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by hbex5 9y ago
It must be nice to live in a world so isolated that smartphones just completely passed you by. Imagine being the diehard Zune fan who felt his best option for a replacement was going all in with Windows Phone.
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by hbex5 9y ago
Idris is one of those languages that when I learned it felt like it was offering me a glimpse into a possible future. I love it when that happens.
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by hbex5 9y ago
I mean... Amazing stuff. How..? My mind refuses to believe it's actually possible EVEN AFTER I TRIED IT AND SAW IT WORKING. The universe is a lie.
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by hbex5 9y ago
So as somebody who lives in London, explain to me why Los Angeles always looks so featureless, so lacking in any kind of urban identity I'd expect to find in a city? It always looks to me no so much as a city, but rather merely some bu
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by hbex5 10y ago
This puts Labour in a very difficult position. The bill will, of course, carry. But this will expose the wide gulf between the Labour leadership and its traditional white working class base (who were overwhelmingly leave) as it tries to str
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by hbex5 10y ago
Orwell's advice on how to write better English is at best naively harmfully, and at worst cravenly hypocritical. He never followed his own "rules", why in the hell should anyone else? Answer: because his rules are self-servin
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by hbex5 10y ago
It's not entirely clear with the GPLv2 that that's the case. The FSF claims that because modules are loading into the address space of the kernel that makes them an integrated part of a single program and not mere aggregation, and
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by hbex5 11y ago
And it is wonderful . It's one of those games that manages to push buttons in your brain you never knew you had, and make you feel like a genius when something finally clicks. And it does all this without ever needing to explain anyth
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by hbex5 11y ago
That both indicates to me why Perl 6 is cool, and also why it's a bit mad. Junctions, in the core language? Really? Wouldn't they be best placed just being a library?
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by hbex5 12y ago
It's basically impossible to write safe code in C. Surely that makes it pretty damn poor at what it does? Especially since system code is the place where safety matters most.