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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Ads & music. You got off easy! Combine with a bunch of inept presenters that fill in time by raving about tabloid news like it's their religion. It's madness.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Yep. Twitter should have incorporated the concept of user switching to their UI by now. Trying to avoid (US/gender) politics by unfollowing technical leader people has left me with a, let's say, very manageable set of people to fo
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
I sighed with relief that the characters were not emoji.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
This is it! Very lean and has sensible functionality, defaults.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Is newsblur close or similar to theoldreader.com? TOR is somewhat faithful clone of google reader but it's very heavy on the JS. Hardly usable on Firefox.\\ I see, it's very usable thanks to the online demo. Might switch to it.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Have you asked your M-x doctor about it yet? ;)
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
I wonder if those widgets require GTK support in Emacs. I compile a plain X support for my emacs only, because with GTK it doesn't stay up for months without crashing. I had an emacs server with 180 day uptime the other day. Maybe on m
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Excellent news. This is the one thing that zsh had and bash didn't. Well, among the things that I use...
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Even Hitler's desires? One has to remember that "a better world" is a very subjective thing.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
#emacs on Freenode is great, if one can handle the traffic. Great convos and greatest (IT/CS related) memes.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
I have found it generally very uncomfortable because a vast majority of content on the web doesn't scale well vertically. You keep a wide window, you get way too long paragraphs that are hard to read as your eyes jump between the lines
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Linux, with a tiling window manager. :-) You could say that it favors strongly both cases: running windows full-screen and also running a 70% window with say two 15% windows. Windows 10, which I use in work, has this annoying habit that if
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
I run low-distraction windows or even just show the desktop next to my half-a-screen browser.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Understood, I upvoted your message. The different preferences between sites -- and tabs -- is the biggest nuisance for me too, but not too big a nuisance.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
The page is very beautiful in its versatility. No fancy JS hacks to keep pages style: you can use Firefox' reader view for instance. I keep my browser windows around 1000x1000 pixels because the vast majority of sites would otherwise s
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Or... you know, maybe don't browse stuff with a full-sized browser window? I don't get who is forcing people to make their surfing so uncomfortable.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
KaTeX looks very good, but currently I let org-mode do the backend lifting for me. Maybe if I rewrite my blog engine once again... ;-)
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
One example: in my static blog I provide very nice maths using MathJax, but I also provide fallback PNG renders of the formulae. The small JS my blog has, it reads these pictures' alt texts and renders the latex if found. This stuff is
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
That would be a reasonable exception. Of course, I'd only give the page a 5/5 rating if the JS code would be still readable even if no output would be produced.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
I can read all mentioned pages with NoScript enabled. But fully agreed that static pages such as blogs shouldn't require JS to show the primary content.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3126/ Nothing mind-changing in here. Translations seem to take the biggest hit, but it's largely a matter of company conventions if this is a problem. IMO the grounds
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
One Python gotcha that has bitten people in my company a lot: fun_call('string1', 'string2' 'string3') That is, missing commas and subsequent string concatenations can lead to
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Can the perspective difference be fixed in post? It's not going to be pretty interpolating the pixels using the other lens's data.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
The funny thing is that updating the radio on a 20-year old car is cheap, but updating the radio on a 10-year-old can be prohibitely expensive, given the audio systems have been increasinly integrated.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
On the other hand, all the inner refactorings happening to Firefox may threaten the addon ecosystem by constraining them Chrome-like. There's no telling if there'll be a vimperator for firefox 50, 55, 60. The way vi emulator addon
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Or normal mode ZZ
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Question that may be obvious for those who have experience on the matter: is OpenBSD for server use a nobrainer? It's not that popular on that section even though everything looks so good, so well suited for serving.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
acme
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
Nice. My Firefox with a very old custom set of AdB rules actually breaks youtube videos with ads. The video just restarts a couple times until it starts showing cute static noise.
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by pvdebbe 10y ago
I don't think it's saying exactly that. One should think up a solution first, then see if one needs patterns to fit that solution into the code base in language of choice. PHP certainly doesn't need all of Gang of Four recip

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