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BenchFFT – comprehensive FFT software benchmarking(fftw.org)
3 points by smartmic 5y ago|0 comments
872.
by smartmic 5y ago
Leaving aside the well-known and commented "features" of Electron, out of interest, I looked into the most prominent Markdown file in the repository, README.md. Huh? Where is the markdown? Scroll, baby, scroll… This is disturbing
873.
Graphics for Linux Without X – Beginner's Guide to SVGAlib(svgalib.org)
2 points by smartmic 5y ago|1 comments
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Texteditors – listing almost 2000 editors(texteditors.org)
4 points by smartmic 5y ago|0 comments
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Ne, the Nice Editor(ne.di.unimi.it)
7 points by smartmic 5y ago|0 comments
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EU to force Apple to switch to USB-C standard(politico.eu)
61 points by smartmic 5y ago|45 comments
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by smartmic 5y ago
This can never be the best GNU/Linux experience because you leave up your freedom and privacy at the door of the Windows login. Anyone who is serious about the future of openess, freedom and privacy rights in software and general shoul
878.
by smartmic 5y ago
A completely prejudiced and highly reduced view on SQL implementations, but one that could reflect the general mood: in the camp of the good: PostgreSQL, SQLite; in that of the bad: Oracle SQL, MSSQL. Somewhere in between with a tendency to
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by smartmic 5y ago
Isn't the authors conclusion about the fragmented landscape symptomatic for almost all FOSS solutions which try to tackle a specific user need? I think this is a positive development. The diversity and rapid development of technologies
880.
GTF's Green Coding White Paper [pdf](landing.gft.com)
2 points by smartmic 5y ago|0 comments
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Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers(castle-engine.io)
38 points by smartmic 5y ago|3 comments
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by smartmic 5y ago
Section 3 under "quirks" gives more reasoning about this design choice, especially: "In retrospect, perhaps it would have been better if SQLite had merely implemented an ANY datatype so that developers could explicitly state
883.
MORMot – All-in-One Client-Server Framework for Delphi(synopse.info)
3 points by smartmic 5y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 5y ago
The author argues in two directions that you either fail to recognize or ignore. First, it is still possible to change something for the better, it is not yet "inevitable". Second, should this not happen, then it is not about &quo
885.
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game- Which programming language is fastest?(benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net)
3 points by smartmic 5y ago|0 comments
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The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube (2020)(holistics.io)
211 points by smartmic 5y ago|91 comments
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by smartmic 5y ago
Maybe now is the time to release a GPLv4 extending-restricting-relating the four freedoms to non-humans. I expect the best lawyers from Microsoft have had a look into this and maybe there a weaknesses in GPLv3 ready to exploit for corporate
888.
by smartmic 5y ago
Here is a summary of similarities and differences on Git and Fossil functionalities: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/gitusers.md Also quite interesting the general comparison: https:/&#x2
889.
by smartmic 5y ago
I would not call this "stickiness" - it is about having control over your customers. The latter is hierarchical, not on eye's level. Stickiness could imply a quid pro quo status though.
890.
by smartmic 5y ago
I do not know sqlite-utils, but my first thought was: why not do it purely using jq and sqlite3's CLI ? Okay, this is interactive but so are almost all of my exploratory data analysis tasks. Just a few steps: convert JSON to CSV with j
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Perl Data Language: Scientific Computing with Perl(pdl.perl.org)
144 points by smartmic 5y ago|108 comments
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by smartmic 5y ago
I find it much more exciting to make such discoveries with old, stable languages than to follow the latest developments of hip languages. Much of what is invented or rewritten there again and again has been running with proven tools for dec
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Base16 – building themes using a base of sixteen colours(chriskempson.com)
2 points by smartmic 5y ago|0 comments
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SQL Fiddle(sqlfiddle.com)
3 points by smartmic 5y ago|0 comments
895.
by smartmic 6y ago
Oh yes, the reputation of the learning curve precedes it. But the book helped me get started and, as is often the case with complex things, once you've dealt with it a bit, the experience wasn't as bad as I feared.
896.
by smartmic 6y ago
First thing that comes to my mind is the best-in-class cross-UNIX compatibility. But shouldn't the question be the other way around: What can the modern tools do that autotools can't?
897.
by smartmic 6y ago
I also highly recommend John Calcote's book "Autotools" from no starch press: https://nostarch.com/autotools2e Probably the best technical book I bought in the last year. After the lecture, I have put aside a
898.
by smartmic 6y ago
I just switched my time tracking to a fzf-based solution named tmt [1], also a great use case for fzf! [1] https://github.com/sitaramc/notes/blob/master/tmt
899.
by smartmic 6y ago
Jamstack lists 322 static site generators plus there are probably many homemade solutions using standard unix tools etc. I am wondering if there are any unique selling points not yet covered by less than a dozen projects. Fast compilation a
900.
by smartmic 6y ago
> In short, the problems were human not technical. I disagree. Problems have been in both human and technical realm and, even worse, there is no way to clearly disentangle those two factors. Good arguments are given in Charles Perrow cla

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