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by smartmic 6y ago
This is neither new nor surprising. I recommend the little book "How to lie with statistics" by Darrell Huff, first published 1954. Chapter 5, called "The Gee-Whiz Graph" dives into the matter of truncated bar graphs (am
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by smartmic 6y ago
I do not know Volkov Commander but have a look at the simple file manager, it basically does exactly what you describe: https://github.com/afify/sfm
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by smartmic 6y ago
> Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc? Yes, and there was a kind of dispute about this. The gist of it can be found in this ticket: https://midnight-commander.org&#x2F
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Fix Terminals(leonerd.org.uk)
135 points by smartmic 6y ago|65 comments
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by smartmic 6y ago
A nice and powerful C++ flow-based programming framework is DSPatch [1]. It is definitely worth to mention here, check out also the examples in the audio domain. [1] http://flowbasedprogramming.com/docs/html/index
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by smartmic 6y ago
I do not use WSL but see a good reason for WSL. The benefits for the users are superficial but the really big thing is on the business side for Microsoft. With WSL they try to trap more and more Linux developers into their ecosystem. It
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by smartmic 6y ago
Guix makes me feel good. Even in case there is package version conflict because I tried various version, I can stay calm and feel safe. Just run `guix upgrade` on the affected packages solves the problem well. An a rollback is also not far
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Reasons to Avoid GitHub (2017)(sanctum.geek.nz)
2 points by smartmic 6y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 6y ago
My favorite plain text presentation tool is `sent` [1]. It is even more minimal but works surprisingly well (at least for me). Javascript-free but only for X11. [1] https://tools.suckless.org/sent/
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Terminal kanban board written in bash(github.com)
2 points by smartmic 6y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 6y ago
Is it really too much to ask from such a project to learn about its initiators and purpose in a first place directly from the site itself?
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by smartmic 6y ago
I bet a majority of critics here have a Github account and work actively on the platform. The good news is that we still have the freedom of choice, so, take a step back and resume the control of your code and data. At least think about it.
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TaskJuggler – Text-Based Project Management(taskjuggler.org)
2 points by smartmic 6y ago|0 comments
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Timeline of Operating Systems (2015)(xkcd.com)
1 points by smartmic 6y ago|0 comments
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Pikchr – PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation(pikchr.org)
77 points by smartmic 6y ago|18 comments
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by smartmic 6y ago
For me it feels quite the opposite. OS X is built upon on a Unix core and shares such common heritage. There is consistency in the design throughout all OS levels. On the contrary with Windows and GNU/Linux, IMHO two very incompatib
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by smartmic 6y ago
It's still strange. What about Github stars? Either the HN crowd is very biased or we have been ignorant or V enthusiasts do not show up here often. Most of the latest system programming language discussions and post here revolve aroun
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Brian Kernighan on the typesetting of “The Go Programming Language” book (2016)(rkrishnan.org)
3 points by smartmic 6y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 6y ago
I would go one step further and say that among the mentioned post-open source alternatives, free licenses are the most mature, legally sound and promising candidates to fight corporate exploitation of developers.
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by smartmic 6y ago
You can have UTF-8 with groff using the preconv [1] tool, just pass the "-k" or "-Kutf8" paramater. It will preprocess your source and replace Unicode symbols with its groff special character form. Of course, the built-i
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Soupault – A fresh, OCaml-powered approach towards static website generation(soupault.neocities.org)
2 points by smartmic 6y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 6y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21732902
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Conventional Commits(conventionalcommits.org)
37 points by smartmic 6y ago|23 comments
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by smartmic 6y ago
The user community is really outstanding. Just have a look on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/j Questions are answered in no time, the folks are very friendly and treat everyone on eye level. A great
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by smartmic 6y ago
Good news, seems like the GNU Linux-libre team has enough to do anyhow … ( https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-08/msg00001... )
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by smartmic 6y ago
Some more contenders: https://github.com/guteksan/REST-CPP-benchmark Personally, I use cpp-httplib to set up a web service for some old but highly relevant Fortran libraries. I am quite happy with this framework but it
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PLplot – Cross-Platform Plotting
1 points by smartmic 6y ago|0 comments
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by smartmic 6y ago
It boils down to the (hostile?) takeover of the term "Open Source" by large, shareholder-value driven companies. Admittingly, Stallman has a point when he says "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software" [1] [1]
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by smartmic 6y ago
I still cannot wrap my head around why so many folks want to use such applications in a web browser. For me, web browser applications never reach the responsiveness and ease of use of well crafted desktop applications written in any decent
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Git for Computer Scientists(eagain.net)
3 points by smartmic 6y ago|0 comments

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