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It seems like a lot of people are interested in fixing this, and would be keen to see a solution. I believe StratifiedJS is precisely that solution (for JS at least), and it has ex…

Do you wish nix's syntax were more like jinja? Or do you actually want to use jinja with nix somehow? I don't really know what the latter would mean, since nix is a programming lan…

Discarding the old server and replacing it with a new one is a very brute force way of dealing with the problem. That's not to say it's bad (it will obviously work exactly as adver…

That's a fair question. I'll let you know if I find out ;) My hunch is that it could scale well, but would require some integration work in order to use it nicely with existing orc…

Fair points. I started the post by stating that I (personally) wanted to use NixOS in the future, but admittedly didn't maintain that tone throughout the piece. I definitely have h…

OP here. I've heard of terraform, although I've not investigated it much further than that. It sounds like it's mostly a provisioning tool, and doesn't really help with configurati…

Great :D Sounds like you already found my vim feed, but yeah, it's at http://gfxmonk.net/dist/0install/vim-custom.xml (it's not on that index page, because nobody else is likely to…

I am a contributor, and I use it all the time. I publish a lot of my own stuff (mostly small utilities / libraries) at http://gfxmonk.net/dist/0install/index/ , as well as a bunch …

These days, if I'm writing something in bash (or batch) it's often because there is nothing better available - like kicking off an installer, or some other wrapper / bootstrap scri…

This writeup is poorly done, hard to follow, and ad-infested. The source ( http://miki.it/blog/2014/7/8/abusing-jsonp-with-rosetta-flas... ) is actually interesting though.

The front page is very blank on a large monitor - I got the impression it was waiting for a big chunk of content to load, until I returned some time later to see it still mostly wh…

Cool :), glad it's supported, at least for the simple case of line-wise transforms. Some things can't be done without reading everything. But there are still a number of operations…

I wrote a similar tool a while back: http://gfxmonk.net/dist/doc/piep/ Mostly out of frustration for PyP not being lazy (on large inputs it reads the entire file up-front, or at le…

While PureScript looks very cool, if you're interested in solving callback hell without changing the whole language, StratifiedJS is a superscript of JS that adds straightforward s…

> "Nothing better than JavaScript" isn't a real limitation if JavaScript is a moving target JS is only a "moving target" in the sense that stuff is being added to it. If you could …

It's not just a best practice - exceptions raised from async code callback simply do not work right (they'll never make it back to the caller). In practice an exception raised from…

You may find StratifiedJS pleasing: http://onilabs.com/stratifiedjs You wouldn't even need that one callback, just: return find_largest(get_stats(read_files(dir))); Exceptions are …

Thanks! We've tried hard to make it understandable for new users (and provide good documentation for users of any vintage). There's quite a lot of _different_ stuff in Conductance …

One solution is to use a separate storage for salts (or hints, really - it doesn't need to be a complex scheme, since we're hashing it anyway). I do this myself with supergenpass, …

Have you seen SuperGenPass? It's much the same concept, and has been around for years (including browser extensions, etc). http://supergenpass.com/ For the justifiably paranoid, a …