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12y ago
Well, they can look extremely pretty. Just take a look at some of the submissions on reddit.com/r/unixporn
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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler Haskell Compiler? Never heard of that one :P
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Very cool, but the sad part is that unlike most modern desktop systems, on mobile OS's all languages and runtimes other that the ones officially endorsed by the OS maker are probably a pain to use and deploy. Its sad that you have to j
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Funnily, one of the main reasons I switched to Linux was because writing Python on Windows was like hell. I couldn't get pip installed, and packages were an absolute pain to install.
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I believe that that is an issue with Flash, not with xmonad. Xmonad only lets applications draw to as much of the screen as then are alloted. If you fullscreen Firefox, it will simply hide UI elements, not take up the entire screen. It is n
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Fullscreening applications in xmonad behaves exactly as you described.
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The script that renders the comic seems to consume an ungodly amount of ram. It ate up close to six GB's of ram on Firefox running on Arch Linux, and forced my X server onto swap. On Chromium, the comic is navigable, but the page still
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12y ago
Python is an amazing language. I have been using it to do all my automation and scripting work for a long time. However, Python programs almost always feel like they were held together with string. I recently have been putting a lot of time
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I would also like to add that laziness adds a lot of power and flexibility to common procedures. For example, let's look at a canonical quicksort in Haskell: quicksort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a] quicksort [] = [] quicks
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This is a classical example of a Prisoner's Dilemma [0] The conclusions drawn by the author don't seem to consider the fact that if Ebay doesn't buy ads next to it's own name, Amazon would. As with a Prisoner's Dile