I was going to write the same :) I’m pretty sure it is still true for the MS engineers as they most likely have a version of Windows (Enterprise?) that has none of that crap, so they never see it and doesn’t affect them.

My feeling is that Elixir is exactly this. While it brings a bit of runtime, you’re close enough to the Erlang VM to be able to do pretty much everything you can do in Erlang.

If you ignore the standard library etc. and just focus on the language, it does pretty much what you describe: Fix the shortcomings regarding pattern matching, variable naming, …

Apart “standard” CRUD stuff, some of the applications would benefit from first class asynchroneous support and sometimes they do quite a bit of data crunching so the ability to utilize all cores would be a plus. I can sidestep most of the problems of python but a strongly typed and faster language wouldn’t hurt. Although I can see that lack of generics brings its own problems to the table.

I gave it an id tag for exactly this reason. Filter lobste.rs###emojifundraiser if you prefer not to see it.

No, we actually did no formal performance benchmarks, but we use it quite heavily for multiplayer emulation games, and so far everyone was very satisfied with latency, responsiveness and general controller-feel. Very interesting point though, I’d like to do that some time!

One feature that I imagine is hard to do with USBIP is filtering the input - since we don’t want people using their keyboard/mouse on the gaming rig, we filter for the gamepad axes and buttons, which works a treat!

In addition, we can use non-USB devices on the client (e.g. PS/2) and even non-devices (the repo contains the slightly out-of-date osc-xlater, which translates a set of OSC messages sent by eg. a smartphone into a gamepad emulation). I also believe our approach requires fewer privileges in comparison to USBIP, as we can run with user privileges for both components if configured correctly.

I don’t see why it is sad, it seems quite intelligent for him to adopt strategies that reach his target audience. What would really be sad is if he did all that work making zig and nobody gave it a shot because there was no reasonable way to get people to read about it.

Not requiring a keyword to do unsafe operations doesn’t mean all code in a language is unsafe, it just isn’t explicitly spelled out when it is.

Yes. I describe that in my final paragraph, although I use C-x C-q, since C-c C-q doesn’t work here.

Hot editing the directory listing itself is brilliant, the first time I did it was certainly one of those mind-expanding moments that emacs has so many of.

EDIT: oh I get it now, you were explaining my final paragraph for me… Thank you. :)

My first reaction was that readers from high-assurance field would have collective heart attack at the words try assembly programming followed by “for drug calculations.” They’d say, “If they’re using assembly for that, why did we waste all this time building static analysis tools and automated provers for these kinds of calculations?!” Fortunately, it’s just a learning exercise. I didn’t get an increased heart rate this time. :)

I’d expect them to be SOMEHOW trained to identify dangerous activity, especially if money is involved. Banks really need to be at the front line of IT security.

I don’t think that’s clickbait, if you’re familiar with React you’ll know there is client and server side React. They removed the client-side React.

It’s not even a particularly good connector. This is anecdotal, of course, but I have been using USB Type-A connectors since around the year 2000. In that time not a single connector has physically failed for me. In the year that I’ve had a device with Type-C ports (current Macbook Pro), both ports have become loose enough that simply bumping the cable will cause the charging state to flap. The Type-A connector may only connect in one orientation but damn if it isn’t resilient.

It’s impossible to communicate that intelligibly to the average consumer,

That’s an optimistic view of things. It’s not just “average consumer[s]” who’ll be affected by this; there will almost certainly be security issues originating from the Alternate Mode thing – because different protocols (like thunderbolt / displayport / PCIe / USB 3) have extremely different semantics and attack surfaces.

It’s an understandable thing to do, given how “every data link standard converges to serial point-to-point links connected in a tiered-star topology and transporting packets”, and there’s indeed lots in common between all these standards and their PHYs and cable preferences; but melding them all into one connector is a bit dangerous.

I don’t want a USB device of unknown provenance to be able to talk with my GPU and I certainly don’t want it to even think of speaking PCIe to me! It speaking USB is frankly, scary enough. What if it lies about its PCIe Requester ID and my PCIe switch is fooled? How scary and uncouth!

Another complication is making every port do everything is expensive, so you end up with fewer ports total. Thunderbolt in particular. Laptops with 4 USB A, hdmi, DisplayPort, Ethernet, and power are easy to find. I doubt you’ll ever see a laptop with 8 full featured usb c ports.

erlang + compsci = elixir? programming + distributed = erlang? java + science = scala? javascript - browsers = nodejs?

