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   by seagreen 11y ago

   Sorry the intro moves so fast. The answer is here: But if web browsers are so bad, why do they keep spreading? [...] mainly because the alternative is defective. The startup, academic and open source communities all have t
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   by seagreen 11y ago

   > This was trivial along time ago with mutt Nothing is trivial with mutt, especially not GPG related issues. If it seems easy to you then you're a very skilled outlier. Sincerely, A Mutt user for three or four years
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   by seagreen 11y ago

   This is actually a really interesting point. So we have English (optimized for person->person), standard programming languages (optimized for text->computer), and now you're saying we should make Language X, which is optimized fo
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   by seagreen 11y ago

   Since I can't edit anymore: Your comment actually deserves a better response than I gave it. Spam is the open protocol killer. It's a totally serious issue. If our goal was to replicate HN or Reddit via only personal servers, I wo
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   by seagreen 11y ago

   > Grandma is not going to visit 20 dedicated servers for her grandkids picture fix, she needs it accessible in one place. This is certainly a problem. If only there was some kind of . . . mechanism . . . by which her computer could colle
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   by seagreen 11y ago

   Thanks:) I really feel like this is the core issue here. People complain a lot about Facebook, but what would happen if by some heroic, Odyssey-worthy effort they actually get people to switch to some other social network? . . . The exact s
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   by seagreen 11y ago

   Nope! But that's OK:) A majority of people will never develop any real skill level at administering servers. We still need them to be able to use reasonably humane software though, because the consumer software industry revolves around
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   by seagreen 11y ago

   This is a great comment, because it leads in right to the heart of the problem. Why is running a server so hard? This is actually really weird -- the cloud should mean that you can set up a server with a single click. Of course, a Linux VPS
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   by seagreen 11y ago

   PS Pretty much all my knowledge of this subject (and the pretty printing interpreter example in particular) comes from here: http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/06/you-could-have-invented...
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    This paper is over my head, but in case anyone is wondering what Free monads are I can give a teaser for how they're useful. Say you're automating a bio lab. You're writing software to control evacuations. The lab machinery c
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Hakyll will be very similar to something like Nanoc. The difference will be mainly in the language and ecosystem -- compared to normal languages Haskell is pretty weird. That said, Haskell is also _incredibly awesome_ and especially well su
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Slick, thanks!
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Sweet, thanks!
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Hello from NixOS:) ( https://github.com/seagreen/vivaine ) I don't think nixpkgs is a direct solution to this problem though. (A) Sometimes you're stuck with cabal-install because the rest of the people in the
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Fair question:) GHC binaries dynamically link certain C libraries, which must be present (and in the right version range) at runtime. This can cause trouble. I'd be curious to hear if there's a convenient way to build an entirely
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Hakyll is fantastic -- works great as a blog, but is also very extensible. I used Nanoc before that and it was also excellent. I don't think you want Pelican or Jekyll in this case. Their emphasis is definitely on blogging and you&#x27
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    That can be part of the reviews. "This product may look good, but Company X which makes it has a history of ninja-changes to their products." A central (well, really federated would be better) is one of the most needed tech innova
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    In general you're totally right! In this particular case though, note the title of the article. Wouldn't it be much more convincing as "A Superior Alternative to Slack (Which Happens to be Open Source)"? EDIT: You'r
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Well there's part of the problem. "Should I use Slack or this long list of open source options, all trickily alike?" The open source team (which I would prefer to win) would do much better if their message was "use this
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Does anybody who keeps up with browser extensions know if there's a way to disable any kind of ad-hoc link handling on Firefox? When I tab-click I'd like to get a new window, always:)
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Can you elaborate on not being able to trust the browser for formatting? Is the idea that web developers should just be able to use <textarea> and not have to think about it beyond that, and that browsers should provide solid default
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Your last two sentences are hand to understand since you seem to be conflating the internet with the web. They're not the same thing.
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Thanks! If you find one ping me, I'll do the same.
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    This might be a good chance to ask something that's been bothering me -- is there a good training log format for weightlifting? I can find apps for recording training data, but they all use their own formats. Anyway, if there is one it
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    This is brilliant. Do you have suggestions for where I can go to read more about this idea?
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    Page-Forkable Wikis(housejeffries.com)

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    by seagreen 11y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_%28operating_system%29 Personally, I think that if 1% of the resources that have gone into various Unixes h
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    I'll take this one:) http://housejeffries.com/articles/unix-delenda-est I criticize Unix because I think it's getting in the way of the adoption of what I really love: the CLI. Really a much better article is
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    I totally agree -- and not just on HN -- everywhere. Now let's update that title: " The Principles of a Decentralized Port 80/443 Ecosystem " Personally, I don't think it survives the update well:(
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    by seagreen 11y ago

    Does the web here mean a network of hyperlinked documents, does it mean HTTP, or does it mean "browser stuff"? Personally, I think we should retire the idea of The Decentralized Web. It doesn't help clear thinking. BitTorrent