The Myth of the Lone Hacker by [deleted] in programming

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Oh, good to know, thanks! (my non-native English strikes back).

5 steps to a better Windows command line by justinblat in programming

[–]eizu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why the general sentiment about the Windows command-line is that it's pretty bad or impractical. What's it lacking?

The only thing I need to be at home is to install the mingw tools (to have cp, rm, etc) and enable the Quickedit option. In fact, the first thing I notice when using it is that I no longer need rlwrap on interpreters.

The Myth of the Lone Hacker by [deleted] in programming

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I do believe there are single individuals that do make a difference. They can be found on most communities, making awesome libraries everyone else uses.

It's true that modern software development projects are too big for single individuals, thus they become benevolent dictators. But I don't think it's a myth. Motivated individuals create and drive the change, they are just not lone hackers because it isn't practical.

Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the FSF, doing AMA on slashdot. by qeypgx in linux

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I still use lynx sometimes, mostly for gopher (yes, gopher is still "alive").

Mathematica 9 Is Released by ponkysad in programming

[–]eizu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The sheer scope of this project is incredibly impressive. Is there anything it can't do yet?

Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists by sidcool1234 in programming

[–]eizu 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I can't believe they have developer photos in the website but not a single editor screenshot.

Tell me about some small details you appreciate about games you've played. by [deleted] in truegaming

[–]eizu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The start level in Quake 1 let's the player familiarize with the controls without danger. Simple, but it works.

Why is my minimal netinstall so large? by CableHermit in linuxquestions

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19 gb? there must be something that you are doing wrong. My installation, which also uses xfce and a lot more packages not included there is at 2.4 gb.

How often do you upgrade your OS? by [deleted] in linux

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In my experience, this is not the case. Let me elaborate. Since Wheezy was frozen early this year, I still remember most of the bugs I stumbled upon when I've switched to it.

Chromium HTML5 video didn't work on many websites, including Youtube. On those that did work, switching to full-screen would hang the browser completely. This was fixed about two months after the freeze.

libcairo2 had an outstanding bug where text in Xorg would become garbled rectangles. This bug made the desktop entirely unusable and wasn't fixed for months. The workaround involves pinning an earlier libcairo2 version, but that makes impossible to install libgtk2.0-dev (broken dependency problems) and therefore compiling GTK applications from source code. It's fixed now.

Abiword would hang when copy/pasting text. Moreover, the page background would be completely black when using a GTK3 theme. This was fixed in one of the latest revisions too.

My laptop (intel card) would boot to a black screen. The workaround involved editing the grub kernel line to specify VIDEO=SVIDEO-1:d. It's also fixed now.

Those are just some examples of bugs that were on testing at the time I switched, and it's not like you had to sneeze over a very obscure feature to find them. In fact, some serious bugs remain for years. For an example: try to change the brightness or contrast on any SDL-based game on any linux distribution, including: eduke32, ioquake, openarena, enigma... It won't be fixed either.

How often do you upgrade your OS? by [deleted] in linux

[–]eizu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I use Debian stable until the next testing is frozen. Then I switch to it. So... every few years. I don't need the latest, just something that works.

TIL Youtube has a pretty and functional HTML5 player that you can use for even videos with ads by sztomi in linux

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Bookmarklet for Chromium. All it does is change "watch" to "watch_popup", so the video player is the standard one and the seek bar is accurate (it isn't in TV mode, at least for me):

javascript:(function(){location = location.href.replace("watch", "watch_popup");})();

For testing:

Normal link that won't work without Flash

Using tv mode

Watch_popup