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Re:Modern Debian-based Window Maker distribution
on Monday July 21, 2025 @02:42PM (#44638847)
Yes, for ~20 years on Ubuntu.
Nice startup time, and just works -- especially if all you use are terminals and browser windows. Things like firefox look a little out of place, now that they are pushing their UI chrome into their own title bars.
Re:Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
on Sunday January 19, 2025 @03:49AM (#42755211)
Reading about this and similar techniques in Programming Pearls (Second Edition) by Jon Bentley left the younger me spellbound. Similar to the evolution of linkers up to mold.
Re:Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
on Saturday December 25, 2021 @08:17AM (#29683081)
The is also "A tour of C++" from the same author, which might be a good start. Take care.
Code coverage and embedded platforms
8-Bit Generation – It Lives
Re:Lightnings captured at 7.207 frames-per-second
on Sunday July 15, 2012 @05:26PM (#4248206)
Well, it is not only German -- Wikipedia has a nice map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark
Re:Vim ported to iOS
on Friday January 20, 2012 @02:11PM (#3490760)
An upcoming version, that fixes font rendering problems, is mentioned here:
Re:A Spellchecker Used To Be A Major Feat of Software Engineering
on Sunday January 15, 2012 @02:06AM (#3466609)
Yes, and "Programming Pearls" has a nice chapter (13.8) on how doug mcilroy fit the spell dict into less than 64k (
http://code.google.com/p/unix-spell/).
That site also has a paper on the development of spell (http://unix-spell.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/McIlroy_spell_198...).