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null | thetyrone | null | I am, incidentally, also the PM driving the PDF feature. Generally, it doesn't put much load on our site to generate the PDF, as we have separate build VMs for those, and the PDFs are then channeled into Azure Blob Storage. Now, from a user perspective, I am curious on how useful that PDF is to _you_ since we include e... | null | 0 | 1491499204 | False | 0 | dfx1132 | t3_63oaj7 | null | null | t1_dfwgvi8 | null | 1493850472 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | Unless I actually want something else that I can easily reach in the same way (*cough* browser tabs), in which case I'm screwed because some other bullshit is already there. Seriously, how many fucking times does one *really* need to reach the menus? Most apps worth their salt provide keyboard shortcuts for the most co... | null | 0 | 1491499213 | False | 0 | dfx11ey | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwwbq0 | null | 1493850476 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thetyrone | null | Sounds good, we'll take a look at what we can do. | null | 0 | 1491499221 | False | 0 | dfx11pd | t3_63oaj7 | null | null | t1_dfwj0al | null | 1493850480 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | henryroo | null | What use cases have you tried where Wayland isn't viable? I'm running Wayland on Fedora 25 for both my desktop and laptop. The only problem I've had is with screen sharing.
The sentiment that "Wayland is completely unusable", which I've seen repeated throughout this thread, runs contrary to my experience and every rev... | null | 0 | 1491499251 | False | 0 | dfx12ru | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwxy7n | null | 1493850495 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Terr_ | null | I dunno, the security implications stem from how the required interpreter is already installed in many places.
If an attacker *can* install a Brainfuck interpreter somewhere, why not just install a simpler payload directly? | null | 0 | 1491499287 | False | 0 | dfx142s | t3_635ggh | null | null | t1_dfwx27n | null | 1493850512 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DYMAXIONman | null | Mint is shitty and most casual users are using some sort of buntu flavor. | null | 0 | 1491499324 | False | 0 | dfx15fo | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwodw4 | null | 1493850530 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mmstick | null | The only thing people are telling me is that they didn't even bother to read what I wrote, and instead are listening to a troll account that generated a strawman by butchering my original statement to say something that I did not. Your comment in itself is pointless as you are just adding onto that. | null | 0 | 1491499329 | False | 0 | dfx15ld | t3_637seo | null | null | t1_dfwgp9d | null | 1493850532 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | augmentedtree | null | > Compatibility - Come on, when do you really think i'm getting wayland on Solaris/HP-UX/AIX/VMS/etc .....
Nobody cares anymore, out of the significant market share left for those how many actually use 3-D acceleration? | null | 0 | 1491499335 | False | 0 | dfx15sr | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwqrn2 | null | 1493850535 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | :D | null | 0 | 1491499382 | False | 0 | dfx17gt | t3_63oxnb | null | null | t1_dfx01ud | null | 1493850557 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mmstick | null | Your parents must be really proud of the psychic skills that you claim to have. | null | 0 | 1491499383 | False | 0 | dfx17jw | t3_637seo | null | null | t1_dfw88dp | null | 1493850558 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MrStevenJobs | null | Yeah, I'm pretty smart. | null | 0 | 1491499410 | False | 0 | dfx18ia | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwss2k | null | 1493850571 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TemptingButIWillPass | null | I didn't expect to be impressed, but after watching the video I have to say this is rather cool. Normally I am a XAML defender because it is just so powerful, but this really makes it lot easier to do the same thing. Just a couple things:
Does this free me from having to create an ICommand on my ViewModels? IOW, ca... | null | 0 | 1491499433 | False | 0 | dfx19a7 | t3_63qvje | null | null | t3_63qvje | null | 1493850581 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DYMAXIONman | null | At the time it looked like tablets were going to kill laptops. | null | 0 | 1491499454 | False | 0 | dfx1a1f | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwtjyg | null | 1493850591 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | meh_or_maybe_not | null | I'm fairly sure all examples there are from terminal emulators and not actual terminals, and terminal emulator don't have those issues. | null | 0 | 1491499463 | False | 0 | dfx1aci | t3_63lcwt | null | null | t1_dfws055 | null | 1493850595 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ArmandoWall | null | You haven't provided iota of proof. I don't have to do that. You make the claim, you prove your claim.
