[dev] Re: interest in development of suckless project

2015-12-10 Thread Manu Raster
And behold the masters' vault of wisdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_J6xc-Az0 (interview with Prof Kernighan, 9/30/15) Good night everyone!

Re: [dev] suckless bignum library

2015-12-10 Thread Mattias Andrée
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:50:12 -0800 Louis Santillan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Greg Reagle > wrote: > > On 12/10/2015 12:57 PM, FRIGN wrote: > >> > >> What does the base have to do with the results? > > > > > > A lot. For instance, "Many non-integral values, such > > as decim

Re: [dev] sj: bug in receiving presence

2015-12-10 Thread Greg Reagle
On 12/09/2015 07:10 PM, Jan Klemkow wrote: I committed your diff for presenced with a following clean up. But maybe, I will change the presenced semantic a bit. But for the moment I fixes the daemon in a very good way. Thanks for your help! My pleasure. Changing the semantics in what way?

Re: [dev] interest in development of suckless project

2015-12-10 Thread Greg Reagle
On 12/10/2015 12:10 PM, Rashad Kanavath wrote: I am interested to join the suckless development efforts. It will be a pleasure to waive some of my leisure time into this because I like suckless tools and its philosophy. Could someone provide me any guidance or directions? Did you see h

Re: [dev] suckless bignum library

2015-12-10 Thread Louis Santillan
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Greg Reagle wrote: > On 12/10/2015 12:57 PM, FRIGN wrote: >> >> What does the base have to do with the results? > > > A lot. For instance, "Many non-integral values, such as decimal 0.2, have > an infinite place-value representation in binary (.001100110011...) b

Re: [dev] suckless bignum library

2015-12-10 Thread Greg Reagle
On 12/10/2015 12:57 PM, FRIGN wrote: What does the base have to do with the results? A lot. For instance, "Many non-integral values, such as decimal 0.2, have an infinite place-value representation in binary (.001100110011...) but have a finite place-value in binary-coded decimal (0.0010).

Re: [dev] suckless bignum library

2015-12-10 Thread FRIGN
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:33:13 -0800 Louis Santillan wrote: > Understood. I don't believe David wrote that code so he can't claim > copyright to it. In any case, emails to David & Tom could probably > clear up the situation. However, if the code does not appear useful, > no need to go through th

Re: [dev] suckless bignum library

2015-12-10 Thread Louis Santillan
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Mattias Andrée wrote: > If you are counting the informal license > "Distribute like mad!" as a making it "public domain". > First, that depends on jurisdiction. But! > The README in the zipfile says it is proprietary > (for personal use only.) Understood. I don'

Re: [dev] suckless bignum library

2015-12-10 Thread Mattias Andrée
If you are counting the informal license "Distribute like mad!" as a making it "public domain". First, that depends on jurisdiction. But! The README in the zipfile says it is proprietary (for personal use only.) On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:17:04 -0800 Louis Santillan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 a

Re: [dev] suckless bignum library

2015-12-10 Thread Louis Santillan
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:30 AM, FRIGN wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 23:44:11 -0800 > Louis Santillan wrote: > > > Are libtommath [0]/tomsfastmath [1] not suckless? > > > > [0] https://github.com/libtom/libtommath > > [1] https://github.com/libtom/tomsfastmath > > too complex for my tastes, but d

Re: [dev] suckless bignum library

2015-12-10 Thread FRIGN
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:41:21 -0800 Evan Gates wrote: Hey Evan, > The problem with that is bc can't use a normal bignum library and be > POSIX compliant as all the internal math is required to be in base 10. > "Internal computations shall be conducted as if in decimal, regardless > of the input a

Re: [dev] interest in development of suckless project

2015-12-10 Thread FRIGN
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:10:45 +0100 Rashad Kanavath wrote: Hey Rashad, > I am interested to join the suckless development efforts. It will be a > pleasure to waive some of my leisure time into this because I like suckless > tools and its philosophy. > > Could someone provide me any guidance

Re: [dev] suckless bignum library

2015-12-10 Thread Evan Gates
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 7:30 AM, FRIGN wrote: > but just a library with just enough functions to get around with > to handle tasks like dc(1) and bc(1). The problem with that is bc can't use a normal bignum library and be POSIX compliant as all the internal math is required to be in base 10. "Int

[dev] interest in development of suckless project

2015-12-10 Thread Rashad Kanavath
Hello all, I am interested to join the suckless development efforts. It will be a pleasure to waive some of my leisure time into this because I like suckless tools and its philosophy. Could someone provide me any guidance or directions? Interested projects in order: scc surf -- Regard

Re: [dev] suckless bignum library

2015-12-10 Thread FRIGN
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 23:44:11 -0800 Louis Santillan wrote: > Are libtommath [0]/tomsfastmath [1] not suckless? > > [0] https://github.com/libtom/libtommath > [1] https://github.com/libtom/tomsfastmath too complex for my tastes, but don't get me wrong. I know that for numerical perfection, you hav

Re: [dev] dwm bug fixing season

2015-12-10 Thread ACE
Sorry not sure what happened to my attachment; here it is. diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c index 1d78655..466d12c 100644 --- a/dwm.c +++ b/dwm.c @@ -397,9 +397,10 @@ arrange(Monitor *m) { showhide(m->stack); else for(m = mons; m; m = m->next) showhide(m->stack); - if(m) + if(m) { arrangemon(m

Re: [dev] dwm bug fixing season

2015-12-10 Thread ACE
On 12/09, tuan ta wrote: > Hi everyone, I am using ArchLinux and dwm 6.0 for a long time. Today I > notice that dwm-6.1/BUGS, with report from voltaic, I also have 2 > monitors with different resolution (at home and my office), I wrote a > script helps me autoextend VGA output (with exactly resolut