Comment Re:Why do German scientists have fitting names? (Score 4, Interesting) 182
This is known as "nominative determinism"; here's a somewhat amusing article from a couple of years ago on the subject.
This is known as "nominative determinism"; here's a somewhat amusing article from a couple of years ago on the subject.
Not that I can blame you, but I guess you've all blocked this from your memories.
No, but I wish I could.
Has anybody actually tried to take the KDE and trim the rarely used and niche functions?
Yep, in fact one such effort was started by some KDE devs:
https://blogs.kde.org/2013/04/...
As someone who has worked on a Linux-based embedded system, and had to cross-compile to do it... dude, Linux cross-compilation sucks, and there's almost universal pushback from everyone wo deals with Linux build systems, from Debian to Red Hat, and beyond, to any attempts to make it better.
Did you try OpenEmbedded / the Yocto Project? It takes away pretty much all of the pain of cross-compilation. Most of our users seem pretty happy with it.
I work with a number of GNOME developers, and most of them pronounce it the normal way (the same way the English word "gnome" is pronounced), so I guess just choose whichever one you prefer.
I wanted to, but I was afraid of the Evil Ones. They're everywhere, don't you see them?
If you want it all summarised (very) nicely, checkout these videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ROpIKZe-c
So it's all been done before?
Have you (or someone else) filed a bug about this?
The good news is that due to the psychic-doppler effect the frequency of the scream shifted so much it was in-psychic-audible.
Well, psych me!
You wrote Stunts? Thanks!!
There's a German saying that translates to "the opposite of well done is well intended". Applies very nicely in this case.
Apt indeed. Similar to the English saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"...
The main problem with Kylix was that instead of providing a compatibility layer for existing Delphi VCL codebases (which would have been tricky, I'll admit, given how much of the Windows API was ingrained in the VCL, but not impossible) they created a brand new compatibility layer (CLX) that didn't even support all of the VCL's functionality. Result? For those commercial Delphi customers who might have been interested in porting their code to Linux, it was just too much work to port all of their code *and* that of all of the third party add-ons they were using.
interlard - vt., to intersperse; diversify -- Webster's New World Dictionary Of The American Language