This is fun! | null | 0 | 1491499495 | False | 0 | dfx1bgb | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfx06y7 | null | 1493850610 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | larso0 | null | Yeah. Gnome can be quite nice if you install a few plugins and a nice theme, but the default setup is unusable for me.
By default, you can't minimize windows. There's no taskbar/dock available without opening the menu, with the activities button that doesn't look like a button in the top left corner, which is also ver... | null | 0 | 1491499511 | False | 0 | dfx1bz9 | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwvyou | null | 1493850617 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bilog78 | null | > I think I understand your point. I have to ask though, how valuable is it that X11 lasted as long as it did? Other OSes have gotten by with (I assume) less future-proof window managers.
First of all, X11 is not a window manager, it's a display protocol. And the most valuable aspect of its long-livedness is backw... | null | 0 | 1491499523 | False | 0 | dfx1cem | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwzvcj | null | 1493850623 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN | null | Oracle JVM and Mono can take 2+ seconds to fire up unless you specifically tune them to start up fast.
Personally, I'd go for something like C#/.NET Native, OCaml, Go, C++, or Rust. Maybe embed a Lua interpreter for scripting, or expose an Apache Thrift IPC service. | null | 0 | 1491499545 | False | 0 | dfx1d6w | t3_63lssy | null | null | t1_dfvwn5j | null | 1493850634 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mirhagk | null | Just tell them to find the mac they want, then subtract $500 and buy the equivalent lenovo. It'll still probably be more than they need.
But seriously that was apple's strength. When you give consumers more choice they buy less stuff. I don't think it's good for society to have a monoculture like that, but it's certa... | null | 0 | 1491499575 | False | 0 | dfx1ebo | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwss2k | null | 1493850648 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | ya agree, and also want amazing wasm compilers asap.. | null | 0 | 1491499595 | False | 0 | dfx1ezb | t3_63nkvf | null | null | t1_dfx0ers | null | 1493850657 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hz2600 | null | > The fanboy doublethink will be amusing.
What does this mean? Are you taking shots at people who are saying they like Unity? We just didn't trumpet our acceptance of the tool the same way haters wouldn't shut up about their opinion.
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null | sixbrx | null | It has to do with Wayland because *Wayland is forcing the low-level rendering code to be revisted*. Hence the hope for a speedup as it is modified or rewritten, that it might let it match Chromium's performance. | null | 0 | 1491499673 | False | 0 | dfx1hq8 | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwv73m | null | 1493850694 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Phobos15 | null | If you can't comprehend that public data can answer your question, then you have down syndrome. | null | 0 | 1491499694 | False | 0 | dfx1ige | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfx1bgb | null | 1493850703 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ijiijijjjijiij | null | Right, that's what I'm saying: in programming languages you write algorithms, in TLA+ you write definitions. You can also use that algorithm as a 'definition' in TLA+:
RECURSIVE Max(_)
Max(Set) ==
LET val == CHOOSE x \in Set : TRUE
newSet == Set \ val
IN IF newSet = {} THEN val
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null | asraniel | null | Thanks for the detailed reply :) | null | 0 | 1491499754 | False | 0 | dfx1kki | t3_63llgh | null | null | t1_dfwmmmz | null | 1493850731 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DevestatingAttack | null | SuperTuxKart and GNOME Mines? | null | 0 | 1491499758 | False | 0 | dfx1kpq | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx0ysd | null | 1493850733 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SeerUD | null | You can turn them on all the time, and you can also make them appear on the top of the window when they're not maximised instead of at the top of the screen.
Maybe that's why nothing has changed about it? :P | null | 0 | 1491499820 | False | 0 | dfx1mxh | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwmspd | null | 1493850763 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hz2600 | null | >fanboi
Way to insult everyone with a different opinion than you. The idea that a single computing device could function with a small and large screen is not absurd, it just hasn't matured, and I think the day will come.
