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http://flatkill.org/ claims that “The sandbox is a lie”: > Almost all popular applications on flathub come with filesystem=host, filesystem=home or device=all permissions, that is,…

I strongly suggest to not use this. Instead, create URIs that contain arbitrary content with the data URI scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme The data URI scheme …

Basic web site functionality should work in any browser.

I use strace(1) look for stat(2) syscalls that fail with ENOENT. An advantage of this approach is that I do not have to imitate the C preprocessor, so parser differentials can neve…

Please elaborate: What do you find amazing about scons? Also, how does scons handle non-existence dependencies? What would be a scons dependency graph for this C code? #include mai…

There exists DJB's redo approach [0], which i implemented [1], where dependencies and non-existence dependencies are only recorded after the build. A typical dofile is a shell scri…

An issue I have with make is that it can not handle non-existence dependencies. DJB noted this in 2003 [1]. To quote myself on this [2]: > Especially when using C or C++, often tar…

While you are right about POSIX problems (like using “local”) I actually targeted Dash and older versions of BusyBox – not Bash. I plan to work on POSIX compatibility for my redo i…

Why do you think the problem can not be fixed? Also, have you looked at the redo tool redo-ifcreate? http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/redo-sh.html

Almost all other systems have this flaw because they require dependencies before a build. If recording dependencies after the build, the entire problem becomes very simple. See her…

The following sentence about my redo implementation is wrong: > In 2014, Nils Dagsson Moskopp re-implemented Pennarun redo, retargetting it at the Bourne Again shell and BusyBox. I…

I have only tested with GNOME Files. James Lu tested other file managers, see here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868705#msg... Quote: * Add Enhances: caja, tum…

Yes, all of those are reasons. None of those reasons apply if users wwant something understandable, maintainable and secure. Separation of concerns is a thing that can help designe…

Note that I made a different proposal above the quote. I think SPAs are either fundamentally dishonest engineering, in the same way that a microwave wrapped in artificial wood vene…

Templates cause bugs. The solitary appropriate solution is an unparser – a component that walks an AST and serializes it. Making sure the result conforms to the grammar of the outp…

> Ethereum contracts are unstoppable and uncensorable until a core developer loses money Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14162399

No answer. I wrote to Hayan Zhang btw.

What kind of version number scheme does Scala use where breakage is allowed in point releases?

I wrote Hayan Zhang the following Email with the subject line “Source code & schematics for Parkinson's device?”: Hello Hayan Zhang, I have read several articles about the “Emma de…

It was not my intention to complain, as I neither feel pain, dissatisfaction or resentment against those who downvote me. I wanted to point out that my comment asking if this is PR…

In the article, Hayan Zhang is described as a researcher. She (claims to have) created a device that improves the quality of life of people who have Parkinson's. The device seems t…

To save others a click: This article has been previously on HN with the headline “Acing the technical interview”. Previous HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13886626 …

> As part of her work, Zhang researched the root cause of tremors. She spent six months, off and on, building prototypes. She sometimes worked in her London home, soldering wires t…

So is this what a PR submarine [1] looks like? I remembered that I had read such a story before and found that Emma could also write again in March 2017 [2], December 2016 [3], Nov…