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sirwitti
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About sirwitti
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Comment #48875950
One aspect that is often overlooked is a room acoustics - especially reverb time. Have you ever felt cosy in a large church? Or, if you have ever been to a wedding and wondered why…
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Comment #48591937
Man, I just realized it's been 20 years for me. I vaguely remember sometime in 2006 that Windows Vista was inevitable and decided to switch to linux. I don't care about fussing aro…
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Comment #48415200
Thank you! That's exactly what I wanted to hear :)
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Comment #48412955
Has anyone real-life experience with these tools?
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Comment #48396252
Posts like this are the reason why the internet and software development felt magic to me as teenager. This stuff still is magic to me. Wonderful work!
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Comment #46942658
Not trying to be rude, but in a technology you're not familiar with you might not be able to know what good code is, and even less so if it's maintainable. Finding and fixing that …
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Comment #46876504
You're missing Signal which has gained a lot of traction in the last years. Apart from that it's hard to take statements from such an ignorant US centristic point of view about wha…
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Comment #46835560
Owning the issue is one thing, but being able to fix issues with a reasonable amount of resources is another. To me code created like this smells like technical debt. When bugs app…
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Comment #46801456
I absolutely love the progress that was made in the several last years! The number of VST/audio plugins available on linux has grown from being quite a problem to having an actual …
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Comment #45613789
The jetbrains IDEs hav some very useful features falling into this category, these come to my mind immediately: - Making variables, functions,... grey if they're not used - Tempora…
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Comment #44897264
Why once successful? But more importantly, tell me more about the scandals, I love good gossip :)
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Comment #44897232
Just in case people don't realize, the author is Dries Buytaert who created drupal.
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Comment #44300048
Just as we aren't far from actually usable and safe self driving cars since 10+ years. This is not a valid argument.
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Comment #40819171
In your opinion, what's the problem with the port concept of the frame.work?
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Comment #40427112
Which unfortunately is not a solution since harsher punishments have shown to not prevent crime.
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Comment #40256992
> Such as call-by-reference only working 2 recursions deep. Which smells like an anti-pattern to me. Blaming bad code on the language is one way to deal with it. > Arbitrary decisi…
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Comment #40195322
I recently discovered shdotenv and I like it a lot!
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Comment #40141803
How so? All over Europe the same infrastructure is being used for both.
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Comment #39970619
Didn't know about cheat.sh. Thank you for that, I love it!
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Comment #39805594
Related to that, I recently learned about safe-rm which lets you configure files and directories that can't be deleted. This probably would have prevented a stressful incident 3 we…
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Comment #38287475
Quality never was the only or even the most important aspect of popularity in music and probably art in general. So I'm not sure your projection is valid.
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Comment #38204569
I didn't know that, thanks!
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Comment #38110876
I'd like to see what the european court of justice will have to say about this, should this actually become law.
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Comment #36598797
Do you have a source for that?
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Comment #36370506
Upvoted just for the name and acronym!