I get the decision; they have to make money and this isn't panning out. | null | 0 | 1491499837 | False | 0 | dfx1nia | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwobpo | null | 1493850770 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | my-alt-account- | null | It still doesn't ship with a suspend button iirc | null | 0 | 1491499866 | False | 0 | dfx1oiv | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwvyou | null | 1493850784 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Kluizenaer | null | > What use cases have you tried where Wayland isn't viable? I'm running Wayland on Fedora 25 for both my desktop and laptop. The only problem I've had is with screen sharing.
Super simple issue I had a few days back: Chromium has this ctrl+shift+W hotkey to close itself; I use sticky modifiers which makes it really... | null | 0 | 1491499879 | False | 0 | dfx1oyl | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx12ru | null | 1493850790 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ArmandoWall | null | And now you resort to insults. It's getting better!
Let's try one more time: Since it's public data, and you're making the claim, then show me the data.
Show me the data.
Repeat after me: "I will show ArmandoWall the data." | null | 0 | 1491499889 | False | 0 | dfx1pb1 | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfx1ige | null | 1493850795 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bilog78 | null | > Well it's still not as bad as Xorg because it still only uses a fraction of all crazy X11 features like xinerama, outdated and weird printer support and crap like that which noone uses anymore.
Uh, Xprint hasn't been part of Xorg for nearly a decade. Also, how's XWayland's support for HiDPI? Or is everything just... | null | 0 | 1491499898 | False | 0 | dfx1plp | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx0kal | null | 1493850799 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Mikeztm | null | That's not tablet UI.
Win key to get to a full screen launcher is way faster than win+D to go back to desktop.
And you can switch to server-core without UI after installation. | null | 0 | 1491499954 | False | 0 | dfx1rov | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwrqpa | null | 1493850826 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hunterkll | null | I see a lot of existing CAD type and rendering controlling setups. GIS setups, data visualization... just because you don't see or use it doesn't mean it isn't there.
And "nobody cares" includes multi-billion dollar market segments that partially fund X11 development. | null | 0 | 1491499955 | False | 0 | dfx1rpr | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx15sr | null | 1493850826 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bilog78 | null | > If you are using Fedora, it has been using wayland as the default for the last few releases.
For values of few equal to 1, and with most applications still using the X protocol via XWayland. because very few applications actually support Wayland. | null | 0 | 1491499998 | False | 0 | dfx1t6g | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwzhxl | null | 1493850846 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | unknownmosquito | null | Not my code, but the photo owner showed up in this comment thread someplace under the photo I posted, if it's bothering you :P | null | 0 | 1491500002 | False | 0 | dfx1tca | t3_63lcwt | null | null | t1_dfwgbq7 | null | 1493850848 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | Providing services to others isn't simple. What are your guarantees? What is your plan for the data when you want to exit?
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null | henryroo | null | Nope, normal Steam games. Give it a try and see if your favorites work - you might be pleasantly surprised. | null | 0 | 1491500170 | False | 0 | dfx1z3z | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx1kpq | null | 1493850925 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bilog78 | null | Mir was already dead on the water when Intel declared they would never accept any (more) patches to support it in their driver. | null | 0 | 1491500214 | False | 0 | dfx20oe | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwxgls | null | 1493850946 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ChollaIsNotDildo | null | Damn, the SQLite Massacree. | null | 0 | 1491500216 | False | 0 | dfx20rl | t3_63nsrn | null | null | t1_dfwrls1 | null | 1493850947 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mirhagk | null | The major problem is that doing it properly as you propose would be a very expensive endeavour,. And when you say
> the free market would eventually take over
Why exactly do you think that? For normal laptops it won't be price, because OEMs pay less than $50 for windows, so there's not a lot of savings to be passe... | null | 0 | 1491500274 | False | 0 | dfx22v5 | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwp8c3 | null | 1493850974 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | basmith7 | null | Jokes on everyone. Ubuntu 17.04 is Zesty Zapus. There are no more letters left. There will be no 18.04. | null | 0 | 1491500308 | False | 0 | dfx23zo | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t3_63rjtw | null | 1493850990 | 71 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rdfar | null | Unity looked polished but had too many things that made no sense. It looked good on screenshots.
