lillywastaken

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by lillywastaken 3y ago
This is generally the case imo. Installing hardening tweaks/extensions/... to make yourself "more secure" and "more private" often just ends in increasing the viable attack surface and making yourself more iden
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by lillywastaken 3y ago
Do you think it is somehow more elegant to have a specialised version of a data-structure for every single type that may need to be placed into it? Or just to ignore the type whatsoever and erase it via interface{}? Even Golang's desig
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by lillywastaken 3y ago
Is writing the same function n times more readable and more maintainable? Is it more maintainable to entirely circumvent the type system with interface{}?
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by lillywastaken 3y ago
I believe it's still mostly C, and it definitely uses some custom text field stuff. If it were using the Cocoa textfield it would have smooth scrolling, but BBEdit still retains line-by-line scrolling.
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by lillywastaken 3y ago
Though Haskell's module system is somewhat a wart of the language, and I say this as someone who loves Haskell. "Hierarchical" modules in Haskell2010 are literally just modules with periods in the name, and it lacks the pow
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by lillywastaken 4y ago
Haiku is an open source BeOS clone that is still developed, but the original isn’t
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by lillywastaken 4y ago
It’s probably worth mentioning that you can also use QEMU, which is a bit more involved but can use a bigger disk and also run OS X, and Mac OS 9.2.2 (as it supports an MMU, SheepShaver doesn’t)
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by lillywastaken 4y ago
I'd rather use JS than python, since at least JS doesn't actively try making programming in a functional style worse
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by lillywastaken 4y ago
There's also meow-mode[1], which isn't a vim emulator as such, but it is a different modal editing layer for Emacs which is a lot faster and has a lot of neat ideas. It doesn't interfere w/the stock keybinds at all thoug
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by lillywastaken 4y ago
Which is, frankly, an idiotic waste of money.
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by lillywastaken 4y ago
Generally I cannot remember anyone's birthday if it isn't at least in my calendar.
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by lillywastaken 4y ago
Yes, but only for replies.
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by lillywastaken 4y ago
It's a bunch of libraries for Java for making big enterprise web apps and the like.
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by lillywastaken 5y ago
A lot of this you can find out from reading the programming guide to plan 9 - http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/programming/c_programming_in_pla...