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by nnq 9y ago
Side question: why don't we actually encourage and fund research into developing solid, reliable, and standardized tests for carcinogenicity? Everybody with at least some above basic knowledge of molec bio realizes that things like t
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by nnq 9y ago
...then why TF don't people promote like even a little bit?! I didn't event know this KDE Neon existed. Really, WTF, it's not event on the page listing Ubuntu flavors https://www.ubuntu.com/download/fla
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by nnq 9y ago
Do anyone except Elementary OS users use Pantheon? Seem extremely niche. There's other DEs missing too, like Budgie, XMonad etc., but nobody's complaining because the focus is on the most popular ones. Anyway, I really hope someth
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by nnq 9y ago
There's also the folks who end up having to use Ubuntu LTS (16.x) for various reasons, and if they ever try KDE on it will be doomed to inevitably hate it... Hope the story doesn't repeat with their next LTS version. (Maybe the KD
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by nnq 9y ago
Let's just hope the next Ubuntu LTS version doesn't pack up a "doomed to be buggy and perpetually outdated except security fixes" version of KDE :| ... Choosing to use Ubuntu 16 LTS, I gave up considering KDE as an optio
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by nnq 9y ago
Innovation doesn't "happen" where you actually measure it, where a company gets founded, or where a patent gets registered... It happens inside the head of a random Russian dude that studies in Germany and then moves to Zuric
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by nnq 9y ago
Meh. When you're in a country where most things "just work" (eg. France, Germany etc.), and you see so many broken systems around you, of course you want to focus on keeping your existing special advantages. When most of th
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by nnq 9y ago
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-GUI-library-used-in-creati... check out this explanation of how Blender's UI is implemented - same approach would make sense (maybe even reuse same "toolkit") here because yo
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by nnq 9y ago
TL;DR: A program needs either (a) features + good UX/I or (b) rock-solid stability + amazing performance characteristics to compensate for anything else lacking. Gimp has neither, it's some kind of "middle ground" thingy
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by nnq 9y ago
Exactly! Most examples of horrible UI/X I can think of in Linux land are from the Gtk/Gnome camp. Qt seems to have much better UX/I sense, and some successful apps like Blender just use their own separate thing.
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by nnq 9y ago
> Rust's ecosystem for GUI programming One could just use OpenGL like Blender does to great success, maybe add something like Kivy on top. "Native feel" is not really the most desirable feature for a graphics app, especial
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by nnq 9y ago
Gimp and Inkscape are both extremely sub-par apps... Paint.NET beats Gimp in usability, Photoshop in both features and stability. Last time I tried to use Gimp for anything mildly complex (heavy usage of cage distort on a high res pic wit
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by nnq 9y ago
Yeah, but this is a place where consistency bites your ass (in the absence of types): when you're iterating over characters in a string you usually do something very very different then when you're iterating over a random list.
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by nnq 9y ago
> When you have proper type inference [...] what advantages do dynamic languages really have? You can quickly prototype by repl-ing around half-working pieces of code until you get to something that you can conceptualize. Sometimes you s
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by nnq 9y ago
Didn't go through it all yet, but its premise seems kind of off: you can't really discuss "types in isolation of the language"! Just a basic example of two dynamic languages: In Python I can get a lot done and really
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by nnq 9y ago
> Fashion really has no place in computing. These are tools and we should treat them as such This cracked me up... You do realize that even things like programming language selection are 90% fashion-driven, right?
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by nnq 9y ago
THIS. Material Design guidelines tried to drill these into deisgners' head. But man, their damn artsy skulls are thiiiiick... There should be a "Shadow + Fill if it's tappable/clickable. F please!" rule though in ev
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by nnq 9y ago
Kind of dooh: as we get better and higher DPI display, skeumorphic designs are too good at showing off how good the displays actually are to worth passing off :P Thing with skeumorphic design is that people really don't know where to
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by nnq 9y ago
> on a modern laptop with Intel embedded graphics ~50 fps (Chrome, Linux, i7 8th gen kaby). but I'm on battery mode and not sure which power saving features are active.
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by nnq 9y ago
...and ~50fps on the integrated graphics of i7 mobile 8th gen (oh, and on battery, with power saving features activated). WebGL performance is a weird beast.
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by nnq 9y ago
Yeah, but when tech innovation becomes the only way out of a shitty situation, you incentivize tech innovation! I guess some smart folk figured out that in order to maintain superpower status at all costs you need to maintain the lead at
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by nnq 9y ago
It's on par, as long as you don't do too many refactors on nasty codebases. Now, PyCharm chokes on those nasty refactors too, guessing the right stuff only 70% the stuff in a way that sometimes feels purely random, but at least it
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by nnq 9y ago
wow, that video rocks! thx!
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by nnq 9y ago
not sure if this should stimulate me to re-try Haskell, or to totally scare me :)
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by nnq 9y ago
> delimits a stateful computation which can then be embedded in a pure one in a principled way You probably meant to say smth different, but to many this reads like "you can embed and call impure code inside pure code while the pure
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by nnq 9y ago
To be honest, what gave me a "bitter taste" after looking at OCaml was not the lack of purity or "which stdlib" issue, but the lack of any kind of usable polymorphism. I mean, having to write + or +. or +/ instead
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by nnq 9y ago
OK. Sorry. I said it in a very over the top and inflammatory way, in a sort of "ideological trolling" way. Anyway, thanks for the civil reply and for me still having an account :) I'll try to refrain from using HN when I&#x27
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by nnq 9y ago
Wait, so somebody actively tried to kill the scourge of communism in it womb, and you say it like it's a bad thing?! Maybe that civil war should've been bloodier , if only the other side could have won... it would have spared the
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by nnq 9y ago
Not my words, just the "general feel" that some people are projecting. My experience was just that H felt so elegant and conceptually simple... up until a point (like when you start needing to use lenses or think of monad cobinato
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by nnq 9y ago
That's why you'd need to have a common formally defined semantics underneath, that all syntaxes will be forced to comply with. Solves the halting problem (unless somebody invents a truly weird syntax with meta-meta-templates and c

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