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by vorbote 5y ago
Check out https://chromium.woolys.com/
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by vorbote 8y ago
If using Firefox, I'm very happy using "Auto Tab Discard". It does what you want.
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by vorbote 11y ago
Mind that Dante invented the language that italians speak. That is, he encoded and merged vulgar latin as had evolved in contact with the laguages of the northern invading tribes that overran the Roman Empire for the previous 750 years in
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by vorbote 11y ago
Sigh ThomPete, where do you live? The Hamptons? Really, you need to actually go out and meet the world around you. It isn't all wine and roses I assure you, but it is better than living in a bubble, those burst, you know. If you deci
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by vorbote 11y ago
Hmmm... Very uninformed of you. Just walk into an alley at night in Manhattan or Chicago or Boston or Los Angeles or (surprise!) San Franciso and you'll know... Seriously, read the newspapers of any more or less poor third world countr
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by vorbote 12y ago
Coming from the Artifex people, I suspect MuJS will be used by MuPDF to implement PDF embedded JavaScript forms.
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by vorbote 12y ago
Better formatted version of the blog post: http://raganwald.com/2014/12/20/why-why-functional-programmi... The original paper by John Huges mentioned in the posting: Internet Archive: https://web.a
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by vorbote 12y ago
Love the reference, but I'm sure all young phillistines that hang out in HN have missed it completely. :-( You have my upvote. Time to die.
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by vorbote 13y ago
Eww! I find this copy far more readable: https://web.archive.org/web/20130728075247/http://mywiki.woo...
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Micro Python: Python for microcontrollers(micropython.org)
6 points by vorbote 13y ago|0 comments
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by vorbote 13y ago
Hmm... There is a basic misuse of terms here. The author uses the term "distributing applications" but he is actually talking about application deployment . Oh well, language evolves and most of the times becomes murkier. But I d
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by vorbote 13y ago
I agree. And I think that FreeBSD and DragonFly stand over the rest in this respect, both have incredible technology in their guts. Obviously OpenBSD has done wonders teaching people that you can write sane, safe and audited code that works
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by vorbote 13y ago
"GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical to Unix. We will make all improvements that are convenient, based on our experience with other operating systems. In particular, we plan to have longer filenames, file
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by vorbote 13y ago
Sigh This just goes to show what kind of damage people with little knowledge and big egos can do. Ever read about Dunning-Kruger Syndrome folks? Now you are witnessing a typical example in all its pathetism. And all started here in HN.
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by vorbote 13y ago
No. The GPL is about the users . It empowers those who use the software to have access to the source and in case they are so inclined (say, the developers are a bunch of tools that don't listen to the needs of the users ), to be ab
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by vorbote 13y ago
I'm glad to see that gnuplot has come a long way since the last time I tried to create publication quality plots with it and ran away in horror to fall in the arms of the usual commercial suspects. But these days, python based solution
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by vorbote 13y ago
Fact is that Oracle bought Sun to have control of Java. As many know, all the middleware and development tools that Oracle sells for its database are written in Java. They even tried to replace with some success Pro*C with some sort of Java
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FreeType Development and Maintainance(pledgie.com)
34 points by vorbote 14y ago|4 comments
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Donate to "FreeType Development and Maintainance"(pledgie.com)
1 points by vorbote 14y ago|0 comments
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Protect Kids, Get F*cked(medium.com)
1 points by vorbote 14y ago|0 comments
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The Art of George W. Bush and the Importance of Play(medium.com)
72 points by vorbote 14y ago|18 comments
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Whatever happened to the Hurd? – The story of the GNU OS(linuxuser.co.uk)
137 points by vorbote 14y ago|87 comments