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Developer's Corner / Re: Boost as a symbol for the npm'ness of C++

« Last post by Tuxman on May 08, 2016, 12:33 PM »

Why actually have it at all?

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Developer's Corner / Boost as a symbol for the npm'ness of C++

« Last post by Tuxman on May 08, 2016, 08:39 AM »

I'm currently writing a rather sophisticated web software in C++ (I'll post a topic on it when I'm done, so there's finally another software of mine you can ignore ). As I - as you might know - usually prefer the KISS principle, I try not to include as many external libraries as possible, probably reinventing the wheel in a lot of places yet sticking close to the standard. (Hooray, C++17!)

During the past development I came across a lot of potentially interesting libraries which I ended up implementing myself because all of them depended on the Boost libraries, a huge can-do-everything monster of some header-only, some must-be-linked libraries which would add an indefinite amount of complexity to my application without being maintainable by me. The usual reason for the requirement of Boost is that Boost provides regular expressions and advanced file system functionality - both of which are already a part of recent C++ standards (admittedly, <filesystem> is still considered experimental).

In the light of Node.js's funny - I really don't like JavaScript - left-pad debacle: Why, just why do some C++ folks prefer huge craploads of external libraries to just sticking to the standard? Being portable is no excuse anymore, nothing is as portable as the standard.

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Living Room / Re: snipping tool with image editor

« Last post by Tuxman on May 08, 2016, 08:02 AM »

is there a simple light snipping tool for Win8.1 with image editor similar to Paint or better embedded?

-kalos (May 06, 2016, 01:51 PM)

"Light" "with an image editor embedded". Oh dear.

Other than that, ShareX.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Examples of great, intuitive, clever UI design?

« Last post by Tuxman on May 06, 2016, 09:45 AM »

An outstanding UI that comes to my mind is GitKraken's: http://www.gitkraken.com

Other than that, I'm with mouser here. Too much blinking stuff usually rather distracts from your real work.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alternatives / Competition

« Last post by Tuxman on May 03, 2016, 01:47 PM »

Any other alternatives?

-GSz (May 03, 2016, 10:16 AM)

Listary features a quick-start pop-up in its recent versions.

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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..

« Last post by Tuxman on April 29, 2016, 11:00 AM »

In this case, I'm positive that it's disgusting.

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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..

« Last post by Tuxman on April 29, 2016, 06:42 AM »

No.

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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..

« Last post by Tuxman on April 29, 2016, 06:31 AM »

Often, you talk out of your ass.

-f0dder (April 29, 2016, 06:25 AM)

That's, actually, disgusting.

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Living Room / Re: Be prepared against ransomware viruses..

« Last post by Tuxman on April 29, 2016, 04:18 AM »

I love how people try to circumvent their own stupidity ("oh, a file attachment / a suddenly visible link / ..., I must open it!") with software. What could go wrong?
Obviously, stupidity makes a good market.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: About signing up to download freeware license keys - READ IN PLEASE

« Last post by Tuxman on April 21, 2016, 04:40 PM »

TL;DR

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Developer's Corner / Re: MySQL database

« Last post by Tuxman on March 27, 2016, 12:58 PM »

Que?

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DC Member Programs and Projects / RSSParser.lisp: A Web-to-RSS parser in a language that doesn't suck

« Last post by Tuxman on March 27, 2016, 12:08 PM »

Sometimes I want to stay up-to-date with a website which does not have a good RSS feed, like KiTTY's. Of course I could use services like feed43. Or I just write my own solution.

rssparser.lisp on Bitbucket Fossil

Example:

[Select]

% ./rssparser.lisp add "KiTTY" "http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?action=news&zone=en" ".news" "h1" ""
Success!
   
% ./rssparser.lisp list
1 feed is set up:
   
ID: 23  Title:        KiTTY
        URL:          http://www.9bis.net/kitty/?action=news&zone=en
        Last success: -

% ./rssparser.lisp parse

       
By default, the KiTTY website feed will be stored as feeds/feed23.xml then.

Enjoy.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft OneNote - some experiential Tips & Tricks

« Last post by Tuxman on March 25, 2016, 05:41 PM »

The article also includes a link to: in-depth comparison of OneNote vs. Evernote, which might help to answer some of the questions posed by others in this discussion thread.

-IainB (March 06, 2016, 08:29 AM)

After six five-and-a-fourth years of Evernote, the last thing that sticks me to Evernote is Geeknote which is awesome. I must admit that OneNote is inviting, even the Android app pretty much rocks now. It's just that all of my things are already on Evernote.

Of course, I could use a combination of org-mode and OneNote to achieve the Geeknote features, but that would surely not make things easier.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Antivirus bypassed with 10 lines of code

« Last post by Tuxman on March 24, 2016, 03:55 PM »

I wonder how many news articles which "surprisingly" find out that anti-virus software does not work are required until people finally stop financially supporting the scareware developers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« Last post by Tuxman on March 24, 2016, 09:07 AM »

Today I received an e-mail that the release of Nomad.NET 4 is planned soon. It seems to be shaping up nicely.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by Tuxman on March 21, 2016, 10:35 AM »

Classic Theme Restorer or Status 4 Evar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Slysoft shutdown (by government action?)

« Last post by Tuxman on March 09, 2016, 10:05 AM »

Elaborate Bytes, which is the original author of that particular utility (I think)

-mwb1100 (March 06, 2016, 02:47 PM)

Elaborate Bytes were the original makers of CloneCD and CloneDVD, but, being a part of Europe (while still not being a part of the EU), they were forced to sell their "copyright infringing software" to SlySoft.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: About signing up to download freeware license keys - READ IN PLEASE

« Last post by Tuxman on March 09, 2016, 09:28 AM »

You just did. Point proven.

Also, welcome to DC.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Picasa to be 'phased out'

« Last post by Tuxman on March 09, 2016, 09:27 AM »

Oh, right - it's still there for the time being but just not usable anymore. I'm positive that this will never happen with any other centralized storage.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Picasa to be 'phased out'

« Last post by Tuxman on March 08, 2016, 05:33 PM »

People who flee from Picasa because the centralized storage is about to be taken down are looking for a new centralized storage.

Wise, wise men.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 45.0 released both x86 and x64

« Last post by Tuxman on March 08, 2016, 05:31 PM »

.onion access requires to actively install a Tor extension anyway. Sigh.

Don't ask why Mozilla does certain things. Just nod and slowly move away.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux

« Last post by Tuxman on March 08, 2016, 11:28 AM »

I surely hope they won't let you go wild here without any borders. This was a friendly community when I registered, not a "let's insult people because we are out of arguments" one.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux

« Last post by Tuxman on March 08, 2016, 11:24 AM »

people who have obvious psychological issues

-40hz (March 08, 2016, 11:21 AM)

Lovely attack. Reported.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux

« Last post by Tuxman on March 08, 2016, 11:20 AM »

Please refrain from calling me a friend unless you're willing to prove that you are worth it.

I never had a doubt that some people might like you regardless of your babbling. Even Trump has some fans left.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Dan Gilmor on moving to Linux

« Last post by Tuxman on March 08, 2016, 10:51 AM »

Yup, I totally knock myself out by stating facts that contradict your pointless babbling. 

Want some fries with that?