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   by xiaq 12y ago

   > The main difficulty is that you cannot practice speaking Dutch until you are already quite advanced, because if you speak broken Dutch, you will in all cases get an answer in pretty good English. I can confirm this as a foreigner who h
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   by xiaq 12y ago

   There are two types of "new" names: "native" neologisms and loanwords. Gender assignment of the former usually works by analogy with existing words; the latter is a more interesting topic - go search "gender assignm
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   by xiaq 12y ago

   Yes, the masculine/feminine distinction is not completely lost (yet) in modern Dutch. But > Whether most speakers actually know the correct gender and thus pronoun is another question ;). There is no "correct" grammar fro
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   by xiaq 12y ago

   You must be joking about Dutch being difficult to master. Dutch grammar is in every aspect simpler than German. The orthography is a bit awkward though. Also, it is weird that Tannenbaum makes a difference between masculine and feminine at
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   by xiaq 12y ago

   If you want to write scientific documents with markdown, beware that pandoc already supports inline TeX (math with $$ and TeX commands starting with \) when doing md -> latex conversion. That has been my setup for quite some time.
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   by xiaq 12y ago

   > If were operating a complex setup, you probably already used nginx from ports before. Does "before" refer to the period before Apache was dropped from and nginx was imported to base? (Since apparently you can just use nginx f
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   by xiaq 12y ago

   So... Apache was removed from base on Mar 14 2014 in favor of nginx, and nginx on Aug 27 2014 in favor of OpenBSD httpd. For sysadmins who closely follow the "recommended" way, having to migrate the configurations of the http serv
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   by xiaq 12y ago

   > Ask yourself. Which of these two languages are more likely to be complemented by language nerds/snobs - C++, or Scheme... I realized that you might have meant "compliment" instead of "complement". The answer de
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   by xiaq 12y ago

   > There is an important school of thought... We are advocating the same school of thought. However languages designed by such schools rarely get mainstream - Scheme, Lua, Smalltalk, to name a few that I know of. People acknowledge them,
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    It is not just regular. It is dull . Go is a miser. It gives you very few features to play with, forcing you to think hard about how you can solve real problems with these features in the most economic way. The result is much less fun, and
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    To extinguish, you introduce incompatibilities to make the life of people outside your inner ecosystem (compared to the greater, standard-compliant ecosystem) harder. But since TypeScript compiles to JavaScript and interfaces with plain Jav
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    I find myself very confused after getting to the align-items and align-content part. For those of us who prefer a more formal introduction, the guide on MDN seems pretty well written: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US&#x2F
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    Thanks for the information! I like how their idea of "space-related open source projects" seems to be pretty liberal; I see octave, among other general scientific computing software, in SoCiS last year. Unfortunately their timelin
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    If there really are a lot of new organizations, that confirms my theory on the GSoC board: they are trying to encourage student developers getting into less-loved open source projects. In comparison the big projects already get quite some l
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    I was planning to apply to a project under Mozilla and was very surprised too. But I also fully respect Google's decision and let's not take their sponsorship to the open source community as granted. I also wish we could have an a
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    I was referring to the commands to manipulate complex layouts. Take the following transformation for example: +---+---+---+ +---+---+ | | 1 | | | 0 | 1 | | 0 +---+ 3 | => |---+---+ | | 2 | | | 3
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    The fact that a terminal multiplexer can not be created just as a sidecar project is exactly the reason why it is better to build them as a whole. The editor does need a lot of terminal multiplexer features, and instead of letting them gr
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    There is uzbl-tabbed, which separates the browser proper from the tab manager. It is not the OS which manages the tab though, since most WMs don't support hierarchal layouts and having all websites along with other applications is quit
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    I think the goal we are trying to achieve are the same. Having the editor and the terminal multiplexer communicating with each other is basically a modular approach to the "editor and terminal multiplexer in one" idea, which allow
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    This is another proof of how editors and terminal multiplexers should really be just one thing. Editors are replicating terminal multiplexer functionalities - tabs, windows, and now with terminal emulation they have become terminal multip
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    Thanks. Now I am really looking forward to playing with FxOS!
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    Firefox OS, being based on HTML/CSS/JavaScript, sounds a lot more hackable than Android to me. Well, you can hack Android pretty heavily - forking CyanogenMod, writing Xposed plugins, etc., but Java is just obscure and the compile
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    Exactly. Bilibili is inspired by Acfun, which is in turn inspired by Nico Nico.
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    I guess it is the Parole media player one, due to lack of decoders on OpenBSD. The lack of decoders is purely my speculation, so it's likely wrong.
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    As someone who has used xfce 4.10 before switching to i3, I am very impressed of the progress the Xfce team has made, especially UI improvements. They are consistently picking up the latest good designs and implementing them in their simp
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    Chinese here. Instead of youku, the fake ad video actually got viral on bilibili ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilibili http://www.bilibili.com/ ), a video sharing site with user-generated subtitles, wh
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    > Germany has long been our #1 country for usage I also heard that Firefox enjoys a major market share in Germany (a not-that-reliable source is http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Internet-Explorers-market-share-... ). I even he
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    There is also http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.htm... , but it only compares the syntaxes.
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    > You highlight lines four three six. I guess there is a typo and should be "four through six" instead.
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    by xiaq 12y ago

    This is the best part of Perl 6. I am not familiar with the terminology, but it seems "not just" gradual typing to me. I always it puzzling that to avoid the tedious parts of static type systems, people throw away static checking