ori_b

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1. 3331.▲
   by ori_b 18y ago

   Draw a triangle; Do the trig. Between any arbitrary point on a line segment, the point on the line segment that contains the shortest point, and the point in question, you have a triangle. You can take the length between any point on the li
2. 3332.▲
   by ori_b 18y ago

   You don't even need that. Your OS just needs a sane security model to enable sandboxing processes.
3. 3333.▲
   by ori_b 18y ago

   That may be the case (I don't know) but sending more funding towards buying from small guys won't fix anything if the barrier to entry is bureaucracy. The solution is to fix the bureaucracy, not to throw more money at it.
4. 3334.▲
   by ori_b 18y ago

   Because I'm certain that you wanted to be a programmer from the moment that you entered high school, and it never benefitted you to have even a vague idea of what other people do for a living? Let alone intellectual curiosity.
5. 3335.▲
   by ori_b 18y ago

   Teach them programming in addition to that. Ideally, the students should have a minimal exposure to everything under the sun -- or at least, as much of it as is practical. An in-depth knowledge of specific fields shouldn't be required, but
6. 3336.▲
   by ori_b 18y ago

   They're building on top of GNUstep.
7. 3337.▲
   by ori_b 18y ago

   Oh. It's by Dziuba. No wonder it reeks of envy and poor writing.
8. 3338.▲
   by ori_b 18y ago

   I've had less serious breakage under Debian Unstable than I've had under stable released of Ubuntu, surprisingly enough. I know, anecdote != data, but that's my experience with it.