ronjouch

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   by ronjouch 11y ago

   > It doesn't help your position the fact that you are unable to express it without belittling anybody who disagrees with you using stuff like "stay stuck in 1992" ("If you don't like America you should go to Russ
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   by ronjouch 11y ago

   > (a) If large amounts of code written in memory unsafe languages is such a concern then Mozilla should immediately stop adding large numbers of highly complex new features implemented in unsafe code to Firefox every year, > (b) ... m
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   by ronjouch 11y ago

   b. Glad to learn it works now :) c. jsdom, yeah, thanks! Maybe you're used to longer tests and are okay with it; I got spoiled by the early test suite of this project running in one or two seconds, which enabled me to tell my editor to
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   by ronjouch 11y ago

   > 3. [...] The favored test runner, Jest, provides automocking for dependencies and code coverage analysis. 3/3. Thanks for sharing! A few questions about Jest: a. Are you happy with Jest auto-mocking? How do you keep a team from ba
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   by ronjouch 11y ago

   :D . I stand corrected, have an upvote.
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   by ronjouch 11y ago

   If Flash was implemented in JavaScript, which sounds slightly crazy but not entirely impractical Not so crazy, http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ -and Gnash before- does it (to a certain extent) now.
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   by ronjouch 11y ago

   As a first step, what about trying pip's `-f` option, combined with dumping your wheels in a dumb folder served by apache/nginx: pip --help [...] Install Options: [...] -f, --find-links <url> I
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   by ronjouch 11y ago

   Simple. Was expected something more complicated, I could have looked further before asking ^^. Anyway, thanks!
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   by ronjouch 11y ago

   As a complete newcomer to OpenGL, my first thought was "where's the WebGL column?" Now, that makes probably no sense; can someone clarify what these versions mean (apart from API availability described by this table, obviousl
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    by ronjouch 11y ago

    Answering to "why can they change the license after the fact?" , I think the answer is something close to "Licenses can be changed after the fact, provided the owners/maintainers get permission from each contributor, o
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    For custom CSS, a user-level workaround for now could be to style the domain with your userContent.css (Firefox) or the Stylish extension (Firefox, Chrome).
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Your mockup is right on target, Allan Day blogged about it at http://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2014/08/27/gnome-design-saving-y...
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    > The problem is when you want to use some action which isn't one of the 2 or 3 that they've put at the forefront. Agreed on that point. The Office team made a wonderful job at this, by also putting actions in the title bar (e.
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Thanks for taking the time for a detailed answer. Not going to answer in turn in detail, because I have a comically exact opposite point of view for almost all of your points ^^. Well, I guess that just means hail to choice in the Linux w
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    1. What do you consider "awful" (or, OP, a "horror") in this transition? (This is a real question, not a rhetorical one.) CSD are one of the better recent GNOME UX trends, I think, for the reasons below which feel well e
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Rafe Colburn from Etsy wrote about this performance oddity: http://rc3.org/2014/08/28/surprisingly-perl-outperforms-sed-... EDIT to manage expectations: the article doesn't explain why, it just provides
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    > By the way, anyone know of a good terminal app for Windows? Not too crazy about Powershell. I have been using Git Bash and that's decent so far. Reading your expectations and gripes, I'd say try http://bliker.githu
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    http://www.foobar2000.org/ is a fantastic piece of software. Extremely efficient/powerful/customizable (and closed-source). I sorely miss it under Linux, Rhythmbox/Quodlibet/Amarok/Clementine don&#x
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Would you say that again while considering your spouse is a travelling salesman? It's not about one-time trips, it's about the aggregated death toll over years or decades.
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Thanks :) That matches well what I had in mind with my "a." suggestion. Now, why cannot we expect "b. Better performance thanks to enforced type letting the compiler do a better job"? Are the semantics of what's bei
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Reading this pre-PEP, I'm not sure I understand what I will gain from this as a Python programmer. Can anyone explain what we can expect both short-term (first release, Python 3.5) and long-term (later version, accompanied by tooling a
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    "Nothing we do can guarantee a long and healthy life" it true, and shit happens. But running (or swimming, hiking or <insert your favorite non-violent sport here>) are not just a fad, and none made this promise. Their only p
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Indeed. Facebook's own "Complementary Tools" [1] page is more digestible. [1] https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/Complementary-Tools
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Both Debian and Fedora are good options. As summed up nicely by the "Introducing GNOME3 3.14" video at 2:15 [1], here is a probable order of 3.14 landing in various distributions: 1. Arch 2. Fedora 3. Debian 4. Mageia 5. SuSE [1]
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Thanks, and thanks to mkal_tsr for the link to Mission Control, that sounds like fantastic music for work! Here is a list of my go-to music for work: * (mandatory, already seen multiple times on HN) http://musicforprogramming.net
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Not Swift, but definitely related and well presented: you might want to check out Jessica McKellar's PyCon2014 talk on "Building and breaking a Python sandbox": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_syMmRkoU
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Firefox's Developer Toolbar features a `screenshot` command out of the box. Just hit Shift + F2 and type the command: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/GCLI#Commands . Also, Firefox >=32
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Thunderbird users, there's an addon for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/smiley-fi...
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Holy hell, Gary Bernhardt was right all along and the future will be METAL... https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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    by ronjouch 12y ago

    Looking at the license simplifications part of TrueCrypt 7.2 [1], it may be allowed. [1] https://github.com/warewolf/truecrypt/compare/master...7.2#d...