I would assume he’s talking about the kind of abuse you see often on Twitter (anything from randos to sockpuppets to bots to whatever). The original idea was that we’re limited to whatever moderation (or lack thereof) the Twitter HQ decides to do on their network, and on the other hand, various admins of Fediverse instances can do various amounts of moderation, so finding a “good” instance would in theory protect you better from harassment than Twitter. But the reality is that blocking/muting people might be harder on the Fediverse, where it’s harder to track the people behind the accounts, and given that instance admins have little credentials to show for, you could potentially get your data (PMs, etc.) stolen more easily than on Twitter.

and Ada, heck D has it easy compared to Ada :)

Yeah, me too. I really love D. Its metaprogramming alone is worth it.

For example, here is a compile-time parser generator:

https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/Pegged

This is a good point. I had to edit out a part on that a language without major adoption is less suitable since it may not get the resources it needs to stay current on all platforms. You could have the perfect language but if somehow it failed to gain momentum, it turns into somewhat of a risk anyhow.

And OCaml!

I’ve always just written of D because of the problems with what parts of the compiler are and are not FOSS. Maybe it’s more straightforward now, but it’s not something I’m incredibly interested in investigating, and I suspect I’m not the only one.

Why? Go has a lot going for it.

I doubt your comment help anyone in the community… A little why would be probably enough to help others understand your point of view!

I usually link to Betteridge’s Law when I write a post like this, but didn’t this time.

Apparently a significant portion of people found the title to be clickbait-y, but I thought it was a pretty straightforward question. Oh well!

I would love to see a language like OCaml (or another ML like dialect) to be able to make use of Rust’s emerging ecosystem, but I’m afraid we’re still a long way from seeing that happen. Also check out Gluon http://gluon-lang.org/ for an ML like language embedded in Rust (personally I’d prefer a standalone language that works with Rust though).

It’s one of the styles of English possessive for singular words that end in an ‘s’. When making a plural word that ends in ‘s’ into a possessive, all authorities agree that you just add an apostrophe (“the employees’ salaries”). But when it’s a singular word that happens to end in an ‘s’, some styles prefer that you treat it the same way as any other singular word and add apostrope-s (“Alger Hiss’s trial”), while others prefer that you treat it in the same way as plural words ending in ‘s’, and add just apostrophe (“Alger Hiss’ trial”). Both styles are pretty common for a few centuries now I think. I tend to use the apostrophe-s style because it’s how I would speak (I’d say “hiss-es trial”, or in this case, “boats-es personal barricade”, to indicate the possessive). I guess this one is extra-weird because the person’s handle, boats, is a plural English word, but adopted as a handle for a single individual.

Nothing? But it’s made by an organization called “Django Girls”.

About and contributing

This tutorial is maintained by DjangoGirls.

Following the link gets us this (emphasis mine):

Django Girls is a non-profit organization and a community that empowers and helps women to organize free, one-day programming workshops by providing tools, resources and support. We are a volunteer run organization with hundreds of people contributing to bring more amazing women into the world of technology. We are making technology more approachable by creating resources designed with empathy.

To me, it looks like they created high quality approachable documentation as material for their workshops, to further their goal of bringing women into tech. “Designed with empathy” probably means it avoids using exclusive language, anecdotes, analogies, and so on. So less “designed for female programmers” and more “doesn’t assume programmers are typically male.”

Otherwise, nothing. I don’t reckon a bunch of women were about to write the “Django Bros Tutorial.”

As others have said, the tutorial name just comes from the organisation.

It’s notable in that it is tutorial meant for people with 0 knowledge and possible contact issues with computers.

Also, FWIW, the “Girls” name for those organisations (coming from “Rails Girls” is widely regarded a mistake now. The chapter I help out with (Rails Girls Berlin) has recently renamed into “Code Curious”. Turns out that grown women don’t feel spoken to by “Girls”.

I think this is the natural progression of things, isn’t it? Programming isn’t immune to the effects of automation - just the opposite, in fact. It’s like boiling a frog - things are automated so often and so incrementally that programmers no longer notice when jobs that would have taken 10x longer a few years ago are basically instantaneous today.

This is why it’s important to move past capitalism ASAP: it’s more and more immoral to couple the ability to get a job with the ability to stay alive and retain dignity. Once all labor is automated, there shouldn’t be any jobs (coerced or obligatory labor), and we should all be rejoicing.

You can see https://github.com/tboox/awesome-xmake#projects

Do you have any sources discrediting NK as the perpetrators behind these acts? Not because I’m trying to call you out but I’m genuinely interested in how they came to that conclusion.

Given the Haiku website is haiku-os.org it seems like a self-perpetuating mistake.

EDIT: Yes, I read the FAQ and saw this in there.

Myrddin looks awesome I suppose, but what’s the attraction for potential users/developers?

If you need to ask, why say it looks awesome?

So, how exactly does it prevent me from shooting myself in the foot?

A type system that catches most issues, runtime checks that catch many of the remaining ones. There are still gaps that you can fall through, and escape hatches that prevent perfect guarantees, but the gun rarely points at your foot by default.

“Fewer bullets in your feet” is not equivalent to “Rigorously proven to have zero bullets in your feet”

Why?

Good point. I just edited my post.

A quick search shows quite a few links.

You’d think he’d just use FreeDOS.

it’s free to find out :)