owl57

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by owl57 9y ago
I believe all these languages, if they use some arrow in lambda syntax (so, except Rust), use the same kind of arrow for pattern matching. It's an obvious syntax choice when lambda arguments also use the same destructuring syntax: why
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by owl57 9y ago
> How the wayland server and the shell are going to share (or agree to) that file descriptors or secrets in the first place? I read that GNOME just implements both in the same program (and calls it "shell"). > Or how can you
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by owl57 9y ago
Assuming other apps are sandboxed from /proc/1234, can't the shell just exec "/usr/bin/foo" and pass some file descriptors or secrets in environment variables?
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by owl57 9y ago
> It's not like the driver knows where the server is physically located. Well, it probably currently doesn't guess the server location, but it doesn't seem impossible or even hard if they think it's useful to them.
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by owl57 9y ago
Probably nothing remotely resembling this belongs in anything remotely resembling production code, but: In [1]: class Foo: ...: def __rmul__(self, other): ...: print("%s foos!" % other) ...: In
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by owl57 9y ago
There's the same implied prerequisite as with BASIC: you need a personal computer. I mean, you seem to know how to uninstall the browser from your laptop, but is not doing that a meaningful prerequisite?
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by owl57 10y ago
IIRC iOS lets you connect to other apps on 127.0.0.1 just fine. But it won't work in the obvious use case of a foreground client and a background server without additional hacks, because the server can be suspended and the connection a
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by owl57 10y ago
These days you don't need to buy Windows separately just to get rid of bloatware: you can just download a clean image from Microsoft [1]. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/
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by owl57 10y ago
> Well, if not having C-like syntax is a deal breaker for you, then OCaml is going to frustrate you. There is a new alternative Reason syntax ( https://facebook.github.io/reason/mlCompared.html ) which replaces some o