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[1394746704] GUI design: "Close" button

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The "close" button should be as far away from maximize and minimize as possible. If you wanted to minimize a window and you accidentally hit close you'd be pissed. I had 100 tabs open in Firefox in Ubuntu and hit close. Now I have to reload all my tabs. Sure it saved my session but all the videos and shit have to rebuffer. Fucking annoying. Classic Mac, CDE, and Win 3.x were much better designs. Maximize and minimize on the right, close/icon menu on the left. "Modern" DEs copied the totally retarded Win 9x design. It was a good idea when xp made the "X" a big red button, but it would be even better to put it on the opposite side of the window.
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[1394875800] Single assignment

No.957708 View ViewReplyOriginalReport
In my earlier question about immutability, most answers assumed immutability meant only ``immutability of composite objects'' and not immutability of bindings.

So, what are the advantages, if any of single assignment (or, most accurately, run-time immutable bindings)?

I can't think of many other than ``I'm going to annotate this variable cause it really shouldn't change and if I accidently mess up I want the compiler to tell me''

Surely there are other reasons.
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[1394942054] Breaking news! Slavery reinstated!

No.957797 View ViewReplyOriginalReport
Black slaves to take over all IT jobs. Managers and investors suspect that it's all just typing anyway. Workers remain skeptical.

[1394892837] #banbossy

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[1394886485] fucking feminists

No.957727 View ViewReplyOriginalReport
"The value 0 has a special meaning, which is that the user should change her pasword the next time she will log in the system."

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/shadow.5.html
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[1332379866] Firefox keeps bugs unpatched for over 9 years

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To give an example, the annoying "FTP server 215 ... is currently unsupported" message. This lingers from the way the old Mozilla (pre-Firefox) recognized FTP listings.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202730
Unsupported FTP server "xxxxxxx" after login and SYST command
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277827
Unsupported FTP server "ITRON embedded printer OS"
This bug was reported in 2003, with various duplicates since then. They know what's causing the problem. Somebody sent in a patch and they still haven't fixed it. They're more concerned with bumping up the version numbers than a few simple bug fixes.
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[1394861142] Lemonad

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When life gives you le mons, make le Monad.

[1394769924] BEST VIRUS EVER

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