mcepl

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by mcepl 6y ago
For me *BSD is like Plan9 or ZX Spectrum emulator … guilty pleasure with absolutely no practical use whatsoever.
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by mcepl 7y ago
Will the next version be called Josef? (to continue line of the famous authors from Prague)
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by mcepl 8y ago
> Aside for some script things for which Python is still a blessing, … Have you tried using type hints ( https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/ ) with mypy?
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by mcepl 8y ago
Just to say I have just switched from Red Hat to SUSE, and the latter is not a charity either.
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by mcepl 8y ago
Besides, I heard that Gitlab as a company is in the black already (comparing to GitHub, which I believe is still in the red).
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by mcepl 8y ago
Or she is a programmer working with a sensible programming language with sensible standard library (e.g., Python). I would really like to like NodeJS, JavaScript is not that bad language in itself, but missing standard library is a problem
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by mcepl 10y ago
Well, I would say that some types like "eight-bit character in ISO-8859-1 encoding" is a monumentally stupid idea in this day and age (and yes, I live in 8859-2 area, but that isn't the point … http://www.joelonsof
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by mcepl 10y ago
FiraCode https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/ ;) ... I actually like it.
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by mcepl 10y ago
File systems take A LONG time to stabilize, and you want them stabilized well, because if there is a bug in httpd, you just restart it, if there is a bug in filesystem you loose your data. See BTRFS. Started in 2007 and it is still not stab
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by mcepl 10y ago
See http://spectrum.im/ with https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple (or use it with pidgin/adium/finch directly).
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by mcepl 10y ago
With Signal you cannot even choose a repository from which to download its client. You either give your credentials to Google, or you are out of luck.
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by mcepl 10y ago
> The fact that Signal exists, and I can use it every day with friends and coworkers, is evidence that we are not locked in. ???? This does not even start to make sense to me. The fact you could chat with your friends on ICQ/MSN&#x2
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by mcepl 10y ago
Every security engineer I have met so far is to some extent (some of the to quite an extent) paranoid and control-freak. That's good for security engineers, you want them to be paranoid and control freaks. Of course, the bad part is th
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by mcepl 10y ago
Take a look at http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lout/lout-3.40-use... (page 148 and followings).
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by mcepl 10y ago
Lout ( http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout ) and troff/groff ( https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ ). Both do equations quite well, I would even prefer lout (it is a way more comfortabl
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by mcepl 11y ago
Well, I can understand that having a business model which actually is stable and makes around FLOSS is hard, so I can tolerate a lot of wiggling around the edges of freedom. However, what I cannot tolerate is freedom of my data. Our IT guys
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by mcepl 11y ago
I guess, if you don't know what to do with your money, you can get the similar results on any real operating system (e.g., Mac OS X).
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by mcepl 11y ago
Actually, if you squint a lot, R (or S) is a functional language. And it shows, crazily powerful for something, absolutely horrible for something else.
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by mcepl 11y ago
Nice redesign, just it would be fair to note number of applications who are locked into Guile and they are desperately trying to get rid of it ;) (I know for sure GNUCash is in this category).
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by mcepl 13y ago
Just use OpenStreetMaps (aka https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand ) and download half of Europe if you wish. Just works, and the navigation was for me (at least in Italy) better than with Googl
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by mcepl 14y ago
And one more for the Chrome "Resources" tab. I am now trying to develop FFOS app with IndexedDB and not being able to see the content of the database makes me run to Chrome all the time.
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by mcepl 14y ago
+1 ... except that gg is a keyword for DuckDuckGo. I just couldn't switch my finger memory from gg, so I rather switched the alias ;)
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by mcepl 15y ago
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejidjjhkpiempkbhmp... and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejjicmeblgpmajnghn... if you want two most recent examples of Chromium-only applications, where nobody gave a damn whether the
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by mcepl 16y ago
I am European as well, and although I completely agree that American people are the best part of the American experience (INS officials being an exceptions, because they are not humans, of course), there was this one exception the first wee
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by mcepl 16y ago
Because it is much more than that ... combines Read It Later, with Readability (Firefox add-on), and ability to download ePub to my N-900 (so it works virtually everywhere, not only on iP*). Also, there is no cost of using it ... if it goes