ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: Reddit is looking for a generalist developer
I like the Arrested Development (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_%28TV_ser...) theme.
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ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes
Or MATE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_%28desktop_environment%29) which is basically Gnome 2.
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: Steam for Linux Beta Now Available
It crashes for me when it tries to prepare the files :
/.../Steam/steam.sh : ligne 113 : 31352 Erreur de segmentation ${DEBUGGER} "${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}/${STEAMEXE} "$@"ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: Google Address Sanitizer ("compile-time valgrind") to be part of GCC 4.8
One advantage of Valgrind over Address Sanitizer is that you're not limited to checking C/C++ programs. For example I am developping a programming language for fun and I can check for bad memory usages using Valgrind. From what I understand, that wouldn't be possible with Google's tool.
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: Mozilla Mozaic: visualizing the future of bookmarks
Wow, thanks. Looking for a bookmark in a tree was a pain, but now it's much better.
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: Study shows tablets are mostly used for mails, games, social networking,& search
My reaction too, then I realized that's what people do when they have an internet access. But they do some other things if the device lets them : on a desktop computer, they use office software and on a phone... they call and send SMS. To me a tablet is essentially the least capable internet connected device.
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: The Magazine: For geeks like us. By Marco Arment
Those are excerpts :/
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: CSS3 Microsoft Modern Buttons
The way I see it : no banner, a huge "CSS3 Microsoft Modern Buttons", some examples, then a huge "See more" button (like your "Download ...") and a less visible "Download" button (or maybe at the top of each page, something like the GitHub's "Fork me"). All before the fold. Just my 2 cents though ;)
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: CSS3 Microsoft Modern Buttons
Please, make the link to the examples more visible. If it hasn't been on HN, I wouldn't have taken the time to look for them (never saw the topbar) : I clearly don't want to download them if I cannot see them first. Also the gigantic banner on the frontpage is useless to me, I didn't read it, at all.
Other than that, I find the website, including the buttons, quite clean.
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: I got tired of missing new music releases, so I built this
Because you're not using iTunes. I don't. I agree it's not the best experience ever, but it's a great solution for people like me using small music players (Pragha) that will never be supported by services like this.
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: When Will This Low-Innovation Era End?
There's so many to add to the list, but nothing feels like a revolution to me. Do you feel they changed your life, I mean really changed your life ?
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: When Will This Low-Innovation Era End?
To me, it feels that it's the everyday life that isn't changing much.
* I got my first computer 16 years ago
* I bought my first mobile phone 9 years ago
* I drive a car that is 18 years old
* I still shop in physical stores
Today :
* I can surf on 20 different websites at the same time as downloading a movie in 1080p
* I can search wikipedia from my phone
* I can have a car that parks itself
* I can shop for some things on the internet
But these aren't revolutions. I like what I got now and wouldn't trade it for what I had 10 years ago, but it hadn't changed my life much. They are improvements that I've come to like. I feel that with so much knowledge and some much technology a real revolution should come faster. I'm not nostalgic, I'm impatient.
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: WordCount.is
I was wondering what a word (in a word count) was, thinking like you that "foo -- bar" was only two words, just like "foo-bar" or "foo/bar". So I started two widely used word processors and got surprising results : "foo -- bar" is actually considered 3 words long in both Microsoft Word 2007 and LibreOffice Writer 3.6.1.2, but "foo-bar" and "foo/bar" are 1 word long.
There seems to be no standard as to what a word is in this context :
Different word counting programs may give varying results,
depending on the definition of "word", on the text segmentation
algorithms, and on whether words outside the main text such as
footnotes or hidden text are counted. [1]
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: Typing Practice for Programmers
This seems partially fixed. Though I cannot find a way to type <^>. On my azerty keyboard, I should type <^>+<^>, or on a querty one, simply <shift>+<6>, but neither works.
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: Typing Practice for Programmers
Same problem with fr_FR on an azerty keyboard (Ubuntu or Windows 7). For example I can only type </> by typing <:> instead of the correct <shift> + <:>. For a <$> I would type <shift> + <'>.
It occurs both in Chrome and Firefox.
ThomasQue | 13 years ago | on: Dreamforge (YC S12): Make your own superhero
Do you plan on making it possible to use custom images for clothes etc ? A customized costume with a Kid's name on it would certainly help me find ideas for birthdays.
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