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721.
by wott 10y ago
> They just use illustrator to draw the shape and then export it. You're lucky. Last designer I asked to provide a SVG image had obviously exported from a vector drawing tool to a bitmap, AND THEN converted to SVG. So you kinda
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by wott 10y ago
> the baby isn't big on streaming. I read 'screaming'.
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by wott 10y ago
I don't think "it's working". Perl users brags about the numbers of packages in CPAN. For me, that's a nightmare. There are a dozen packages for everything. Each time I pick up one (more or less at random after wond
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by wott 10y ago
10 years is "that long", now?
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by wott 10y ago
Hum... In my country, pharmacies are still independent and self-owned businesses (it may be by law, so possibly 100%), but the profession has also shifted from a majority of men to almost only women. So, I have doubts about the reasoning di
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by wott 10y ago
Perhaps they were working while others were making faces for a stupid photo.
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by wott 10y ago
But this tends towards Windows model, not a form of UNIX-like model. If I wanted a Windows-like, I'd use a Windows.
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by wott 10y ago
This startup scene so far never made sense to me, but now thanks to you I can see the light: it was an artistic militant happening! Hurray!
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by wott 10y ago
Gathering large number of humans in the same place (factories then offices), well away from their homes, is a relatively new thing. For hundreds and thousands of years, they have been working in (craftsmen) or around their homes (farmers),
730.
by wott 10y ago
> I was able to learn C reasonably well as a child precisely because of how straightforward it is. You can reserve a block of memory. You can free it. You can get the address of a value. You can get the value from an address. And every
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by wott 10y ago
You don't need such density to have walkability to shops and cafés. Any 2-3 story small town from 2000-4000 to 30000-40000 inhabitants can provide it. That's not at all in the league of the 1-3 millions inhabitants cities you quot
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by wott 10y ago
Don't worry, for the last 50-60 years most European countries have been working hard to destroy this model and turn both cities and countrysides into a car nightmare more or less following the US model.
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by wott 10y ago
> If you want to [...] play guitar for fun [...], your multiplier probably won't stop you. Well, mine did :-D After 3 years of practice, I could still not accurately do what a kid can do after 1 week, or someone who plays another
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by wott 10y ago
It looks more like a list of places people are ready to do anything to escape from. Poor people engaging in (recruiting) contests to move away/abroad and bring back money. (When I say 'poor', I don't mean mediocre, of co
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by wott 10y ago
Fonts are barely readable: too thin, too white on my browser/screen.
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by wott 10y ago
When it's time to reconsider using C++, it's time to consider using something else :-)
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by wott 10y ago
> I'm really sad X11 is legacy software myself, as an aside. It's a disaster, sure, but now we have one more layer of "uhhhh..." for all the UX-types to get scared away by: it used to be "(WinAPI) vs ((Qt)/
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by wott 10y ago
And that's the second comment with the exact same wording: "productive member of society". Productive. Member. Of society. It's got something scary.
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by wott 10y ago
I work all days long in terminals and I never ever use tabs. So, "must have"...
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by wott 10y ago
After reading everyone praising tmux, tmux, tmux, I tried to use it several times, several days or weeks each time. The thing only got in my way all the time, to the point that now I prefer to lose sessions than to use tmux. It has to be a
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by wott 10y ago
When you're depressed, the last thing you want to see is happy people. They are infuriating and depressing. It is much better to see other people with problems, because it makes your own look less terrible in comparison, and because yo
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by wott 10y ago
You're describing everything I hate, and which made me love remote to get rid of it. And you even increase the amount of time lost in those useless and horrible things.
743.
by wott 10y ago
Nobody works 6 hours/day. Most contracts will be 35h (7 hours/day) to 39h per week. In engineering/programming/etc. you either have such a contract or often unlimited hours contract (so the only limit by law is something
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by wott 10y ago
> a 9-6 10 hours day Everybody would.
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by wott 10y ago
> We have similar diaeresis in Spanish. Besides ü ?
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by wott 10y ago
That's how I read it first. I had to move backwards a few words later :-)
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by wott 10y ago
Good, so you've seen one 10-episode Belgian series. We've seen hundred, thousands of of American series and movies (and books). After a while we begin to be able to pull out some constants that are represented, and more importan
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by wott 10y ago
No, he grew up in the 70's and 80's.
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by wott 10y ago
It often happens. And they generally try to hide it by claiming it is some sudden fatal illness that appeared right at that moment.
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by wott 10y ago
> they are attempting to create a business where there is no need. As 99% of startups :-)

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