jprzybyl

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by jprzybyl 9y ago
Believe it or not, Debian unstable just got it this morning. Boy, it's fast . I open a document, and it's there in less than a second. Very impressed. Like with Firefox, I'm starting to see the backend work.
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by jprzybyl 9y ago
Thank you for the post! It was very fun. Some fuddy-duddies think that preferring expression over safety is irresponsible. They might be right, but Perl is a language that doesn't have to justify itself: https://www.perl.com
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
Young Canadian here. Personally, it's just hard to find work, and there's no cheaper place than mom's house. My girlfriend lives with her parents. She has a job, but her family is having a hard time finding work themselves. I
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
> A tool like git could make operations such as branching and merging easier OpenBSD has been traditionally anti-branch. Theo de Raadt's 2009 presentation: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_e
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
And yet a transition period is needed. I wonder what about this made this difficult. Was it because it's a language interpreter? Libraries have this problem sometimes, but not as much. (I never hear of issues with gstreamer between 0.1
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
> What you mean is probably copyleft licensing which is only a subset of free software licenses. Yep, that's what I meant! Sorry, wrote that one late last night...
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
I personally like free software. (My personal stance lines up the most with the Debian Social Contract.) However, OpenBSD (my second choice of system) does not , and they've been vocal in the past. https://www.openbsd.org&#
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
Obsolete is a funny word to use. In this case, it would mean that Python 2 is in good working order, but is no longer wanted. That's bound for a flame war, because: - There is a community that wants it (largely enterprise). - The Pytho
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
I think this is a good idea. I realize that, you know, freedom of speech and all, but this is called HACKER NEWS. I would personally like it best if the political news just lessened overall, rather than stopping entirely for a week, but wha
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
This post is way too angry. The problem it describes is legitimate, but still just a problem to be fixed. Having the language maintainer need to bless packages with native bindings is strange, though. Tag the packages so that people know
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
I really liked it! Then again, I played the games it was (obviously) inspired by, and I liked those games too. I understand if people don't like it - it's pretty personal, in the way that it's targeted directly towards the
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
It is indeed good! (I actually have the soundtrack on my phone.) But I suggest playing the game and letting the soundtrack surprise you. It really is worth a play.
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
From the Tao of Programming: A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. "Excuse me," he said, "may I examine it?" The novic
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
IMO: Maturity: Perl 6 was released a little under a year ago. That's not long, and the leading implementation has not yet caught up with the standard (though work is ongoing). The ecosystem isn't quite there yet either. Examples:
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
> POSIX was designed to be used on systems with comparable resources to what many embedded processors now have. But not comparable environments. Most IOT environments are very small parts of very big systems, and POSIX defines a system w
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
> would that, and thousands of other packages, be feasible without a workable POSIX layer? I think my problem is the core concept. POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface (and X stands for Xtreme?). In an age where we spin u
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
I'm very excited about this! Minoca is an interesting system, and I applaud any attempt to make driver-writing less inherently horrible. Minoca OS has been around for a while, but the news is that they're GPLv3. I think that'
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
I love your project! The of testing pervading the whole system is a very good one. I also like parameters being immutable unless they're a product, that's a great way of making passing references hurt less. I still prefer the vers
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
I'm reminded of a quote from Moore in "Thinking Forth": "A lot of conditionals arise from fuzzy thinking about the problem. In servo-control theory, a lot of people think that the algorithm for the servo ought to be diff
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
I've never met Pieter, but I have enormous respect for him. His writing is some of the most insightful there is, and it changed my thinking on a lot of things, especially outside of computer science. He finished his book Confessions of
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
> Shouldn't rev(1) reverse graphemes instead of code points? I honestly don't know. Is the intended purpose of this program to reverse bytes, or reverse characters, or reverse grapheme clusters? Or extended grapheme clusters? T
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
I absolutely adore this blog. Each entry is incredibly detailed and well written. My favorite is the one on Nintendo's influence on the PC industry: http://www.filfre.net/2016/04/generation-nintendo/
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
I had a sour taste in my mouth when I read this, but I can sort of see it. It reminds me of Ubuntu's release pattern - 3 unstable releases then 1 stable release alternating. The only difference is that the major number changes for the
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by jprzybyl 10y ago
I can't believe this, but I created something like this in an ad-hoc way. I have a large amount of music, and I needed to be able to transfer them to devices (my phone) based on some sort of tag - I need work-out music, I need driving
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by jprzybyl 11y ago
A relevant thread in misc@: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145357927822796&w=2 naddy@ also weighed in: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145359161725192&w=2 deraadt@ said this a few d