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imbaczek··on Is Functional Abstraction Too Clever?
>the C# designers are constrained by the need to market their language to Java developers

that was true only up to about C# 2.0; Java is way, way behind nowadays.

imbaczek··on First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp
you want a _recent_ videcard, not an _another_ one. most, if not all, $100 gfx cards have two outputs, and the newest AMD offerings ($300 range) have - you might want to sit down - six.
imbaczek··on Vim is a great text editor - try it
i use a file that looks like this:

    " session.vim
    tabe file1
    tabe file2
    tabe file3
    ...
when i start work, i do gvim -S session.vim and i'm all set.
imbaczek··on Twisted Python's lead hacker discusses Tornado
more importantly, why should it roll it's own given a plethora of more mature alternatives?
imbaczek··on _why is no more
mean-spirited? he gave the internet a challenge and somebody took it up, that's all.

oh, and it doesn't have to be his real name, too.

imbaczek··on X Could Learn a Lot from Vista, Windows 7
i don't get what the eff windows has to do with X server crashes taking down X apps? "Windows does it too" IS NOT an acceptable solution.
imbaczek··on I did what any sensible Lisp hacker does: I wrote my own object system
exactly why i don't like Lisp: every Lisp hacker makes his own object or whatever system, making it hard for other people to understand his work.
imbaczek··on Typeface by Toyota. The iQ font Designed By A Moving Car.
Q looks too much like 0. otherwise cool.
imbaczek··on Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community
yes, but the issue at hand is the fact that MS, the M$, released code under GPL. it's huge no matter how you look at it.
imbaczek··on Nmap 5.00 Released - biggest release since 1997
i _love_ ncat. been using nc for a while, but is shows its age. now i can ncat away over ssl. awesome.
imbaczek··on Unladen Swallow can now compile all Python code to native code using LLVM
max is useless in benchmarking; there's no upper limit on how long any computation can take.
imbaczek··on Twenty questions about the GPL
i imagine your questions would be great for a hypothetical final exam at an established law school...
imbaczek··on 60% of companies plan to skip Windows 7
isn't this much higher than vista?