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by bluefox 6y ago
Can't wait to make my programs incompatible with all previous versions!
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by bluefox 6y ago
Graham says Arc had to be frozen because other programs depended on it. Indeed, much of Lisp language design came about by demands of the applications that used it. So, is Bel finished or still changing? Are there other programs that depen
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by bluefox 6y ago
I did not visit this link. Just the title makes me sick. Flagged.
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by bluefox 6y ago
Not only that, but we also know that no one pattern matcher fits all: with or without segment patterns? how to designate pattern variables? should it be extendable? what would we actually be matching? should we actually use a unifier? etc.
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by bluefox 6y ago
Well, people _are_ entitled to telling other people their thoughts. You say "complete lies" but it's not black and white. This devault post is an emotional hyperbole, and you're just dragging it on.
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by bluefox 6y ago
Welp, as a user of Xorg I'm fine with what I have. You seem to be playing on both senses of Xwayland both being Xorg and not being Xorg, but Xwayland will continue to be irrelevant to me. You say "now or never" but I've
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by bluefox 6y ago
I'm a bit confused about your post. Why would Xorg users care about XWayland, or new releases or contributor patches? Those who contribute to Xorg and feel stuck could step up to maintain it, if they wish. (Don't they do it alread
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by bluefox 6y ago
Sure, I can understand people working on software X for a long time getting fed up with it and start working on software W. I can also understand that these people have strong opinions on why W is so much better. The only trouble is that o
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by bluefox 6y ago
I don't understand the point about maintenance. Is Xorg maintained? If so, are the current maintainers handcuffed to it? I assume they aren't, so what's the problem? If Xorg is not maintained, again, what's the problem
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by bluefox 6y ago
People using software that breaks with Wayland keep to their existing window system. News at X11.
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by bluefox 6y ago
GitHub's "archive" and this guy's "closed for contributions" is easily solved by forking: congratulations, you're the new maintainer. That's all there is to it.
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by bluefox 6y ago
Every now and then we all get a glimpse, for a flash of a moment, that the house of cards has already collapsed. Too invested in our current systems to face this truth, we just update and forget about it until the next time.
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by bluefox 6y ago
Seems you're reading too much into what I said. I wasn't talking about a metaphorical hotdog, nor was I talking about the Elastic case. The post makes no mention of it either, people on HN just assume it was about it because of t
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by bluefox 6y ago
A hotdog is not utopia, it's a basic means of survival (food). When you can't get the basics, you may have trouble figuring out how to exploit that kind of "wealth". The issue is that the pyramid is upside down. Everyo
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by bluefox 6y ago
Furthermore, free software devalues software development. This is why much of the industry nowadays is about services or products where software plays a small part or is very specialized. The author of this post praises free software, but
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by bluefox 6y ago
> It increases wealth for everyone. Yeah, "everyone" but the original author, in most cases. That's usually how things go when you give something for free. Also, "wealth" is very broadly defined here. We'r
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by bluefox 6y ago
There's no need to trust them. You assume they log everything that your device sends them, as well as the time, IP address, etc. and infer all they can from it. Then you act accordingly. You can apply similar conservative assumptions t
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by bluefox 6y ago
Yeah, there's something fishy with Signal, though it's been obvious for years that HN is one of its propaganda hubs. The other day I described one of my concerns with it here [0]. I made no demands or anything like that (this is H
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by bluefox 6y ago
So when Signal decides to stop supporting your device, you're left with no choice but to get a new one. So there's no point in auditing a Signal release. So as Signal becomes more and more disagreeable (something that's bound
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by bluefox 6y ago
Why do Signal releases contain an expiration time bomb? That is, why is the user forced to update in order to use the application, even if no critical security issues arose? The passage of time is not a good excuse for a mandatory update.
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by bluefox 6y ago
These things happen when you depend on a middleman to distribute your product.
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by bluefox 6y ago
Are you working for GitHub? If not, nobody asked you anything. That you are taking such offense at my simple request that you have to create a "non-JS kook" personality type to satisfy your vindictive feelings is mystifying.
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by bluefox 6y ago
Don't forget the endless stream of security updates, bundled up with whatever new UI/tracking/arbitrariness they want to force upon you. After all, the world wide web is a dangerous place, and your data is at risk. Don&#x27
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by bluefox 6y ago
I don't know how much programming experience you have, but let me tell you that bringing back an HTML dropdown menu is not a big deal. I don't know about "spite", but I would say it's either an oversight, or incomp
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by bluefox 6y ago
I wonder what makes people so eager to push back on such a simple request, to make basic functionality available without JavaScript. In GitHub's case, they only recently screwed it up in a major way, so surely it shouldn't be a b
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by bluefox 6y ago
It wasn't always like this. Look at WCAG version 1.0 [0] section 6.3. It's very sensible advice. Then through the magic of "Web 2.0" and bigco work on "Accessible Rich Internet Applications" the advice was m
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by bluefox 6y ago
In my case, yes, it is by choice. But do you think everyone has a choice? JavaScript is a power-hungry, memory-hungry, bloated, security nightmare. Requiring JavaScript for basic functionality (that was available not that long ago!) is sim
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by bluefox 6y ago
Says you.
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by bluefox 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25076987
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by bluefox 6y ago
I guess our experience with regards to CL differs. A lot. The spec is lie? Implementations are all the same? To me it sounds like you're talking about a different language. I can take source code from the eighties and nineties (say

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