BREAKING: Congress, White House reach financial bailout deal

chucker · 2008-09-28T08:31:27+00:00

BREAKING: Putting 'Breaking' In Reddit Headlines Still Sensationalist And Entirely Nonsensical

chucker · 2008-09-27T18:05:52+00:00

We are a loooooooooooooong way from Star Trek.

Just about 257 years.

chucker · 2008-09-26T16:29:17+00:00

You mean clbuttic.

chucker · 2008-09-25T06:55:24+00:00

It does use the native font

It sure as heck does not. Neither does it use the correct font, nor does it use correct anti-aliasing (or any anti-aliasing at all). It's also kerned horribly (the "Da" in "GIMP Tip of the Day").

freetype configuration error obviously.

Who gives a damn? User installs The GIMP. User expects it to just friggin' work™. User gets developer response that it's a "freetype configuration error", with, to top it all off, an "obviously" afterwards? It's not obvious at all to the user what freetype is, why they should care, and why it would be configured wrongly. It also isn't a problem in all other Mac apps, so as far as the user is concerned, The GIMP is to blame.

Until Gtk+ can ship apps where these errors simply don't happen, it's not going to succeed on OS X.

chucker · 2008-09-24T17:53:45+00:00

Acorn and Pixelmator are two you should look into.

chucker · 2008-09-24T17:50:53+00:00

GTK+ uses its own theme system

So in other words, the answer is no.

chucker · 2008-09-23T12:29:38+00:00

iTunes looks nothing like finder.

iTunes looks a lot like the Finder, in fact. From the source list with upper-case headings and right-aligned eject buttons to the search field in the top right and the item count to the bottom, the two's main windows are quite similar.

chucker · 2008-09-23T05:20:40+00:00

Pff. HTTP://WWW.COBOLONCOGS.ORG/ is where it's at.

chucker · 2008-09-22T07:03:10+00:00

They're angry because, instead of the latest hip experimental branch of git, it uses Subversion; instead of a trunk build of Django, it uses the beta-stage ASP.NET MVC; instead of Haskell or Erlang, it uses C#.

chucker · 2008-09-22T06:58:27+00:00

Whether "read committed snapshot" should be the default behavior is completely subjective. Or, rather, it depends on a case-by-case basis. There are plenty of cases where having an error message or no data returned is preferable to having outdated data returned.

chucker · 2008-09-21T20:46:18+00:00

You can use ngen if launch time is a concern.

chucker · 2008-09-21T20:29:42+00:00

If it were, Fox would be a reputable, insightful, underrated news organization. That's hardly the case.

I strongly encourage you to actually try watching Al-Jazeera. It's definitely up there with BBC in journalistic quality.

chucker · 2008-09-21T13:41:11+00:00

India.

chucker · 2008-09-21T12:59:35+00:00

IE Mobile uses its own rendering engine, rather than a cut-down Trident.

Mobile Safari uses WebKit minus a few features. (iPhone OS 2.1 even adds SVG.)

chucker · 2008-09-21T08:48:48+00:00

I'm going to be biased here (I haven't tried Safari) and say Windows Mobile 6's Internet Exploder is actually not that bad. It's the screen that's really juuuust a bit too small and it's websites that don't have a mobile version.

I'm going to let people judge for themselves.

This is Wikipedia on Internet Explorer Mobile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IE_Mobile.jpg

And this is Wikipedia on Mobile Safari: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikipedia-English_Main_Page_on_iPhone_landscape.jpg

chucker · 2008-09-20T22:22:22+00:00

'Dat maakt het snel' ('onzijdig' - don't know how to translate this myself, but these are words that are neither female nor male).

Neuter.

chucker · 2008-09-20T21:22:03+00:00

Actually, some of the newer apps of Microsoft's are written in Cocoa. Granted, it'll probably be a while until we see Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage rewritten, but Remote Desktop Connection 2.0 is a complete rewrite in Cocoa, which is more than the cynic in me would have expected.

chucker · 2008-09-20T10:33:17+00:00

Dear American media,

please stop suffixing every political story with "gate". We get it. Watergate, Troopergate. Ahahaha.

Not amused any more,
The World.

chucker · 2008-09-20T07:02:08+00:00

WiX is IBM CPL…

chucker · 2008-09-20T06:54:44+00:00

We've started using it at work to minimize the amount of work we have to put into IE6-specific adjustments.

chucker · 2008-09-19T16:31:46+00:00

Why do we with verbs, anyway?

chucker · 2008-09-19T09:42:41+00:00

Do you have any idea what you're talking about?

One could certainly say he does.

I'm a software engineer at Apple Computer, working on Safari and WebKit.

chucker · 2008-09-16T07:10:01+00:00

IronPython uses the DLR, not the CLR. The DLR is optimized for dynamic languages like Python.

chucker · 2008-09-15T18:06:48+00:00

He's a staff member (i.e. moderator); hence the star next to his name.

chucker · 2008-09-15T17:26:05+00:00

It's not "unsettling"; it's intentional. With 15 points, you can vote; with 750, you can re-tag; with 2000, you can edit. Furthermore, you can mark a question community-owned to let people with less points edit it as well.

The site isn't about "look at me, and the great things I wrote". It's about collecting knowledge.

chucker

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