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key words: 1. child porn 2. steganography if I were the dev I'd add a 'list all' just to avoid anyone thinking the above were a good plan.

Fossil's also very easy to put online, needing at a minimum a two-line bash file to function as a CGI script. Maybe more relevant to private data, the builtin wiki makes a good per…

Civilization collapses entirely oh wow, power is very fluid. it's easy to break into power anywhere now. You don't have these awful elites preventing you from doing whatever you wa…

Gauche Scheme ... even Chicken Scheme could be used for a lot of sysadmin tasks

Nobody really is, or they'd be worrying about the evidence for talking snakes. This is some kind of "the grass is greener on the other side" stuff. Local myths are absurd, but fore…

No, but it'd be easy. You need 1. a request to return org-mode data (or for requests to contain it in a mechanically distinguishable manner, an option if your normal output is org-…

> 3. Not speaking Swahili. If your boss is from Swaziland, then you need to know everything there is about Tanzania or Kenya. Ha ha, pretty good. They snuck a serious-sounding joke…

Yeah, there's no amount of bigoted "Haskell uber alles" posturing that can replace a simple, supported argument. None of the reading you think you've done, and I haven't, has succe…

1. avoid metrics. Ask during the interview how they gauge your work performance, how people get bonuses, etc. As a rule you'd much rather be judged by a person, your direct manager…

^ everybody remember this line for when it's given in response to an angry Congressman. I imagine another line will be "it's marginally better than statistical human shooting, acco…

> I don’t want you to have to sign up to Wordpress just to leave comments and communicate with me. Then don't restrict your comments like that. WordPress pages don't gather 8000+ s…

> Let's say a technology could be developed that allowed your government (wherever you are) to kill any person with almost zero cost and no chance of detection. oh yeah, I remember…

It's really not, as people by themselves don't pose much of a military threat. What you really want to do is break all the stuff that lets those people actually threaten you. Grant…

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What specifically do you find appealing about this site?

I wouldn't care much for the git features, but this is probably a bit faster than https://github.com/ofavre/vimcat

> I'll just bet that you haven't read anything, because you disagree with people I think are, like, super-duper smart :) Maybe if I read enough Foucault, or drink enough bleach, we…

You can learn things in one language that you might as easily learn in another. The argument here is that you wouldn't learn these things from Elm.

> pure immutable languages need laziness https://mercurylang.org/ If you put the most valuable thing in the universe inside a box that can't be opened or permeated by any force in …

Laziness is a superficially useful anti-feature. I'd suggest waiting with OCaml until dependently-typed languages become more practical.

The actual reason is probably "when people use primes, they post code that gets syntax-highlighted by tools that don't know about primes, and this results in Elm code looking broke…

Evan probably talks about you in the first minute of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlzRt-FYto

That has its downsides, but if the people maintaining the language are too lacking in strong opinions about the language, you'll have other kinds of problems: bad features get into…

"Extremely quickly" -- if you can always take all sides of every branch in control flow. And you'll find only the same errors -- if you restrict the types you define to those suppo…

Simple file I/O is such a great task to blog about as there's a long evolution of 'discovery' permitted: 1. oh wow, syscalls are really slow. We need to get as much done as we can …