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31.
by Volt 6y ago
> it says to me "people who think the network is Facebook and Google accessed through a web browser" Did you type "Web" in lowercase to make a point? :)
32.
by Volt 6y ago
> I’m unaware of any other OS which implements threads this cleanly. I believe this comes from Plan 9.
33.
by Volt 6y ago
Apple would disagree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl7xQ8i3fc0
34.
by Volt 6y ago
And when your Linux environment moves to ARM?
35.
by Volt 6y ago
>macos apart from 4 AppleScript?
36.
by Volt 6y ago
This seems like the wrong part of the door to fix.
37.
by Volt 6y ago
comp.lang.forth gets a few posts per day, but "interesting" is debatable.
38.
by Volt 6y ago
Maybe you're just putting it this simplistically for the rhetoric, but if you're doing research it's not really free. You're actually getting paid (albeit not much) and having your tuition waived to do work as a research
39.
by Volt 6y ago
Inferno can run on bare metal, so I'd say it's different. Urbit -- I'll believe it when I see it.
40.
by Volt 6y ago
Switch to what?
41.
by Volt 6y ago
But the performance doesn't have to be bad. If infinite scrolling is a problem, then either don't do it, or use a better implementation.
42.
by Volt 6y ago
Sure, making is good and all, but if you want people to care you should put in effort to make them care. Toy programming languages is a very crowded space.
43.
by Volt 6y ago
You might have missed the "technical" qualifier. Twitter isn't an especially hard problem either.
44.
by Volt 6y ago
They were really meant to be FLOSS alternatives to BitKeeper, not SVN.
45.
by Volt 6y ago
Let's apply that "few bad apples" logic to the police force as well.
46.
by Volt 6y ago
True to an extent, but consider Python which has a standard library and has also seen some of these same types of security breaches.
47.
by Volt 6y ago
Remember that we're comparing this to awk…
48.
by Volt 6y ago
Like… "other people using reaction GIFs".
49.
by Volt 6y ago
>It's just how the particular web framework is written? What about the framework leads to this, and how could it be changed to get better performance?
50.
by Volt 6y ago
>There are so many build systems in C and C++ because for each of those, someone finds something to be inadequate and has something else that works for them. Makes me wonder why Lisp is cursed[1] but C++ isn't. [1]: http:/&#x2
51.
by Volt 6y ago
What's with the shortened URL?
52.
by Volt 7y ago
Obviously if you keep using it though you get used to the pain. Perhaps you'll even start to enjoy it.
53.
by Volt 7y ago
Shakti has an arbitrary memory limit (like 4 GB or so).
54.
by Volt 7y ago
You're ignoring the main point of the comment though: >For example, you couldn’t write a performant compiler in them.
55.
by Volt 7y ago
Facebook uses Mercurial.
56.
by Volt 7y ago
Which is the LLVM Haskell Compiler https://github.com/Lemmih/lhc
57.
by Volt 7y ago
Then what are you implying?
58.
by Volt 7y ago
>I simply don't want that. If I close the lid then to move the laptop more easily to the next room/next floor for a meeting, I might not want it to go to sleep. Don't worry, it's configurable.
59.
by Volt 7y ago
The blocks extension adds one extra symbol. Same deal with syntax applies as with function pointers in plain C.
60.
by Volt 7y ago
That wouldn't have fixed the complexity.

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