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by reidrac 8y ago
LGPL isn't great for games either. One of the most celebrated changes in SDL2 was moving from LGPL to ZLIB license. All the linking requirements of LGPL are a pain for games and distribution.
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by reidrac 8y ago
For me, having some open source on GitHub, bitbucket and launchpad, has been useful in few job interviews because it kind of helped to avoid the "coding exercise" and it was a good data point to prove I know how to use git and goo
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by reidrac 8y ago
I could be wrong, but I follow few podcasts about "the hobby" and seems like people my age got into it on early 90s and stopped playing on by the end of the decade. Now we're in our 40s and technology makes it easier to get b
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by reidrac 8y ago
I agree with you, fines will happen in extreme cases, based in my experience with similar laws. Currently GDPR is news and there's a lot of hype around it and Instapaper is getting some attention because they failed to prepare AND, by
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by reidrac 8y ago
Yes: the transitive dependencies is the big problem here, and a hard one to solve. I can handle direct dependencies manually, more or less, because that's the code I'm using directly and I know what are my requirements. But then
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by reidrac 8y ago
Back in uni I emailed Andrew Tanenbaum asking some silly question about the Amoeba operating system. This was around 97, and the Internet was still new to me. There was access in one lab 1 hour once a week or something like that, so the fac
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by reidrac 9y ago
Writing Go it is good practice dealing with the errors first and, when possible, using if/return; and I agree. Less indentation is good IMHO, and conditional nesting is usually best if avoided. Working on someone's else code I&#x2
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by reidrac 9y ago
I've been very happy with gvim for many years, so I don't think I will change any time soon (although Emacs + evil is very sweet too, specially writing Clojure). But there's one thing I can't really understand and, for m
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by reidrac 9y ago
I'm sure that doesn't exist. I've had my site in the front page several times and I never had a problem. I agree I'm a competent sysadm and there's a peak on visits often in a short period, but my server is not as o
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by reidrac 10y ago
Also, why the quotes on community?
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by reidrac 10y ago
It happened to me in my phone and Chrome browser on my desktop; but my password did work (using 2FA). Both use "app passwords".
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by reidrac 10y ago
Yes, you're correct; but I found the UI too ugly and at that point I was already too frustrated. It's probably me, but I had put already too much time on something that shouldn't be an issue.
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by reidrac 10y ago
I'm not sure "popular clients" is a good thing to look at; Skype UI isn't great (and really bad if you use the IM part of it). On this topic; I wouldn't mind hosting my own XMPP service, but most clients aren't
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by reidrac 10y ago
You're absolutely right. The problem is that it really doesn't matter if it is amazing an works fine out of the box: people won't use it because SELinux is generally perceived as a technology that is too complicated and will
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by reidrac 10y ago
It really doesn't matter, the compiler will generate the same code (gcc -S at least does generate the same assembler output for both pieces of code; see: https://gist.github.com/reidrac/afb89b29228a243954bd51281c39
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by reidrac 10y ago
I find annoying when a project identifies itself as an "Operating System" that I didn't know about... until now, because I suspect that it may be a Linux distribution and not a new OS, but I can't tell from the main page
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by reidrac 10y ago
Or use someting like http://www.mapeditor.org/ and export to JSON. It could be more extensible, but a text property can have JSON, so you can kind of extend it like that. Then process that JSON into whatever you need (I use
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by reidrac 10y ago
Finishing projects is a skill on itself; the article is right on focusing on what is really important, but I'm not so sure all the points are as useless as the author is presenting them. Would you say those 6 years were wasted time?
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by reidrac 10y ago
I used to love Perl 5 in my free time for personal projects around 2009-2010, frameworks like Dancer or Mojolicious were getting traction and it was a lot of fun; but when I wanted to change my career and move away from what I was doing at
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by reidrac 10y ago
I don't think they should do that, for different reasons. For example, lots of projects have more than one license, but GitHub seems to list only one. Incorrect information is worse than no information. Besides current implementation o
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by reidrac 10y ago
I wrote a VM for the 6502 for fun and it was one of most interesting and satisfying projects I've ever made in my free time. It is very close to a bytecode interpreter, only that it comes with a specification that is actually the opcod
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by reidrac 10y ago
It could be done in different ways, but as the FAQ says, rclone wants to keep file/object 1:1 mapping; which is useful in lots of cases; but not if you want to use rclone as a backup tool. Binary diffs would be useful if you're sy
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by reidrac 10y ago
I was a fan of DDD back in the day (long ago, when the Motif based UI was OK ), but that was because I really didn't know how to use plain gdb. I'm actually surprised that DDD continues (somewhat, there was a release in 2009).
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by reidrac 10y ago
No, it doesn't. Only timestamps on files are preserved. It could store that information as metadata, like it does with the timestamps; and then restore if supported by the destination file system when copying/syncing files back.
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by reidrac 10y ago
rsclone operates like a limited rsync between different cloud providers (and local filesystem too), so either copy files or mirror two directories; duplicity does incremental backups.
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by reidrac 10y ago
I think he says he changed styles only, which is closer to the WYSIWYM ("what you see is what you mean") idea used by Lyx, for example. I agree that WYSIWYG type of editors are terrible, specially for big documents, but limiting t
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by reidrac 10y ago
I'm not sure it is the "next big thing" as you say. The Arduino IDE and all the ecosystem of libraries and community could be the actual "big thing", because the Arduino is just a convenient development board; but y
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by reidrac 10y ago
I bought one of the first Humble Bundle and I couldn't make work any of the games. Awful support and unclear (or just wrong) instructions, and because it wasn't that much money and I wanted to support the developers... I let it
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by reidrac 10y ago
Looking at the results, I don't think installing via deb or snap should be a requirement to make a game "recommendable". In my experience Linux gamers aren't just Linux users and they're quite happy with tarball fil
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by reidrac 10y ago
I found really interesting the amount of broken links in a blog post that is 10 years old, besides the fact that the blog post still exists after 10 years.

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