Believe it or not, Debian unstable just got it this morning. Boy, it's fast. I open a document, and it's there in less than a second. Very impressed. Like with Firefox, I'm starting to see the backend work.
Thank you for the post! It was very fun. Some fuddy-duddies think that preferring expression over safety is irresponsible. They might be right, but Perl is a language that doesn't have to justify itself:…
Young Canadian here. Personally, it's just hard to find work, and there's no cheaper place than mom's house. My girlfriend lives with her parents. She has a job, but her family is having a hard time finding work…
> A tool like git could make operations such as branching and merging easier OpenBSD has been traditionally anti-branch. Theo de Raadt's 2009 presentation: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_engine...…
And yet a transition period is needed. I wonder what about this made this difficult. Was it because it's a language interpreter? Libraries have this problem sometimes, but not as much. (I never hear of issues with…
> What you mean is probably copyleft licensing which is only a subset of free software licenses. Yep, that's what I meant! Sorry, wrote that one late last night...
I personally like free software. (My personal stance lines up the most with the Debian Social Contract.) However, OpenBSD (my second choice of system) does not, and they've been vocal in the past.…
Obsolete is a funny word to use. In this case, it would mean that Python 2 is in good working order, but is no longer wanted. That's bound for a flame war, because: - There is a community that wants it (largely…
I think this is a good idea. I realize that, you know, freedom of speech and all, but this is called HACKER NEWS. I would personally like it best if the political news just lessened overall, rather than stopping…
This post is way too angry. The problem it describes is legitimate, but still just a problem to be fixed. Having the language maintainer need to bless packages with native bindings is strange, though. Tag the packages…
I really liked it! Then again, I played the games it was (obviously) inspired by, and I liked those games too. I understand if people don't like it - it's pretty personal, in the way that it's targeted directly towards…
It is indeed good! (I actually have the soundtrack on my phone.) But I suggest playing the game and letting the soundtrack surprise you. It really is worth a play.
From the Tao of Programming: A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. "Excuse me," he said, "may I examine it?" The novice…
IMO: Maturity: Perl 6 was released a little under a year ago. That's not long, and the leading implementation has not yet caught up with the standard (though work is ongoing). The ecosystem isn't quite there yet either.…
> POSIX was designed to be used on systems with comparable resources to what many embedded processors now have. But not comparable environments. Most IOT environments are very small parts of very big systems, and POSIX…
> would that, and thousands of other packages, be feasible without a workable POSIX layer? I think my problem is the core concept. POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface (and X stands for Xtreme?). In an…
I'm very excited about this! Minoca is an interesting system, and I applaud any attempt to make driver-writing less inherently horrible. Minoca OS has been around for a while, but the news is that they're GPLv3. I think…
I love your project! The of testing pervading the whole system is a very good one. I also like parameters being immutable unless they're a product, that's a great way of making passing references hurt less. I still…
I'm reminded of a quote from Moore in "Thinking Forth": "A lot of conditionals arise from fuzzy thinking about the problem. In servo-control theory, a lot of people think that the algorithm for the servo ought to be…
I've never met Pieter, but I have enormous respect for him. His writing is some of the most insightful there is, and it changed my thinking on a lot of things, especially outside of computer science. He finished his…
> Shouldn't rev(1) reverse graphemes instead of code points? I honestly don't know. Is the intended purpose of this program to reverse bytes, or reverse characters, or reverse grapheme clusters? Or extended grapheme…
I absolutely adore this blog. Each entry is incredibly detailed and well written. My favorite is the one on Nintendo's influence on the PC industry: http://www.filfre.net/2016/04/generation-nintendo/
I had a sour taste in my mouth when I read this, but I can sort of see it. It reminds me of Ubuntu's release pattern - 3 unstable releases then 1 stable release alternating. The only difference is that the major number…
I can't believe this, but I created something like this in an ad-hoc way. I have a large amount of music, and I needed to be able to transfer them to devices (my phone) based on some sort of tag - I need work-out music,…
A relevant thread in misc@: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145357927822796&w=2 naddy@ also weighed in: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145359161725192&w=2 deraadt@ said this a few days ago:…
Believe it or not, Debian unstable just got it this morning. Boy, it's fast. I open a document, and it's there in less than a second. Very impressed. Like with Firefox, I'm starting to see the backend work.