Right now I am happy with i3. Love it. | null | 0 | 1491500314 | False | 0 | dfx2466 | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t3_63rjtw | null | 1493850993 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | break_main | null | I bet the guys at Mint are like "well, pack it up, the dream is over" | null | 0 | 1491500365 | False | 0 | dfx25wv | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t3_63rjtw | null | 1493851016 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Phobos15 | null | What can I do? You have directly rejected basic facts.
If you don't think facts are real, then how can anyone discuss anything with you? | null | 0 | 1491500366 | False | 0 | dfx25ya | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfx1pb1 | null | 1493851018 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | I scaled Dropbox in a whiteboard interview once. Easy.
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null | silveryRain | null | In my case:
1. Top menu bar fucks with the reachability of my browser's tabs. I rarely even use it, so having the menu always visible alone is already too much for me these days (the Alt key isn't exactly hard to reach).
2. Retarded notification UX, do you *really* need an explanation here? Small text, giant padding,... | null | 0 | 1491500401 | 1491501717 | 0 | dfx276d | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwivol | null | 1493851033 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | viper117x | null | For the greater good ;) | null | 0 | 1491500439 | False | 0 | dfx28j8 | t3_63s2sp | null | null | t1_dfwld81 | null | 1493851052 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bluaki | null | It's not quite like that for a key platform detail like display protocols. Every video driver, every GUI toolkit library, and more has to work with whatever display servers and protocols the users use. If they don't, users suffer interoperability problems. The extra engineering effort involved in Wayland vs Mir goes we... | null | 0 | 1491500442 | False | 0 | dfx28mp | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwxa5p | null | 1493851053 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mirhagk | null | You are targeting a very niche market now. People who do more than just use a browser and word processor, but don't use any applications that are windows specific. People that use their computers without internet access for more than just note taking. People that care about the difference between chrome OS and a "fully... | null | 0 | 1491500525 | False | 0 | dfx2bjo | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwyre2 | null | 1493851092 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | As a free market guy, my reasons for disliking it have nothing to do with that. I dislike Unity for being an unresponsive, poorly customizable mess with misaligned priorities that wastes screen real estate and looks like a Yahoo! Widgets ripoff. | null | 0 | 1491500625 | 1491500870 | 0 | dfx2f0e | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwj2b7 | null | 1493851138 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LonelyCannibal | null | For too long, inquiring minds have wondered:
"How long will it take the egos who have highjacked Ubuntu to admit they are spectacularly wrong?"
Now we have our answer. | null | 0 | 1491500665 | False | 0 | dfx2ggg | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t3_63rjtw | null | 1493851158 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Exotria | null | There was that semi-recent showing off they did of the new Snapdragon running x86 Photoshop without lag. *That* was impressive. | null | 0 | 1491500693 | False | 0 | dfx2hgb | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwsd9o | null | 1493851171 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | henryroo | null | You've definitely got some valid points here, and I'd agree if you said that Wayland is a long way from being able to handle every use case. I'd argue that this is expected when designing a replacement for something that's been around as long as X.
My issue with your statement was just describing it as "completely unu... | null | 0 | 1491500741 | False | 0 | dfx2j52 | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx1oyl | null | 1493851193 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | Note: CSS minifier comparison only.
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null | bilog78 | null | > what are the reasons to reimplement so much?
[It's more fulfilling to rewrite things from scratch than to fix what's broken](https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html) | null | 0 | 1491500917 | False | 0 | dfx2pap | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwzbps | null | 1493851275 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BoltActionPiano | null | "our efforts were seen as fragmentation" Yes. And if you supported Wayland all along, something the community has as one of its top hopes for Linux, then people wouldn't have seen it as fragmentation, and would have supported you.
I personally would have donated quite a bit if this announcement was just abandoning Mir... | null | 0 | 1491500989 | False | 0 | dfx2rss | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t3_63rjtw | null | 1493851309 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | otw | null | I auto tile and use multiple desktops but those are pretty basic features we've had for some time. I've mainly just not understood the big deal of the continual DE development. It seems largely just aesthetic at this point and I'm fine with it, but but make such a huge deal it's ridiculous. It's like people freaking ou... | null | 0 | 1491501030 | False | 0 | dfx2t7v | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwun7w | null | 1493851328 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | ionoy | null | Thanks!