There are currently 798 results for “clojure”. elixir for comparison has 313, elm has 233.

clojure is fairly unique and differentiated.

haven’t gotten that far yet!

It returns a 404 which is a bit annoying since if you fat finger your URL you’ll get the same response as if a token doesn’t exist.

https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth_authorizations/#check-an-authorization

Invalid tokens will return 404 NOT FOUND

I’ve since moved to using a pattern of wrapping all external requests in objects that we can explicitly check their state instead of relying on native exceptions coming from underlying HTTP libraries. It makes things like checking explicit status code in the face of non 200 status easier.

I might write on that pattern in the future. Here’s the initial issue with some more links https://github.com/codetriage/codetriage/issues/578

I think the takeaway is that programmers are stupid.

Programs shouldn’t delete/update anything, only insert. Views/triggers can update reconciled views so that if there’s a problem in the program (2) you can simply fix it and re-run the procedure.

If you do it this way, you can also get an audit trail for free.

If you do it this way, you can also scale horizontally for free if you can survive a certain amount of split/brain.

If you do it this way, you can also scale vertically cheaply, because inserts can be sharded/distributed.

If you don’t do it this way – this way which is obviously less work, faster and simpler and better engineered in every way, then you should know it’s because you don’t know how to solve this basic CRUD problem.

Of course, the stupid programmer responds with some kind of made up justification, like saving disk space in an era where disk is basically free, or enterprise, or maybe this is something to do with unit tests or some other garbage. I’ve even heard a stupid programmer defend this crap because the the unit tests need to be idempotent and all I can think is this fucking nerd ate a dictionary and is taking it out on me.

I mean, look: I get it, everyone is stupid about something, but to believe that this is a specific, critical problem like having to do with 503 errors instead of a systemic chronic problem that boils down to a failure to actually think really makes it hard to discuss the kinds of solutions that might actually help.

With a 503 error, the solution is “try harder” or “create extra update columns” or whatever. But we can’t try harder all the time, so there’ll always be mistakes. Is this inevitable? Can business truly not figure out when software is going to be done?

On the other hand, if we’re just too fucking stupid to program, maybe we can work on trying to protect ourselves from ourselves. Write-only-data is a massive part of my mantra, and I’m not so arrogant to pretend it’s always been that way, but I know the only reason I do it is because I deleted a shit-tonne of customer data on accident and had the insight that I’m a fucking idiot.

Author of weechat.el here. Any feedback? I’m aware of performance problems when connecting to a big list of channels, as well as the missing auto-fetch history. Anything else you’d like to see? :)

I did this for a while, but then it felt like my irc safe-haven was infected by slack and it made me sad, so I stopped doing that. Now at least if I’m staring at a terminal I can be in my happy place and properly brace myself before I switch to a browser window.

Personally, I use the web client. It has almost all the features of the desktop client and I can turn off desktop notifications, making the only actual notifications, then, the favicon updates which aren’t nearly as jarring.

I think I’d prefer to use something else entirely, like your setup, but for some reason I’ve not taken any time to try it out. I do fear that I might become complacent or something and forget that I hate slack… because I’m not actually using slack, I’m using a chat service that feels like irc, and that’s dangerous.

Slack actually bothers me more because the model is fundamentally different than what I’m used to–1 network, multiple channels. Where as in slack there are multiple networks and multiple same topic channels. “But, irc has multiple networks, too?” Yes, but the official communities will hang out on freenode#lobsters, or freenode#racket, or efnet#mtg (idk?), not create a whole network about golang, and then have a separate channel, in each network, about Battle Star Galactica, essentially making BSG discussion so bifurcated it doesn’t even happen anywhere.

I’ll need to take a look at this. It won’t help that much, but it’d at least make extracting/searching a lot easier than the official client. Thanks for the suggestion.

There’s also https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack ( also packaged as a spacemacs layer - https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/layers/+chat/slack/README.org )

I’m extremely tempted, in my bid to not use graphical apps unless required, to connect to slack via the IRC bridge using suckless’ ii to script some grepping for notifications and piping those to dunst. I have a very hard time not responding to the shiny dot saying “NEW CONTENT HAS APPEARED.” I’d rather make it deliberate to catch up on content once every 2 hours (that’s only 4 times a day) for some timeboxed period of time than constantly monitor it. Bonus: More free ram.

It’s due to a naming conflict with Focus Magazine

It’s mentioned at the bottom here: https://blog.mozilla.org/press-de/2015/12/08/app-focus-by-firefox-ein-content-blocker-fur-apple-ios/