Agree or disagree, whether it's the "right place" for such comments or not, I like that he is willing to risk his reputation for his convictions.
Previous versions were named "Stand with Hong Kong" or "Free Uyghur".
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Re: Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Politely disagree
Well Apple definitely wants to go that way, but it's unclear if users will rebel enough for Apple to give it up. My guess is that Apple will make it step by step more difficult to install non-store apps so that people get used to it and only then cut it off.
I disagree, I think they want the average user to use the Mac App Store, but installing non app store apps is never going to go away.
Re: Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
He was targeted, and beheaded, for showing Mohammed drawings on class (above it sounds like “a victim”, not the victim).
For a broader context, 16 years earlier something very similar happened in the Netherlands: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Theo_van_... “The murderer Mohammed Bouyeri, an Islamic extremist, killed van Gogh. The reason for murdering Gogh was to oppose the controversial film which criticised Islam: “Submission”. Bouyeri shot and stabbed van Gogh, then cut his throat. Finally the killer attached a 5…
Wow that was unexpected. I wonder how many such stories don’t come to light
Re: Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Currently isn't... but Apple is moving toward AppStore on OS/X...
Politely disagree
Even if they don't the notarization requirement is a strong first step to at minimum a games console-style licensing program, or further integration with the existing developer program.
It would be nice for Apple to not do this, but if they can keep their ARM chips highly competitive it would be insanely lucrative to do so. Corporations are for-profit entities first and foremost.
Re: Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
He wasn't a victim, he was The victim, that's what the commentor above tried to say, he was specifically targeted
English articles "a" and "the" are weird. I'll never understand them.
In this case, "a" could also mean that there were multiple victims, and he was one of them.
Re: Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
He wasn't a victim, he was The victim, that's what the commentor above tried to say, he was specifically targeted
English articles "a" and "the" are weird. I'll never understand them.
one of many, one of one
If I say "pass me a glass" I don't care which glass you pass me, whereas if I say "the glass" it's implied context has a specificity so that there is a specific glass I'm requesting
Re: Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
#47For those out of the loop - Samuel Paty was a middle-school teacher in [redacted] who was murdered in the October 16 terror attack in [redacted]. More information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty
Murdered is a light way of putting it.
Re: Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
#48Notepad++ is written by an immigrant (non-french native) . In https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/a-propos-du-tweet-contre-... , the photo says: "Please uninstall Notepad++ if you voted for the National Front" (he was assuming the xenophobic party) Each release has a message on what he believes in: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news
Absolutely not wanting to diminish the success of Notepad++ among its user base, I'd still like to mention that Notepad++ is a Windows only editor, where the main functionality is actually provided by the multiplatform editor engine called Scintilla, written by Neil Hodgson, and published since 1999 under a very permissive BSD-like license. The first version of Notepad++ was published in 2003.
Neil Hodgson also maintains the multiplatform editor called SciTE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciTE
which uses the same engine, and which, from my perspective, has some important advantages over the Notepad++ (it's multiplatform, and, for me, more "hacker oriented" and more "hackable" (e.g. having Lua as its scripting engine)).
Edit: regarding the "UX" mentioned in the responses -- the configuration of SciTE is performed by editing text files, whereas the configuration of Notepad++ is done by the dialogs. That's exactly why I consider SciTE more "hacker oriented". I've also mentioned the integration of Lua in SciTE. That's the UX that, for better or worse, matched my needs. I've never claimed that SciTE has "better dialogs" or something like that. Regarding "more LOC" claim, I claim that Scintilla is very carefully written, and that the LOC aren't the reflection of unnecessary abstractions, but correspond to the real non-trivial problems solved by the code. Whoever disagree should should demonstrate where the LOC could be reduced.
Re: Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a broader context, 16 years earlier something very similar happened in the Netherlands: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Theo_van_... “The murderer Mohammed Bouyeri, an Islamic extremist, killed van Gogh. The reason for murdering Gogh was to oppose the controversial film which criticised Islam: “Submission”. Bouyeri shot and stabbed van Gogh, then cut his throat. Finally the killer attached a 5…
Wow that was unexpected. I wonder how many such stories don’t come to light
I'm not sure what you mean. This was headline news even in the US when it happened.
Re: Notepad++ 7.9.1 – pour Samuel Paty
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
He wasn't a victim, he was The victim, that's what the commentor above tried to say, he was specifically targeted
English articles "a" and "the" are weird. I'll never understand them.
Think of them as separating the general from the specific. "a" refers to one of many, "the" refers to the (only) one.