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by mhd 4y ago
- WFH will increase and thus apps and processes that support this. For example, I expect we have one additional team communication product on the Slack/Teams level of popularity. Focusing on either privacy or more employer surveillance
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by mhd 4y ago
I remember someone saying that Oxygene is basically Popcorn at half speed with wind noises, so I see where you're coming from.
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by mhd 4y ago
The "If Books Could Kill"[1] podcast had a pretty decent summary of his work recently. [1]: https://pod.link/1651876897
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by mhd 4y ago
I think I first made my entry into some Kalevalan topics from researching where the Forgotten Realms gods came from. Mielikki was somewhat literally taken, "Illmater" was a weird one, from a air goddess to a (male) god of sufferin
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by mhd 4y ago
A friend of mine used to be a big proponent of this. His theory being that sure, you need someone special to be very productive in assembly. But there's a billion of Chinese where the market is just opening up… (So I guess it was a few
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by mhd 4y ago
Bun?[1] Which is a bigger change then Deno, as that is basically node with some more stuff included (same engine, lead developer, similar attitude towards standard library etc.), whereas Bun is using the JavaScript Core engine from Safari.
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by mhd 4y ago
What do you mean, fighting the UI system? Non-native looking UI elements? If that's the case, I have to agree with you, actually. For web-like desktop GUIs, web technologies seem to be the fastest vehicles, unless someone releases an u
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by mhd 4y ago
> web tech is arguably the easiest to use for building UIs ...for an ecosystem full of web developers.
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by mhd 4y ago
Is there any improvement on how Affinity Publisher 2 handles multi column layout? This was one of the neat things that InDesign finally imported from Ventura Publisher etc. who did this in the early 90s: You can have a paragraph style spa
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by mhd 4y ago
Smalltalk and it’s Seaside server were really something in the early days. Basically broke out of the response/request model by doing your interactions with saved continuations. So if your server function requests a text to be entered,
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by mhd 4y ago
Font nerdery is a bit like the old "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912", you can be angry about very minor details. Doesn't even stop at the font, as I'm sure there are people saying that on
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by mhd 4y ago
I've had a look at Lout years ago, but I think the development stalled a bit and the source wasn't that inviting for contributors. So the PDF support came (too) late and still isn't feature-complete with the PS output. I am s
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by mhd 4y ago
I've got some serious issues with the base assumption of what's "talented". Sure, the people with the best secondary school degrees get into medicine. First of all, it's focusing on number because there aren't
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by mhd 4y ago
Probably not the wisest time to mention the concept of forking.
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by mhd 4y ago
And here I am with my 23" acrylic Cinema Display and yellow-tinged original Natural Keyboard…
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by mhd 4y ago
I rarely see it self-applied, though. It always seemed to be a more HR-centric / economist verbiage, in the same line as "human capital" and "downsizing". Whereas people actually call themselves "rockstar devel
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by mhd 4y ago
Discussions and showcases like this always remind me of the business card scene from American Psycho, "subtle off-white" etc., more so than a tradesman selecting their tools - or even better, showing their tools after years of usa
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by mhd 4y ago
I'm also reminded of Audacity, so maybe we'll see a half-way popular fork and then the "parent" amending their ways?
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by mhd 4y ago
It seems you can avoid a lot of this if you avoid laptops. Never quite understood how they got that ubiquitous.
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by mhd 4y ago
I just went through the same issue. sourcehut.org was still available, but no news and no link to any status page (or at least I didn't find any). So just passing along the information someone sent me on mastodon…
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by mhd 4y ago
Planned outage, update in progress. https://status.sr.ht/issues/2022-10-24-planned-outage/
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by mhd 4y ago
I wouldn't mind MS hardware if it were designed by the people who did the first Natural Keyboard or the Intellimouse…
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by mhd 4y ago
In a similar vein, there are the Nomadic Furniture books from the 70s. https://archive.org/details/nomadicfurniture00henn
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by mhd 4y ago
GHCs Cmm is an interesting beast. It changed a bit from C-- and it doesn't seem to be "sold" outside of the Haskell market, but it does feature basically the best of all worlds: A native generator targeting most current platf
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by mhd 4y ago
The problem with things like this is that "compile to C" isn't really just done for ease of implementation, but for sheer portability - individual C compilers are widespread, and the totality of them are basically ubiquitous.
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by mhd 4y ago
Or AmigaDOS being closely related to TRIPOS, developed at Cambridge?
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by mhd 4y ago
Well, projects like the BSDs need a lot of platform support, where even LLVM is still lacking. You wouldn’t want a different compiler for each arch. There simply aren’t that many candidates.
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by mhd 4y ago
Ah, you meant as a directory. Sure, I remember that, I just thought you meant as a partition.
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by mhd 4y ago
If this hasn't changed recently, the two official compilers for OpenBSD are clang and gcc 4.2, the latter for some more obscure architectures unsupported by clang. The specific version is used because gcc changed its license after that
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by mhd 4y ago
Do you remember what distro used to do this?

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