gopiandcode

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by gopiandcode 4y ago
Yep, exactly. It's absolutely insane we've now reached for a point where when people see a standalone, working, polished piece of software that respects your freedom, they somehow feel that it is "inferior" because it do
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by gopiandcode 4y ago
> For example, there will be more posts about how they mimicked most of the functionality of VSCode or a Jetbrains IDE than about any actual code they wrote (other than elisp). Are we reading the same articles at all? Most of the Emacs p
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
> Pretty much ALL major developed western country went through such revolutions to earn their freedom. It is time for you to go get it. You realise that you're asking innocent people to risk violence and potentially even give up the
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
The problem with writing a _general-purpose_ programming language (as a solo-developer), is the fact that writing the language (i.e defining the syntax+semantics, writing the parser/compiler) is only half the battle - the rest of your
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
...for now. It's a proprietary, centralised service, so there's pretty much _nothing_ stopping it from doing that in the future ("money left on the table" and all that). I think for now, the fediverse seems to be the mos
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
..except it's quite different though? Adding a hook for compilation in most decent editors is only a few lines of config, and many popular editors (GNU Emacs, vim, m$ vscode) nowadays have packages that have these hooks predefined, so
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
I would highly recommend that the author look into continuation-passing-style - the general construction they discover in their blog just seems to be a reinvention of the pretty old observation that we can make any program tail-call recursi
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
Also nice to see that this project is licensed under the GPL - very much in keeping with the spirit of open access to knowledge and information; this way future generations will also be able to benefit from these efforts, and malicious evil
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
You're totally right. I think a lot of rust developers are going to be absolutely distraught that rust isn't the fastest language for writing fizzbuzz programs. I guess they're just going to have to settle with rust being the
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
FeO3 (Iron Oxide) can be referred to as Rust and presumably the name PyO3 makes reference to that.
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
> OSS is dead. Given that OSS was a corporate sponsored perversion of Free/Libre software designed to trick naive developers into contributing unpaid labour without getting anything back, I would hope so. Free software, on the other
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
Stephen seems to be a perfect example of how being an expert on one subject doesn't mean that someone has any kind of deeper insight or experience about unrelated areas. If you look at the history of his blog, for the entire last year
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
Not just mastadon, but the fediverse in general, which encompasses quite a diversity of software (pleroma, pixelfed, etc.) and has apparently now even started to threaten twitter enough to make it start initiatives to try and EEE it.
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
I think the process is exactly the same as the ruby example, except for the fact that while in ruby it was a hack, in racket, a programming-language programming language, is explicitly designed to allow for this kind of process. The linked
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
I see many people on here (likely non-emacs users) claiming that Emacs is obsolete/outdated/dying by completely misunderstanding its position in the ecosystem. Maybe it's easier to understand via analogy. Let's consider
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
I can't speak for the context in which the magic number was chosen, but in this context, the creation of classes, the usage of "babe" seems to more closely refer the definition wherein it refers to a "a baby infant"
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
“We have seen some initiatives run into trouble, however, when the necessary rights have not been secured to enable their sustainability,” I love the double-speak that these corrupt publishers use - it really highlights how mafia-esque the
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
..and it's not like there hasn't been precedent for that before. I'm still a little sour about the collaboration between google and the NHS - the NHS is great, but who gave them permission to share the private information of
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
Being slightly cynical here, I'd presume that's not a bug, but rather the intended outcome, and this phenomenon with markdown is just a canary for M$'s impeding extinguish phase (after having embraced and extended git forges
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
Putting aside the quality of forbes, at the end of the day, the FB app is proprietary software - we don't know if it is using the data for tracking, and even if security researchers were to determine whether one particular version of t
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
I think the worst example of this that comes to mind was the video by Veritasium on genome sequencing, which was just a glorified ad for those companies, and completely glossed over the privacy concerns (I mean, literally every interview th
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
There are a lot of things that China does that other countries don't do, some of these things are bad, and personally I wouldn't want them to be implemented where I live (social credit score, censorship etc.). I don't see how
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
TL;DR: Big fat paychecks, and the rest of the article is just some mental acrobatics to satisfy the author's moral conscience. In yesterday's news: I'm a Marlboro scientist, here's why I still falsify science for them.
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
This. I've lost my respect for so many developers who have decided to go to work for these net-social-negative surveillance companies for a fat paycheck and justify their decision by the argument that if they didn't accept the off
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
Don't forget, before the last step, they'll first subsidise universities and schools to explicitly train their students to have a dependence on WSL, so that they can maximally exploit their users when they introduce a fee.
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
An interesting thing about this application is that it's written in OCaml.
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
This post was suprisingly more nuanced and well-balanced than the comments seemed to make it out to be. The author notes the effectiveness of deplatforming when it comes to reducing the ability of extremist groups to radicalise others, but
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
I think it's likely indicative of the fact that the JS ecosystem doesn't really understand the meaning of open source (or the distinction between "open source" and free/libre software). The author's comments ar
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
Indeed, what perfect poetic irony - Peter was certainly hoisted by his own petard. You'd think that he'd be aware of the CoC looming over him in conversations given his familiarity with it but I guess he was too short-sighted.
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by gopiandcode 5y ago
> It's been awhile since I saw the film, but that's what I remember. Slightly OT, but you might want to clarify that you are talking about a film rather than the classical story. If you haven't had the pleasure of reading

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