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Funny idea, refreshingly simple HTML design - but why does it require JavaScript? Blank page with nojs.

Thanks, but I feel we're all just feeding this one troll. Don't bother replying anymore, it's pointless.

> imply that HTTP and FastCGI are interchangeable and they are not. But they are interchangeable! FastCGI and HTTP/1.1 are indeed on the same level. Both are transport protocols fo…

FastCGI has "parameters" and HTTP headers are special parameters starting with "HTTP_" (mimicking CGI's environment variables). All parameters not starting with "HTTP_" can be trus…

I agree with the article, FastCGI is better than HTTP for these things. Though I'd like to make another protocol known: Web Application Socket (WAS). I designed it 16 years ago at …

Oh, there's another stgit user! ^5 Coming from darcs, I couldn't use git until stgit came along, and today, it's one of those few tools I can't imagine working without. Nothing els…

Yes, "it’s just the linter being noisy".

> Otherwise, the very first commit should be removing all the personally identifiable information and other telemetry sent back to Matt's personal website This is one of the things…

Related: do only what is necessary. This works on so many levels and is my magic trick to make software faster. It's a pity computers are so fast and have so much memory that peopl…

Me too! I've been using it for 20 or so years, and it's one of those pieces I didn't know it was still developed or what features were added, because the feature set from 20 years …

Why does the Android app require access to my location? I wouldn't expect open source apps to spy on me.

> that's not the point of the article. Of course not. The post you're replying to explicitly said the discussion was off-topic. That means it's not discussing the point of the arti…

I agree with that; animations can be OK, but when I have a configuration setting, I usually disable them because input latency drives me crazy. My post replied to "checkboxes vs UI…

Back in the days, you had a UI toolkit, and everybody would use those native controls; they looked and felt the same in all application, and you had a central place where you could…

> I just don't like the visual polish more than I like the clarity and responsiveness of the old UI elements. Agree, that sums my opinion well. And much software doesn't even look …

Me too, agree with you and GP. And I can't keep wondering why this opinion is so unpopular. Today's UIs are bloated with unnecessary animations (which adds latency). But worse than…

> The UNIX model won over object approaches. That's funny interpretation, because what is this mysterious "UNIX model" and what does it have to do with implementation language? Als…

Maybe I could say something good about some aspects of their coding style, but that would only distract from my main point that I find it pointless to imitate a C++ API in C, when …

The author contacted me via email yesterday (because they saw I'm writing a lot of C++ code on GH) and asked me for a review. This was my somewhat-grumpy somewhat-trollish reply: Y…

For my argument, MMIX is not an improvement because it's still a low-level assembly language. True, you can simply skip over the MIX/MMIX source code, but that doesn't help me to l…

This is certainly a matter of taste. I saw many prominent people everywhere praising TAOCP, but I was disappointed when I finally read the first three books some 10+ years ago. So …

If you like Lua coroutines and C++20 coroutines, I have written a piece of code that allows to combine both: https://github.com/CM4all/libcommon/blob/master/src/lua/CoAw... It's us…

That wouldn't solve the hard problems I meant. Rust portability is an easy problem - it's clear how to port Rust to more architectures, just nobody has done it. But doing interop b…

> to always use smart pointers for reference counting Agree - and the Linux kernel is extremely fragile because it is full of ad-hoc manual code like that. Unfortunately, Rust won'…

Oh, bike helmets. I missed that thread, and I don't want to start yet another endless internet discussion about helmets, but let me point out one thing: the helmet I did wear likel…