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by gkya 9y ago
Very good of you indeed, but it's a hard task to retroactively change how a system and the greater community around it behaves and how standards like POSIX have defined field separation syntax for decades. I wouldn't mind if make
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by gkya 9y ago
Both gnumake and bmake have lots of tooling, partly magic, at least for compiling C code.
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by gkya 9y ago
Nobody's talking about your national identity. The topic of discussion is national identity as a concept.
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by gkya 9y ago
For the first part, that mean we can make up a better thing. Also, many people have trouble seeing that's a decision we make, and thus many types of extremism/fundamentalism come around. For the second part, I don't have an
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by gkya 9y ago
You're misusing make here. This should be a shell script or a program that uses inotify/kqueue, or a loop with sleeps and stat calls.
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by gkya 9y ago
A language that uses lots of parens to delimit expressions is incredibly bad UX, especially when you try to balance a complex expression, but hopefully there are tools like Paredit to deal with that, so that I can write my Emacs Lisp with p
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by gkya 9y ago
> Every natural language uses spaces to separate things. Nope. You don't space out each word when speaking. If you were speaking about writing systems, not all writing systems use spaces as word delimiters. See: https:/&#x2
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by gkya 9y ago
Not all languages have (or had) spaces.
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by gkya 9y ago
Spaces in filenames create troubles with almost every command line tool. cut(1), awk(1), find(1), xargs(1), what not. How do you quote them, do you need to use \0 as a separator instead, do other commands on the pipeline support \0 separat
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by gkya 9y ago
That trivial truth has killed tens of millions hasn't it? Not that trivial, then.
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by gkya 9y ago
- It's nice to openly cite a verse when referring to well-known sources Koran, Bible, Iliade, etc. - The idea of "nation" before the second half of the second millennium and after that point is quite different. Nation as in
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by gkya 9y ago
What's a dialect and what's a language is quite hazy. Bulgaria and Macedonia speak nearly the identical language, and are quite similar culturally, but are considered different nations. From Northern Italy to Sicily the linguist
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by gkya 9y ago
An argument is that it's not "socially constructed", but is imposed on peoples by the hegemone entity. Most nations today in existence were established by monarchic or oligarchic regimes, and did not represent at the time of
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by gkya 9y ago
uBlock interferes with it, even when disabled. Had to use my second Firefox profile that I keep around for misbehaving websites.
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National Identity Is Made Up [video](nytimes.com)
52 points by gkya 9y ago|101 comments
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by gkya 9y ago
You also invite competition by selling/advertising your product. For any product, it's most probably one of the customers that'll go "I can make something better than this!" Also, if your income depends on absence
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by gkya 9y ago
Yeah, that sometimes happens, totally understandable. You can't edit after 2 hours, and I think that's too short of a window. After posting the comment you replied to, I saw you made similar clarifications elsewhere, where if yo
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by gkya 9y ago
Frankly all the messages he has to put up with are plain stupid, so if he's being a bit of a bastard, rightly so. I just found about his websites, bookmarked nomadlist.com already. It's funny, to say the least, how people exag
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by gkya 9y ago
I know me some languages (human ones) and some programming. I can read from people's faces that they think I'm a nutcase when they learn about that and then I tell them I want to become a comparative literature researcher instead
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by gkya 9y ago
Well right things need no fixing, so pointing out wrong things is more useful.
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by gkya 9y ago
Gaulish is the language the French spoke before early French started happening, so its inclusion seems normal to me. And I indeed skimmed the article.
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by gkya 9y ago
Mobile development is hard to get in. Maybe it's that I'm an outsider, but yet, on the second most popular platform it costs you an Apple computer and $100 for the IDE (IIRC), and on the other one the development experience is go
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by gkya 9y ago
Functional programming is fun, but ML family of languages, especially Haskell, can be very complex if you're not a CS/Maths type. My favourite languages as of now are Emacs Lisp and Ruby (I'm new to Ruby, I like it because i
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by gkya 9y ago
Live musical performances are the only thing in music that nobody can fake or pirate. Even the video recordings of a concert is nothing near the actual experience. Maybe the music business will move towards such a setting where internet i
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by gkya 9y ago
I can not stop myself from asking this question when I see FreeBSD and laptop mentioned together: have you ever gotten suspend/resume working? I long for FreeBSD like an exile from the gardens of Eden, but I need suspend/resume wi
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by gkya 9y ago
I think it's useful to know what your abstractions (i.e. the web framework and the web server here) abstract away, so this is really nice material. But for anything you're actually going to publish, using a well-founded framework
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by gkya 9y ago
If I'm not mistaken CRLF is part of the HTTP spec as a field separator. Edit: I've read the article after this comment, now I see what the parent comment meant. I guess in this case sth like "\r\n".join(["line1&quo
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by gkya 9y ago
I'm kinda prone to make rants, so, sorry if that one came off a bit harsh or offensive. WRT the bartenders, I live in Istanbul, most bartenders I've seen either drink when they're about to close, when everybody's gone e
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by gkya 9y ago
There are no conservative views in that memo, but just mere observations. Then we watched mob justice in effect, people, some furious some frightened, make wrong decisions and act in rage. Hopefully one day the peoples of the modern world
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by gkya 9y ago
I'm sorry but I'm getting a cringe out of this. I seriously can't imagine a workplace where people are throwing things at each other. I could list here my potential thoughts having to work at such a place but I'd proba

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