I don't think it frees you from creating `ICommands`, but it can free you from creating `IValueConverters`. Defining simple commands in markup is certainly possible, although I'm afraid it would break View-ViewModel separation principles. Lots of people would probably be against that.
Standard library alread... | null | 0 | 1491501053 | False | 0 | dfx2tzn | t3_63qvje | null | null | t1_dfx19a7 | null | 1493851338 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | double-you | null | It is awful for bulk downloading too, because of the interface. | null | 0 | 1491501064 | False | 0 | dfx2uem | t3_63oc35 | null | null | t1_dfwyur2 | null | 1493851343 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | Before I answer that, are you going to qualify the answers in some way? I mean are you only looking for "business problems" or anything? Because there are a extremely large domains of compute-bound problems. I'm sure you can think of a few easily, even if you only glance at an algorithms textbook.
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null | bilog78 | null | I like how you're being downvoted for stating plain facts. The best part of this all is that this will lead to either complete fragmentation of the feature sets among Wayland compositors, or to a common extension to the Wayland API to include the possibility to delegate that stuff, the end result being a worse situatio... | null | 0 | 1491501134 | False | 0 | dfx2wwi | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwxuuw | null | 1493851377 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Sordidbass | null | For me, the ridiculous amount of screen clutter it produces is not okay. | null | 0 | 1491501168 | False | 0 | dfx2y2n | t3_63oxnb | null | null | t1_dfwypv5 | null | 1493851393 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | otw | null | I mean if they are literally just fucking around with hot keys then I would just build an older version and not update. I already use a mech keyboard to load profiles to keep my hot keys consistent between environments.
But my point is, even things like hot keys are really insignificant. | null | 0 | 1491501178 | False | 0 | dfx2yfk | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwp059 | null | 1493851398 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | imhotap | null | I don't know shit about Wayland (though I can get that it makes sense to let X11's network transparency go), but I'm a little bit concerned with the F/OSS desktop software we have (like Inkscape, Gimp, Kria, Blender, etc.). It took the developer communities *decades* to build this software, and if there's going to be a... | null | 0 | 1491501218 | False | 0 | dfx2zsi | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwoh7v | null | 1493851415 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kegan_myers_asy | null | Finally. | null | 0 | 1491501218 | False | 0 | dfx2zsu | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t3_63rjtw | null | 1493851415 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | >It's very space efficient too, giving you more space for your code, text or whatever than the other major environments
I had the opposite experience: a top bar with a menu I hardly ever need, a side bar filled with big, padded buttons that have rounded corners, and notifications with tiny text that paradoxically h... | null | 0 | 1491501223 | False | 0 | dfx2zzc | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwk0aw | null | 1493851418 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bilog78 | null | > It has to do with Wayland because Wayland is forcing the low-level rendering code to be revisted.
The rendering code was being revised _regardless of Wayland_. (Again, see Servo.) | null | 0 | 1491501321 | False | 0 | dfx33dj | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx1hq8 | null | 1493851464 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bluaki | null | Unfortunately "still be able to use desktop programs" is an impossible goal in the general case. Phones aren't x86 based and you definitely can't emulate everything.
The next best thing would be if you can install and run software from existing ARM deb packages because a lot of desktop Linux software is compiled for m... | null | 0 | 1491501322 | False | 0 | dfx33e4 | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx0juc | null | 1493851464 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | error1954 | null | I know, but I just thought there wasn't really a reason for that to be in an intro class in 2015. I didn't really get the pedagogical reasons for it | null | 0 | 1491501444 | False | 0 | dfx37r1 | t3_63lssy | null | null | t1_dfwyw0g | null | 1493851522 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AkivaAvraham | null | As an actual owner and fan of the phone, and one who helped develop some of the apps on it, this makes me sad.
