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The Office Is Dead 6 years ago

I'm going to the office even though I'm not an essential worker because working from home ruins my mental health. I stayed home for the first three weeks of social distancing and I couldn't be more stressed and unhappy if I tried.

I've been using Awesome every day since 2009. The only things I change from the default on a new install is the terminal, the default layout and hide title bars.

The author mentions compositors, but if you don't require fancy things like transparent windows or shadows, and you have a a well supported/behaved GPU and monitor, you can probably do without them if all you care about is tearfree video. Drivers like intel, ati, amdgpu and more recently modesetting have a TearFree option that does just that. For some systems switching to a DRI3/glamour setup is enough and as a last resort you can configure X11 and mesa to force vsync.

If you want to get money from donations you need publicity because most people who visit your website will never donate. If you are someone who releases/has lots tools I would recommend setting up a single domain with dedicated pages for each tool (e.g. tool.domain.com or domain.com/tool) and setting up a Patreon in addition to the donation button.

Honestly I would put ads on the extractemailaddress.com website and work on improving it's position on the search results. In addition to that localization to one or two other languages would probably be nice to boost the views. That "make a small donation" button really put me off.

* Download requires you to sell your soul.

* No comments/documentation about the hardware or the challenges the author has gone through.

* Github repository has just CHANGELOG.md and README.md.

* Some how the author managed to get a popular game running flawlessly in a short time.

It looks more like another emulation scam than an actual product, but it could be one of those projects the author is just dreaming about making an emulator. Is that you, vgturtle?

Rust vs C Pitfalls 10 years ago

* Great Libraries ( Everything and a kitchen sink )

This is a must for me. I often give up on compiled languages because libfoobar isn't yet available on the language and I have no interest in writing (and maintaining) language bindings for third party libraries I use.

My dream is that one day I'll be able to do something like:

    Foobar = link_cimport({"headers": ["foobar.h"], "packages": [ "foobar" ], "prefix": "foobar_"});
    Foobar.do_something(); // would call foobar_do_something();
    Foobar.hidden_function(); // would call hidden_function();
and the compiler will give me an executable that was linked against `foobar` instead of dlopen()ing it at runtime. Something like:
    Foobar = loadable_cimport({"headers": ["foobar.h"]});
    foo = Foobar.load("/path/to/foo.so");
    bar = Foobar.load("/path/to/bar.so");
would also be nice because I often have to load libraries that implement the same API/ABI.

It's very important for us all, i dare to say its even more important for people doing creative work (which in my opinion includes programming).

One thing people must pay attention when they get stuff is that it doesn't help you if you get something that do not fit your body's ergonomics needs. Just because an HelloWorld chair helped someone to relief his back pain doesn't mean it will work for you.