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dmit
6,674karma·537submissions·February 21, 2011
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I think this only works if you set `git config --global user.useconfigonly true`, otherwise git will try to guess your name/email.
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I imagine zstd's license will hamper its corporate adoption, especially among the big players. The license granted hereunder will terminate,
automatically and without notice, if you (or any…
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This was way more difficult than I thought and still doesn't look right. But at least I get to strike write a monad tutorial off of the bucket list. You start with a bunch of transformation…
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See also this post about text editor typing latency: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ .…
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Ted Unangst does a great job aggregating links to tech content over at http://www.tedunangst.com/inks/ . His own blog is great as well. Also, previously: https://news.y…
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Aram, I'm 100% certain you mean well, but the part of the post you're quoting is not proposing to abandon perfect equality in favor of a minority group. My reading of the post is that there …
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But you also need to serve the page that links to the form via https, otherwise it's vulnerable to the same attack (just one step longer). Which probably means you need to serve everything over h…
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I didn't mean to ridicule anything. My point is that there are multiple evolution vectors for programming languages, and generics->HKT->DT->? is just one of them. It's quite possibl…
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What about all those people who came to Go from Python, JavaScript, Ruby and whatnot? They are mostly content with the current status quo, generics would just make the learning cliff steeper for them.…
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Here is an illuminating (to me) post that shows how the Go approach to solving algorithmic problems might be different from other languages (in this case, a generic graph data type + Dijkstra's a…
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Here's a question for you: what if the Go team add user-defined generic types to the language, and people start demanding HKTs? What then? Do you implement them and hope nobody asks for dependent…