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by notalaser 10y ago
It's not stupid when writing mathematics-related code. Few things are more annoying than having to mentally translate between the 1-based indexing in every formula, theorem and equation to the 0-based indexing in a program. I agree (ba
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I think I last tried it four years ago or so. Not much had changed. I briefly used Apache as a server; I think the server was fine, but the open source clients were flaky at best. I also used to have a hosting account that included WebDAV s
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by notalaser 10y ago
Quite a while ago (~2007) I bought a Mac Mini which I used as my main machine for quite some time (until 2011 or so, I think). I did a lot of programming on it. It was a very good machine and frankly, if Apple were to upgrade it to a decent
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by notalaser 10y ago
The nice thing about Ggnuplot is that it's extremely easy to connect it with anything, since it's basically its own language. Python has made a lot of inroads into the scientifc computing field but it's by no means the only o
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by notalaser 10y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a real programmer :).
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by notalaser 10y ago
Just from memory, changes in the way GTK handles geometry hints broke stuff in a bunch of applications, such as ROX Terminal. I think that was in 3.20. I haven't really followed development after 3.16 or so, I try to avoid GTK 3 applic
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by notalaser 10y ago
It's a very popular one. However, for the last couple of years, minor releases of a supposedly stable branch included backwards-incompatible changes that broke applications and themes. Basically, upgrading from 3.8 to 3.10 resulted in
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by notalaser 10y ago
I think this is what I'm not getting :-). To someone who's so sick of dealing with GTK3 and xdg and everythingd breakage that I'm contemplating getting a Mac more seriously than when I saw the PowerMac G5 specs, the idea that
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by notalaser 10y ago
> Software has security vulnerabilities. So, even if the software is trusted, there could be a zero-day vulnerability that is exploited. I'd rather have software stopped in its tracks. How? When the zero day hits, the program has lo
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by notalaser 10y ago
I remember using this sort of applications on Windows (a very long time ago; those were the days of Windows 98, whose famous stability drove me to Linux and BSD). Can some of its users help me shed some light on the use case of such a progr
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by notalaser 10y ago
I twitch a little every time I read something like this: > Precision CNC milled from aircraft grade aluminum to 1/1000ths of an inch tolerance What you need aicraft-grade aluminum for? And a 1-mil tolerance? Are you building a reall
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by notalaser 10y ago
Yeah, that was even terrible-er. Fedora mostly fixed things by release 11 or so (not that this wasn't still about, what, 1.5 years?).
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by notalaser 10y ago
I heard this stuff ("...it was terrible until PulseAudio delivered us from evil") so many times that I actually began to question my memory and dug down in old mailing list threads and my old screenshot folder. It especially pisse
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by notalaser 10y ago
> I ended up just going [..] WindowMaker! There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
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by notalaser 10y ago
The 4.x line of Netscape was really, really bad, on every platforms, not just Linux. I distinctly remember a small period of time, between the time when Netscape 4 came out and the time when I learned about Opera being available on Linux, w
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by notalaser 10y ago
GNUStep is still being developed, much to my amazement, but somewhat slowly. Back in 2002-2003, it was actually in use for some commercial development, too, so it's not like it's a long-abandoned turd. But the development rate is
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by notalaser 10y ago
True, it's just somewhat unpleasant to have to remember where the file you're editing is and wonder if it's safe. The good news is that a lot of these things are getting fixed. E.g. it used to be that path expansion for execu
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by notalaser 10y ago
Sadly, it never gathered much attention outside the former NeXTStep users crowd, save for a small resurgence of interest back OS X adoption soared and a lot of people began to actually like Cocoa. Which is quite a shame. Mail.app, for insta
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by notalaser 10y ago
However, this is thing: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/21/microsoft-dont-edit-linux-f... . Half the reason why I'd consider making the switch is being able to keep on using my CLI tools while still havin
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by notalaser 10y ago
"Far less fragmented" is anything but a good description of what I remember. There was a time when you had reasonable chances of running applications which used five different toolkits -- Qt, GTK, WxWindows, Motif, Xaw (, FOX, the
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by notalaser 10y ago
Or use the same bloody interfaces that have worked for twenty years with the same bloody buttons that have worked for almost a century.
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by notalaser 10y ago
> The manual partitioning also was quite cumbersome for me, even though I've done a lot of fdisk fiddling when I was younger. The main issue for me was the lack of clear documentation regarding this phase [1]. The way I do it, latel
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by notalaser 10y ago
> I really wish people would stop making comments like this. I didn't mean to imply that Fedora isn't a first-class distribution in its own right. In this post's context, I see why it would look that way, and I apologize f
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by notalaser 10y ago
I took Void for a spin on my desktop because, as much as I like OpenBSD, I do occasionally need to touch stuff that's Linux-only. It's like a breath of fresh air, really. I can go about and mind my own business, as if all the mind
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by notalaser 10y ago
Your post seems to suggest that you won't be developing for Linux and just need something that's a good virtualization host and all-round desktop. In this case, any distribution that you can get along with will do. Especially if
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by notalaser 10y ago
I agree that there is room for disagreement between the two approaches. However, I don't think that AMD did things this way just because of short-sighted management. A HAL-like layer is a solution that I've seen or heard of in a l
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by notalaser 10y ago
I don't know if HALs in the kernel would have been the smart thing to do here (I'm not familiar enough with the problem to comment; generally, abstracting hardware access behind a HAL is a smart thing, but "generally"
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by notalaser 10y ago
Linux drivers on the nVidia side are OK. I've had excellent performance, and no trouble with them for what I think are already 10 years now, if not more. Lack of driver support is not what's stopping people from releasing Linux
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As long as you're within the communication range and in whatever your protocol calls a "reasonable" environment (e.g. not underwater), you're OK. The strength of the signals isn't chosen at random, it's chosen
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by notalaser 10y ago
Me and my girlfriend (we both really, really like cooking) do that with a lot of recipes that involve sugar. It does affect the texture, but I think it often improves the taste. There are things that ought to be sugary (like thick syrups

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