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by mhd 4y ago
I really found it surprising that so few of the PC based orthodox filemanagers adopted the DOpus style of user-defined buttons and multiple rows thereof at the bottom, instead keeping with the few function key-based operations inherited fro
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by mhd 4y ago
Interesting to hear this. I'm getting a bit annoyed about too much reliance on iOS/Android apps myself, but at least for most banks around here I still have the option of alternatives. I do miss my printed out lists of verificatio
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by mhd 4y ago
Would this be okay enough for a Ultima VII-ish RPG, or are the usual JRPG-tropes too built-in (zoomy fight screens etc.)?
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by mhd 4y ago
If you're reading the magazines of that time period, you'll find a lot of Modula-2 exposure as some regarded it as the next step in the language's evolution (and a more standardized one than Pascal). On the other hand, Ada wa
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by mhd 4y ago
I’m just here for the occasional Don Hopkins mega posts.
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by mhd 4y ago
> It's actually the same reason I think the Windows' UI peaked around Windows 98SE. Things that are interactive, like buttons or window frame edges, look interactive and are easy to spot. Buttons look like buttons. Unless we&#x
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by mhd 4y ago
The Win95 interface, being rather well-known, was a frequent emulation target and generally easier to do than OS X, although the finer details are usually missing from both (e.g. good keyboard control). https://github.com/gr
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by mhd 4y ago
As opposed to Motif, you always had one OL implementation freely availablye (XView), so there was little need for it. It's also a bit weirder, so harder to dupe as e.g. a gtk/qt theme. The scrollbar being a prime example. Also, ev
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by mhd 4y ago
What makes a good UI language? The earlier patterns of GUI development (before the "reactive" hype train) were rather object-oriented, so having that helps (otherwise it quickly gets rather verbose, cf. Xt/gtk). And for small
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by mhd 4y ago
Perl actually had a pretty good UI story way back when. Perl/Tk always was well documented and Perl's syntax works quite well with the original Tcl-ish/Shell style. Note that GIT's default GUI parts are written in exactl
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by mhd 4y ago
For what subset of notepad++'s features? I've known a few users, and their patterns range widely. Some hinge on one specific feature, others just want a basic syntax highlighting editor that doesn't fight the system (i.e. Ele
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by mhd 4y ago
FreePascal/Lazarus seem to aim mostly for the people already using its predecessors. I see little to no "evangelism". Even new niche languages like Nim or V seem to have more "momentum". Clearly the timeline we dese
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by mhd 4y ago
And a few people liked the language, but a lot of users complained about the memory bloat this introduced (this was back when people cared about RAM). So Vala is trying to be the best of two worlds, having C-like resource usage with some of
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by mhd 4y ago
Also, Vala: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala
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by mhd 4y ago
Lua REPL based on new minimalistic readline lib? Interesting…
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by mhd 5y ago
Wasn't lemmy also a vi clone?
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by mhd 5y ago
Once upon a time, I quite enjoyed writing in Perl's POD format. It's not really a "hidden" markup language like Markdown or (partially) org, but it still had way less overhead than XML or BBCode. =head1 This is a m
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by mhd 5y ago
> Unless you’re going for an aesthetic look I honestly doubt that a lot of people who go to lengths to unearth Atkinson dithering these days don't aim for that, though. Most likely, you shouldn't use images in the first place.
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by mhd 5y ago
I'm a bit disappointed that this wasn't about RPGs, using web-based Excel as some kind of virtual tabletop...
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by mhd 5y ago
I'm »still tempted to write umlauts like 'Mot"orhead' old.« But also a "use a font that has a proper capital ß" hipster.
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by mhd 5y ago
"People are using Flash to write real applications?"
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by mhd 5y ago
> Sure everyone only use 5% of the features of Word - but they use different 5%, which is why nobody uses your elegant minimalist bare-bones word processor. That still is an insufficient apologia for Word, and paints the wrong picture: 9
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by mhd 5y ago
I really wish more systems had a NNTP bridge. If we can't have nice things with regular federated Usenet servers, something RSS-like where you could subscribe to different "proprietary" servers would be awesome. For the web i
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by mhd 5y ago
For a while, I recommended the fte editor[1] to people coming in from the Windows/DOS camp, but that went out of development quite a long time ago. Good to have a go-to non-proselytizing replacement that works in a terminal and isn&#x2
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by mhd 5y ago
For a while. Wirth's Law still applies. Web developers will find further ways to mess up rendering some basic shapes and letters.
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by mhd 5y ago
2021 Spring and Maven could buy me chocolates and flowers all day long, I wouldn't forget what they did to me in the past... But seriously, I'm okay with working with SB when I have to, but quite often in those situations Java wou
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by mhd 5y ago
I don't want to seem like I'm defending SpringBoot, ferchrissakes, but still fail to see a big impact of PWAs. Especially a positive one for the user, not mere ad clicks. In general, the whole rich web app space reminds me of the
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by mhd 5y ago
Interesting. Personally I didn't see many changes. We had indent before, now it's more common, mostly because of git diffs, and of course some languages got more B&D by design. But I wouldn't say that there have been huge
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by mhd 5y ago
Is this (especially the last sentence) meant sarcastically?
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by mhd 5y ago
I remember Cfront (C++, ye olden times) being called both a "compiler" and "translator". Does this really matter?

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