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yarrel
11y ago
"Defining" something is a fuzzy concept. Do we mean trying to find an obvious and reasonable meaning for it (like "get by at a minimum level") or are we trying to make it appear a worrying and unjustified excess with imp
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yarrel
11y ago
IN GNU make there's \( , $(\() and lparen := \( ... $(lparen) .
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yarrel
11y ago
XML will be slightly slower than parsing JSON simply because you have to scan more characters for each item.
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yarrel
11y ago
It has whatever syntax you create for it. ;-)
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yarrel
11y ago
It's already been incorporated into systemd. Along with code to fetch today's xkcd cartoon at startup and a system registry that uses Pig Latin as the storage format.
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yarrel
11y ago
If most of your scripting language code is calls to other programs and to the shell, there's a simpler way...
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yarrel
11y ago
Let's incorporate it into systemd. That will solve everything.
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yarrel
11y ago
Apparently so but I've not heard it before and it's jarring. Everyone else is clearly marching out of step.
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yarrel
11y ago
Eclipse is has the cross-platform GUI curse. :-)
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yarrel
11y ago
This week in "class indicators".
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yarrel
11y ago
The first movers in programming were women.
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yarrel
11y ago
Regime change. Great idea. (Looks at examples.) Maybe not.
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yarrel
11y ago
I find "they" to only be awkward where it's ambiguous (the same as "he"). It's more Shakespearean than Orwellian. ;-)
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yarrel
11y ago
...is a class issue.
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yarrel
11y ago
Hello constructive dismissal!
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yarrel
11y ago
I'd pay more than ten dollars a year for a system that didn't treat me as the product.
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yarrel
11y ago
That's even weirder.
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yarrel
11y ago
No Gibsons?
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yarrel
11y ago
Try GNU social, or GNU MediaGoblin for the pics.
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yarrel
11y ago
Oh they quote Morozov? That's an instant fail.
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yarrel
11y ago
Do read the comments.
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yarrel
11y ago
Totally. That's why, as with Bitcoin, you wait before accepting the state of the network.
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yarrel
11y ago
What is Atlas Shrugged? (I know, I just wish I didn't)
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yarrel
11y ago
They can but I'm very wary of systems that don't have Bitcoin's closed loop of economic incentives for maintaining the blockchain.
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yarrel
11y ago
Custom. It's meteor and Ethereum's javascript interface to their network.
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yarrel
11y ago
Only until it's locked down and killed for 20 years.
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yarrel
11y ago
It doesn't but if they haven't been released then seeking them is untimely morbid curiosity.
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yarrel
11y ago
RISC or CISC?
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yarrel
11y ago
You need to read this - http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-i...
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yarrel
11y ago
That wasn't the argument.
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