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by zootm 16y ago
The program I remember fondly along those lines is Nullsoft Beep: http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nbeep/ It essentially makes your computer sound like something from Forbidden Planet, hence instantly bringing you into the future of the past.
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by zootm 16y ago
If anything, what we need is more musical cues indicating system health. From the forboding opening strains of Orff's "O Fortuna" when the system first starts to overheat, through to Debussy's "Clare de Lune" while the CPU goes through a te
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by zootm 16y ago
You can get around this by turning on the "autoscroll" feature, since that's activated by a middle-click. I've often wondered just who exactly Mozilla thought the "paste in window goes to URL" feature was for; feels like the sort of thing t
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by zootm 16y ago
This is a great feature. It's an example of a small, easy-to-implement change that makes their website just work better. I really like when things like this get done.
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by zootm 16y ago
I'm not sure the article asserted that Scala was "not better" than Java. It was asserting that Scala is not "a better Java"; that is that the design philosophies between the two languages are such that it's not right to treat Scala as an ev
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by zootm 16y ago
I got the "default" Gravatar image (the placeholder logo). You might want to filter that out. Interesting idea, though! Didn't work too great with my details but I'm wondering whether I could have really expected it to.
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by zootm 17y ago
It's a pretty specific shootout, of course; the reasons brought up for JGit's relative slowness are not issues present in most applications, they're specific to certain realms of system. Unsigned number support is a major headache about Jav