@gronostaj All editors I know support spaces. They also support tabs but they are handled differently, which is the root of the problem. If you have written a file in emacs using tab setting of, say, 2 and then open the file using vi where default is 8, your work will be be more difficult. What is really annoying is spaces and tabs in the same file!

Spaces always works as intended, whereas tabs will require support from editors and IDEs. Moreover, if you, as I, work on different platforms using different editors (vi/vim, emacs, Eclipse) your work will be so much harder if there are tabs in our code instead of spaces. The only drawback with spaces is that the file size get a little higher, but I can live with that.

I very much prefer "please disable adblock" to "please get an account and login" which is the alternative. I don't use adblock since I understand that sites need the ad money to produce their contents. But I do use noscript since i loath ads that moves, sounds and use half of my CPU power.

Using FF on all platforms that I can, including Android. I don't trust Chrome on privacy issues, and Google really needs some competition. I don't want to see "Best viewed with Chrome" on webpages (even if some pages already today only works on chrome. Fuck'em!).

It is probably meant to be read "Available on 24th of july".

I haven't seen it before. Thanks for posting!

@Konsole Check out the 'u' in The Computer Doctors and apply filthy imagination...

1. Type

2. Ctrl+a Ctrl+c

3. Ctrl-v in notepad or similar

4. Submit

Edit: and why the hell do I get empty lines between?!

@bytecode When I get a blank webpage, I just temporarily allow all scripts on that page. If it is a page I use more frequently, I can allow permanently, or just relevant parts. After a while, it works fairly well. And performance is WAY better than with all scripting enabled.

@lamka02sk In fact, when you have configured noscript to allow critical scripts from certain sites, it works fairly well. If once in a while you encounter a site which won't work, I just temporarily set to allow all scripts on that particular site. Agreed, it involves some hazzle, but it is SO worth it!

I always install one (and only one) addon in firefox: noscript. A computer and browser without noscript is completely choked with god knows what crappy and bloated js scripts, most is which gives me no benefit at all. Also, by installing noscript I don't need any further adblocker. I love it!

@iAmNaN UBI is meant to replace all other benefits and subsidizing, so there will not be more money circulating in society, thus no increased inflation. This might have more effect in countries with an extensive welfare state, where more money will be redistributed in the end, as opposed to countries with limited welfare. And as @Nanos says, success depends heavily on the attitude and culture of the citizens: will they take the chance to pursue what they did not previously dare to do due to limited resources, or will they just sit on their fat asses and do nothing but getting fed? There is no single answer to this.

If these personal config files should not be placed as dotfiles in $HOME, where should they go?

Well, you just gave the reason why there no longer are product keys on stickers stuck to computer cases.

@7Raiden Maybe. I know that C/C++ standards contain a lot of compiler dependent and undefined features, and there are even courses explaining how to avoid them and make C code more deterministic. I understand that java has tighten up some of these features so that the behavior is more defined.

Is this java och C++? I am not fluent in any of them, but I'm pretty sure that if any such code would be presented to a C++ compiler, the result would be undefined or compiler dependent. But I understand that java is much more rigidly specified than C/C++.

Ubuntu (laptop) and debian (server) at home.

SuSE Enterprise Server at work.

Well, since it is running, I just clicked in it, and there is no other dialog boxes, I assume it should be considered responding.

Well, it is quite similar to "HTLV" (HTLV-3 was the earlier name of the HIV virus, the virus that causes AIDS).

@electrineer True. Most important: it's more expensive to replace battery than to buy a new mobile. And that annoys me a lot.

I have had my Sony for around four years, and it is still sufficient for my needs. Too bad then that the built-in non-replaceable battery is worn out. All of a sudden it drops from ~50% charge down to zero, effectively rendering the phone unusable.

Mostly Microsoft Word for Windows, because it is Company Policy. And I genuinely hate that crap. I would have preferred some other markup language, but at least I can once in a while get away with ASCII files.

@Codex404 The corps & gov's officially haven't shared the information, they still consider it theft. Thank goodness for whistle blowers!

I like the comparison. Just a small but vital difference: people voluntarily provided facebook with their private data, whereas corporations & gov's did not give wikileaks their data by free will.

Maybe not the next day, but absolutely after, say, a couple of months! And as @Permamiss says, comment your code! Tell your future self how the hell you were thinking.

Just as information, 1889-1945 is the birth and death year of Adolf Hitler...

10 print "hej"

On a Luxor ABC-80, a 1980's computer with built-in BASIC interpreter.

@mell0 Licenses does not stop companies with small or no conscience and big lawyer budget.

–So, you claim ownership of our software source code? So sue us!

You are right on Linux and sound, it has always been and is still such a complete mess.

I believe you and I have similar experience regarding Linux applications. There are tons of native Linux/Unix apps which are really great, but applications that are coming from the Windows world and ported to Linux are too often slow and unstable, probably because the Linux user base is too small for the companies to bother. I think that is why a lot of Win users trying out Linux gets so disappointed. But bad apps is not a Linux problem, it's an application problem.

But I agree with you, for everyday use, Windows works really fine.

Pascal