I think they just didn't do enough to promote it, because the technology is bloody awesome. | null | 0 | 1491501451 | False | 0 | dfx380g | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t3_63rjtw | null | 1493851527 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | otw | null | Yeah that's great and all but like 99% of companies don't follow this. And I would even say your definition of Programmer/Developer and Software Engineer are largely switched these days when people are trying to formally label things. Software Engineer has become to new buzz word for small part scripting and micro serv... | null | 0 | 1491501497 | False | 0 | dfx39nj | t3_637m7q | null | null | t1_dfukyoa | null | 1493851549 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | applejuicerules | null | Why? Genuinely curious, I wanted a Linux phone, don't get why everyone else is so against it | null | 0 | 1491501509 | False | 0 | dfx3a1y | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwrqpa | null | 1493851554 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | RobotSoyUn | null | breitfaux | null | 0 | 1491501564 | False | 0 | dfx3c1s | t3_63t80h | null | null | t3_63t80h | null | 1493851581 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | calrogman | null | Foundation for writing an assembler for a novel platform, I guess? | null | 0 | 1491501664 | False | 0 | dfx3fm1 | t3_63lssy | null | null | t1_dfx37r1 | null | 1493851629 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MorrisonLevi | null | > I'm sure you can think of a few easily, even if you only glance at an algorithms textbook.
These are largely memory bound by either latency or bandwidth, not compute bound. Can you give me *one* example of a compute bound problem that isn't bound by something else first? I'm interested in seeing specific example... | null | 0 | 1491501743 | False | 0 | dfx3ida | t3_63eask | null | null | t1_dfx2vft | null | 1493851666 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | _TheDust_ | null | Yeah, who is using PHP 5.2 these days, right? | null | 0 | 1491501846 | False | 0 | dfx3m0y | t3_63tmfn | null | null | t1_dfx04ge | null | 1493851715 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sixbrx | null | I'm afraid that's quite a ways off and looks like a lot more effort than just the Wayland changes (though I don't know for sure). I say that as a Rust programmer who's very excited about Quantum. More power to em though. | null | 0 | 1491502048 | False | 0 | dfx3t0d | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx33dj | null | 1493851809 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Cdwollan | null | I'm not making the Windows comparison. What I am stating is that Ubuntu's default Unity was fairly well thought out requiring little or no configuration for productive use. The bling on the desktop seemed polished while simultaniously not overdone.
At this point I will compare to Windows and OSX. What both Microsoft a... | null | 0 | 1491502069 | False | 0 | dfx3tr4 | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx0rg5 | null | 1493851819 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AkivaAvraham | null | Its not like unity was a mistake. There is a reason why I stayed on unity as a developer, namely because it maximizes vertical space and streamlines my workflow with its hud functionality. | null | 0 | 1491502130 | False | 0 | dfx3vxp | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwg1cc | null | 1493851848 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | You can issue with licensee's choice of MIT or Public Domain. This makes it clear that copyright holder has zero interest in retaining copyright rights but that the licensee is free to do so under the MIT license if that makes things easier for them.
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null | 1wd | null | Interesting.
To be honest I didn't really have a use for the PDF. Strangely I kind of wished I did, as it sounds so neat. But in the end I just deleted it. | null | 0 | 1491502283 | False | 0 | dfx418t | t3_63oaj7 | null | null | t1_dfx1132 | null | 1493851919 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | weirdasianfaces | null | If I'm not mistaken VSCode isn't a fork of Atom, so... I guess if the architecture is similar then someone could port the optimizations over. The binary format of storing tokens in memory, for instance, probably could be ported over. | null | 0 | 1491502380 | False | 0 | dfx44ir | t3_63oxnb | null | null | t1_dfx061e | null | 1493851962 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | celerym | null | This line of thought is the reason we don't use Netscape today | null | 0 | 1491502433 | False | 0 | dfx46db | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwr5m6 | null | 1493851987 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | This is why we say "BSD 2-clause" for the modern version, and "BSD 3-clause" for the historic version with the no-endorsement clause. There is no ambiguity between those.
However, MIT is functionally identically to BSD 2-clause and is more popular in recent years, so for simplicity's sake and to keep the license verbi... | null | 0 | 1491502444 | False | 0 | dfx46pw | t3_63nsrn | null | null | t1_dfwrdwl | null | 1493851992 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Archenoth | null | It's not impossible--though the architecture hurdle was why Ubuntu interested me more than Windows. There are a lot of prebuilt ARM packages, and I could just compile other things.
