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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 starti…

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 …

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 …

> 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/…

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 m…

> 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 v…

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 co…

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 lessene…

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…

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 w…

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 sai…

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 …

> 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 smal…

> 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 Interf…

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 …

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 pas…

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 …

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 o…

> 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 grap…

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/g…

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 on…