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by weland 11y ago
There are! http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryMail
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by weland 11y ago
Don't get me wrong, I think GitHub's move is retarded. It's just that no one has a right to whine about it any more than they have a right to whine about what their retarded neighbour does in their apartment. If your retarded
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by weland 11y ago
There are two possibilities: * Either this is not OK for Open Source, and it will prompt people to move away from GitHub -- because, sure, we needed the INT_MAXth reminder that relying on a private third-party for a free service is a bad id
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by weland 11y ago
> Who decides what is and is not appropriate? GitHub, because that stuff is hosted on their servers. This is not about Open Source . This is about GitHub. Yes, it has no place in Open Source. Whether or not it has a place on GitHub is,
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by weland 11y ago
No, just make sure the web's big shot at peer-to-peer networking doesn't poke yet another hole in the already shabby privacy of today's average web user. I won't even go into the debate of whether or not we want "th
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by weland 11y ago
The hardest bug I ever tracked to date resulted from a combination of me being a n00b at the time and legitimately being hard. It was a stack thrashing bug on an RTOS that ran on a system without MMU. To make things a little worse, GCC supp
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by weland 11y ago
It would probably be OK if all programs have a simple, predictable sequence of malloc and free that they call in a loop, with similar-ish sizes each time. It's extremely unpleasant to program something with just a few KB of RAM and not
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by weland 11y ago
I have written code while high, which has convinced me that the expression "Man, the dude who wrote this must have been high" is worth its derogatory tone.
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by weland 11y ago
What does being open source have to do with having crap policies? There are plenty of open source projects that don't have those problems, and it's not like the core team is interested in making theming anything else but a clunky
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by weland 11y ago
Do a google search for GTK 3.16 theme bug. You'll find a bunch of people for whom it didn't take minutes.
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by weland 11y ago
Bullshit. Every time a new GTK3 release comes up, the bug trackers of popular themes flare up (many of them obscure, e.g. https://github.com/shimmerproject/Numix/issues/206 ), various undocumented tidbits and
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by weland 11y ago
Thanks! I'll keep that in mind for when I run out of choices and have to upgrade :).
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by weland 11y ago
I also get GTK2 for free. That's not the problem. I'd happily make my own GTK3 theme if GTK3 weren't so incredibly hostile to theme development. It's literally less reliable than Windows Blinds, which is a frickin&#x27
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by weland 11y ago
> Or most of them probably just gave up making GTK themes. Yeah, things are pretty terrible for theme developers. It's like GTK 3 development was steered by Steve Ballmer.
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by weland 11y ago
> Honestly I haven't seen anything GTK+ based that looks as good as KDE (4.x). Here's a phrase I never thought I'd heard :-). I don't really like Greybird, but Bluebird is nice. Now if only there were a (non-hacky) wa
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by weland 11y ago
Yeah, but the backend seems to be buggy, the documentation is not up-to-date and basically half the things that work in 3.x break mysteriously in 3.(x + 1). Meanwhile I can use a gtk2 theme from 2006 without any problems (and it doesn'
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by weland 11y ago
Yeah. I still manage to live in a gtk2-only world for now, but mostly because I don't really need too many GUI programs (I can't remember the last time I opened something other than Thunderbird, Firefox, Emacs, and whatever pdf re
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by weland 11y ago
I was prepared to whine about exactly that. There is literally no gtk3 theme that, simultaneously: - Is not flat and generally grey or dark blue. It's as if everyone Apple fanboy who was rejected by Apple's UX department is now ma
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by weland 11y ago
I think the formula that Wikipedia gives isn't used that often for most exoplanets. Oftentimes all you know about a planet is the mass, radius and some information about temperature or at least energy flux to its surface, so they use
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by weland 11y ago
It's a reasonable measure of surface gravity, which, along with an idea about the distance from the star it's orbiting, gives us a good idea about what kind of atmosphere we can expect (i.e. the lighter and the hotter a gas is, th
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by weland 11y ago
I've worked for a small company and we had similar problems. It's not that you have to convince six layers of bureaucrats who have no idea what GPL is but they read in eWeek that it's scary -- it's simply that, when you&
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by weland 11y ago
What you're describing is security by obscurity, and it has been shown countless times that it never, ever works. It does not prevent flaws from being discovered. It slows down the discovery of some flaws, but this also means that the
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by weland 11y ago
> a house of cards built on poor memory management :-/. Shit, this is the most accurate description of modern software that I've seen so far.
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by weland 11y ago
> Q: What is the relative efficiency of the two systems? > A: I don’t really care for this proof of concept. Looks like he'll have a ton of fun after this proof of concept...
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by weland 11y ago
Most software that's as complex as Flash is probably similarly full of bugs. Most of those vulnerabilities reek of huge development teams toiling over a codebase whose foundation was written in the late 90s and had features and fixes d
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by weland 11y ago
There was plenty of high-quality content before tracking user became something worth paying for. Being able to track users pays for most of the crap content on the Internet -- much of which is there to support tracking users, not the othe
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by weland 11y ago
> Why is reading plain text out of /dev/mouse and writing plain text to /dev/draw an improvement over how Linux or OS X or Windows does it? It's very useful because uou don't need a C FFI to access OS functi
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by weland 11y ago
App developers who are as big in application consumption as Taylor Swift is in music would get the same treatment.
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by weland 11y ago
The usual reason is #3. You're only willing to pay shit and instead of compensating for that with actually useful things, you're selling philosophy and crap like "company culture", as if a company that's not at leas
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by weland 11y ago
I see a lot of positive reactions to how happy we should be that science changes. I mean, look how long it took us to get out of the dark ages, right? But no, the liberality of changes like this one is what separates fluff science from act

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