPython? I wonder if there are similar projects where the compiler is offloaded to some non-MCU host computer. For a project where low latency matters, I would like to have some lightweight VM on a M
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by ktpsns 3y ago
I run two software companies and we don't do any of these interviews there. I see no need — any normal discussion and probably a code review done together can cover it. When you apply for jobs, look out for these companies. And write t
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by ktpsns 3y ago
A honorable mention is also https://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ which has a lot of nice views.
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Coincidentally, and since we are on Hacker News: What happened with the Eclipse IDE? I never heard anybody within the last 10 years to use it. Nowadays Visual Studio Code seems to be the hot shit of the generation. SCNR.
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by ktpsns 3y ago
I must formally disagree: 500 lines is about how you can read and comprehend a program. 500 lines fits in a single file in virtually any programming language (yes, you can put multiple classes in a single *.java file). And if you make use o
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by ktpsns 3y ago
The Broodwar replays were really cursed -- I remember that hilarious (perfectly reproducable) bugs of quickly replaying a game which resulted in a completely different replay then the actual game, apparently because the replay missed to int
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by ktpsns 3y ago
I learned about GRML only a few years ago. Absolutely love the mixture of power and minimalism. Here is the only ISO which increases my mileage even more: https://netboot.xyz
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Just FYI, numpy by no means pioneered this concept. There was Fortran before, as a language built around n-dimensional arrays. And even Fortran was not the first one, as some stack based programming languages (such as APL, IIRC) have simila
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Reminds me of https://hackertyper.com/ (and clones)
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by ktpsns 3y ago
gvfs has a bridge to fuse, cf. https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/gvfsd-fuse.... -- that means: Yes, you can use gvfs mounts natively in all other non-GNOME/GTK-applications running on your
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by ktpsns 3y ago
Computers can be smelly, too. Ever booted up your old Windows 95 box from the basement? The dust blown from the fans has a particular smell. It is even more dramatic for real vintage computing like punch card machines, which smell very oily

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