memefrog

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by memefrog 3y ago
Ah well if Italy is doing it, we all should. They manage their economy famously well. Do the banks get a "windfall subsidy" when they have bad years?
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by memefrog 3y ago
You can always implement tagged unions in any language with untagged unions, so in a broad sense you can emulate sum types in situations where they make sense but use simpler code elsewhere. I might do that in C. Depends on the situation.
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by memefrog 3y ago
No, your framing is incorrect. Free software is, by its very nature, open for anyone to use or contribute to. If you don't know how to program, then you can learn. You can pay someone to do it, or convince someone to do it some othe
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by memefrog 3y ago
They don't extort anything and they aren't dominant. They're a minority player in the market. If anyone is dominant, it is Google. Despite Apple being more expensive, people still choose them. This isn't lock in, it
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by memefrog 3y ago
More energy efficient, brighter and whiter.
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by memefrog 3y ago
That's really not written in Wikipedia's tone.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Large amounts of it might be written by humans, but they're humans that are being paid to promote products and brands. It's an open secret.
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by memefrog 3y ago
I used to be difficult to make money writing books because it was difficult to write a good book that people wanted to buy. Now it's also made even more difficult by rampant fraud. That's not the same sort of thing at all.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Illegal to do what? Charge people fees for what they do using your platform? On what possible basis can you make it illegal? It's Apple's app store for software that runs on Apple's phones. Nobody is forced to use an iPho
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by memefrog 3y ago
>Imagine this. You’re working at a company with thousands of engineers. No, I don't think I will. No problem requires thousands of programmers.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Already posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37026757 @dang
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by memefrog 3y ago
>They will never shoot themselves in the foot. They will never lose work. They will never, ever need to nuke and reclone their repo. You never need to do these things in git either. People only 'nuke and re-clone their repo' b
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by memefrog 3y ago
Nah I totally disagree. This is true of Arch, but Gentoo makes it incredibly easy to screw up your system. You never really truly break things, of course, not in a way you can't fix. But if you start adding USE flags all over the pl
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by memefrog 3y ago
Why is installing your preferred font and theme included in this?
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by memefrog 3y ago
I think a poweruser is a highly proficient and knowledgeable user. That means a Linux poweruser is comfortable configuring their system, writing shell scripts, installing software, fixing issues they encounter, etc. A Linux poweruser unde
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by memefrog 3y ago
Yeah to me NixOS doesn't even really feel like a 'Linux distribution'. It's just a totally different sort of experience. A cool one, but if someone had only ever used NixOS I think they'd struggle as much with a n
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by memefrog 3y ago
Having up-to-date packages means having old bugs fixed as much as it means new bugs introduced. In my experience, most programs get more stable over time, and not less. They fix older bugs, add features that resolve old limitations, etc.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Yeah, I don't really know what a 'poweruser looked to switch to Linux' even means. It doesn't compute. A poweruser is a highly proficient user. If you're looking to switch to Linux from Mac, you might be a Mac po
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by memefrog 3y ago
Yes, some compilers are slow on large programs because they don't scale well. Others aren't, because they do. That's what I said.
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by memefrog 3y ago
>IOW, you can't demonstrate the open source community being tolerant of bigotry? Got it. As I already explained, the topic of this thread is not bigotry, but something that you, unilaterally, have labelled 'bigotry'. Thos
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by memefrog 3y ago
>Thank you, Judge Douglas. I have no fucking clue who this person is. Stop bringing him up. It is insanely cringe. >Because you're using your superstitions to tell other people what to do. Guess what? Everybody with at least ha
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by memefrog 3y ago
I didn't say anything about using it 'as a paper map'. But using it as a map is the point of a map.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Wow so edgy and cool. Are you a teenager?
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by memefrog 3y ago
>I think I’d take that bet. Becoming idiot proof isn’t hard. The trick is for all commits to be automatically backed up in the central hub. That's the last thing I want. Random WIP commits being sent off to some central hub? Fuck
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by memefrog 3y ago
>So, do folks doing distributed development routinely push changes in a peer to peer fashion? Alice, Bob, and Charlene are collaborating with Alice and Bob working on one feature while Alice and Charlene work on another, pushing incremen
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by memefrog 3y ago
Screenwriters have sat comfortably in their little moat producing increasingly generic, hackneyed and woke rubbish for years. Now they're finding out what happens when you rest on your laurels: you get disrupted. If there were ever a
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by memefrog 3y ago
I am not sure that the runtime efficiency of the compiler binary is that important. People like fast compile times, but that is more to do with language design than the choice of language for the compiler. You could write a compiler for Pa
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by memefrog 3y ago
It is easy to replace a "bad API". There are a million alternative CLIs and GUIs for git. They haven't caught on because it turns out git's CLI isnt actually bad. It feels complex because it feels like what it is doing
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by memefrog 3y ago
People blog about things they learn about. Lots of people use git so they blog about it. Nobody is pretending it is simple. It is simple.
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by memefrog 3y ago
I totally disagree. GUIs inevitably confuse people about git. I have never met anyone that used a GUI for git that actually understood it.

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