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Re:How work kills us on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @08:48AM (#17608817)
Point of government is not to give but, you know, to govern.

In communist countries millions of people were killed, so you probably should pick better examples.

Re:LibreOffice is now available for Haiku on Monday July 02, 2018 @12:59PM (#17443351)
>That said, what document viewer do I use when I want to read a PDF?

You should give Zathura a try :)

>macOS is like a hotel. Everything is polished, designed and cared for.

well not anymore

No investor in their mind would believe this. Belarus needs structural reforms first.
Re:Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Vagrant on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:10AM (#15567914)
Depends on case, for me NFS performance (MacOS as host, Linux as guest) is a major PITA and source of instability in vagrant dev setup.
divide and conquer that is
Re:Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -Wextra on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:19AM (#15401081)
Clang (since LLVM version 4.4) has flag -Weverything which really reports everything

https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/a-bit-on-warnings/

Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @01:16PM (#15296087)
Well, for such use cases Google is a better tool indeed. I personally know my neighborhood and never google what is down the street. And if I need dealership I will try to find it on car maker website which is easy to look up even using search engines from 2001.
Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @09:54AM (#15293708)
Use search engine[1] that respects[2] your privacy

[1] https://www.ixquick.eu/ [2] https://www.ixquick.eu/eng/privacy-policy.html#hmb

Re:Hack – A typeface designed for source code on Friday September 15, 2017 @05:17AM (#15255733)
speaking of ligatures Iosevka and PragmataPro are my favorites (edit: spelling)
Re:Nginx Unit on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:15AM (#15192012)
>Build the foundation of your service mesh.

Not directly related as Unit seems to be advertised as app server primarily, but you can see quoted text on main page.

Re:Nginx Unit on Thursday September 07, 2017 @09:51AM (#15191820)
I am surprised noone mentioned Kong [1] yet. It seems to implement most of stuff promised by Unit and it was around for a few years.

[1] https://getkong.org/

Re:Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (2016) on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @07:52AM (#15182894)
Re:Alexandra Elbakyan Closed Sci-Hub for Russian Users on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @11:44AM (#15176318)
"to remove all barriers in the way of science" they say...
Re:Designing Activity Feeds on Sunday August 27, 2017 @04:33PM (#15112574)
>Feeds are a simple way to establish habits, growth and virality.

This is scary, isn't it?

I read it that way too. Maybe it should be of instead of for? Not a native speaker, just wondering.
Re:Node.js is forked to Ayo.js (pronounced like “IO”) on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:02AM (#15079192)
Make sure you use proper [1] CoC next time you start new project. Proper as in not easy to abuse for political reason or just because some SJW decided you are wrong.

[1] https://github.com/fantasylandinst/fcop

Re:Typing with pleasure, and low latency on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:54AM (#15071856)
>Regardless of keyboard type, key switches are mechanically imperfect and are subject to contact bounce — instead of a clean transition, the switch rapidly bounces between on and off states several times before settling. Bounce time depends on switch technology, for example, for Cherry MX switches bounce time is claimed to be less that 5 ms. Though exact probability distribution is unknown, basing on related empirical data, we can assume that average bounce time is about 1.5 ms.

This is amazing. I thought I knew everything about mech keyboards, but this opens new perspective.

Re:Krita Foundation in Trouble on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:59AM (#14899757)
Tried exactly same setup yesterday and was surprised how it just works.
Re:Introducing Bluetooth Mesh Networking on Thursday July 20, 2017 @08:22AM (#14811811)
It was. You just don't know/remember.
Not sure about Booking, but at Catawiki (also NL-based) we are looking for Ruby developers willing to relocate.

Contact me via email in my profile if you are interested!

Re:The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016) on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:00PM (#14301119)
>Testing is usually regarded as an important stage of the software development cycle. Testing will never be a substitute for reasoning. Testing may not be used as evidence of correctness for any but the most trivial of programs. Software engineers some times refer to "exhaustive" testing when in fact they mean "exhausting" testing. Tests are almost never exhaustive. Having lots of tests which give the right results may be reassuring but it can never be convincing. Rather than relying on testing we should be relying in reasoning. We should be relying on arguments which can convince the reader using logic. http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/course-notes/sml/introfp.htm
Re:Shrinkray: Lightweight alternative to Electron on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:53AM (#14300509)
It is not lightweight, it just takes less disk space.
MacOS ships OpenSSH linked against LibreSSL
@mods please replace Ability with Inability in title

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