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Comment · 8 years ago
> I find myself writing simpler ones and tying them together with app code just for sanity's sake.

Or just use PEG, parser combinators, or other more readable parsing abstractions

Comment · 8 years ago
Affine and linear types and variants (ownership types, uniqueness types) can model predictable release of resources, like a compiler-enforced C++'s RAII.

As another commenter put,

> The paper explains it's because they want deterministic destructors for things like file handles.

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
> If you do not wish to give them the rights to your modifications, the license forbids you from using it

Unless your use qualifies as fair use

Comment · 8 years ago
Those are racist undertones, even when put in context.
Comment · 8 years ago
> There must be something else in the Universe to observe the single proton for it to have rotation, etc, according to quantum physics.

No, according to the Copenhagen interpretation.

Comment · 8 years ago
I doubt bandwidth is their concern. They already wasted bandwidth by showing the anti-ad block wall.
Comment · 8 years ago
There are many people today that want to associate themselves with Trotsky. They are called trotskyists.
Comment · 9 years ago
That's why browsers pin the certificates of certain sites.
Comment · 9 years ago
Car sounds are important for small children and animals in the street though.
Comment · 9 years ago
A better analogy is with KaZaA. It's still around, but was largely replaced by BitTorrent.
Comment · 9 years ago
They could do it, but the current leadership doesn't seem interested.
Comment · 9 years ago
I just want to give a name to this for whoever want to Google more: novelty seeking.
Comment · 9 years ago
Simply return an HTTP error code if your server doesn't want to spend resources with my request. HTTP 500 perhaps.
Comment · 9 years ago
Who?

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