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It seems that Microsoft will discontinue development of its Edge Browser, which was meant to be an replacement for Internet Explorer. Instead they will base it on Google Chromium, so they will use the same HTML- and JavaScript-Engine as Google Chrome and the open source variant Chromium. The HTML- and JS-Engines of Edge will not …
„Internetexplorer and Microsoft Edge discontinued“ weiterlesen
The language Ruby is one of the most beautiful languages. A lot of things can be done, it has a good level of abstraction, it has chosen some very good defaults, has provided some great ideas that I have not discovered in any other language that I know well and provides a lot of flexibility. …
As developers we get often asked to write more, better and earlier documentation. While it is very important and useful, to have the right documentation when needed and more often than not we are lacking important documentation, it is also important to avoid writing too much documentation. This applies to all levels of documentation, including …
I found this on netzwolf.info: You can enter arbitrary Unicode characters (more precisely code points) in X11 on Linux, if you know their Hex-Code: Press Shift-Ctrl (keep them pressed) Press also the letter u Release the Ctrl-Key Release the u-key Keep the Shift-key pressed Enter the Hex-Code of the Code point with the number of …
„Tips and Tricks: Typing Unicode“ weiterlesen
Orthodox Christmas in some countries, for example in Ukraine is on 7th of January. So to all readers, who have Christmas on 7th of January: С Рождеством! — Hyvää Joulua! — καλά Χριστούγεννα! — Buon Natale! — Prettige Kerstdagen! — З Рiздвом Христовим! — Merry Christmas! — Срећан Божић! — God Jul! — ¡Feliz Navidad! …
„Orthodox Christmas 2018/2019“ weiterlesen
These ideas were developed more than 30 years without knowing that they were already known at that time… Today the graphics cards can easily do things like this in very little time. And today’s CPUs are of course really good at multiplying. So this has lost a lot of its immediate relevance, but it is …
„How to draw lines, circles and other curves“ weiterlesen
Gott nytt år! — Godt nytt år! — Felice anno nuovo! — Καλή Χρονια! — Щасливого нового року! — Срећна нова година! — С новым годом! — Feliĉan novan jaron! — Bonne année! — FELIX SIT ANNUS NOVUS — Gullukkig niuw jaar! — Un an nou fericit! — Frohes neues Jahr! — Happy new year! …
„2019 — Happy New Year“ weiterlesen
Feliĉan Kristnaskon! — Frohe Weihnachten! — God Jul! — Merry Christmas! — Joyeux Noël! — クリスマスおめでとう ; メリークリスマス — Срећан Божић! — Buon Natale! — Hyvää Joulua! — З Рiздвом Христовим! — ميلاد مجيد — С Рождеством! — Crăciun fericit! — ¡Feliz Navidad! — καλά Χριστούγεννα! — Natale hilare! — God Jul! — Prettige Kerstdagen! …
We index arrays with integers. Lists also, at least the ones that allow random access. And sizes of collections are also integers. This allows for entries in Java and typical JVM languages, because integers are actually considered to be 32bit. Actually we could think of one more entry, using indices , but then we would …
„Indexing of Arrays and Lists“ weiterlesen
After an upgrade, my Thnderbird started to use a weird US-date format and forgot my setting for this. I did not find any setting either. But this seems to work fine: Create a shell script #!/bin/bash export LC_TIME=sv_SE.utf8 export LC_DATE=sv_SE.utf8 exec /usr/bin/thunderbird and make sure that this gets called when thunderbird is started instead of …
„Tip: how to make Thunderbird use ISO Date Format“ weiterlesen