On 2016-2

• singpolyma commented on I'm starting a project i'd like to make open source, how? at Reddit, saying

  It's a learning management system — see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_management_system and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle

  in reply to @ 2016-2 21:24 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Exceptions Best Practices at Reddit, saying

  Almost any IO code in there will have the ability to throw some other type of exception

  I struggled with this for a long time before finally writing https://hackage.haskell.org/package/unexceptionalio

  and additionally, almost any async exception can be thrown even if no synchronous exception is possible.

  This is true even in pure code. Async exceptions can happen anywhere at any time for any reason, so one is never in danger of thinking "ah, well I wont get an async exception here" because you can get them anywhere

  in reply to @ 2016-2 21:23 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Exceptions Best Practices at Reddit, saying

  foo = do
  if x then return y else error "something bad happened"

  The problem is the usage of arbitrary string-based error messages. This makes it difficult to handle this exceptional case directly in a higher level in the call stack.

  Also, this is not an example of an exception at all… it happens to be implemented using the same machinery in GHC, so you could treat it as one, but really it's a signal of programmer error. So not only is it "only a string" but it's also not a meant-to-be-caught exception of any kind.

  in reply to @ 2016-2 21:21 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Exceptions Best Practices at Reddit, saying

  More of this FUD

  in reply to @ 2016-2 21:18 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Living only from Free Culture at Reddit, saying

  I love Doctorow, but most of his books are not Free Culture. Most are NC and many are also ND

  in reply to @ 2016-2 13:17 UTC
• singpolyma commented on I'm starting a project i'd like to make open source, how? at Reddit, saying

  Have you looked at moodle? It might be a good base to start from

  in reply to @ 2016-2 13:15 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “This image is great. Credit: http://techditz.russwurm.org/blogs/2014/01/01/happy-gnu-year/” @ 2016-2 05:02 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@HippyWizard @dj3vande I didn’t find it amazing, but pretty good esp compared to prequels” in reply to @ 2016-2 04:52 UTC
• singpolyma commented on pull request snarfed/granary#71. @ 2016-2 01:11 UTC
• singpolyma commented on pull request snarfed/granary#71. @ 2016-2 01:11 UTC

On 2016-1

• singpolyma commented on Living only from Free Culture at Reddit, saying

  A loft goal. I would have thought video would be the hard part, since you have to almost eliminate it completely (not much libre video exists).

  There is quite a bit of free music. Free Music Archive and libre.fm are great places to start, as well as http://rynothebearded.com/

  in reply to @ 2016-1 23:31 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Good open-source replacement for Sublime? at Reddit, saying

  gedit can be pretty good

  Or, you know, Just Use Vim

  in reply to @ 2016-1 23:26 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted About Public Domain Day in reply to @ 2016-1 21:08 UTC
• singpolyma opened pull request snarfed/granary#71. @ 2016-1 20:29 UTC
• singpolyma pushed to title-to-facebook at singpolyma/granary. @ 2016-1 20:29 UTC
• singpolyma opened issue snarfed/oauth-dropins#14. @ 2016-1 20:20 UTC
• singpolyma pushed to title-to-facebook at singpolyma/granary. @ 2016-1 19:53 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted How About That Tablet? @ 2016-1 16:41 UTC
• singpolyma commented on New Year’s Greetings from Jolla and news about the tablet at Reddit, saying

  If I got the phone at least I could use it as a tiny tablet 😛

  in reply to @ 2016-1 04:06 UTC
• singpolyma commented on New Year’s Greetings from Jolla and news about the tablet at Reddit, saying

  That was pretty much confirmed in the last update already when they made it clear they never considered the tablet a priority and just used the crowdfunding buzz to generate money to pay for software they hope to license out.

  in reply to @ 2016-1 04:05 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Anyone else leery of using the word "hack" in regards to creative problem solving? at Reddit, saying

