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On 2016-6

singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1643. @ 2016-007.947Z
singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1643. @ 2016-007.942Z
singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1643. @ 2016-007.937Z
singpolyma opened issue singpolyma/cheogram#26. @ 2016-007.935Z
singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1643. @ 2016-007.924Z
singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1642. @ 2016-007.922Z
singpolyma opened issue siacs/Conversations#1643. @ 2016-007.900Z
singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1627. @ 2016-007.884Z
singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1639. @ 2016-007.882Z
singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1642. @ 2016-007.878Z
singpolyma commented on issue Gabriel439/Haskell-Errors-Library#25. @ 2016-007.725Z
singpolyma commented on pull request singpolyma/unexceptionalio#7. @ 2016-007.714Z
singpolyma pushed to master at singpolyma/unexceptionalio. @ 2016-007.714Z
singpolyma merged pull request singpolyma/unexceptionalio#7. @ 2016-007.714Z
singpolyma commented on Let's talk about Respect Your Freedom's more controversial requirements at Reddit, saying
Do you reject the idea that RYF-certified devices respect freedom? Independent of anything else they may also do?

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singpolyma commented on Let's talk about Respect Your Freedom's more controversial requirements at Reddit, saying
Given that RYF means "endorsed by FSF" then of course you can't use terms or anything else they dislike. That's how you get advertising endorsements in any case, by submitting to the will of the endorser.

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singpolyma commented on I want an entirely open source phone OS at Reddit, saying
The OS is not the hard part. Drivers are the hard part

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singpolyma commented on Using a small sound effect licensed under ShareAlike, do I have to change my entire projects license now? at Reddit, saying
Once you're dealing with the copyright hold the CC license no longer matters at all. If you buy a different license then you abide by the terms of that different license.

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On 2016-5

Stephen Paul Weber posted, “"put your readers in control of how they view the web instead of giving the control to the people with the servers" — http://hapgood.us/2015/12/30/why-facebook-won-and-other-hard-truths/” @ 2016-006.918Z
singpolyma commented on Are StrictHaskell and OverloadedRecordFields the beginning of Haskell 2.0? at Reddit, saying
Laziness is a better default. You can always be explicitly strict if you need to

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singpolyma commented on issue Gabriel439/Haskell-Errors-Library#25. @ 2016-006.882Z
singpolyma pushed to master at singpolyma/unexceptionalio. @ 2016-006.881Z
singpolyma commented on Using a small sound effect licensed under ShareAlike, do I have to change my entire projects license now? at Reddit, saying
If you can convince them to go for a freedom-respecting license, that would be idea. But if you cannot, then I agree you are stuck with regards to proprietarising this particular libre sound effect. Perhaps you can buy one from a stock sound company or similar?

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singpolyma commented on issue Gabriel439/Haskell-Errors-Library#25. @ 2016-006.864Z
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@w00teh http://conversations.im register with yax.im = awesome” in reply to @ 2016-006.804Z
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@resiak need more bridges/gateways” in reply to @ 2016-006.790Z
singpolyma commented on Using a small sound effect licensed under ShareAlike, do I have to change my entire projects license now? at Reddit, saying
Correct. Unless you can make some sort of legal argument why you are not required to abide by the term of the copyright holder, you either cannot use their work at all, or must abide by their terms (which would include licensing your work as CC-BY-SA or one of the compatible licenses, such as ArtLibre).

The video itself is a strict safety guide so it cannot really be remixed or transformed.

Anything can be remixed. For example, a translation is a remix that seems likely to be useful in such a case.

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singpolyma commented on Open source email client? at Reddit, saying
mutt is what I use daily, so let me know if you have questions 🙂

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singpolyma commented on issue younix/sj#8. @ 2016-006.103Z
singpolyma commented on Open source email client? at Reddit, saying
If Thunderbird is too heavy for you then Claws.

