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tiben_

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About tiben_

Software engineer - https://github.com/TiBeN

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    Comment #33742368

    One point is code that is highly dependant on underlaying storage system (DBMS etc.) is hard to unit test.

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    Comment #31700706

    Have the same feel when two months ago i switched from 10 years vim usage to intellij for code. The UI is so well designed, the "everyday's coder problem is so well understood in t…

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    Comment #31700638

    GUI's can be counter productive for theses kind of tool. There are some contexts like "SSL" were the user needs to understand the underlaying concepts a UI cannot teach in itself

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    Comment #31700329

    I understand the willignness to do everything in command line. But it's just dogma. Seriously, using so many external tools to deal with such a dumb and common thing like sending/r…

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    Comment #31700045

    cat and grep are not the tools to deal with HTML content.

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    Comment #31699641

    I think it answer needs of a lot of people myself included.

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    Comment #31699493

    How many time you spent the first time you digged into theses tools ? i'm sorry but i'm ready to spend huge amount of time to learn tools like GCC or anything else that's complex. …

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    Comment #31696928

    offlineimap is what a used. But now i don't have time for the configuration of this. seems today pretty archaic.

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    Comment #31696797

    as a mail client connecting to "real life" people i just have to disagree with theses dogmatic statements

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    Comment #31696670

    Imap proxies aren't just a question of conf files. Email today should be a no-brainer really. Its a hobby to configure mutt.

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    Comment #31696534

    +1 cli dogma has limits. I now use Gnome/Evolution which just "works"

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    Comment #31696432

    I know this. i've spent a lot of time years ago to configure mutt to fetch my gmail/hotmail/free accounts and it worked pretty well. But when you change computer hardware what a ha…

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    Comment #31696234

    With common email providers like gmail, live.com and so on, you have to configure IMAP proxies with is just an headache for this specific use case. Not to speak about real life use…

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    Comment #31696022

    I tried and used it 10 years ago in my 20's period were i discoreved the joyful of terminal world. But as of today, no.. it is not sustainable in professional world. As Vim which i…

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    Comment #30710308

    Cups has its own set of cli tools, see https://www.cups.org/doc/admin.html >, and supports "lp" and "lpr" commands, see https://www.cups.org/doc/options.html >. But theses are not …

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    Comment #20962331

    Thank you very much

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    Comment #20949102

    Does anybody knows the artist who made the "slamm" phone poster on the article illustration ? or where can i find it ? I really like it.

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    Comment #19606333

    Thank you for theses details. Kryoflux can write back a read raw stream or some common image formats (IFP, ADF, G64 etc.)

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    Comment #19604793

    Seems the correct project URL is : https://discferret.com That's interesting i was not aware of this project. I'll take a further look asap. Is there some feature/comparison sheet …

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    Comment #19604078

    "With rare, old media like that, the best chance to preserving them is reading the raw magnetic flux data with specialized equipment" Kryoflux is great for that. https://www.kryofl…

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    Comment #19541733

    Far better than the original stylesheet (joke)

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    Comment #19499582

    Oh, yes, i forgot Plaid. I use to listen Plaid along with Amon Tobin back in early 2000's

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    Comment #19492743

    NTS has become my favorite radio. A great place to discover original music.