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by stockerta 4y ago
As and end user (as in one who just takes the code and compiles it on his system) I very much prefer autotools. It is much simpler to use.
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by stockerta 4y ago
Reading is hard /s
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by stockerta 5y ago
A couple of months ago I started to convert xwpe to use wide charachters as a means to dust of my ancient c skills. I should finish it.
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by stockerta 5y ago
Personally recommend openSuse Leap as a boring distro, if you want a bit less boring Tumbleweed is great.
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by stockerta 5y ago
Credit cards are not popular in many parts of the world and many people don't have one. So only accepting CC is a bit stupid.
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by stockerta 5y ago
Yes, even the pro-russian parties in ukraine are speeking out against them. Nobody will see them as non opressors, even if they put back the ousted pro-russian Viktor Yanukovych.
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by stockerta 5y ago
I used slackware while in university for quite a while. Not my first distro, that was Suse (and I still use it today), but there is something about slackware I still love. Maybe if IT would still be only a hobby for me and not my day job I
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by stockerta 5y ago
"Reinstall it regularly, because this is the Windows way." When did you last use windows regularly? In the 9x era?
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by stockerta 5y ago
Dos Navigator was way better than Norton Commander.
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by stockerta 5y ago
Yes, they leaned too much on the design side to look pretty, but this isn't some photo book you put on your desk in the living room.
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by stockerta 5y ago
I get that sites want you to create accounts to write comments and create posts. But back in the day, I found not one forum, but many, that wanted me to create an account just to look at the forum posts. It was great when a google search to
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by stockerta 5y ago
Taht never worked. I had to use a goverment java web applet that run on only one exact java version, down to the patch level. Anything else, it didn't work. And also that java version was already out of date, so every browser was cryin
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by stockerta 5y ago
In the world of electron applications eating ram like nothing, this pales in comparison.
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by stockerta 6y ago
To help with the eventual SSD swaping.
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by stockerta 6y ago
Probably they will deprecate it soon, and gnome apps will randomly open a file for you. Just to be easier to use. A file picker dialog can confuse the user.
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by stockerta 6y ago
In FoxPro, heck even in Access you can easily add a GUI frontend to your DB without writing any or much code. With python... Good luck.
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by stockerta 6y ago
In what world? In many parts of the world, the only machine people can afford have 4-8Gb RAM, And those machines cost a month pay.
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by stockerta 6y ago
Damn, I really wanted to play Skyrim on the PS6. At least GTAV will be on it.
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by stockerta 7y ago
I prefer the ribbon to the old toolbars and menus Office had before.
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by stockerta 7y ago
I programmed a lot 20 years ago as a hobby. I started at 13 with TP7 and some pascal books borrowed from my older brother. Later I "got" Delphi 1 and 3. Crated some smallish programs for myself, like a magic card db program when I
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by stockerta 8y ago
Lazar, who was a minister back then went out to Vienna and made a video that said the city is flooded with migrants, it isn't safe and Budapest is much better, safer and such. Oh, also he didn't feel safe in it too.
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by stockerta 10y ago
I think they use it because they know that. Not because it is better. It is faster and easier for them, but the end product is a pile of ..... .
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by stockerta 10y ago
Its the original post in which Linus introduced his minix clone linux.