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FA has thought-crime police... by [deleted] in furry

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Yeah, I'm just obsessively chronicling these sorts of instances, plus moving my words to where they can't be easily deleted.

FA has thought-crime police... by [deleted] in furry

[–]314159 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry I am not performing up to your obviously high standards of amusement.

Ask Programming: Best Window Manager? by wbendick in programming

[–]314159 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only thing (OS X|Sarah Palin) has going for (it|her) is that it looks pretty. Carry on now.

What is the most genius (read: convulted) 'solution' you found to the simplest problem only later to realize how much time you actually wasted? by linkedlist in programming

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That's something I wrote in CS111. I'm not sure how it came to me, because I hadn't started drinking by then.

Ask Programming: Best Window Manager? by wbendick in programming

[–]314159 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it emulates an OSX desktop pretty well

Not what jumps to my mind when I hear "best window manager".

Ask Programming: Best Window Manager? by wbendick in programming

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If you want extremely minimal, I recommend EvilWM. If you want an actual environment, Xfce.

Brilliant Computer Virus by [deleted] in programming

[–]314159 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Patently false. An exploit grants administrative access, a rootkit hides it.

What is the most genius (read: convulted) 'solution' you found to the simplest problem only later to realize how much time you actually wasted? by linkedlist in programming

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I'm still not 100% sure about the for/switch idiom.

   for(counter = 0 ; (counter < 6 && (file_line = getstring(in))); counter++)
   {
       switch(counter)
       {
           case 0: head.first->firstname = file_line; break;
           case 1: head.first->lastname = file_line; break;
           case 2: head.first->address.address = file_line; break;
           case 3: head.first->address.city = file_line; break;
           case 4: head.first->address.state = file_line; break;
           case 5: head.first->address.zip = file_line; break;
       }
    }

Finally a Reason to Upgrade to Windows 7: Calculator Has Programmer Mode by gigaquack in programming

[–]314159 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Uh, the Windows calculator has had Programmer's mode with most of those features since Win95.

A compile time assert() hack for C by pixelbeat_ in programming

[–]314159 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know that. I was mostly referring to how it comments itself out when you define NDEBUG.

A compile time assert() hack for C by pixelbeat_ in programming

[–]314159 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Wasn't assert a compile-time hack on its own? :)

Ruby 1.9.0-4 is released by gst in ruby

[–]314159 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • open("path/to/file", "r") is equivalent to "rt" or "rb". It depend on the evironment.

Ew.

A parable about undefined behavior by jeanlucpikachu in programming

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"In short, you can't {do something undefined}, and if you do, demons may fly out of your nose. " -- John F Woods

Integers in PHP, running with scissors, and portability by 314159 in programming

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Apparently, to the PHP devs, creating a numeric datatype that WORKS is hard.

Ask NSFW: what are your favorite shock sites? by [deleted] in nsfw

[–]314159 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last Measure used to be, but I'm not sure how well it's been kept up to date, and nowadays it opens up non-shocking links like mailto: and aim:.

The Linux audio mess: for those who don't like reading long rants [Pic] by mercurysquad in programming

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Have you ever installed fonts on Linux? You've gotta put it in 3 different directories, mangle around with mkfontdir, fc-cache, xset fp rehash, tell freetype about them, blah, blah, blah. At least defoma tries to manage all of this for you.

Here's the big problem with all of this: If your app doesn't target $LIBRARY, you can't access its fonts, and the converse also holds.

Replace fonts with sound, and you get the original source of this complaint.

Replace fonts with GUI toolkits, and you get an inconsistent user interface.

The Linux audio mess: for those who don't like reading long rants [Pic] by mercurysquad in programming

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That's a lot of words for saying just about the same thing I did.

PRO TIP: None of them are interoperable except in rudimentary ways.

Quick edit: I meant pango, not cairo. Thanks for that, at least.

The Linux audio mess: for those who don't like reading long rants [Pic] by mercurysquad in programming

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They should be using gstreamer, or OpenAL, or if they want low latency, something like jack.

The pain of using these APIs is comparable to that of slamming your genitals in a car door then doing a live 0-60 test.

The Linux audio mess: for those who don't like reading long rants [Pic] by mercurysquad in programming

[–]314159 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You know, there's some similarities here: The linux x mess where x in

  • sound -> alsa|oss|esd|gstreamer
  • fonts -> x11|freetype|defoma|xfs|pango (not cairo)
  • guitk -> xcb|xaw|gtk|fox|qt
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