Re: [dev] surf: css height issue for input type=button

2011-06-28 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Joshua Shoemaker [2011-06-28 20:50]: Just playing around with surf. So far I like it and think it will work. However, I noticed when I try to resize the height of a input button it doesn't display correctly. Tested it on two different systems/OSs with same result. Not sure if this is a

Re: [dev] What is bad with Python

2014-03-04 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Silvan Jegen [2014-03-04 14:30]: * There are no generics (it is not clear at the moment whether they will be incorporated into the language in the future) but with my simple requirements I have not been missing them. They will be incorporated as soon as someone finds a good solution to this

Re: [dev] Anti-GPL hipsters

2011-10-23 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* mikshaw [2011-10-23 14:50]: Claiming a person's freedoms are decided by their ability to obtain those freedoms?  Very wrong.  Just as laws against slavery are there to balance the freedoms of all, GPL is there to balance the freedoms of all users & devs, present and future. Primarily, the

Re: [dev] Please recommend a suckless rss reader

2011-10-30 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Martin Kopta [2011-10-29 17:40]: http://newsbeuter.org/ Not really suckless, but close enough. Also, TUI. newsbeuter is indeed far from suckless, but at least it's one of the few RSS/Atom parser implementation that doesn't take parsing lightly. Many RSS feeds in the real world are seriousl

Re: [dev] [dwm] 2000 SLOC

2011-11-02 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Bjartur Thorlacius [2011-11-02 16:00]: * hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> [2011-11-02 10:11]: > > I once envisioned a Plugin to directly go to "Print Views" of > > websites, > > since they tend to have considerably less suck on them. > I used to use mobile version of some websites, but as handhel

Re: [dev] [dwm] 2000 SLOC

2011-11-02 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Kurt H Maier [2011-11-02 16:40]: web idiots have been spouting such bullshit since the 'graceful degradation' days of html4. it's never come true, and it never will, because the "standards" put forth are anything but. what you are talking about is the web version of "the check is in the mail

Re: [dev] [ANN] CGD - Ultra-minimalist HTTP and FastCGI wrapper for CGI programs.

2012-09-19 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Stephen Paul Weber [2012-09-19 17:00]: Still, forking is never the bottleneck Never? Isn't forking-as-bottleneck most of the reason alternatives to CGI exist? One of the bottlenecks of CGI is that the popular "web scripting" languages (i.e. PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby) make it horribly inef

Re: [dev] libixp questions

2012-09-21 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Christophe-Marie Duquesne [2012-09-21 16:00]: Why not zeromq? It seems to be light, simple and performant. It also has extended documentation, and a large community to support it. Allegedly, zeromq puts speed before reliability. Who would really want to use that? Regards, Andreas

[dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Andreas Krennmair
Hello everyone, Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also 'ridiculously abysmal tar'). Today, I reached a point where I can show that piece of software to you. It currently supports the tar oper

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> [2012-11-06 16:20]: On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair wrote: Hello everyone, Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also '

Re: [dev] [suckless] Migration to git

2012-11-26 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* pancake [2012-11-26 18:00]: On 11/26/12 17:33, Kurt H Maier wrote: programming languages, and pretending it's 'simple' because it's broken sloccount git = 126.000 C libgit2 = 37.000 mercurial = 34.000 python + 3000 in C if you say that python loc is 2x times the same done in C then we sho

Re: [dev] Re: [suckless] Migration to git

2012-11-26 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Christian Neukirchen [2012-11-26 20:30]: Andreas Krennmair writes: * pancake [2012-11-26 18:00]: On 11/26/12 17:33, Kurt H Maier wrote: programming languages, and pretending it's 'simple' because it's broken sloccount git = 126.000 C libgit2 = 37.000 mercurial =

Re: [dev] Call for pkgsrc users

2013-04-11 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Patrick Haller <201009-suckl...@haller.ws> [2013-04-11 04:30]: On 2013-04-10 13:13, William Giokas wrote: There are extremely strong technical arguments for using systemd as a simple, easy to use and easy to configure initialization system. systemd trades simplicity for boot-speed and stack

Re: [dev] Re: Why HTTP is so bad?

2013-05-22 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Thorsten Glaser [2013-05-22 22:29]: AFAIK they mandate that XHTML be served as application/xml+xhtml instead of text/html, which the XHTML standard itself says to use for compatibility reasons (they also try to weasel in the application/xml+xhtml content type, but realise it won’t work). Nice

Re: [dev] [sbase] Patch to make md5 and sha1 more similar

2013-07-15 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* sin [2013-07-15 12:20]: I'd break this patch into multiple patches. The change from *= 8 to <<= 3 doesn't make sense. Maybe it did in the 80s but not anymore. Just for the sake of completeness: there's a rather interesting presentation from a few years ago that explains in detail how clev

Re: [dev] Suckless remote shell?

2013-11-04 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Alexander Huemer [2013-11-04 15:30]: The only interface to the kernels the suckless.org software runs on is in C, the same is true for the standard librar{y,ies}. Software written in any other language is an indirection. The system call interfaces on typical suckless operating systems are l

Re: [dev] Suckless remote shell?

2013-11-04 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Sylvain BERTRAND [2013-11-04 19:00]: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:41:25PM +0100, Andreas Krennmair wrote: * Alexander Huemer [2013-11-04 15:30]: >The only interface to the kernels the suckless.org software runs on is >in C, the same is true for the standard librar{y,ies}. Software writt