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by snaky 9y ago
That's mostly not X11, but fancy DEs with fancy DE-oriented apps. Try some lightweight window manager with xterm.
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by snaky 9y ago
> pgSQL is still not quite there when compared to PL/SQL. Yes, but maybe it's a good thing after all. pgSQL is small, and mostly clear and restrictive, there's no bunch of imperative features and dark corners. The main poi
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by snaky 9y ago
Sure, HN is exceptionally SV-skewed. .NET is the bread and butter of most small and middle businesses around the world, as it's Java and Oracle for upper-middle and enterprise.
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by snaky 9y ago
Current state of affairs in IBM i world https://www.itjungle.com/2017/12/13/2017-ibm-year-review/ https://www.itjungle.com/2017/06/21/seven-bright-spots-ponde...
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by snaky 9y ago
And ADABAS (officially declared fully supported through the year 2050 and beyond). Most often considered non-relational too. High-value transactional environments most often neither relational nor even running on operating system (in modern
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by snaky 9y ago
i Series (System/38, AS/400) is very interesting to learn about, even today. "Inside the AS/400" book by Frank G. Soltis is good, "AS/400: Designed for the Cloud" video ( https://www.youtube
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by snaky 9y ago
That's good, but it's almost a year ahead (November 2018), and I wonder how many Snapchat users care about permissions at all.
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by snaky 9y ago
"By making our numbers 'more complicated', the methods we use to work with those numbers may become more simple."
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by snaky 9y ago
Maybe the future of interconnects is mechanical after all. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2017/EECS-2017-...
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by snaky 9y ago
In a perfect world, there's your very own scoring rules (adaptive and AI-assisted, why not) instead of groupthink-enforcing tools like upvotes.
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by snaky 9y ago
> in a scriptless world, your HN up/down vote can't be done without a full page load In a perfect world, HN wouldn't need any web thing at all, NNTP is better fit for it. With all the features of decent newsreader of your
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by snaky 9y ago
> all looking the same, behaving the same Yes, please!
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Intel Announced FPGA Integrated with High Bandwidth Memory DRAM (HBM2)(newsroom.intel.com)
1 points by snaky 9y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 9y ago
That's very nontrivial task, if feasible at all, considering current overcomplicated state of affairs in CSS, HTML, JS, graphical, font-rendering and networking fields of browser's interest. > Guys, there is a _reason_ why micr
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by snaky 9y ago
Did they actually, outside of happy Busicom calculator users? Even 8008 "looked okay, but nobody used it" - http://ethw.org/Oral-History:Masatoshi_Shima
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“Process Doppelgänging” Attack Works on All Windows Versions(bleepingcomputer.com)
9 points by snaky 9y ago|1 comments
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by snaky 9y ago
There are flicker-free (no PWM at all, or at least no PWM at mid and hi brightness) models, and you can find (unfortunately that's usually not that simple because vendors are mostly hesitate to specify it) a model with minimal possible
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OxygenOS telemetry lets OnePlus tie phones to individual users(tech.slashdot.org)
1 points by snaky 9y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 9y ago
And uninstall process is like "Burnett deleted the new Paint 3D, a system app, which he is entirely entitled to do. He found the system restored it and added a firewall rule allowing it network access."
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by snaky 9y ago
Things tend to change anyway. You never know what Microsoft will roll out tomorrow. > Microsoft has responded to claims that its Windows 10 Enterprise operating system ignores user preferences in Group Policy with the advice that, basica
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Oracle hiring more than 5000 cloud professionals in the US(markets.businessinsider.com)
2 points by snaky 9y ago|1 comments
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by snaky 9y ago
Distributed lambda calculus would be fun to implement. Differential distance-based reduction cost to start with?
953.
by snaky 9y ago
HN-NNTP gate, anyone?
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by snaky 9y ago
I don't know, whether '&' was there from the day one? Something semantically equal should have present in McIlroy's mind certainly, but implementation? > "Somewhere at that time I talked of a macro as a &#x27
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by snaky 9y ago
I know it's unpopular, but I think security is overrated. No, I don't like the way it is, but really - do we know a company that gone bankrupt due the security breach? Do we know a single mobile app that lost it's major audie
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by snaky 9y ago
Well, it depends on what you compare it with. IDEA, Visual Studio, Eclipse, you know. Of course, comparing to nano and nvi, Emacs isn't so much minimalist - but hey, did you ever try to run Emacs with no elisp packages?
957.
by snaky 9y ago
That's why there was math coprocessor software emulator. It worked fine on 386SX.
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by snaky 9y ago
There's no much hope C++ to go away any time soon, so C++20 is fine, there are C++25, C++30 and C++48 for more features to add.
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by snaky 9y ago
You miss Magit I suppose.
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by snaky 9y ago
Emacs is a fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor.

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