On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Eivind Michael Skretting
wrote:
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> Mozart and Chopin really have nothing to do with Minimalism. Some of Mozart's
> pieces are maybe light (but not all of them, like Don Giovanni or Kyrie
> Eleison from Requiem), and Chopin may be elegant, but Minimalism is a
> sep
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Eivind Michael Skretting
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:35:48PM +0700, Anh Hai Trinh wrote:
>> I think the essence of minimalism is that one take away as much as one
>> possibly can.
>>
>
> Then one should exclude Chopin from th
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Eivind Michael Skretting
wrote:
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>> What do you mean exactly? His A major Prelude is probably the shortest
>> piece of music that exists (20~ seconds) and amongst the most
>> beautiful. If that is not minimalistic, I don't know what is.
>
> Well, first of all, a
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Antoni Grzymala wrote:
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> I would argue about that: the mid-sized Impromptus, Ballades, Fantaise
> and Barcarolle (and the lateish-largish Mazurkas and Nocturnes) are
> probably his best works, but the entire published (by him) body of
> work is of such high qual
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Alexander Teinum wrote:
> It would be a nice challenge to write a really small getopt()
> replacement, and a program that generates usage text. Okay, how about…
>
> usage: program -a [-b] [-c] -f file blah blah blah
>
> -a Required. Must always be set.
> -b O
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Kris Maglione wrote:
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> GNU man has the annoying and difficult to stop habit of filling the entire
> width of the terminal rather than wrapping at 80 chars. And if you set
> $MANWIDTH or $COLUMNS to 80 and the terminal isn't that wide, you wind up
> with badly br
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Alexander Teinum wrote:
> I didn’t want to start a completely off-topic discussion in the
> typesetting thread, so I created a new thread. I’m playing with the
> idea of creating a language that is simple to read like Markdown, but
> that has a stricter syntax. It
Hi all,
I'm sharing some simple rc scripts for wmii, notably to manage status
bars using separate processes and also a search+goto-window script.
It's at: https://github.com/aht/wmiirc
P.S. Looking at http://wmii.suckless.org/, it says wmii is now
deprecated? Was there any announcement for that
