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by wott 6y ago
They're too busy dropping platforms support, dropping backends support, dropping 32-bit support... in the name of the burden of 'maintaining' code that works, is proven (on the field) and basically hasn't moved in 10 yea
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by wott 6y ago
> Themeability doesn't rule out consistency. As long as all UIs use the system theme, they look consistent, no matter what that theme is. Agreed. That's why the GUI toolkit must provide as exhaustive as possible a set of widget
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by wott 6y ago
> Ruqqus.com but unfortunately still small. And also infected. I just went to see what it was. I selected the category 'Hobby' and here's the list of themes of the posts which came up top: GunsNAmmoDeals, GunsNAmmoDeals,
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by wott 6y ago
Yes. On the other hand, the goal is also to increase the vendor lock-in, by providing everything inside their garden walls, so that people keep going further into giving up any side channel and into putting all their eggs into the same Gith
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by wott 6y ago
Well, the problem is not some "open source culture", but GitHub. Github's specific open source culture, if you like. Before Github, it wouldn't have come across any sane mind to file a feature request or other discussion
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by wott 6y ago
> I'm curious if whales more dangerous on an hour-by-hour basis than driving? It depends on how many passengers you pack in a whale.
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by wott 6y ago
Yep. Languages with a simplistic syntax (and a simplistic paradigm) make writing compilers for those languages easy, but they do not make creating programs in the languages easy. We can think of Lisp, or even more of Forth. It is also a com
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by wott 6y ago
> And yet Scandinavian countries have had great success by raising the price and limiting the availability of store-bought alcohol. Great success? 1. People there still buy a lot, even at expensive prices. 2. I have never seen so much he
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by wott 6y ago
In my experience, the main hassle has been Gentoo maintainers of some packages who, for years, stubbornly refused to accept minor patches (and they were getting smaller as compatibility improved) for LibreSSL support (because always talking
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by wott 6y ago
Airbus was not related to EU (or EEC). It was basically a France-Germany bipartite cooperation, with tiny bits of Spain and Netherlands, and UK being in/out. UK didn't belong to EEC when they were supposed to take part in the begi
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by wott 6y ago
I occasionally read Geography articles from the first half of the XXth century, they are a joy to read, until at least the 50s or 60s. It reads like a book: the vocabulary is very accessible (the few words/concepts which do not belong
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by wott 6y ago
> Might be a little off topic, but what’s with the ”written in” obsession? From my perspective it’s so irrelevant compared to well tested, design, architectured, community engagement, track record, performance and usability. As far as I
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by wott 6y ago
> As a European I ask myself why there’s no proportional voting system at all in the US. As a European, the elections in my country are: -- Presidential: uninominal majority (of course). -- Assembly: uninominal majority. -- Senate: no un
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by wott 6y ago
I see mathematics as completely opposite to studying nature. Mathematicians work on extremely simple objects as a basis. For example (since we're here), give them a 0 and 1, and they will spend 200 years building a whole theoretical wo
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by wott 6y ago
Right. I had read the book in the days they were published and found them damn good in their realm, but when I heard that there was a TV serial about it, I didn't even bother giving it a try. Then hype started, but hype has a negative
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by wott 6y ago
The abstractionists, philosophers, theoreticists, had their days before too (60s-70s Lisp, 70s-80s Logo for teaching children). So in fact the practicalists would only have ruled in and around the 90s. If we add all the "everything is
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by wott 6y ago
You never heard of the 8th century Arab invasion of (present) Spain and invasion attempt of (present) France? It came as a conclusion of a century of Muslim conquests and attacks, and left just 2 small pockets in Asturias and the Pyrenees.
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by wott 6y ago
> At the same time, I know that's extremely unreasonable to expect. However, that's exactly the path every Electrical & Electronics Engineer classically took.
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by wott 6y ago
> What makes Scandinavian countries any more or less earnest than, say, Germany or France? Experience, perhaps? As a French who lived a number of years in Scandinavia, it is day and night. It doesn't mean that people in those countr
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by wott 6y ago
Yes, but each of the numerous political announcements (on the French level as well as on the EU level) of "we're going to build a giant of [this industry], this time for real" which were made since the 90s have always ended
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by wott 6y ago
> (soylentnews is the only one I remember now) Pipedot was another. I think there was a third attempt, but I can't remember its name (or even be sure it existed).
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by wott 6y ago
> I also cancelled the AMA because I got demands for all sorts of things, on a holiday weekend! People got angry because I didn't reply to their demands right away Absolutely nobody did that to you. > and thought I was some sort
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by wott 6y ago
Why could anyone's auntie do it when they needed MS-DOS or Windows installed in the 90s, and they could not do it any more today? The 'expert' being a neighbour, the little nephew himself, or whichever friend of the family.
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by wott 6y ago
A touchpad is not really a proper tool for work (a laptop is hardly one anyway except in cases which require it), more of a handy last resort solution that comes included hence always available with the laptop.
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by wott 6y ago
> The computers are not just getting cheaper, educative material is easier than ever to find. [...] Being accessible and being accessed are two different things. I'll make a more general parallel. Never in history was such an enor
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by wott 6y ago
As far as I am concerned, I consider SD cards the equivalent of a floppy disk. The equivalent of a hard drive would then be a CF card (unfortunately much less common than SD cards these days). Or of course any USB drive if we give up on the
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by wott 6y ago
That is a bit of a narrow view. Twitter has escaped Twitter. It is now everywhere, intertwined with other 'social' media, with other Internet forums, with traditional media. You (we) cannot escape Twitter's nefarious effects
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by wott 6y ago
$5 is the one-time cost of a paper alphabetical index notebook that will store your passwords for decades, will never get hacked, will never fail and will never be shut down.
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by wott 6y ago
Why speak of hate? The main problem I have with bashisms is that most people who use them just assume everyone runs bash as default shell. Instead of specifying xxx/bin/bash in their script, they use xxx/bin/sh (and they
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by wott 6y ago
> Internet just got mainstream and popular, so people lacking time, interest or skills to create their own websites just use pre-built solutions. They don't lack any of time or skills. Take the example of websites of local sport clu

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