subtoot, functional programming, ranty
"Haskell/OCaml/some other FP meme: it is not possible to write useful programs in these languages"
Haskell: git-annex, Propellor, xmonad, pandoc, shellcheck
Clojure: Riemann, Jepsen, Datomic
Erlang: rabbitmq, SimpleDB, WhatsApp, ejabberd, CouchDB
Plenty of companies built stuff with these languages too. Just saying. Maybe you can't write useful programs in these languages. That's you. Not the language.
Reconstructing the GEOS 2.0 (de) Master Images from a Pile of Broken Disks
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1140
Make is (probably) fine: https://blog.yossarian.net/2019/04/23/Make-is-probably-fine (filed in programming)
Firefox browsers around the world are disabling addons because an intermediary certificate Mozilla uses for signing addons just expired a few hours ago. Somebody at Mozilla either dropped the ball or forgot that ball was there.
"At a Twitter all-hands meeting on March 22, an employee asked a blunt question: Twitter has largely eradicated Islamic State propaganda off its platform. Why can’t it do the same for white supremacist content?
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[Another] employee argued that, on a technical level, content from Republican politicians could get swept up by algorithms aggressively removing white supremacist material."
if you want to understand true hell, become a windows application compatibility programmer
cc @OCRbot
uspol, taxes
Here's how TurboTax just tricked you into paying to file your taxes: https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-just-tricked-you-into-paying-to-file-your-taxes
It's consuming me because at long last I'm *able* to. There's docs, disassemblies, & reimplementations in easy reach now.
Cis reckon
When my daughter was hitting adolescence i was hit with this profound melancholy and mourned knowing I’d never again see that little kid i loved so much, and she was becoming someone else whomst i also live but was changingg into someone new, as we do when we grow
So when she told me she was a girl i was like u got it babe
when i hear about parents of trans kids mourning or whatever im like, you mean you havent dealt with the ephemeral nature of being until now??? Basic ass scrubs
In 1989, I got a well-used copy of the Official GEOS Programmer's Reference Guide (which I call OGPRG) & geoProgrammer. Due to critical errors in OGPRG & sample source code files, I've been wanting a single reference as complete & correct as the C64PRG ever since, knowing the only way I'll get one is if I write it myself. I've wanted to for 30 whole years. Now it's consuming me, & when I'm done I'll probably know the OS inside out.
Bil Herd, the 128's designer, gave a talk in '16 about what it was like inside Commodore during the second of its "tragedy in three acts." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zpv6u5vCJ4
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