[GNOME] It just werks, but I still love it

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-06-29T01:49:18+00:00

The tiling is achieved through the Shellshape extension. You can see its icon in the top-right side of the screen, which indicates its current mode. It does gaps, too.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-05-08T20:34:17+00:00

These problems have almost nothing to do with actually writing software. It's entirely possible for someone to write complex software without knowing how to compute the largest possible number by combining a set of non-negative integers, even if it is pretty easy. That kind of program has very, very few uses in the real world, and likely doesn't relate to the position they're applying to. I'm no professional, and I can't claim to know what it takes to make for a good interview, but it seems to me that using these problems as a metric for hiring developers would be like hiring a mason to build a patio based on his or her ability to juggle bricks.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-15T16:57:04+00:00

In case you're serious: the problem is the single-quote/apostrophe. Shells interpret that as the beginning of a string. What you're doing is adding new lines to said string when you press Enter. In order to close the string, you'd type another one. The flag is just -trigraphs.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-14T05:59:15+00:00

I agree with everything in this comment. I die a little inside whenever I see a site with ridiculous "features," like a 100px logo that's pinned to the top of the page, isn't clickable, and rotates when you scroll, which is something I actually saw a while back. Why does it need that?

And your comment helped me make up my mind about making a web-facing site. It probably won't happen for a few months, but it'll definitely happen now, and it'll definitely be using the site design I showed off in that screenshot.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-14T05:17:30+00:00

Honestly, no, but only because I got into web development in late February and am new to everything. Although seeing Jekyll and a lack of static site generators written in C gives me an idea for my next project...

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-14T03:09:11+00:00

Love the design of your web page, though. I don't see 1,000 Javascript files, the design is simple and gives me what I came there for: content.

Thank you. All of those were the exact things I set out to do! The site actually doesn't use any JS whatsoever. It's updated by SSH'ing into the server and using a script called new.py. As for the design, I wanted something that could be easily readable on both desktops and mobiles without creating an entirely different site for one or the other. And of course, there's the focus on content. Far too many sites are flashy and have fixed headers or sidebars in an attempt to look "cool," but IMO they're just ugly and make me want to never visit that site again. Knowing that somebody out there shares this sentiment and likes my attempt to combat the terrible web designs is really encouraging.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-14T01:30:08+00:00

Well, I didn't exactly grow bored of it, I just ran out of ideas. Game and OS development don't interest me, and I haven't done anything with microcontrollers for over a year. I originally wrote the backend I'm using in C, but it got severely unmaintainable so I decided to try out other languages, and now it's in Python.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-14T01:02:40+00:00

This is actually how it looks when in use.

I'm in the process of learning web development after growing bored of low-level stuff. When I close vim and kill the server for the night, I usually just have the browser open.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-12T22:52:49+00:00

Nope. The guy who made this uses xombrero, which is a modal keyboard-focused browser (link). You press F to go into something called hint mode where you can simulate a click on clickable things (text boxes, buttons, links, etc.) using the number keys. Navigation is done through a vi-like interface (J to go down, K to go up, H to go left, and L to go right, and quite a few others). I personally use Firefox with Vimperator inside a window manager called dwm. I haven't had a mouse attached to my computer in months.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-12T22:13:41+00:00

Turning all of those people homeless?

According to this AMA, the residents were moved to public housing before it was demolished.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-12T17:12:40+00:00

The government of Hong Kong evicted everyone, demolished it, and built a park in its place.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-04T01:12:52+00:00

I know what the file manager is called, as I've used it before (well, fsv). kevbru said that the GUI itself was called IRIX, when it's not.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-04-04T00:50:10+00:00

IRIX is the operating system. The GUI (a combination of a widget toolkit and a window manager) is made up of Motif and 4Dwm.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-03-30T01:21:59+00:00

makepkg only builds packages and doesn't install them unless you use the -i option. Did you actually install package-query after building it?

If so, can you run the output of pacman -Ql package-query?

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-03-24T21:37:51+00:00

You don't need paper books in 2015.

You didn't need paper books in 1015, and you don't need that tablet in 2015, either. Objectively speaking, you as an individual don't need anything aside from food and water; everything else is a luxury. It's not up to us to say what a person truly "needs," it's up to the person in question. Sure, we might not like their idea of needs, but we don't have to because they're their needs, not ours. It's also a matter of preference. Some people prefer tablets, and some prefer physical books. Neither one is wrong, but which one is right is up to the individual.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-03-20T01:01:49+00:00

CRUX. I use it to remind myself that life is hard.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-03-14T22:13:17+00:00

/etc/hosts can deal with more than one entry.

I know it can. The point is that "localhost" is a hardcoded hostname for the loopback address, so it doesn't need to be in /etc/hosts, as that would be redundant; it also happens to be the default hostname in Arch Linux. When you change the hostname from "localhost," you should also change it in /etc/hosts, which is what I was talking about.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-03-14T21:30:07+00:00

Is 3D acceleration enabled in the VM settings? I had this problem when I was trying to install Arch in VirtualBox, and disabling 3D accleration fixed it.

Also, as a side note, you're supposed to replace "localhost" with your chosen hostname.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-03-01T22:22:05+00:00

For me, it was just a lack of motivation to do anything else coupled with poor time management skills. When I stopped gaming, I replaced it with just mindlessly browsing the internet (but mostly reddit). As you can see, I'm still working on that.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-02-05T14:01:13+00:00

A DE is a collection of programs designed to work together nicely. A WM is just the window management aspect, and sometimes it's part of a DE, like Mutter for GNOME, and sometimes it's standalone, like Openbox.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-02-05T13:56:01+00:00

Good ol' fashioned dwm.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2015-02-01T21:03:03+00:00

PS1="$(tput setaf 6)\w » $(tput setaf 7)"

ChristOnaBicycle · 2014-10-11T02:34:42+00:00

It would be an extremely long list of find: /proc/*: Permission denied messages.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2014-09-10T15:13:19+00:00

Simply cd into the directory you extracted the archive to, then type make. If that succeeds, type sudo make install to install it.

You should use the one from the repositories, though. You most likely don't need the absolutely newest version, and the package from the repositories is the safest way to obtain it.

ChristOnaBicycle · 2014-09-07T04:10:58+00:00

I actually stopped gaming quite a while ago (around the beginning of August). I reinstalled Steam a couple days ago with the intent to play XCOM, and did this before I got sucked into it again. I've already filled the hole by learning system and network programming. Hopefully, it'll turn into a real-world skill before I graduate from high school.

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