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841.
by endgame 11y ago
I would hardly say that TDD removes the need for an integrated debugger. Being able to inspect the state of a system the instant a test fails sounds mighty useful to me. Also, software builds being driven by an external tool has been common
842.
by endgame 11y ago
That would be fantastic.
843.
by endgame 11y ago
It saddens me that the first I heard of this was the author hearing of its closure. We need to have a serious rethink about how we do housing, and building better communities is part of that.
844.
by endgame 11y ago
How about people stop changing what links do, and let the user decide by via right click or ctrl+click/cmd+click?
845.
by endgame 11y ago
I'm so glad I grew up in an era where people's only concern was making things work AT ALL. Trying to make things work for licensed users only, or only for certain devices, or anything else is just bullshit.
846.
by endgame 11y ago
a Get over yourself! ed(1) is the TRUE text editor. . wq
847.
by endgame 11y ago
I think that the reason nobody's built a curses word processor is that if you're not getting a WYSIWYG editing experience, you may as well go all the way to a full markup language.
848.
by endgame 11y ago
Started reading, got stupid interstitial popup, left. Has anyone built a blocker for this new breed of pop-up? See also: http://tabcloseddidntread.com/
849.
by endgame 11y ago
And anything involving Shadowborn Apostle: 444 Shadowborn Apostle 1 Reaper from the Abyss 1 Sire of Insanity 2 Griselbrand 4 Cavern of Souls 214 Swamp There are probably better lists but I like the simplicity of this one and the 666-card de
850.
by endgame 11y ago
I have used ditaa[1](warning: sourceforge) with artist-mode to mark some pretty-darn-good-looking system diagrams. It's a pretty impressive piece of work! [1] http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
851.
by endgame 11y ago
I'd say STM (software transactional memory) is a compelling example. Your computations that mess with shared variables can only mess with shared variables, the type system enforces this, and the only way you can actually run your share
852.
by endgame 11y ago
Ha, you're quick on the draw! I think the exploration of `after` and `doSomething` highlight good insights that I missed. The idea that the `IO` type forms a monad (as opposed to `IO` being a monad just because the wizards said so) is
853.
by endgame 11y ago
> wrap I/O while preserving functional purity So I think that expanding your idea of what monads do might help. Monads enforce a sequencing, and let later computations in the sequence depend on the result of an earlier one. Have a l
854.
by endgame 11y ago
Correct: http://catb.org/jargon/html/P/point-and-drool-interface.html
855.
by endgame 11y ago
If you missed the phreaking era like I did, do yourself a favour and read "Exploding the Phone": http://explodingthephone.com/ .
856.
by endgame 11y ago
How is nobody talking about push-button cross-compilation? It could be huge! The only language that I'm aware of that does it at all well is C and that's because the only build tool that does it at all well is automake. But even t
857.
by endgame 11y ago
And here's the actual source: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
858.
by endgame 11y ago
On rituals: One user over at Less Wrong wrote a couple of posts[1][2] on designing ritual, and associated value and dangers. I also found the 2012 edition of a ritual book[3] that his group used to formally mark the winter solstice. [1]: h
859.
by endgame 11y ago
Death to cmake. Long live automake.
860.
by endgame 11y ago
I remember looking up runit[1] the other day, and going "I can trust this software" based off the spartan HTML. [1]: http://smarden.org/runit/
861.
by endgame 11y ago
Testing for features over platforms was known to be a good idea since the early days of autoconf (1991-1992, according to the history in its info file). Why did the web folk take so long to figure this out?
862.
by endgame 11y ago
Given that it manages to discriminate on the trifecta of race, gender and sexual orientation, probably the former.
863.
by endgame 11y ago
s/interesting/awful/ Nobody would dream of make a licence poking at any other demographic like this one does.
864.
by endgame 11y ago
Another interesting piece of automation: I tried to find a video of the robot in action, but a search for Hadrian bricklayer on youtube only found videos that played a text-to-speech summary of the article and a slideshow of pictures.
865.
by endgame 11y ago
a I learned ed for a joke and found myself actually liking some features so much that I started porting them to emacs. . w
866.
by endgame 11y ago
People have been saying this since the forum age (at least), but privately-owned websites have become the new public spaces.
867.
by endgame 11y ago
And once you're used to it you'll never want to go back. All of my experiences with focus-follow-mouse on commercial OSes have been almost-but-not-quite right.
868.
by endgame 11y ago
> As an example of why this kind of early version archiving might be necessary, Scott came up with a theoretical case of a game featuring an enemy group logo that looks similar to that of a real-life terrorist group. After an outcry, the
869.
by endgame 11y ago
I was shocked at the amount of registration info a new mac asks for. Haven't bought one since.
870.
by endgame 11y ago
Even though I didn't use it for long, Mandrake was one of my first distros as well. Lossless resizing of FAT32 partitions seemed like magic at the time.

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