I agree that getting most Windows programs to work would be a problem though.
> What we seem to have instead, it seems, is Android and... | null | 0 | 1491502449 | 1491503077 | 0 | dfx46wj | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx33e4 | null | 1493851994 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | Devs tend to focus more on how defaults work though. Ubuntu devs focusing on other, better DEs is a good thing either way. | null | 0 | 1491502479 | False | 0 | dfx47xh | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwo7pl | null | 1493852008 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bilog78 | null | There is XWayland that is an X server that acts as a Wayland client, effectively allowing X11 clients to display on Wayland. It's a stop-gap solution until more programs support Wayland natively.
Personally, I find it stupid that Wayland be enabled by default anywhere, considering that the vast majority of software st... | null | 0 | 1491502529 | False | 0 | dfx49p5 | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfx2zsi | null | 1493852032 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BufferUnderpants | null | When I was using Linux as my main desktop some two years ago, I was aware of the alternatives but didn't bother. I mean, stock Gnome was plenty good for me, though I did use it with one extension installed.
Now, don't ask me how much I've fiddled with my Emacs setup. | null | 0 | 1491502565 | False | 0 | dfx4axx | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwwd64 | null | 1493852049 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | joequin | null | >As a gamer: hahaha, thanks for the joke!
>
Gamer credentials check out. | null | 0 | 1491502568 | False | 0 | dfx4b1u | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwpmn2 | null | 1493852051 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | >Maybe because it had more features
Like what?
> and less paddings and gradients.
That does't describe Unity at all. | null | 0 | 1491502648 | False | 0 | dfx4dsr | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwk20i | null | 1493852088 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | Most of the value of proper Computer Science instruction is a systematic introduction to prior art and its customary names and semantics. This should provide one with a lot of rules of thumb from which to proceed, and help one recognize solved problems instead of assuming them novel.
And also prevent one from excitedl... | null | 0 | 1491502737 | False | 0 | dfx4gt4 | t3_63sbtv | null | null | t3_63sbtv | null | 1493852128 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ItsMeCaptainMurphy | null | Important question was asked in the comments - will they be supporting .NET 4.7 on Windows 10 LTSB? | null | 0 | 1491502750 | False | 0 | dfx4hb0 | t3_63oy00 | null | null | t3_63oy00 | null | 1493852135 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | darthcoder | null | > require a constant internet connection to make use of all the software.
That's probably the ONLY reason they aren't viable. Well that and a Facebook app. :-)
> If there was a Chromebook that ran Ubuntu MATE natively, came with even 128GB of local storage (maybe with an included Ubuntu One Cloud for online... | null | 0 | 1491502759 | False | 0 | dfx4hmb | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwyre2 | null | 1493852139 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | aaronbp | null | Honestly I've never used more than three extensions. Though I wasn't a gnome user until several years after the first gnome 3.
Nowadays the only extension I use is the one that puts tray icons on the top bar. | null | 0 | 1491502869 | False | 0 | dfx4lev | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfwvyou | null | 1493852190 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | > but a CS degree does something really valuable: forces you to learn things that other people think are important.
This is academia in a nutshell. When other people are right it's a giant boon, but on those occasions when other people are wrong you're wasting time at best.
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null | thetyrone | null | There is definitely a set of users who are very passionate about offline documentation, and in PDF form (as well as CHM, as this thread indicates :P) - it's not something I would expect most of our audience to be using. | null | 0 | 1491502930 | False | 0 | dfx4nj1 | t3_63oaj7 | null | null | t1_dfx418t | null | 1493852217 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | coladict | null | Well, good thing we don't have a legal department :] | null | 0 | 1491503020 | False | 0 | dfx4qmm | t3_63nsrn | null | null | t1_dfx09jg | null | 1493852259 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | datskinnyguy_ | null | Amazing article! Makes you wonder how these little things and the drive for them teaches you so much and ends up making you a better programmer. | null | 0 | 1491503029 | False | 0 | dfx4qxb | t3_63tmfn | null | null | t3_63tmfn | null | 1493852262 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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