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by nilved 10y ago
Just because the site is popular doesn't mean the codebase is big. It's a simple site. I could probably write YouTube in Go in an afternoon and I don't even know Go.
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by nilved 10y ago
Haskell is pretty old and I'm gonna use it until Idris is production-ready
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by nilved 10y ago
> If they now added whatever the state-of-the-art is for a service such as this, wouldn't that create quite a compelling service? Right, but that wouldn't be e-mail, and this seems to be e-mail. He made the decision to shut do
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by nilved 10y ago
There is a standard, and the fact that it's not universally adopted is more of a social problem than technical.
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by nilved 10y ago
There's really no coming back for Lavabit. Nobody can trust them anymore, and this isn't just about Lavabit, but about e-mail. If a person is privacy-conscious enough not to use Google, they know not to use anyone else either.
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by nilved 10y ago
Just stay out of Canada, to be honest. Our country's best is anothers country's worst.
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by nilved 10y ago
Somebody should add their new JS-based design to this list
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by nilved 10y ago
They do.
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by nilved 10y ago
Everyone has been saying this for years. I honestly can't believe anyone would think that Facebook shares all their data with you.
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by nilved 10y ago
I'm going to use this opportunity to ask a question I've been thinking about for a long time. Why do we have both environment variables and command line arguments? They are the same thing, except one is key-to-value and one is p
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by nilved 10y ago
Not that this design is bad, I think Guile's site is fantastic. https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
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by nilved 10y ago
Matthew Butterick is an obvious choice for the Racket website. He did a great job.
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by nilved 10y ago
It doesn't have webhooks, but it has a full API. You could use CircleCI or another build tool to publish your site when you push to GitHub. This way you also get more control over the build process and can use tools other than Jekyll
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by nilved 10y ago
How long ago did you try that? I find it hard to believe C is the only language that can approach this problem in 2016.
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by nilved 10y ago
It ought to
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by nilved 10y ago
Seems to be working well for them.
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by nilved 10y ago
That sounds pretty rad. Do you know what the status is of dependent types in Racket? I have always been interested in that.
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by nilved 10y ago
They have gradual typing but I believe they're still enforced as runtime contracts, making them not static types.
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by nilved 10y ago
> I for one am dropping this bloatware for a WebKit browser Oh come on
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by nilved 10y ago
Calling Apple one of the best engineering teams is little much, don't you think?
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by nilved 10y ago
If you didn't see this coming you only have yourself to blame.
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by nilved 10y ago
What if you ask Verizon?
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by nilved 10y ago
I think that we should have redesigned our keyboard layouts when we switched to mobile. Keyboards are used very differently today. Swiping multiple letters is possible, people often type with one hand, etc. After using KeyBee for a while
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by nilved 10y ago
How do you propose that be dealt with programmatically?
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by nilved 10y ago
Maybe, sorry if I misread your comments!
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by nilved 10y ago
Which is exactly what GP mentioned. Although using `/opt` to begin with is an anti-pattern in all cases including Chrome.
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by nilved 10y ago
I thought that "quitting the news" meant not consuming news, not simply abstaining from watching TV. At this point I feel like watching news programs is more unusual than not.
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by nilved 10y ago
There are many possible things you can do with a frying pan, but only a few of them are good ideas. The flexibility of the Web is a generally good thing, but often misused and often for inferior reinventions of the wheel like this. The am
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by nilved 10y ago
> Because it's a good demonstration of how the Web is advancing by showing that this kind of thing is possible. This being possible is a glaring deficiency of the Web, and an example of how it is stalling the state of the art.
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by nilved 10y ago
I'm always happy to see new stuff from gwern. If you like his posts as much as I do, you should contribute to his Patreon: http://patreon.com/gwern

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