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This is generally the case imo. Installing hardening tweaks/extensions/... to make yourself "more secure" and "more private" often just ends in increasing the viable attack surface…

Do you think it is somehow more elegant to have a specialised version of a data-structure for every single type that may need to be placed into it? Or just to ignore the type whats…

Is writing the same function n times more readable and more maintainable? Is it more maintainable to entirely circumvent the type system with interface{}?

I believe it's still mostly C, and it definitely uses some custom text field stuff. If it were using the Cocoa textfield it would have smooth scrolling, but BBEdit still retains li…

Though Haskell's module system is somewhat a wart of the language, and I say this as someone who loves Haskell. "Hierarchical" modules in Haskell2010 are literally just modules wit…

Haiku is an open source BeOS clone that is still developed, but the original isn’t

It’s probably worth mentioning that you can also use QEMU, which is a bit more involved but can use a bigger disk and also run OS X, and Mac OS 9.2.2 (as it supports an MMU, SheepS…

I'd rather use JS than python, since at least JS doesn't actively try making programming in a functional style worse

There's also meow-mode[1], which isn't a vim emulator as such, but it is a different modal editing layer for Emacs which is a lot faster and has a lot of neat ideas. It doesn't int…

Which is, frankly, an idiotic waste of money.

Generally I cannot remember anyone's birthday if it isn't at least in my calendar.

Yes, but only for replies.

It's a bunch of libraries for Java for making big enterprise web apps and the like.

A lot of this you can find out from reading the programming guide to plan 9 - http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/programming/c_programming_in_pla...