  I've always thought the beauty is that those very "janky" solutions can sometimes be the exact sort of playful cleverness one must be willing to employ to be a "hacker" in the classic sense

  in reply to @ 2016-1 03:59 UTC

On 2016-0

• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “RT @ossguy Happy #PublicDomainDay! These authors’ books now #publicdomain in #Canada: T.S. Eliot, Winston Churchill, Malcolm X. https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday” repost of @ 2016-0 22:06 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Christmas cheesecake!” @ 2016-0 18:36 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Help me crowdsource cards for next December! https://d.wifo.org/t/crowdsourcing-decemberween-greetings/184?u=singpolyma” @ 2016-0 17:05 UTC
• singpolyma submitted Crowdsourcing Decemberween Greetings to Reddit @ 2016-0 17:01 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “This is the sort of activism we need: https://d.wifo.org/t/open-source-as-a-lightweight-regulatory-alternative-to-lock-down/183?u=singpolyma” @ 2016-0 16:15 UTC
• singpolyma commented on issue singpolyma/wai-session#12. @ 2016-0 15:57 UTC
• singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1589. @ 2016-0 15:54 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “A Disney… shovel?” @ 2016-0 15:53 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Open source horror stories? at Reddit, saying

  Copyright infringement may be a problem for you even if you keep your software as All Rights Reserved. Enforcing copyrights is often very difficult and expensive. If you put a good license on your software, then at least many uses you want to encourage will be legal, even if infringers still exist.

  in reply to @ 2016-0 15:18 UTC
• singpolyma commented on issue singpolyma/wai-session#12. @ 2016-0 13:56 UTC
• singpolyma starred hce/postgresql-session. @ 2016-0 13:52 UTC
• singpolyma commented on issue singpolyma/wai-session#12. @ 2016-0 13:45 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Open Source/FOSS alternative to Google Doc? at Reddit, saying

  Could get an openmailbox.org account and use owncloud docs

  in reply to @ 2016-0 05:53 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “I get married this year! Love you, @SetteCom!” @ 2016-0 05:40 UTC
• singpolyma commented on What are some good single player free software games with stories? at Reddit, saying

  blobwars and the sequel are pretty good, but not point-n-click.

  Could fall back to text adventures, like adventure itself

  in reply to @ 2016-0 04:48 UTC

On 2015-364

• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Things entering the Public Domain in Canada which the USA would like to steal from us: http://boingboing.net/2015/12/31/happy-public-domain-day-here-2.html #TPP” @ 2015-364 22:13 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Even after being soundly beaten, the Conservatives want to block all good things: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/conservatives-vow-to-block-electoral-reform-without-referendum/article27968324/” @ 2015-364 21:54 UTC
• singpolyma commented on issue snarfed/bridgy#585. @ 2015-364 20:24 UTC
• singpolyma opened issue snarfed/bridgy#585. @ 2015-364 17:42 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@Pinboard s/online//” in reply to @ 2015-364 17:37 UTC
• singpolyma commented on pull request siacs/Conversations#1611. @ 2015-364 17:29 UTC
• singpolyma pushed to add-from-invite at singpolyma/Conversations. @ 2015-364 17:28 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@balleyne a sad day indeed” in reply to @ 2015-364 16:13 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Eye exams seem like the sort of thing that should be pretty easy to automate.” @ 2015-364 15:56 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Is it possible to have effective opensource Antivirus? at Reddit, saying

  I'm unconvinced that any antivirus works well enough to be worth the system drain. They just sell a false sense of security.

  in reply to @ 2015-364 13:42 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@aaronmblevin trackpoint, pointing stick, anything else from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackpoint” in reply to @ 2015-364 01:34 UTC

On 2015-363

• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Some musics for you to try: https://blindslapstick.wordpress.com/2015/12/28/writing-musicmonday-best-of-2015/” @ 2015-363 13:24 UTC
• singpolyma commented on should wee have a GPL license that ban NSA from using the software ? at Reddit, saying

  copyright in the United States probably does not have the power to forbid people from merely using a program

  Hmm. See also, Glider https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzard_Entertainment,_Inc.

  in reply to @ 2015-363 13:21 UTC

On 2015-362

• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@allastud completely agree” in reply to @ 2015-362 21:33 UTC
• singpolyma pushed to master at singpolyma/cheogram. @ 2015-362 18:27 UTC
• singpolyma pushed to master at singpolyma/cheogram. @ 2015-362 17:11 UTC
• singpolyma closed issue singpolyma/cheogram#25. @ 2015-362 15:59 UTC
• singpolyma pushed to master at singpolyma/cheogram. @ 2015-362 15:59 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Anyone knows a free PDF editor? at Reddit, saying

  http://pdfedit.cz/en/index.html

  in reply to @ 2015-362 03:58 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Anyone knows a free PDF editor? at Reddit, saying

