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by pekk 11y ago
Plenty of people don't use AMD packages at all, wtf?
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by pekk 11y ago
It doesn't seem fair to not allow proper comments and label choices using the keyboard...
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by pekk 11y ago
> Everything seems unnecessarily complex. This impulse to find a simpler land of software is what I relate to in the Suckless stuff, and Terry Davis' TempleOS. What these have in common is a large degree of separation from "the
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by pekk 11y ago
People who write software shouldn't brag about making billions of perfect copies, or being able to make changes in hours, because that is just an aspect of their field which is inherently easier than automotive engineering. It isn&#x27
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by pekk 11y ago
Without starting any religious wars, I think we could all name at least one language that is very poorly and even dangerously designed, even though it lets you make stuff which sort-of works and earn money.
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by pekk 11y ago
Swordfish is great on a phone. The picture for Jolla looks different if you are not in the US speaking from an Android/iPhone centric point of view. There is really nobody else taking Linux on mobile this seriously.
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by pekk 11y ago
> McKenna's brilliant wordsmithing is the polar opposite of what you see with degenerative mental illness. But then there are also people like Philip K. Dick, no "armchair diagnosed" schizophrenic. This might again raise t
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by pekk 11y ago
When a lot of the economy depends on volatile markets, there are negative externalities. In other words, it doesn't just affect the people who are using the market to gamble.
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by pekk 11y ago
Yes, because the best way to make software is to eternally add more features to the same pile of code until it is impossible to get anything done.
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by pekk 11y ago
Who do you mean by "the Ministry of Truth"?
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by pekk 11y ago
If you copy and paste code irrespective of bracket position, you will have the same problems. It turns out not to be an issue. A big positive of using indentation is that it enforces a visual indication of scope vs. languages where cultural
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by pekk 11y ago
> I've been using emacs for about 20yrs as my main coding editor and vi regularly as a fast command line editor. It was not made for you. If you want to change or automate something, you have the option of either getting Emacs or Vi
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by pekk 11y ago
I wish the industry culture was fun enough to actually implement it.
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by pekk 11y ago
I would not identify Reddit as having a healthy social component. Everything that has been said here about Instagram is also largely true of Reddit, and then you can add in the Neo-nazis, fatpeoplehaters and so on on top of that.
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by pekk 11y ago
HN becomes really unpleasant to use when you get enough downvotes, daily post throttling, etc.
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by pekk 11y ago
I don't know how elevated that is, you are an artist if you make art and art might be really simple.
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by pekk 11y ago
"They don't even seem clear whether they want to kill me or not." When someone very influential broadcasts the idea that people who don't like economic inequality (let's arbitrarily call them "liberals") a
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by pekk 11y ago
I don't see how these numbers would be more real than measuring programmers at work, unless you intend to help non-programmers write programs.
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by pekk 11y ago
You have to decide for yourself what is relevant to your application-visible needs. If you deem that Linux is better for running your Java app than QNX, no one wants to take that decision away from you. I don't think that's where
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by pekk 11y ago
Indentation is visible. Conservatively estimated, tens to hundreds of thousands of programmers don't have any real problem with syntax based on indentation.
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by pekk 11y ago
IDE features also kill the argument against Python-style indentation. It's not like experienced Python programmers are constantly getting confused by their IDEs and wondering what scope a line is in.
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by pekk 11y ago
"Sorry" is not an undermining phrase, it is part of being polite. I don't care what you learned in Alpha Male school, sometimes you really should apologize.
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by pekk 11y ago
You don't just need desire and ambition to learn. You also have to convince interviewers that you are a rockstar that will be a "culture fit."
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by pekk 11y ago
It is an industry-wide cultural problem.
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by pekk 11y ago
You seem to think that everyone hired by a company rather than a staffing agency under H1B is in category 1, but it isn't so. I won't bother to name names
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by pekk 11y ago
You probably know better, but I want to dispel some misunderstandings this post might unintentionally create. I am not a lawyer, nor am I associated with FSF, nor am I associated with AdaCore. Using a compiler licensed GPL does not mean tha
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by pekk 11y ago
It is largely because the package namespace is polluted, so the name you want is never available.
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by pekk 11y ago
> But then stopped being interested in that became sort of an ignorant user that just wants his dev environment, (compilers), language packages, wifi, trackpad to work etc. This is exactly why I have been using Ubuntu for years. If I car
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by pekk 11y ago
If you complain in moderation along with praise I don't think you are the kind of person who was being called a complainer. If you switch distributions forever because you refuse to install a single package to get a different desktop,
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by pekk 11y ago
I haven't had wifi problems with Ubuntu for literally a decade. When there is a problem, it isn't Ubuntu's fault as a distribution but rather has to do with hardware that has no Linux driver or needs a very recent kernel vers

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