Unless you like terminal and/or awesome things, in which case try mutt

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Stephen Paul Weber posted, “New book translation! https://archive.org/details/BigBuckBunnyBoardBookDe #German #BigBuckBunny” @ 2016-006.084Z
singpolyma pushed to master at singpolyma/big-buck-bunny-board-book. @ 2016-006.052Z

On 2016-4

On 2016-3

singpolyma submitted Crowdsourcing Decemberween Greetings to Reddit @ 2016-004.937Z
singpolyma commented on Resource Management in Haskell at Reddit, saying
Relevant: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/resourcet

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singpolyma commented on pull request siacs/Conversations#1611. @ 2016-004.685Z
singpolyma commented on Exceptions Best Practices at Reddit, saying

looking at a function signature you do not know if an exception can be thrown

Which is, in practise, the case in GHC. Sure, it's all well and good to say "IO can always throw an exception", but in practise you do not expect this of many IO actions.
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singpolyma commented on Exceptions Best Practices at Reddit, saying
That's why I added several more comments 😉

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singpolyma commented on Question about CC. at Reddit, saying
Of course. As they copyright holder, you can grant anyone any other license you like.

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On 2016-2

singpolyma commented on Question about CC. at Reddit, saying
While you may choose to do this of course (it's your work, you may choose whatever you wish) — I would suggest looking into the SA clause and copyleft generally. This is a much bigger ask than just "a small attribution" and both much more beneficial to society and tends to discourage the sort of big-money corporate exploitation you probably fear most.

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singpolyma commented on Exceptions Best Practices at Reddit, saying

For a while I put syncIO from the errors package everywhere

Yeah. If you want to be extra paranoid then syncIO from https://hackage.haskell.org/package/unexceptionalio-0.2.0/docs/UnexceptionalIO.html is your friend. Forces you to never forget it anywhere. Then handle anything reasonable at the call site and propagate anything that needs to be with a differentiated type.

People like to hate on the typed exceptions in Java, but the issue there is the lack of type inference really.

None of this will help you with async exceptions or programmer errors, but those need to be handled in a different way anyway.
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singpolyma commented on pull request snarfed/granary#71. @ 2016-003.904Z
singpolyma pushed to title-to-facebook at singpolyma/granary. @ 2016-003.904Z
singpolyma commented on issue Gabriel439/Haskell-Errors-Library#25. @ 2016-003.893Z
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

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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
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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.
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singpolyma commented on Exceptions Best Practices at Reddit, saying
More of this FUD

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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

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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

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Stephen Paul Weber posted, “This image is great. Credit: http://techditz.russwurm.org/blogs/2014/01/01/happy-gnu-year/” @ 2016-003.210Z
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “@HippyWizard @dj3vande I didn’t find it amazing, but pretty good esp compared to prequels” in reply to @ 2016-003.203Z
singpolyma commented on pull request snarfed/granary#71. @ 2016-003.050Z
singpolyma commented on pull request snarfed/granary#71. @ 2016-003.050Z

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 @ 2016-002.980Z
singpolyma commented on Good open-source replacement for Sublime? at Reddit, saying
gedit can be pretty good

Or, you know, Just Use Vim

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Stephen Paul Weber posted About Public Domain Day in reply to @ 2016-002.881Z
singpolyma opened pull request snarfed/granary#71. @ 2016-002.854Z
singpolyma pushed to title-to-facebook at singpolyma/granary. @ 2016-002.854Z
singpolyma opened issue snarfed/oauth-dropins#14. @ 2016-002.848Z
singpolyma pushed to title-to-facebook at singpolyma/granary. @ 2016-002.829Z
Stephen Paul Weber posted How About That Tablet? @ 2016-002.696Z
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 😛

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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.

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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

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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 @ 2016-001.921Z
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Christmas cheesecake!” @ 2016-001.775Z
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “Help me crowdsource cards for next December! https://d.wifo.org/t/crowdsourcing-decemberween-greetings/184?u=singpolyma” @ 2016-001.712Z
singpolyma submitted Crowdsourcing Decemberween Greetings to Reddit @ 2016-001.709Z
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” @ 2016-001.677Z
singpolyma commented on issue singpolyma/wai-session#12. @ 2016-001.665Z
singpolyma commented on issue siacs/Conversations#1589. @ 2016-001.663Z
Stephen Paul Weber posted, “A Disney… shovel?” @ 2016-001.662Z
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.

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