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by wott 5y ago
> Its distribution model required vast amounts of storage and bandwidth even back then It didn't, as long as your server didn't distribute binary newsgroups, which where the only thing requiring a substantial amount of space.
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by wott 5y ago
USB hubs and similar I/O peripherals are not integrated.
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by wott 5y ago
> I suspect the utility of a numpad is increased while the off center problems are decreased for touchtypers which is why there is such a divide. Ah? I would have thought the opposite. I cannot touch-type at all (and you could promise
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by wott 5y ago
Ah? It should last around 2 hours, usually (like to what your 2.5 hours with interval comes down). I don't remember anyone complaining about the length when we went to see it in high-school; which speaks for itself, I guess, eh :-). Th
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by wott 5y ago
It still makes little sense. He says that one success brought that guy courage. However, in the same "point", he says that it is courage which brings success. Applied to that case, it means that the guy already had courage that Ha
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by wott 5y ago
> I never used any of the skills I learned professionally. Well, that's often the case with regular, honest studies too. Most people who work after the equivalent of a Master degree never use chemistry, biology, or post-high-school
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by wott 5y ago
> The way it works here with the Erasmus program is that you go for 6 months or 1 year to study Let's be honest, in most cases you can replace the word 'study' with 'party'. That's why you end up with "
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by wott 5y ago
> I'd absolutely make sacrifices for friends and vice versa. Don't hope too much for the "vice-versa", though.
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by wott 5y ago
> it's one of the first things that brought humans from the store age to more modern civilization. This still has to happen, since we are now entirely in the store age ;-) (nice typo)
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by wott 5y ago
> The author will have a hard time fitting the necessary semantic actions into this code, like constructing an abstract syntax tree, It's a declared non-goal. > The code inconsistently mixes the use of concrete character constant
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by wott 5y ago
I do not have this urge so take it with a grain of salt. Perhaps: 1. First, sleep on it and let the urge fade away. 2. For the remaining urges, 2.a if the urge actually turns out to be an urge about writing and not so much about communicati
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by wott 5y ago
Very unsuitable analogy. If you remove syntax colouring from a text, you do expect to still be able to read the text. Why the difference? Because the wheel is an essential component of a car, while syntax colouring is more akin to the pa
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by wott 5y ago
> Kafka lived his whole life in Prague, Czech Republic. Kafka had been dead for 70 years when Czech Republic came to existence. He even lived only a handful of years in Czechoslovakia since he died young. So saying he lived most of his l
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by wott 5y ago
> For example Swift's "A Modest Proposal" is famous Given the context, I thought for a minute that you were talking about Apple's presentation of the rationale for a successor to Objective-C.
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by wott 5y ago
Mine seems to use a different one each year :-/
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by wott 5y ago
> What about developers [...] ? Considering that often people complain about the lack of Product Managers or similar roles in most of the FOSS projects, and that nevertheless the same kind of things happens there (it is just a bit slower
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by wott 5y ago
> smartphone means fuck all to me. It changed nearly nothing in my life. Sure, that's the same to me, I don't even own one. But that's not how the majority feels and acts. And there's been another acceleration in the
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by wott 5y ago
Yeah, it's a bit like mobile phone didn't have an impact while it was radio phone or during the first years of modern-ish mobile networks; it was de facto reserved for specific professional use and the happy few. It took 10 years
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by wott 5y ago
The 2017 edition exists in 2G, 3G and even 4G versions.
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by wott 5y ago
> That isn't to say that you should give to thunderbird, since they are currently disappointing you, but it is a bit of a vicious cycle. Well, not exactly, because while it was on low-effort maintenance mode, there was no such chang
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by wott 5y ago
I am not sure what you call "revolutionary" UI ideas, perhaps more in-depth changes, but as far as surface is concerned, they have already abolished a lot visual cues, by flattening almost everything and turning icons into B&W
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by wott 5y ago
> hard requirements such as understanding data structures and some decent idea of big-O, That's the problem with current software. Web-devs and others who have gone through some sort of a CS curriculum, know only high-level stuff a
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by wott 5y ago
> Sure there are (for some definition of "most important parts). Take a look at GNUstep for a start. I was following and trying to use GNUstep 15 years ago, and they were constantly chasing a moving target and were not managing to c
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by wott 5y ago
> Long days at the factory were the norm, not the exception. However, to leave them entirely for months at a time was definitely not normal. I think most men would not want that. Maybe in urban context, but in the country it was common t
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by wott 5y ago
You can somewhat fake it by replacing your functions parameters list with a single struct parameter. struct bar_arguments { int a, b; }; int bar(struct bar_arguments args) { return 2*args.a + args.b;} #define bar(.
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by wott 5y ago
> The typical layout of a European village There is no such thing. It presents huge variations between countries and between regions. If I take a few examples simply from France: 1. North-East would be as you say, a concentrated village,
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by wott 5y ago
Well thanks :-) (as I discover it now, there seems to be only a balance of -1, I guess it was more severe when you saw it). What's funny is that the day before, I got like 10 upvotes for saying how, when I occasionally, quickly browsed
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by wott 5y ago
When I see “this code is nice and well commented”, I open the first file that comes up to see how good it is, how an example it can be. Then what I see there is functions without any comment, with single-letter variables, with little error
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by wott 5y ago
> - C version source: https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/ncdu/src/branch/master/ > The code is nice and very well commented. I opened the first file in src/ : browser.c . Let's take th
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by wott 5y ago
The ton of driver code that piles up in the Linux kernel every minute doesn't go through Torvalds. It is delegated. And my reviewing of a few drivers source short commits is enough to tell me that those delegates do not perform a satis

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