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by webreac 14y ago
I am a linux user (linux mint cinnamon). When I need a new software, I launch the software manager, I type in the search criteria. This gives me a list of software. When I click a software, I have a list of users feedbacks and an install bu
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by webreac 14y ago
Tell him to type source < wget ... Then to type your password when the usual dialog appears.
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by webreac 14y ago
I think you have completely missed the point of the article. It is a parody of the behaviour of microsoft users. As a linux user (I have left microsoft because of Vista), I can ensure you that windows Vista, 7 and 8 are very weird.
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by webreac 14y ago
I do not understand why there seem to be so much agreement on 80 characters line length. I often use 132 character. I have a rule that invite to avoid abbreviations in identifiers and I have often 4 spaces. If I limit to 80 character, all t
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by webreac 14y ago
It was one the main motto of Ada. Ada is very easy to read (to be honest, it is less true since Ada95) but when I do not use it during a long time, I forget how to write in Ada.
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by webreac 14y ago
They are trying to optimize for clarity. Too much verbosity reduces clarity. It is not easy to find the correct balance between concision and cryptic. Many factors have also to be taken into account: should the program be easy to read by be
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by webreac 14y ago
Diaspora is not as good social network as facebook and can not be very good at privacy because personnal user data stored in a pod are not encrypted and can be read by the pod owner. Encrypt/decrypt should be performed only at the browser l
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by webreac 14y ago
It gives the freedom to put the type when it is useful for reading and to remove it when it is annoying for reading. It is very different from others because this language assumes the developer is smart.
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by webreac 14y ago
I hope they have backup of this old content. This robot.txt policy is crap. robot.txt should not be taken into account retroactively when the site owner has changed.
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by webreac 14y ago
https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto is excellent
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by webreac 14y ago
For my next computer, I would like to buy a linux laptop, because I do not want to give my money to people who hurt me (Microsoft). Are there any laptop where linux works well (every peripheral work perfectly and power management is as good
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by webreac 14y ago
I am a perl lover. For me, the TIMTOWTDI means mainly that I can write code the way I think. When I have an idea of a solution for a problem, I have no effort to make to translate this idea into perl because there exists always a concise sy
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by webreac 14y ago
Yes, encrypt all your mails using PGP.
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by webreac 14y ago
My most common use of xarsg -P is for compressing logs on remote hosts before downloading them: cat RemoteHosts | xargs -P 0 -n 1 -I Host rsh Host gzip -9 xxx/*.log The cool thing is that it waits until the completion of all the commands be
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by webreac 14y ago
Because the only way to prohibit piracy is to kill freedom of speech. If you want to protect freedom of exchange of data between people with no eavesdrop, you can not fight piracy.
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by webreac 14y ago
emacs23-el. Thank you very much
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by webreac 14y ago
C-h k C-h k gives me: C-h k runs the command describe-key, which is an interactive compiled Lisp function. It is bound to C-h k, <f1> k, <help> k, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe> <describe-key-1
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by webreac 14y ago
I am on a dual screen X terminal, logged on a remote linux server (virtual quad core) and using rdesktop to access my desktop PC because I am not in my office. In front of me, all the worktations (38) are running linux. X windows is definit
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by webreac 14y ago
If you were using Linux as your main OS, you would have also the same opinion. When you have a fast machine with windows, 3 years later, it is slow as hell. When you have a fast machine with linux, 3 years later (in fact 4 years in my case)
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by webreac 14y ago
Well, I have worked in nuclear domain and I am now working in aircraft domain. In nuclear, the machine has to protect from human mistakes. In aircraft, the human has to recover from machine failure. The way of thinking is completely opposit
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by webreac 14y ago
takeoff, landing and cruise are nicely handled by autopilot. But I do not want to be on a plane with remote pilot. If the plane has a technical problem (which occurs very often, even if passengers are not aware of most of them), I want the
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by webreac 14y ago
If you want libraries for others to use, just use plain C. C libraries are trivial to use in almost all languages (from Ada to Yorick).
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by webreac 14y ago
I was developing programs for HPUX and visual studio between 1999 and 2002. I was such a pain that I have done my best (with success) to never code again in this language. By their very poor support of C++, I think that they have contribute
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by webreac 14y ago
Bash is network transparent: you change directory in a nfs filesystem or in a curlftpfs the same way as on a local disk. X separates the thing that paints the screen (the X server) from the things that computes (the X client). Your idea or
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by webreac 14y ago
One of the success of plan9 was to reduce the number of tools (and the number of command line options for the tools). For example ftp and the option -r of cp have been killed. Plan9 is marvellous. The only reason I do not install it for my
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by webreac 14y ago
Well, having spend all my day on an Xterminal, I think you are stuck in Windows mentality. Unix mentality is network transparency. Just inform you about plan9. In unix, you do not care where your program is running, it just runs and you can
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by webreac 14y ago
In 1992 (or 1993 ?), I had a 486DX33 with 16 Mb of memory and 120Mb HD running linux 0.99pl12 at resolution 1152x900. It was very confortable, no problem for compiling kernel while playing tetris.
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by webreac 14y ago
ssh works out of the box everywhere. I can be connected on as many hosts as I want, launch any graphical application, anywhere and they just display correctly. I can not imagine launching a different X server almost for each application I a
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by webreac 14y ago
How could any unix user conceive that remoting is not important. 99% of the gui I launch are remote. In fact I do not even know where are half the workstation I use. Regularly, I have to give support to portugal or italia, they open a inter
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by webreac 14y ago
Yes, I bought it and learned it. At that time (1999) I was preparing an interview where questions about this kind of knowledge were expected. I was already an experienced developer, the presentation of the DP was new for me and the promises

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