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IIRC Hasn't some of them already been ported? (Tree tab and Tree style tab) Maybe you can try the alternatives.
Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:49PM (#15691014)
Thanks to you I found something really useful. With this I can finally have the convenient replacement for the good old private window which gets overused for logging in to multiple accounts simultaneously.
Re:The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history on Monday November 13, 2017 @10:39AM (#15687192)
I did my part by upvoting the post and downvoting the game. EA is one he of a moneygrubber. Would even make the guys who buy games pirate it.
An incredible project considering the average longevity of other vim key browsers and their limited communities. This one is loads better with a good renderer unlike most light weight browsers. (Qtwebengine which is just qt for blink because webkit is old now). It even has adblock.
Re:An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:00PM (#15462360)
Or OpenMW which does the same thing for Morrowind (The Elder Scrolls 3). The main difference here being it runs on Linux natively and fixes tons of engine bugs that never were. They even have their own map editor for Morrowind which is just awesome.

Engines are easier compared to the assets. You only need programmers writing code (hard but easier than finding teams to work on assets)

Re:UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:03PM (#15461310)
I think upx is more useful for static binaries like that of Haskell applications which is kinda huge. (GHC produces huge binaries - eg. pandoc or ghc-mod). A 100 something mb binary is not what you usually have. UPX can work its magic stuff like that. More manageable not necessarily essential but when you need it you need it badly.
Re:UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:00PM (#15461286)
When I first found upx I did this a couple of times only to fail pretty badly and then I stopped doing it. This was like 7-8 years ago when I first tried the portable version. Never found the cause till today.
Re:KeePass 2.37 has been released on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:03PM (#15458946)
Does proper version control mean using github or just a git repo or something of that sort? I guess the developer wants to keep it a single dev project (old fashioned but the small project size means it doesn't make a big difference).[1]

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/0...

Re:KeePass 2.37 has been released on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:31AM (#15458202)
.NET Core is for cli or server software primarily. Not for gui apps. So probably not. They'll continue with Mono on linux I think.
Re:Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:59PM (#15445678)
This may be because there is so much low quality stuff everywhere while only the good and high quality ones survived from the past (Survival of the fittest I guess). So the past looks like it was all good but the present is mostly rubbish.
Re:Diminishing returns of static typing on Monday October 02, 2017 @01:15PM (#15385759)
Highly templated C++ is the highway to hell. If you haven't heard C++ templates are turing complete and so can also have the halting problem.
Re:Modern terminal-based text editor on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:00AM (#15363780)
Do you use nano instead of nano? Is it typo?
Re:Git git git git git on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:17AM (#15345095)
I really do that a lot so I aliased 'q' to exit in shell.
Re:Numba: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:01AM (#15302193)
Nearly as fast as Numpy but never faster for jitted code while for the first run it takes longer as the jit need to generate llvm code the first time. If your calculation does not use unsupported features like classes (last time I checked they were not supported 1 year ago) and needs to be written as a loop rather than vectorized code, numba can be used to speed it up.

I believe Scipyconf 2016 had a talk on numba where he goes into it in great detail. Just search it up on Youtube.

Anything that is not convenient to be written as numpy arrays can be written using numba. Also it works with pure python code so your prototype can be used at scale with nothing but a decorator.

Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @12:53PM (#15295874)
Interestingly ddg requires quotes for me atleast twice a day. Still I have to use Google for stuff like Google scholar. So !g is pretty common for me.
Re:DuckDuckGo vs Google on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @11:35AM (#15294919)
It is quite for common things but searching uncommon ones always throws it off. Searching for research publications in a specific domain or just haskell or some thing like just returns 1good result with 10 bad ones. So I use !g for those.

Also the autocorrect really throws my search terms off while Google does is right most of the time.

Re:Fresh IDE on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @08:19AM (#15283948)
The entire thing is writted in FASM assembler. So maybe they thought a normal gui toolkit is too heavy weight for asm.
Re:Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:54AM (#15274540)
Shouldn't be too hard considering that the entire thing is written in C.
Re:Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33 on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:31AM (#15274458)
Just Wow. I am happy now that I haven't updated my installation of ccleaner for over a year and so I am safe.
Re:Hack – A typeface designed for source code on Friday September 15, 2017 @08:35AM (#15256573)
WOW! The website looks so shiny just for hosting a single font. Almost thought it was some website advertising Hack the language related stuff. Great web devs behind the site. Kudos to you.
Re:Building a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:15AM (#15247619)
This is so cool. My mind is blown.
Re:Windows for Linux Nerds on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:04AM (#15247518)
Programming languages that are popular are transitioning to FOSS (even MS is doing it). Proprietary programming cannot succeed in today's crowded ecosystem. If swift was closed source but free to nobody would use it unlike 20 years ago. So swift being OSS is the only decision.
Re:Sublime Text 3.0 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:25PM (#15239818)
Spacevim, vim-bootstrap, spf13, janus, vim-sensible (for sensible defaults for vim only).
Re:Sublime Text 3.0 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:59AM (#15239541)
You just don't have that pop up anymore and also get the satisfaction of having supported the devs behind sublime text. Nuf said.
Re:The Incredible Growth of Python on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:40PM (#15186955)
I think even though Python in the industry like in web isn't growing as much as say Node, in other places like Data Science and Intro to programming in Unis and Schools Python is growing very fast.

The article is not narrow minded but has a narrow focus and only analyses concrete data from a single source. It may be globally accurate but indicates a rising trend in people being interested in python. While Python usage cannot be directly correlatd to SO, we can infer that languages that have more questions have more people using or learning it generally. In the same way languages with a small community of users don't always prefer SO but something more personal like Mailing lists or IRC (eg. J language).

It should be safe to conclude that due to Data Science being the new buzz word and python at the forefront of it all, atleast python is getting a lot of attention even if it doesn't translate directly to more users right away.

Totally off topic but Liked the name and the reference to Planescape Torment. (My favourite RPG)
Re:Why favor PostgreSQL over MariaDB/MySQL? on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @07:40AM (#15174194)
Isn't the number of pythons four? One for C, one for JVM, one for CLR and one in pure Rpython for the pure JIT code. Double them for python 2 and three. That makes it 8.
Re:ReactOS 0.4.6 released on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @07:28AM (#15174122)
It does make me wonder where did the rest of the space in a Windows CD go to? I mean they needed a full cd for it and it wasn't even a live cd. And React OS should atleast have most of WinXP's features and yet is much smaller. What did microsoft use the rest of the space for?
Re:How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success on Saturday September 02, 2017 @06:08PM (#15158479)
You get square tabs in 57 i think.

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