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by pmr_ 15y ago
I use different .Xdefaults for my shell "styling" and are incredibly happy with it. Changing to another theme is just one xrdb -merge away.
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by pmr_ 15y ago
You still have to show that the same amount of opportunities for people are created as are lost by removing low-value jobs. I cannot see the brunt of the people that find themselves out off a job now transitioning into the high-tech sector.
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Segfaults on proprietary AMD hardware every 10 minutes? Why do people even bother to release something like that? I understand that AMD drivers are a pain and I understand that you sometimes want to get a feature out into the open to gather
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Wasn't exception handling based on longjmp and setjmp abandoned in gcc in favor of dwarf2 especially because the former implementation performs poorly? Does the same approach yield different results for C instead of C++?
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I remember reading the term for the first time in The Pragmatic Programmer by Hunt and Thomas. They give the experiences of one of the authors as the origin of the term, but I would really be interested where the term was used the first tim
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Problems in textbooks that are open-ended by accident or broken in one way or the other are surely a great example for real world problems but usually get the pupil that is spotting the problem into trouble. A lot of teachers face high pres
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Is it just me or was this article entirely about lambdas and higher order functions? There wasn't a single example that captured a variable outside of the scope of the function and passed it around. Lambdas by them self are incredibly usefu
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Unfortunately integration with other processes does not always lead to the expected results and many tools have been reimplemented in Emacs Lisp to integrate better with the rest of the Emacs platform. Suddenly, not having multi-threading b
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Very valid points. It looks like the Modules proposal [1] aims to fix some of your points. There certainly is still a lot of work to be done and from what I gathered of the GoingNative panels there is no broad consensus yet on what modules
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by pmr_ 15y ago
It's just so hard to resist the flame bait. Although I really believe that the author tried to be honest here and simply missed a few things that the platform has to offer and tried to make an argument out of his own failure. But the naivet
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I should have mentioned those articles. They are a great example of Haskell influencing a C++ programmer. Although this article might show what the average C++ programmer thinks `using the type system`, `verbosity` and `influencing their st
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by pmr_ 15y ago
If your only example to show C++ verbosity fails to compile and is also patently wrong, you are not making a good point. (The constructor is private, the variable naming prevents short accessors such as Rectangle::width()). Better: struct R
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by pmr_ 15y ago
The hard part is to realize that you belong to the group that cannot be on the middle ground. It took me at least 4 years to fully realize that. It is everything or nothing. Trying to keep a balance between the two extremes takes so much ef
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Cool. A random stranger asks you an incredible amount of horribly silly questions in an aggressive/bored/annoyed tone and they expect your reaction to be something else than "WTF? Leave me alone." If this really were about your reaction to
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Also ncurses (which is still widely used) and a large amount of GNU Emacs code. I cannot comment on how much of the code that is in use in those tools now is still his, but I don't think that matters. But probably his writing and advocacy f
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I agree that this paragraph is badly worded but the rest of the article hardly deals with anything related. There are some valid issues here that have nothing to do with the programming paradigm advocated and supported by either language.
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by pmr_ 15y ago
Certainly not. All this has been available under GPL for ages, except Doom 3 which has been released under GPL just recently.
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by pmr_ 15y ago
He also doesn't hit the mark on editing modes. Emacs and Vi keybindings for shells are usually provided by libreadline. I was really looking for a different shell before. But if those are zsh killler features, it certainly wont be my choice
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I can relate to this a lot. The amount of support requests we have to handle for our libraries originating from Windows users is staggering and the kind of question is sadly often close to something that was asked before (how to link, how t
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by pmr_ 15y ago
When I first had to use Windows 7 and used the new "Start" Button (or whatever they call it nowadays) I actually thought this could be a real step forward. I have been using nothing else but dmenu in my work environments and it is a pleasur
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I recently thought a lot about the relationship between user input and program output and what implications the transformations performed by the program have on the copyright. Consider a heavy optimizing compiler: The program you feed into
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by pmr_ 15y ago
That makes perfect sense. Does having a domain with a list of links to related pages and ads constitute 'using a mark in commerce'?
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I don't know much about copyright but infringing on something that is not yet in existence and being punished for it in retrospect seems just plain wrong to me. Is that even possible? What should hinder him from getting the trademark himsel
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by pmr_ 15y ago
The lark and owl distinction has been driving me crazy since I thought about my sleeping habits. I spent about 2 years with completely self-determined sleep (I even collected sleep data) and do not even approximately fit into those schemes.
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by pmr_ 15y ago
When I saw that the first time I had to think a lot about how such systems end up in the end-user face instead of a scriptable system. Is the fear of exposing users to actual programming so huge or is there simply no 'simple enough' languag
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I'm perfectly aware of that. But a lot of that code ends up shuffling and moving stuff around in buffers and that ends up as work in the C modules. I don't think the distribution of work is as obvious as you make it sound but I'm prone to b
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I don't understand the performance argument. The core editing facilities of Emacs are written in C and I doubt how CL or Guile could outperform this. Maybe my perception of the work-distribution in Emacs is skewed: Is most of the work done
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by pmr_ 15y ago
I should have mentioned that I'm an org-mode user and that this is only a subset of the features I expect my time management system to do.
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by pmr_ 15y ago
If that is all you require, it is perfectly alright. All the features I mentioned are not part of some product managment software but of the usual personal productivity suites.
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by pmr_ 15y ago
The problem with this kind of ad-hoc TODO lists is integration. They are alright as long as you don't try anything fancy but this is inevitably going to happen as soon as something gathers more users. And suddenly you hit a wall in terms of

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