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It's impossible to pass around functions without arguments in Haskell, because there are no functions without arguments in Haskell. It looks like the same is true of Gluon. (So you…

Anything which passes "iface" through without sanitising it. The argument to exec is executed in a shell, so it can execute just about anything it likes, such as dialing out to a h…

Context is king. In this thread, RMS criticises Github as a place for hosting GNU projects . RMS, who leads the FSF, which owns GNU, thinks that GNU projects should not be hosted o…

His actual point, in context, was that GNUstep shouldn't be hosted on GitHub because in doing so the GNU project is effectively inviting users to run GitHub's non-free software on …

> they will target you through payment processors and ad networks How will they do that, and on what legal basis?

> If you are under attack If. Much, if not most, server software is written under the implicit assumption that it will not be under attack.

Whilst "what a VC-funded startup should be burning money on" is something that the investors should have input on, I don't think random people on the Internet get to be the gatekee…

Legal dictionaries are useful for looking up legal terms of art, but they are not binding on courts. After all, anyone can publish one. In the US at least, courts prefer to use the…

oddjob isn't part of systemd and doesn't use systemd.

> It's OK to make mistakes. A sentiment that is harder to sell if people erase all evidence of their mistakes.

> it seems most developer prefer to build complex systems using simple languages, rather than build simple systems using complex languages According to TIOBE, 1% of programmers are…

If we must make this comparison, most actual companies are totalitarian dictatorships. > We can all opt out of Facebook. Can we? What is the practical effect of doing so? Will they…

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16710891

> something that's been working fine since the 1980s has recently been declared broken Void Linux uses runit, which was released in 2004, so I guess they agree.

None, intrinsically. But, receiving, storing, and/or processing personal data without consent is, in most situations, likely to be against the the Privacy and Electronic Communicat…

> The sort package has addressed this concern. How? Looking at the documentation, you still have to write at least three functions for each type you want to sort.

I don't understand your point about sorting. What sort-related Java boiler plate are you referring to?

I think package URIs should include a secure hash of their contents. Although you won't get updates without asking for them - I'm not sure that's a bad thing - you can be assured t…

Major companies think the current situation isn't anywhere extreme enough. Their customers have some rights, and some courts will even let them exercise them: that's unacceptable. …

> Do you go into stores and demand they take down the displays that you don't like while you're shopping? No, but stores are usually happy for me to not look at the displays if I d…

> If you invite a friend to your house do you expect them to show up with 50 other people? But if you say no, your friend has the choice of whether to come alone. Anti-anti-adblock…

Ads appearing when you don't block them isn't really an issue. When you are blocking ads, do you click on them? I wouldn't: I'd instead be annoyed that I'm seeing ads when I have a…

> This is a bit ridiculous, as the questions aren't specific. The issue is the editorialising the results, and not providing the other questions they asked, the actual results, or …

Whereas I can set up a Paypal account in a few minutes, even if I'm not computer savvy.