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by rossy 10y ago
I haven't used the new version of QtWebKit yet, but I've heard the changes are pretty huge and they basically bring QtWebKit back up to par with other modern web browsers. It's pretty exciting to see one of the lesser known w
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This gets weird when you compare it to how structs work in C. Both are complex data types, so I sometimes forget that array semantics are totally different to struct/union semantics. Unlike arrays, in ANSI C, structs are real value typ
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by rossy 10y ago
I'd love to see more web apps that use WebCrypto to encrypt data on the client side, but WebCrypto has a problem. It's hard to trust programs that run on the web. Even if the app promises to encrypt user data, someone in control o
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by rossy 10y ago
This sounds like an application/website problem rather than an operating system problem. You don't need to distribute both an EXE and an MSI installer. That's like distributing both a .pkg installer and a .dmg/.zip for y
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by rossy 10y ago
This is just a style nitpick, but there a are a lot of extraneous scrollbars ( https://0x0.st/LT1.png ). It looks like this was designed on a Mac, where overflow: scroll works the same as overflow: auto and scrollbars take up
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by rossy 10y ago
> Is looking at some comics website even a privacy problem? I don't think it matters what the website is. Privacy should be the default. The idea that popular CDNs could passively gather a list of websites I visit is disturbing to m
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> and yes, seedboxes are doing more than you in the "giving" aspect. Are they? Surely after a certain point, adding more bandwidth to the network doesn't make a difference. If you add another fast seedbox, maybe some peopl
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by rossy 10y ago
There's an argument to be had about FOSS vs. proprietary software in general, but I think it's pretty clear when it comes to emulators. There is something wrong with closed-source emulators. Everyone who develops an emulator for a
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by rossy 10y ago
Agreed wrt. the permissions gate. I wish more web APIs used these. I think there's an argument going around that these things are bad UX because they train the user to ignore prompts and just accept anything and everything so they can
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No. Removing options seems to be a common trend in modern software design and I hate it. The prevailing wisdom seems to be that if there's a choice between doing something two different ways, rather than adding an option, the developer
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I'm not totally sure, but it seems like it allows you to peek at the ClientHello message at the start of a TLS stream without performing a TLS handshake or otherwise interrupting the stream, so it can be forwarded with encryption to a
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by rossy 10y ago
I'd expand on this and say every command line program should support GNU getopt_long() syntax, since this is the most popular syntax for command line interfaces and it saves having to guess the syntax when using a program for the first
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by rossy 10y ago
I know Qt Quick Controls 2.x focuses on mobile, but I'm still waiting for it to get a native look-and-feel on the desktop. Qt Widgets is near-perfect if you want native look-and-feel across desktop platforms, but since all the focus is
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by rossy 10y ago
True that. Of the three programs I can see on my desktop right now (Chrome, WebStorm and Outlook,) none of them are even remotely trying to look consistent with the rest of the operating system. On the other hand, Office 2000 looks right at
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by rossy 10y ago
Is it wrong that I really like the look of some of these? Some are garish, sure, but others like http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/KDE%202-x/kd... and http://www.digibarn.com/col
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by rossy 10y ago
Well, I just made a static build of a Qt 5.7 project that required the SVG image format plugin, so it's definitely possible. In qmake projects, it all happens automatically if you specify the plugins you use in the QTPLUGINS variable.
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Are you sure? I'm building a cross platform desktop application at the moment. I briefly considered QML, but decided against it because I care about high-DPI support and native look & feel on Windows, and it seems like Qt Quick Con
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by rossy 10y ago
> Qt only emulates Windows controls, but wxWidgets uses the actual Windows controls via Microsoft Win32 API. I don't think this is actually what you want on Windows. The standard common controls are pretty outdated. Anyone who has b
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by rossy 10y ago
Heh. Maybe a reference to this: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24
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Well, not really. ES5 allows trailing commas in object literals too.
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It's about the feasibility of breaking 256-bit encryption keys with a naive brute force attack. The simplest component of a computer that performs this attack would be a 256-bit counter that iterates through all possible key values, ho
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by rossy 10y ago
What's interesting is that (at the bottom of the stack of JavaScript turtles) xterm.js depends on pty.js. Windows does not provide a pseudoterminal API like Linux, so there is no official way of writing a terminal emulator that behaves
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by rossy 10y ago
mingw-w64 comes with a pthreads implementation that works on top of the Windows API: https://github.com/mirror/mingw-w64/tree/master/mingw-w64-li...
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I'm not entirely sure how common it is in modern projects, but I use it a lot. I find functions that use this kind of centralized cleanup code a lot easier to read than functions that avoid 'goto' by duplicating the cleanup c
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I don't want to defend Windows' font rendering, because I hate it too, but (as far as I understand) the core idea behind these changes is good. AGG's article on text rasterization[1] also recommends that renderers ignore hori
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> anything I install from source sits in /usr/local To be fair, this is the norm on Linux too. I have never used BSD as a desktop operating system, but everything I've installed from source also sits in /usr/loca
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by rossy 10y ago
Cygwin programs technically run under the Win32 subsystem, but they're not that cleanly layered. The runtime calls into a lot of Nt* functions, including undocumented ones. midipix (which another commenter mentioned) is another Unix-li
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by rossy 10y ago
Presumably nothing, if I was writing a UWP app. All I said was that WGL didn't work in UWP apps, not that there wasn't any alternatives. It's actually pretty interesting that Microsoft maintain a fork of ANGLE for this purpos
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by rossy 10y ago
Well, that would use a WebGL canvas and Edge's GLES renderer, not WGL and desktop GL. (WGL refers to Microsoft's equivalent of GLX and EGL here, not WebGL.)
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Well, that's interesting. The state of desktop OpenGL on Windows is pretty awful at the moment. The antiquated WGL APIs make it difficult to control when your application enters exclusive fullscreen mode, and as far as I know, it'

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