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by progman 12y ago
Fine. There speaks nothing against Debian Desktop for servers by admins who prefer systemd. I am current happy Debian user myself, and I would use such a system for my desktop. However regarding servers I agree with the Unix veterans that U
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by progman 12y ago
> Why would I expect them to maintain a fork and ensure it has full sysv init support, if they don't even have the time to engage in the current process? Probably because they (experienced Unix veterans) realized that it makes much
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by progman 12y ago
> A fork, or an alternative init system, could be a good solution. I consider this a good idea. Servers and desktops are two different things so why not have two different Debian versions? This way Debian Server could be kept small and s
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by progman 12y ago
It depends on the application. For games, fotos, and videos glossy may be fine. But if you work a lot with text (as developer etc.) then matte displays are far better for the eyes. When I made an exception and bought a notebook with glossy
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by progman 12y ago
I hope some of those displays will be as matte as the old TFTs. I won't buy even an 8K display if it is glossy. For the same reason I won't buy the 5k imac.
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by progman 12y ago
I have a 64-bit machine but your fix works great :-) Thanks for this, and thanks for sharing your amazing pigshell!
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by progman 12y ago
There are so many possible uses cases. For instance, - Web development toolchain. - (Multiple) Server administration. - Control embedded systems. No need for special GUIs there. For instance, simply psty on a Raspberry Pi would be sufficien
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by progman 12y ago
Unfortunately these suggestions don't work also. Could the problem be in psty.py? Or is my Python 2.7 obsolete? There is a strange error message in psty: EXCEPT timestamp out of range for platform time_t Traceback (most recent call las
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> By the way, ... Thanks, meanwhile I have realized that also :-)
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> of course getting there will require significant work on a security model as well. It could probably be easier than you imagine. The security model could be implemented in psty completely by granting/denying requested resources wh
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by progman 12y ago
I downloaded http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.2/psty.py , started it with "python psty.py -a" and did "mount http://localhost:50937/ /dir" successfully. Unfortunately only "l
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by progman 12y ago
Congratulations! The way how you implemented "man" ("man ls" for instance) shows how a convenient shell can look like. Pigshell could be a foundation for a completely new kind of toolchain for web development. I am think
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by progman 12y ago
> In Ada's case, the high cost of development systems Not necessarily. http://www.adacore.com/press/gnat-gpl-for-bare-board-arm/ Look also for the book "Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time Appl
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by progman 12y ago
Ada is a general purpose programming language, including systems programming. http://www.ada2012.org Support is provided by AdaCore for instance: http://www.adacore.com
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by progman 12y ago
I didn't claim that Lisp's CST (concrete syntax tree) is equivalent to C++'s AST. I just wanted to point out that more and more modern languages adopt features of Lisp, or try to embed Lisp. C++ praises lambda expressions as
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by progman 12y ago
> Cannot wait for rust. Yes, Rust looks VERY promising.
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Probably because more people realize how powerful Lisp actually is.
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The examples remind me again why I turned away from C++ some years ago. In the first years of C++ it was real joy to write software in it but now the syntax seems to be much more useful for obfuscation rather than maintainability. Funny: Wh
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by progman 12y ago
Regarding freedom GPL is superior to BSD. Look what happened to OSX. It was taken from BSD but the former BSD developers have no control over OSX at all. They even have to pay for their own work when they purchase some OSX or iOS thing.
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by progman 12y ago
Nice features: http://ivoras.sharanet.org/blog/tree/2013/Oct-2013-10-05.wha... Type inference: http://nimrod-by-example.github.io/variables/type_casting_in... Quick introduction for C pr
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by progman 12y ago
SBCL also uses static linking. It doesn't recompile every ASDF imported library whenever I compile my application. It just does so when it is actually necessary. Why doesn't it work so easily in Haskell? I think it's the stro
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by progman 12y ago
I understand that. I really like Haskell but I wonder if the type system is actually too strong for the real world. Generalizing algorithms sounds nice but if Haskell is so powerful, why is the Haskell community still not able to provide a
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by progman 12y ago
> OTOH modern "researchey" languages, like Coq or even Haskell, are far far ahead of Lisp. I know Common Lisp well, and I honestly tried to learn and to use Haskell. I realized that Haskell has the advantage of a strong type sy
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by progman 12y ago
> Software engineering requires mathematics. Software development does not. Engineers and developers both bang out code. But the similarities end there. I agree. For instance, in Haskell you cannot just sit down and hack something togeth
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by progman 12y ago
I am always amazed how quickly I get things done with Nimrod. It's like writing Python, having the full power of C (see below), and some of the power of Lisp (macros!), and getting the performance of C++. Nimrod actually is what I want
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by progman 12y ago
I cannot answer your questions in detail but here you find some useful information about Ada: http://www.ada2012.org http://www.adacore.com/knowledge http://www.adaic.org/ada-resources/stand
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by progman 12y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look at it.
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by progman 12y ago
I just started to work with Haskell seriously, and after some trouble I discovered exactly the same development approach as DerpDerpDerp. However since I am not yet experienced I wish I had an "observer" to print debug messages (I
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by progman 12y ago
Many people know C++ and Java but have no sense for functional programming. It would help them to read equivalent known code to compare it with Haskell. For instance FP Complete's Introduction to Haskell presents some ugly Java code wh
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by progman 12y ago
Great and very comprehensive book but focused on x86 only. Any recommendations for really good ARM assembler tutorials? Thanks for advice.

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