Thank you for the post! It was very fun. Some fuddy-duddies think that preferring expression over safety is irresponsible. They might be right, but Perl is a language that doesn't have to justify itself:…
Young Canadian here. Personally, it's just hard to find work, and there's no cheaper place than mom's house. My girlfriend lives with her parents. She has a job, but her family is having a hard time finding work…
> A tool like git could make operations such as branching and merging easier OpenBSD has been traditionally anti-branch. Theo de Raadt's 2009 presentation: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_engine...…
And yet a transition period is needed. I wonder what about this made this difficult. Was it because it's a language interpreter? Libraries have this problem sometimes, but not as much. (I never hear of issues with…
> What you mean is probably copyleft licensing which is only a subset of free software licenses. Yep, that's what I meant! Sorry, wrote that one late last night...
I personally like free software. (My personal stance lines up the most with the Debian Social Contract.) However, OpenBSD (my second choice of system) does not, and they've been vocal in the past.…
Obsolete is a funny word to use. In this case, it would mean that Python 2 is in good working order, but is no longer wanted. That's bound for a flame war, because: - There is a community that wants it (largely…
I think this is a good idea. I realize that, you know, freedom of speech and all, but this is called HACKER NEWS. I would personally like it best if the political news just lessened overall, rather than stopping…
This post is way too angry. The problem it describes is legitimate, but still just a problem to be fixed. Having the language maintainer need to bless packages with native bindings is strange, though. Tag the packages…
I really liked it! Then again, I played the games it was (obviously) inspired by, and I liked those games too. I understand if people don't like it - it's pretty personal, in the way that it's targeted directly towards…
It is indeed good! (I actually have the soundtrack on my phone.) But I suggest playing the game and letting the soundtrack surprise you. It really is worth a play.
From the Tao of Programming: A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. "Excuse me," he said, "may I examine it?" The novice…
IMO: Maturity: Perl 6 was released a little under a year ago. That's not long, and the leading implementation has not yet caught up with the standard (though work is ongoing). The ecosystem isn't quite there yet either.…
> POSIX was designed to be used on systems with comparable resources to what many embedded processors now have. But not comparable environments. Most IOT environments are very small parts of very big systems, and POSIX…
> would that, and thousands of other packages, be feasible without a workable POSIX layer? I think my problem is the core concept. POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface (and X stands for Xtreme?). In an…
I'm very excited about this! Minoca is an interesting system, and I applaud any attempt to make driver-writing less inherently horrible. Minoca OS has been around for a while, but the news is that they're GPLv3. I think…
I love your project! The of testing pervading the whole system is a very good one. I also like parameters being immutable unless they're a product, that's a great way of making passing references hurt less. I still…
I'm reminded of a quote from Moore in "Thinking Forth": "A lot of conditionals arise from fuzzy thinking about the problem. In servo-control theory, a lot of people think that the algorithm for the servo ought to be…
I've never met Pieter, but I have enormous respect for him. His writing is some of the most insightful there is, and it changed my thinking on a lot of things, especially outside of computer science. He finished his…
> Shouldn't rev(1) reverse graphemes instead of code points? I honestly don't know. Is the intended purpose of this program to reverse bytes, or reverse characters, or reverse grapheme clusters? Or extended grapheme…
I absolutely adore this blog. Each entry is incredibly detailed and well written. My favorite is the one on Nintendo's influence on the PC industry: http://www.filfre.net/2016/04/generation-nintendo/
I had a sour taste in my mouth when I read this, but I can sort of see it. It reminds me of Ubuntu's release pattern - 3 unstable releases then 1 stable release alternating. The only difference is that the major number…
I can't believe this, but I created something like this in an ad-hoc way. I have a large amount of music, and I needed to be able to transfer them to devices (my phone) based on some sort of tag - I need work-out music,…
A relevant thread in misc@: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145357927822796&w=2 naddy@ also weighed in: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=145359161725192&w=2 deraadt@ said this a few days ago:…