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You may find this talk[1] interesting. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLt_yDvdeLQ&ab_channel=TEDxT...

Doesn't it break net neutrality ?

Discipline functions, floating point arithmetic, compound data types etc. Original KornShell is still more powerful programming langauge than bash.

Link[1] to announcement on mailing list. [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/korn-shell/7VAqQg1N5D8/XniWn...

> Which "millions of lines of code" are compatible with POSIX without having any Linux or macOS specific code? Those layers would have to be reimplemented to retain compatibility. …

It's not and eventually they will have to find ways to provide POSIX compatibility, it can happen through a separate compatiblity layer or a library. You don't want to break compat…

> Rust is developed by a community, and was started by Mozilla. Go development seems to be de facto controlled by Google, who originated the language. I'd rather bet my non-work fu…

Recently mailing lists hosted by AT&T research have stopped working. These lists were used by ksh developers and users, so I am looking for an alternative[1]. Since the issue I ope…

> Unleashed is an operating system fork of illumos, Can someone explain why it was forked ?

> How does this even make sense ? Google is highly influential in how information is consumed and distributed. People use chrome to browse web, google search for searching informat…

I suspect they will end up in the same situation as they did with Motorola more than a decade ago, until someone reminds them that the people who are serious about software should …

Video lectures from MIT course with same name are available here[1]. Few lectures are given by Leiserson, who is one of the authors of this book. [1] http://videolectures.net/mit60…

This is going to be interesting. I believe instead of pushing everyone to use https this will cause an average user to start ignoring the security warning. I see the security warni…

fish is released under GPLv2 and afaik Apple has a policy to not include any new GPL software in macOS.