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by foul 3y ago
Probably it's the generic HN snark in revolt against the modern365 world, but the http/html/js kludge has been so effective and malleable that killed a lot of thriving cyberspaces (and for some it killed dialogue and public o
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by foul 3y ago
In Windows-land and seldom elsewhere, it was more like "don't run random executables and don't open attachments and ask a sysadmin about the site/flash page/applet you're about to visit". I dare you to ask
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by foul 3y ago
It will happen again.
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by foul 3y ago
I wouldn't try building red from source with neither the official rebol 3 nor this Atronix release (nor Oldes fork, nor Ren-C), on their site they always built with rebol 2.7. I thought red aimed for self-hosting, but as far as I can d
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by foul 3y ago
BUT! There's an open source version of Rebol3 with GUI, from Atronix. I still don't know how the hell it works, like, what does it pull for dependencies. https://github.com/zsx/r3-gui
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by foul 3y ago
It probably was Rebol that one. Rebol core is free and open source, the GUI distribution is instead released in binary form, as freeware (and exists only for rebol 2.7, we know about rebol3 only for Core).
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by foul 3y ago
A firm threatening people with a good time!
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by foul 3y ago
>Can one afford to be uneconomical? Sometimes. You can always afford to be cheap, too: that may lead the team to spend the right amount or less, but someone will later spend a lot more, which in SWE parlance is called "re-implement
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by foul 3y ago
> I think it's written by someone who finds pipes and awk too awkward to work with. This one of substituting AWK/shell/sed/Perl with a forth-like lang is a good idea in a sense, it doesn't break the flow because
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by foul 3y ago
The internet's town square will not exist no more because quasi-normal people will divide themselves by their usage of some brand of microblog thing? What a stupid take. A great portion of thought diversity got out of Twitter (be it fo
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by foul 3y ago
> We could have settled on some GUI/UX, communication, database, knowledge handling, etc. standards decades ago and we could have decided we are not going to re-implement all the basics of computing all over again all the time becau
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by foul 3y ago
If it wasn't old school this screams NsCDE or Windowmaker. But they are very old school.
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by foul 3y ago
I can think only of deception on purpose. Like, they have a million users without any attention span so distros need something that sells itself as a streamlined package without deviations for UX with pro helpdesk support, so that DEs or wh
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by foul 3y ago
> you are [...] > employee number four and the ceo keeps writing code on weekends F***, I am literally employee number four where I work
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by foul 3y ago
I use Nim rarely exactly for this reason. I dream of a transpiler. I would totally be the clown who would transpile to Nim which may be transpiled to C.
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by foul 3y ago
Entry fee and extra cash required for posting when the user is flagged. Can't make it without moderators, but it's phone independent.
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by foul 3y ago
Yeah find is a bad example for bloat, compared to GNU echo or GNU yes. find AFAIK is mentioned more for horror stories, Bernstein insults, as an example for alien parts of UNIX-like OSes which prevent from a streamlined, predictable-in-your
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by foul 3y ago
>I think a good mini language bridges the gap between interactive commands and programming. find(1) is a bad mini language. Its arguments are in a legacy format and its solution for composability is a hack, and an unstable one.
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by foul 3y ago
Have you tried that FOSS clone, MaXX Interactive? https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/books/misc/page/welcome-to-...
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by foul 3y ago
I feel very sorry on behalf of the poor Aaron Swartz.
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by foul 3y ago
Didn't read the post thoroughly, will do, but why no libgrapheme in there?
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by foul 3y ago
Computing is a very broad matter, sooooo maaaaaybeeeeee if you were Karpathy you could be compared?
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by foul 3y ago
Why did the interviewer in the end ask questions (on behalf of CNN personnel) a union leader should ask? What a trainwreck of a longform, I love The Atlantic.
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by foul 3y ago
Salieri was a master of his craft in his era, the artistic father of Schubert and Beethoven. He had nothing to envy Mozart for, and for most of their lives Salieri was preferred for a lot of gigs for the emperor. Salieri's portrait in
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by foul 3y ago
The crazy habits proponent in your workplace is simply ahead of his time: there is the "SQLite for edge" vulgata now and he/she may skim some of the wheel reinvention and funny engineering problems with throwing around SQLite
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by foul 3y ago
>People do care about compilation time, binary size, strong type systems, name mangling, debugging, complexity, error messages, embedding etc Not the author but I sense that going down that road there is risk of derailing into which lang
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by foul 3y ago
Probably the final aim from which this nerdy offer arise is to pollute the URL bar
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by foul 3y ago
Such an incredible stack.
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by foul 3y ago
It will not change anything. AI farms will git-clone from any public repository. Someone concerned should just patent-troll any software that may or may not use a copilot-ed part of their code.
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by foul 3y ago
That demonstration as per OP is dumb or targeted to React-ists. You can, with HTMX, do the classic AJAX submit with offline validation. In the last years, for every layer of web development, what I saw was that a big smelly pile of problems

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