I also don't understand why anyone would ever want to get a PhD, which is just a manner of exchanging almost free labor for a nearly worthless piece of paper. It's like a participation trophy at this point for people that are not homo economici.

Most distributions install links2 as links.

> But I wonder: Whose ruffles did you panty in order for your comments to land this way?)

I don't know, but most people on voting based forums don't like what I have to say, even though I am almost always right. For example, when I say that Linux is an operating system using a software development methodology from the 1970s, that hurts some people's feelings. Similarly, when I say that I use Linux, because I am poor (read: not a decabillionaire), not because it's good (Mac/Windows are obviously even worse), that just rubs people the wrong way. So, ultimately, it's because most people are political and stupid in nature.

I think almost everything sucks relative to my standards, which is only natural, because I am engineer and I only exist to fix broken shit.

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Speaking at a conference? Same story. You do it, because it's for "personal development", until it's pointless.

Conferences have n00bs and PMs, not the experts, because they don't need to learn anything anymore.

I don't think I ever had a colleague that even ever heard of the concept, let alone applied it. Of the "smart people", they typically only have heard of plain continuations, if you are lucky.

The debugger in Racket was useful when I used it years ago.

Unfortunately, it's kind of difficult to beat an entire planet cranking out libraries in other languages as many interesting programs are written for an ecosystem; if 90% of your project is building FFIs to make something work, perhaps you can better just choose the language of fools dun jour.

I don't think Scheme is the most academic language, today. Such honor would go to a language supporting a computable version of homotopy types, which I would guess only 1000 people in the world would be capable of using assuming production grade implementations (of which none exist).

Stupid people ruin everything.

Accounts are basically free. Not having accounts; that's expensive.

Any system designed picking such standards is basically betraying their client.

I think, if you want to annoy these people maximally, you should write an annotated version of the standard in a mathematical formal language.

I read the table constraints, which try to do something simple, but it's written in the most convoluted way possible.

I think I considered ASN.1 for a system once, but rejected it because of more modern technically superior system.

If the parser for something like ASN.1 doesn't fit in 80 lines of Haskell, perhaps you just shouldn't use it.

I don't know who these assholes are that say "Sure, let's make things slow and buggy, since we all hail Satan after all".

You said you were already using someone else's environment.

You can't later say that you don't.

Whether or not shell access makes sense depends on what you are doing, but a well written application server running in a cloud environment doesn't need any remote shell account.

It's just that approximately zero typical monolithic web applications meet that level of quality and given that 90% of "developers" are clueless, often they can convince management that being stupid is OK.

The right way this would work is via a systemd service and then it should be instant.

So, you created a square wheel, instead of a NASA wheel.

Please start a class action suit and ping me when it gets somewhere.

Things like Lambda do fit in this model, but they are too inefficient to model every workload.

Amazon lacks vision.