  Unfortunately the libre version seems about the same as pdfshuffler, the full editor is proprietary.

  in reply to @ 2015-362 03:56 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Does discover or ouya account still work for anyone? at Reddit, saying

  It may yet be possible to switch to CM, but I'll wait and see if ouya support has anything helpful to say.

  in reply to @ 2015-362 03:50 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted Arnold Christmas 2015 @ 2015-362 02:03 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “New StarWars was decent” @ 2015-362 00:03 UTC

On 2015-361

• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “RT @brainwane New post, with video transcript: harihareswara.net/sumana/2015/12… What Software Freedom Conservancy Does, Why It’s Important, & Why You Should Give” repost of @ 2015-361 23:36 UTC
• singpolyma commented on issue singpolyma/cheogram#25. @ 2015-361 18:08 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Can anyone I know answer this #tokyocabinet question? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34496875/can-i-fetch-keys-by-prefix-and-then-delete-them” @ 2015-361 16:16 UTC
• singpolyma commented on issue singpolyma/cheogram#25. @ 2015-361 15:28 UTC
• singpolyma commented on issue singpolyma/cheogram#25. @ 2015-361 14:13 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@jfedor lies spread by those who’ve never worked somewhere good” in reply to @ 2015-361 14:07 UTC
• singpolyma commented on ELI5: If people don't like systemd very much, why are there no systemd alternatives? And why are distributions adopting it? at Reddit, saying

  That can be true, but hardly answers the question

  in reply to @ 2015-361 13:49 UTC
• singpolyma commented on ELI5: If people don't like systemd very much, why are there no systemd alternatives? And why are distributions adopting it? at Reddit, saying

  Truthfully, no replacement of init was needed because init already worked just fine.

  This. Though, sinit is cooler 😉

  in reply to @ 2015-361 13:47 UTC
• singpolyma commented on ELI5: If people don't like systemd very much, why are there no systemd alternatives? And why are distributions adopting it? at Reddit, saying

  I still treat my systems as though they're sysvinit. None of them are, but the only parts I touch have enough compat layer that the only way I can tell is my /etc/init.d scripts always warn me to run some other command instead. (Since adding stuff to the init system is the package's job, I never have to do that on a well-packaged system)

  in reply to @ 2015-361 13:46 UTC
• singpolyma commented on ELI5: If people don't like systemd very much, why are there no systemd alternatives? And why are distributions adopting it? at Reddit, saying

  On (1), there are many alternatives. They're what everyone was using before systemd. And yes, they're both superior and can be migrated to. But some distros don't make that easy because they've chosen to stop packaging stuff for other init systems, or stop testing them, or whatever.

  in reply to @ 2015-361 13:43 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Anyone knows a free PDF editor? at Reddit, saying

  pdfshuffler can change page order / assemble single pages. inkscape can do layout/edits on single pages

  in reply to @ 2015-361 13:41 UTC
• singpolyma commented on How come refined isn't in base? at Reddit, saying

  Or using the same parts of the compiler backend that TH uses in GHC for this purpose, yes.

  in reply to @ 2015-361 13:39 UTC
• singpolyma commented on Does discover or ouya account still work for anyone? at Reddit, saying

  No. It's currently in a state where it tries to check for updates, cannot talk to the server, and so refuses to boot.

  in reply to @ 2015-361 13:37 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@ftrain http://intellindent.info/seriously/” in reply to @ 2015-361 03:39 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@wolever s/tools/culture” in reply to @ 2015-361 03:37 UTC
• singpolyma commented on How come refined isn't in base? at Reddit, saying

  IsString instances are often broken partial instances, because people like to abuse the OverloadedStrings extension and trust themselves too much

  in reply to @ 2015-361 03:17 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “I *know* how to set a formal dinner table, I just *disagree*!” @ 2015-361 03:12 UTC

On 2015-360

• singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1601. @ 2015-360 20:03 UTC
• Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@pixelminh forgive my asking, but what is the license of this artwork?” in reply to @ 2015-360 05:23 UTC
• singpolyma commented on issue zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs#12. @ 2015-360 05:20 UTC

On 2015-359

• singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1606. @ 2015-359 17:13 UTC