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by anaphor 13y ago
I would prefer just calling it the 'Free and Open Society' (ala Karl Popper's book The Open Society and Its Enemies[1]). IMO any political philosophy that says things "must go this way" or that somehow their ideas a
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by anaphor 13y ago
It means that you attack their beliefs, not the person themself. Or you publicize their views and say that you disagree with them. In this case there are some people doing just that, which is fine. However IMO trying to launch a boycott aga
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by anaphor 13y ago
Finally someone who gets it. Free speech isn't about some abstract right that you can only technically exercise. Everyone also has the right to associate with whoever they chose. But launching public campaigns designed to restrict the
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by anaphor 13y ago
They should just merge with upworthy
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The Next 700 Programming Languages(cs.cmu.edu)
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by anaphor 13y ago
Just a few quotes from Alan Perlis: There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly. Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly a
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by anaphor 13y ago
I agree with you, and incidentally so does Gerald Sussman (co-inventor of Scheme). He helped write an entire book on Lagrangian mechanics that uses Scheme because he believes the math notation is too fuzzy and confusing for people. https:&
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by anaphor 13y ago
To expand on that, I think a lot of people confuse the Free Software movement with a movement for "ideological purity". No, it isn't about having the most social justice points, it's about creating and sharing free softw
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by anaphor 13y ago
Has anyone ever bothered to ask Tony Hoare what he thinks on this topic? I know SPJ and him both work for MS Research, maybe he can get on that and settle this for us.
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by anaphor 13y ago
I'm sorry you're only now realizing that just having a bunch of credentials doesn't mean you're a genius. It just means you took the time to study a few specific things in-depth. Sadly there is no way around actually tak
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GNU Health(health.gnu.org)
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by anaphor 13y ago
Or even Nintendo, or maybe even Bethesda (assuming they aren't bitter about him leaving Id)
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by anaphor 13y ago
Of course it allows search, and you can even customize that search if you have been subscribed for a long time by using your own mail client. Mailing lists also have a similar benefit to git where many people have archives (even if they are
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by anaphor 13y ago
I'd be interested to know what you think of Twitter as a potential owner.
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Delimited Continuation Blues(cs.au.dk)
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by anaphor 13y ago
Because it makes it seem like he's just another peon, rather than the CTO of a subsidiary. I know that Facebook requires a very diverse set of skils/positions in order to run, it just seems kind of hilarious to say John Carmack is
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by anaphor 13y ago
In the hypothetical scenario that Mozilla management decides to start discriminating against gay people I think we can count on the support of many of the people who are familiar with the codebase. Would you agree?
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by anaphor 13y ago
Even if Mozilla started actively discriminating against people and campaigning against minority rights I would have no problem taking the code and starting a forked version. IMO that's what's so great about FLOSS, if you disagree
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by anaphor 13y ago
I'm in awe of the clickbaity title here. I seriously doubt Carmack is going to start hacking in PHP or something.
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by anaphor 13y ago
That's misleading, Firefox itself is free software, they just recommend some non-free addons "While the Firefox source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and
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by anaphor 13y ago
> I believe that treating people as equals and granting everyone basic human rights is one of the most fundamental goals we should have as a society I agree, which is why I want people to have control over how they do their computing, wh
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by anaphor 13y ago
Yes but there's less of a guarantee that people will continue working on it should google decide to abandon it (which isn't impossible). I have nothing against Chromium though, but it's not very convenient for people stuck on
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by anaphor 13y ago
You do realize what free software is right? You're not giving him money by using Firefox, and you're completely free to use a forked version of it like Iceweasel if you don't want it to be counted as an install or whatever.
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by anaphor 13y ago
Firefox is the only completely free libre web browser that is also mainstream enough to be successful (no Chrome is not completely free software). So you're recommending that people give up their freedom to make a political point? That
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by anaphor 13y ago
It reminds me of this blog post by Moxie Marlinspike, basically people should be allowed to dissent otherwise we will never have any progress because nobody considered any alternatives. http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/
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by anaphor 13y ago
I'm pretty sure you and the parent were thinking of Haskell's `newtype` not `type` λ> :{ Prelude| type Feet = Int Prelude| type Metres = Int Prelude| :} λ> let a = 5 :: Feet λ> let b = 4 :: Metres λ> :t a a :: Feet λ&g
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by anaphor 13y ago
True, I didn't see any mention of subtyping on there but since it's PHP I guess they have to deal with it somehow.
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by anaphor 13y ago
As far as I can tell they are using local inference, which is basically just unification. The set of possible types seems pretty narrow[1] as well so I don't see much room to go wrong. You're right that there is a lot of mathemati
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by anaphor 13y ago
It looks like you've done a good job with closures, type inference, etc... Would you consider adding even more expressive features like algebraic types or hygienic macros to the language? Also how likely do you think it is that typical
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by anaphor 13y ago
There are plenty of Lisp books that are just as good or better imo: The Little Schemer The Seasoned Schemer SICP Lisp In Small Pieces Practical Common Lisp

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