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My friend and former colleague has built a bunch of stuff over magic-wormhole like fowl[0], shwim[1] and so on. There is a lot of nice work on "dilated" wormhole. [0] https://githu…

There are pre-build packages for OSX, most GNU/Linux distros. I have built it on Windows using the "Microsoft C/C++ compiler for python" that Microsoft makes available for gratis d…

I have been reading it as well. For my taste, it is a bit too verbose. I like to see something along the lines of the K&R book or the GoPL book. I was hoping that "Programming Rust…

Happy to see the modules chapter and the testing chapter early enough in the book. Thanks. The new format looks a lot better, IMHO.

Reminds me of the ancient Indian parable in Panchatantra - http://panchatantra.org/of-crows-and-owls/the-brahmin-and-th...

Thanks. Updated the link.

One of the authors of Tahoe-LAFS and the original creator of zfec, Zooko, co-authored a paper on the performance of such codes. http://nisl.wayne.edu/Papers/Tech/code-pf-fast09.pdf…

People who believe in these ideas are a minority, it seems. Every 'aptitude safe-upgrade' tells me that more and more disk space is required to install the packages. OpenBSD projec…

Good points. As a programmer, one has no choice most of the time on what language a program should have been written, in my career, I have mostly been modifying and adding code tha…

netsurf?

The essence of the language has not changed. But C99 came out with a few nice things. There is also C11 which brought in a few new things as well. It would have been nice to bring …

> Why is it OK to lock down smartphones, TV devices, consoles, but not OK for PCs? IMHO, it is not OK to lock down things you own. I have been a victim. I bought an AppleTV v2 and …

I wish the original course is offered in an alternate platform like edX.

Very nicely said! Sad is also being at the mercy of Apple to do "upgrades" of software, being at the mercy of Apple for security fixes.. the list goes on.

There is this nice guide: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ It has instructions for all major operating systems.

I am posting the article "No silver bullets" again, in the wake of the npm fiasco. I think it is an essential reading for every programmer, every year! https://news.ycombinator.com…

That's a great list, all in one place! Thanks to the author of that web page.

I don't see how this message is reassuring. Are they expecting the customers to just take their word? Without Apple showing the world, every bit of software that they run on their …

I forget where I read it, but it was many years ago. But paraphrased, it read "never believe anything you read in print". It was quite an eye opening statement for me.

Yes, indeed. Even with the 101 level haskell I write, it feels so right. I exactly know where the side effects are and the semantics of the program is so clear.

> ...fear that my program isn't abstracted far enough... This. I feel exactly the same. I read various concepts like Free Monads, I go find papers and read them. But when I sit dow…

I played with Racket and used to lurk on their mailing lists for many years! I haven't seen a friendlier community than the Racket community anywhere else. DrRacket is a great envi…