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by mmjaa 8y ago
Here's a simple example of what I mean: consider the title-bar of the window you're reading this page in (assuming your wm has titlebars, but lets assume it does and you know what I'm referring to..) From left to right, there
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Question for the serious: is this first animal not God?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Yeah, I'm quite familiar with these toolkits. (Been at it 30 years, yo.) The thing about the ligature trick, and fonts in general, and more specifically the packing of known functional GUI elements into a broader ligature description,
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Shades of FF Chartwell, which is one of those amazing things you just think to yourself "well, this is going to take over the world of design and GUI's and so on", only .. for some reason, it doesn't: https://
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Do you speak German? There are stories, but they may not be in your native tongue.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I have been suffering with this for the last year. I have to say, its really a heinous condition. First, I didn't think much of ticks - I thought they were a nuisance, but nothing serious. So, after I got particularly attacked one wa
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Reverse here: I only boot my Windows VM when I really need to build something with Windows. Other than that, its Linux all the way. I find it an utterly pleasant experience compared with either Windows or MacOS, which is interesting..
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I'm not having any problems running two monitors in HiDPI with my Ubuntu Studio workstation .. everything just works and I enjoy it immensely. Curious what your issues are...
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by mmjaa 9y ago
How feasible is it that companies like Turo can route around this issue by offering things other than cars to rent/lease from their owners? Like, if that F150 came with a bunch of shovels for schlepping soil, for example ... or if the
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I don't think the OP is saying that - its more that the solution to the real problem starts in the home. The problem is described as self-absorption and addiction to social validation - a product of modern family life, perhaps? Either
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Rubbish. Javascript is far from acceptable as a first language to learn and use.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Re: Usenet, I believe that the point we're both orbiting around is that for as long as source code has been 'a thing', we've had to share it among ourselves to do anything decent with it. There is certainly an event hori
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Fortunately, the ethos has persisted, and probably will for as long as computers are useful for us, socially and otherwise. Its very easy to have a fully open source computing environment, easier than ever in fact ..
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by mmjaa 9y ago
There are many who think that JS is not an acceptable means of developing applications for computers. It may be effective, but not acceptable. (Disclaimer: I'm one of them, so this argument doesn't really appeal to me personally.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
> And if end users are less keen on programming, why should businesses make the investment in creating tools for them? Alas, I feel that if we don't make it easy for users to become developers, they stay users. Its not the other way
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I'm old enough to remember the days when saying something was "Open Source" meant, simply, we had the sources for something and could use them for our needs. Around .. '84 / '85, there used to be these great li
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I found the "one bomb dropped every twenty minutes, mostly on innocent people" statistic to be the most scandalous issue of Obama's presidency, personally ..
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Dialectic Materialism has been Weaponised. People think that because they are capable of pitching an anti-synthesis against a synthesis, they are intelligent - whereas nothing could be further from the truth. If you can't get out of t
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by mmjaa 9y ago
It is going to require a shift in perspective to make headway on this issue, I feel. I don't really see it happening except perhaps with some of the more cocktail Linux distros... but honestly, I think that a lot of it has to do with
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by mmjaa 9y ago
> forgotten realm of democratising programming This phrase reminded me of a thought I once had, that the removal of the compiler as a first-class application in user-centric OS distributions was an imperial gesture to enforce class hiera
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Disclaimer: I work on a game engine for fun. (MOAI) Game engines are no longer 'games' engines, in my opinion. Its really far better to pitch them as "Interface" engines, in as much as a significant majority of the int
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Also, MOAI - which is about to get a 2.0 release: http://github.com/moai/moai-dev.git
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by mmjaa 9y ago
> Since when it's even a question? We roll through new generations of computer-using society every year, and every 4 - 5 years, after some intensive studying, new waves of developers and "computer people" evolve from being
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by mmjaa 9y ago
There really isn't any good reason for OS vendors to not add such a library to their operating systems these days .. except for the fact that they're all asleep at the wheel, having been overwhelmed with the idea of making their O
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I've floated around the Game industry as a developer, and I have to say its one of the most toxic management industries I've seen. Too many times I've seen folks who just don't qualify, running developer teams like its
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by mmjaa 9y ago
I would quite happily have myself bodily transported by a small fleet of drones, of the average Maxi- variety, appropriately tethered into a space suit, with perhaps one or two Over-drones there, just in case something happens with the swar
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by mmjaa 9y ago
For some of you. For a majority of Americans, however, living in poverty - not so. Its very much an imperialist scenario. Sure, you have your bread and circuses. But don't look behind the curtain in any of your major metropolitan c
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by mmjaa 9y ago
The US has been at war, somewhere in the world, since its inception as a nation. It has dropped one bomb every twenty minutes, mostly on innocent people, for the last 3 decades. The US currently has the world ensnared in its remote military
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by mmjaa 9y ago
Groupthink is an ultimate political power, and it has been weaponised.
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by mmjaa 9y ago
>That's sound thinking, in my opinion. Except for the fact that its pandering to the survivors fallacy. Of course, the ones who don't want to fight wars won't be around - they'll have been dead. The ones who survive

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