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Do you want to microwave this baby or to blend it ? Neither ? Shame you waste your vote.

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You completely miss the point. It's because they want the site to be ads free they are asking for donations.

As a daily user of wikipedia, I don't want ads on the site...

Have a look at pandoc. pandoc is a swiss-army knife for converting a markup format to another. It does for sure MD -> latex

Davidbrczon Be 125% more efficient with Git

Pretty much what Magit does for Git and Emacs, but without the Emacs part

Davidbrczon NoScript is harmful and promotes malware

YesScript

Davidbrczon Ask HN: Do you use more or less in shell?

more is a basic pager, which allows you to scroll downwards, one page at a time. Only downwards.

less is also a pager, but has addition functionality to scroll upwards and downwards through the input, in addition to several other extensions.

http://superuser.com/questions/310137/less-is-more-is-more-l...

TL;DR : Use less

Davidbrczon Ask HN: Software for helping visually impaired persons?

There are screen readers (text to speech generators), braille displays.

I don't know what is the status for fingerreader ( http://fluid.media.mit.edu/projects/fingerreader )

Also have a look at HandyDV Linux (https://handylinux.org/index-en.html). The aim is to offer for visually challenged and blind people an accessible computer. A french guy is beyond it and there is a kickstarter-like compain to support it (french page about it http://linuxfr.org/news/financement-participatif-de-handydv-..., couldn't find anything in english).

Davidbrczon Ask HN: What's the fastest way to deploy a blog?

Hugo static generator

Davidbrczon Linux debugging tools you'll love

This is awesome !

Davidbrczon Assume only 10% of the current software will be relevant after 10 years

Linux

Davidbrczon Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml

Disclosure : I'm French and know some people who dubbed the course.

The course may be taught in English but speakers are mostly French people. So expect crappy English accent.

The site itself is an attempt by the French government to build a French mooc platform.

Davidbrczon Ask HN: Split screens for web browser?

Juste use a tilling window manager split the screen the way you wany and open 2 windows of your favorite web brower

Davidbrczon A Simple Makefile for Medium-Sized C/C++ Projects

$ ls src

demo.cxx demo_b.cxx CMakeLists.txt

$ cat src/CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.8.11)

project (HELLO)

add_executable (helloDemo demo.cxx demo_b.cxx)

$ mkdir bin

$ cd bin

$ cmake ../src

SNIP

$ make

$ ./helloDemo

Davidbrczon A Simple Makefile for Medium-Sized C/C++ Projects

Still easier than make...

Davidbrczon A Simple Makefile for Medium-Sized C/C++ Projects

Just use cmake or scons. In 2016, you should not hand write a single makefile !

A simple cmake/sconcs build file will be as simple as the one shown (or even simpler !) and it will definitively will be easier to integrate external dependencies if you have to.

Davidbrczon Defective C++

Most of the facts are/were true but shown as big troll. There is nom attempt to understand why things are the way they are.

Moreover several points are outdated by C++11/14/17

Davidbrczon Why was CRLF/LF/CF to make developers life miserable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#History

Davidbrczon A very simple desktop app that can send raw http requests

Why no using telnet ?

Davidbrczon Ask HN: Do you accept LinkedIn connection requests from recruiters?

I will accept one if the recruiter is targeting me. That means he/she wrote a custom message, read my profile, propose me something...

Each time that I was asked, they were on a frenzy and it looked like they were connecting to as many people as they could

Davidbrczon France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative

I'm French and I can honestly say that we have the dumbest government the world has ever seen.

Davidbrczon Ask HN: Which linux/unix C++/C IDE are you using?

Emacs with this page http://tuhdo.github.io/c-ide.html

Try also Atom

Davidbrczon Ask HN: Which parts of C++ do I need to learn in order to use Qt?

- I would advise you to focus on classes and object oriented programming. You will be able to catch up with the C++ imperative part if you already know any other imperative programming language. Keep in mind that you rarely ever need to deal with manual memory management. The STL (or Qt's) does it for you.

For a book about C++, I'll would go with C++ Primer.

- Qt by itself is a little bit weird, because it introduces its custom build process and it mainly uses a signal/slot mechanism for communication (thinks callback). Have also a look at Qt Quick, you can design an GUI without writing a single line of C++. There is a list of books about Qt there : https://wiki.qt.io/Books

Davidbrczon Ask HN: How would you solve case mis-match in C++ includes?

Sed is not enough ?

Davidbrczon Ask HN: What's the best way to start with C++?

Some good C++98 books :

- Accelerated C++: Practical Programming. A good quick tour of C++98

- Effective C++, More Effective C++,Exceptional C++, C++ Coding Standard

Many patterns to follow or be aware of. More generally, any book by Herb Sutter.

Good recent books (msut have !!):

- Effective Modern C++ (same as previous, but more focused on C++11 and 14)

- Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (A general introduction book by Stroustrup on programming using C++)

- C++ Primer (The spiriual son of Accelerated C++, the best introduction book about C++ I know)

The textbook and more specific books :