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Wikipedia English also appears to be down.

Please read his books.

"Workspace is written from scratch. Some WindowMaker code is a part of Workspace (as well as configuration defaults) to provide window management functions. The code is tightly cou…

Can you call it Itanic if it was around for more than a decade because of how well it sold and how many supercomputers chose to use it? I am familiar with the pain of Itanium, and …

The amount of effort put into this rebuttal is why I try hard to avoid reading the comments here.

I use operating system memory paging as an analogy for this: you paged it back in.

Really surprised the article didn't mention the practice of money laundering.

Barely mentioned, and the author makes us all die inside when they say "Too bad it was written for a whole different architecture and compiler so there is really no easy way for me…

Why not make a blog post instead of an emoji-laden Twitter thread?

Guess I'm done reading the verge. I've watched many, many Starlink reviews out of curiosity and this is the only one so tinged by the author's mood. It's clearly written as a kind …

It's a window that mostly uses an edit control, but, having code in Notepad, it's not just a wrapper around the edit control. Could you write Notepad in a day or two? Perhaps. But …

I think he's talking about motor control - how the left hemisphere is responsible for controlling the right side of the body and vice versa.

aha, thanks!

That is what I am referring to :)

I'm upvoting your comment but can you clarify on left brain/right brain? I thought split-brain/callosal syndrome showed us that a lot of our ideas about left brain right brain func…

Never expected the retained vs immediate mode debate to pop up in this way, but neat.

Before coming to Microsoft, I wrote my own EngAlphaBlend() accelerator driver in 2003 or so. I knew a lot about how things worked from disassembly but after coming to MS in 2004 I …

On Linux you have two X servers instances, with 2 window managers, and 2 consoles. Each X server is working with a different display, so naturally the content ends up on the right …